9 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

You don't get it, and you never will. I may never agree with what someone says, or their opinion, but they will always have the right to express it, whether right, wrong, or offensive to someone. That's a right most Yanks would defend.

There is no need to cower & comply, as long as we have that right. That can't be taken, and we have the right to bear arms, so it never will be taken away.

There's a reason they are the 1st & 2nd Amendment to the Constitution.

And those Amendments come with a cost, in paraplegic motorcyclists plus murdered schoolkids.

You're right, I never will get it.

23 minutes ago, temuFarang said:

This is primarily due to the government being overly generous with benefits.

I've been to Australia, and I liked it. The people were nice. I never encountered anyone unpleasant there. What happened to you? Leftist brain rot?

Also like and enjoyed sipping a few, with more than a few Aussies that I've met, while at Udon. Vocal ones on AN, nah, might not work too good. I'll rather chill by myself with the dog surfside.

Edited Friday at 12:10 PM4 days by KhunLA

5 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

And those Amendments come with a cost, in paraplegic motorcyclists plus murdered schoolkids.

You're right, I never will get it.

Yea, those 0.0000000000001% of the population.

1 hour ago, save the frogs said:

Does Australia have a lot of natural resources?

It's a lot easier to run a small country with a lot of natural resources.

Larger countries with large populations have to be more creative to keep the GDP going, and the US has the Hollywood industry and Silicon Valley.

You happily buy iPhones and watch Hollywood movies, I assume.

Yes, Australia has a lot of natural resources. Stupid politicians are allowing multi-nationals to steal us blind.

My phone is a middle-range OPPO. iPhones are expensive, I don't buy status symbols.

Yes, I watch Hollywood movies. I don't pay to do so.

1 minute ago, KhunLA said:

Yea, those 0.0000000000001% of the population.

Keep telling yourself that, if it makes you feel better.

12 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Yes, I watch Hollywood movies. I don't pay to do so.

So you're leeching on people's creative work then.

From a country you keep bashing.

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

So do you. It's called economic arbitrage.

Please tell me why I would want to dress up in Nazi gear and start yelling the Holocaust is a lie.

There's a thing called hate speech. I understand Charlie Kirk was pretty good at it.

I tend to express myself with facts. Opinions are like @rseholes, everyone has one.

Hate speech is not a real concept.

1 hour ago, save the frogs said:

No, it's not boring.

But it can be violent and some players have gotten dementia from playing in the NFL.

But it's not a boring sport.

It can be very exciting, it requires a lot of strategy, and the players are far more athletic than soccer players.

You are getting desperate to attack the country.

I found it boring when it took half an hour to play ten minutes of football, with offense and defense trooping on and off the field. It was like watching paint dry.

Most Americans are ignorant of Australian Rules football. It requires elite ball skills and athleticism. A top midfielder will cover 15-20 km in a game.

None of these namby-pamby helmets ,shoulder pads and rib protectors either. IIRC all they have is mouthguards.

Did you know some of the best punters are recruited by the NFL from Australian Rules?

Not attacking the country, only posters that think America is the greatest thing since sliced bread. They need reminding it has its faults, just like every other country on the planet. Their rah-rah jingoism is tiresome.

3 minutes ago, Mr Awesome said:

Hate speech is not a real concept.

Really. I guess that's why the biggest terrorism threat in America is domestic white supremacist groups.

Just now, Lacessit said:

Really. I guess that's why the biggest terrorism threat in America is domestic white supremacist groups .

Which is not true.

Also, “groups” can be misleading because federal assessments repeatedly emphasize that many of the most serious domestic-terrorism threats come from individual lone actors rather than formal organizations.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches-and-testimony/a-review-of-the-president-s-fiscal-year-2025-budget-request-for-the-federal-bureau-of-investigation?utm_source=chatgpt.com

3 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

I found it boring when it took half an hour to play ten minutes of football, with offense and defense trooping on and off the field. It was like watching paint dry.

An American football goal is 6-7 points

A soccer football goal is 1 point.

6-7 > 1.

Math. 😄

USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸

No wonder you guys call it Maths 😎

Edited Friday at 12:47 PM4 days by SiSePuede419
6-7

18 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

So you're leeching on people's creative work then.

From a country you keep bashing.

Guilty as charged. Call it payback for us spending $360 billion on secondhand nuclear submarines.

I keep bashing posters who claim America is the greatest, when facts and evidence say it is not.

4 minutes ago, Mr Awesome said:

Which is not true.

Also, “groups” can be misleading because federal assessments repeatedly emphasize that many of the most serious domestic-terrorism threats come from individual lone actors rather than formal organizations.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches-and-testimony/a-review-of-the-president-s-fiscal-year-2025-budget-request-for-the-federal-bureau-of-investigation?utm_source=chatgpt.com

So these individuals you cite don't use speech which excoriates Jews, LBGT, blacks and Hispanics?

3 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Call it payback for us spending $360 billion on secondhand nuclear submarines.

You are paying for three subs, and the program will cost $360 billion through 2055. Too bad your country can't build its own subs.

6 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

I keep bashing posters who claim America is the greatest, when facts and evidence say it is not.

We are the greatest, which pisses you off, keeps you up at night, and makes you rage-post on the internet.

6 minutes ago, TedG said:

We are the greatest, which pisses you off, keeps you up at night, and makes you rage-post on the internet.

You have the world's greatest military. You spend more on it than the next nine or ten countries, which is a measure of your paranoia.

25 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Most Americans are ignorant of Australian Rules football. It requires elite ball skills and athleticism. A top midfielder will cover 15-20 km in a game.

I've watched Australian Rules football on TV and I'd love to see a game in person. 

1 minute ago, Lacessit said:

You have the world's greatest military. You spend more on it than the next nine or ten countries, which is a measure of your paranoia.

If we spend more than the next nine countries, we have the world's largest economy.

14 minutes ago, TedG said:

You are paying for three subs, and the program will cost $360 billion through 2055. Too bad your country can't build its own subs.

With the current advances in drones and AI, how do you know the subs won't be obsolete by the time we get them?

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

And those Amendments come with a cost, in paraplegic motorcyclists plus murdered schoolkids.

You're right, I never will get it.

Once a country loses the right to free speech, it loses everything.

Anyway, why all the animosity? I’m surprised there are so many people sitting around thinking about which country is better. They’re different. Different cultures, different governmental structures, different constitutions, and so on. I’m an American, but I don’t think for one minute that all Americans are the same. They’re not. I think people make the assumption that America is more of a homogenous society than it really is. People from all over the world are in America. They bring their cultures with them. They bring their work ethics with them. And they all have the chance to be successful.

4 minutes ago, TedG said:

If we spend more than the next nine countries, we have the world's largest economy.

It depends on what metric is used. You are correct in terms of GDP. In terms of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) china has already overtaken America.

3 hours ago, fredwiggy said:

Chinese food can be much the same anywhere you buy it,

FALSE

FALSE

FALSE

By your own admission, you have never been to China, other than to set foot in a Chinese airport.

Airport food is garbage all over the world.

So, you have never eaten Chinese food in China, yet you insist on expressing your erroneous opinion on the subject.

Not that anyone minds, of course.

2 hours ago, save the frogs said:

Maybe we can rephrase the thread.

What "traumatic experience" caused you to leave and move to SEA at the age of 14?

19 and not 14.

I wanted to see the world before university.

Totally logical decision.

Not traumatic in the least.

2 hours ago, fredwiggy said:

I've actually never had one delusional post. That's your thinking because you simply don't know about as many subjects as I do, and what you've said I've known all along in others. I am never in denial, go by facts, and no need to deflect for those reasons.

You talk about making assumptions.

How do you know you know more subjects than I do?

Here's a quick test of how smart you are. What operating system is on your desktop. laptop, or notebook?

3 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Student debt is on a contingency basis. Earn less than $69,000 pa, none of it has to be repaid. Maximum debt is about $50,000.

school debt is a killer in the USA.

Everyone should just band together and default.

1 minute ago, Lacessit said:

You talk about making assumptions.

How do you know you know more subjects than I do?

Here's a quick test of how smart you are. What operating system is on your desktop. laptop, or notebook?

LINUX, of course, and never again anything other than Linux.

Use OpenSUSE Leap 16.

It will upgrade to Leap 16.1 around November 3rd, or so.

4 hours ago, Wingate said:

Be careful using "We". That reeks of small man complex. You are a shorty, right? It's kind of rude to valor steal.

Trump was not a successful businessman. He lived off his dad's money his whole life, and failed repeatedly. He was always considered a joke in Manhattan. His dad not only gave him a massive allowance, he co-signed all Donny's loans. Donald even just about missed a loan payment to a Manhattan bank that was collateralized with his Trump Tower apartment. His dad had to walk into one of Donny's NJ casinos and buy $3.2 million in chips, which Donald then used to make the payment in NY.

After his 6 bankruptcies, even his dad's signature wasn't enough to get Donald a loan. He ended up getting money from Russian oligarchs, who worked with Deutsche Bank setting up SIVs (Special Investment Vehicles), which are off balance sheet. Don, Jr even noted that in an interview, saying, "We get all the money we need from Russia".

The very first time Trump became a success is when Mark Burnett guesstimated the intellect of American TV viewers (low) and created the fantasy called The Apprentice.

Despite Trump making money there, plus inheriting $412,000,000 when Fred finally passed, Trump still had a negative net worth. He doesn't need to file statements re P&L on US businesses, but he does on many international ones. His Scottish and Irish golf courses all lose money.

Remember Trump could not even pay the fines assessed against him for his civil and felony convictions.

Only when he retook office and started his massive grifting, has he made money. For example, he made $635 million on his meme coin, while his "investors" lost $3.81 billion, as the coin went from $75 to $1.65. His World Liberty Financial got $500 million from the UAE, and in a quid pro quo the UAE was allowed to buy NVIDIA chip racks, which they subsequently shipped to China. Biden had embargoed those chips from going outside, fearing China would reverse engineer them.

Trump sells pardons, and he sells early access to his market-moving Tweets for $100K a month. Oh, and he got a B747 from Qatar, which he gets to keep once he's out of office. Ostensibly it's for his "library". If you believe that, go ahead and spend your $5000 check Trump is going to give you if Repubs keep the House and Senate.

So the ex secret squirrel decided to join the party. Ex for a reason. Maybe you grew tired of the Afghans making you their dancing boy.

Trump was and is more successful than you ever were.

Jealousy shouldn’t be a leftist virtue.

The rest of your post. A noun , a verb and a whole bunch of adjectives. Same as all your other posts

Yawn.

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Mostly an inability to suffer fools gladly.

It must be difficult to cope with yourself.

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

And those Amendments come with a cost, in paraplegic motorcyclists plus murdered schoolkids.

You're right, I never will get it.

Give it a rest, my god you're damaged. No place is perfect but the US is the still the best considering we have 349 million souls vs Australia at what 27 mil. In 4 yrs with Biden alone over 10 mil crossed our southern border. Considering all that Australia is doing poorly.

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

You have the world's greatest military. You spend more on it than the next nine or ten countries, which is a measure of your paranoia.

How many aircraft carriers does Australia have?

How many submarines have been built in Australian shipyards?

Edited Friday at 02:28 PM4 days by HolmesEquivelant