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Greatest American Achievement

What is America's greatest achievement on earth?

  • Democracy

    Votes: 6 46.2%
  • Cure for Polio

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Commercialization of Electricity

    Votes: 2 15.4%
  • Inventing the Telephone

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Mass Production of the Automobile

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Inventing the A-Bomb

    Votes: 1 7.7%
  • Inventing Television

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Military Role in both World Wars

    Votes: 1 7.7%
  • Winning the Cold War

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Landing on the Moon

    Votes: 3 23.1%

  • Total voters
    13
Trajan Octavian Titus said:
Alright fine let's just say we all kicked the **** out of the Nazis equally . . . except for the French, the French are puss!es.

But WE won the Cold War so na na nana na
French? Their resistance fought a lot more than their army, so the govt. were ******s, many others weren't(de Gaulle, Commie resistance, Gaulists, etc.). Paris was very confusing, at first the allies thought about going around the city, bacause they didn't feel like sieging the city forever. But to their surprise, the Gaulists and Communists had already nearly taken over the city from the German garrison. Though however, they were getting slaughtered when the German tanks started rolling in, and then later fought each other.

Yes you capitalists won the Cold War, which to tell the truth I think may have been better than the USSR winning, for extremely complicated reasons though, I view the USSR was a deformed worker's state, not as bad as a capitalist might think, but it was also giving communism a bad name too, especially when its debateable that the leaders were communists.
 
Trajan Octavian Titus said:
But WE won the Cold War so na na nana na

Forgetting all the capitalist nations in Europe which were stuck right next to the Eastern Bloc, are we? :2razz:
 
Originally posted by Vergiss:
Damn you! You're forgetting Foster's and Russell Crowe!

Besides, I love Coca-Cola and The X-Files.
Foster's is good.
 
Originally posted by Trajan Octavian Titus:
Russel Crow's a prick though but Mel Gibson is cool afterall he gave us Passion of the Christ and Lethal Weapon.
Mel Gibson's best movie was "Payback!"
 
Trajan Octavian Titus said:
This from the country that gave us Paul Hogan and the Crocodile Hunter. :mrgreen:

Don't forget Kylie Minogue, Rachel Hunter (right?), sort of Nicole Kidman, and Natalie Imbruglia.
 
What no "role in the human Genome map" "Airplane" "Lightbulb" "Silly Puddy" "Three Phase electric generator" "Stealth Technology" "the internet"

pfft
 
vergiss said:
Forgetting all the capitalist nations in Europe which were stuck right next to the Eastern Bloc, are we? :2razz:

And the Pope!
 
vergiss said:
Forgetting all the capitalist nations in Europe which were stuck right next to the Eastern Bloc, are we? :2razz:

Ya they did alot. :roll: Without us they would have been overrun in a week, Berlin Airlift anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Ferris Bueller?
 
Comrade Brian said:
I found a problem with some of these:

1. You assume the US even is a democracy, it is quite debateable.

It's not debatable at all. "Democracy" is a specific form of government in which all persons vote equally and the majority rules. The United States is a republic with democratic foundation.

Comrade Brian said:
2. Nuclear Weapons achieve nothing but death and destruction, so I would not consider it a great achievement, not to mention the US is the only country to ever use them, and on civilian targets too.

Nuclear weapons are the only reason Europe didn't learn Russian. since they were useful for keeping the comrades behind the Iron Curtain, they were good things.

The US is the only country to use them on enemy targets. Who cares about "civillian"? Before you get your pink panties in a wad, learn the history of strategic bombing in WWII.

Comrade Brian said:
4. In WWII, the USSR did most of the fighting, and 80% of German casualties were by the Soviets, though however the US was probably the second most-important combatant against Japan, after China.
5. Landing on the Moon was the only real space race victory, besides the reusable shuttle. Soviets dominated space, landing on the Moon pales in comparison.

Yeah, we'll forget all about Pioneer and Voyager, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Shuttle. Any other nation fly a manned shuttle?
 
Comrade Brian said:
The Iroquois could also have been considered a democracy.

Also at first the US wasn't even close, at first only "white" males with private property could vote, it took until the 1920's until all adults could vote. And by then businesses had pretty much control of the country.


And it's no coincidence that the decline of the United States began in the Twentieth Century.
 
Scarecrow Akhbar said:
And it's no coincidence that the decline of the United States began in the Twentieth Century.

That's sarcasm... right?

Right?
 
Trajan Octavian Titus said:
The whole thing wasn't virtually a stalemate once the U.S. entered the war the Germans surrendered.

The Germans surrendered after a naval shipyard strike in Gdansk(?) convinced the Kaiser that the cause was hopeless.

The US had no business getting involved in that war, Wilson dragged us in kicking and screaming. It took years of vigorous propaganda by the White House, plus laws criminalizing opposition speech, to convince the public that wasting American lives for stupid Europeans was a good thing.

If the US had stayed out, there wouldn't have been a WWII. More specifically, there probably wouldn't have been a Nazi party to mask the real enemy of the Twentieth Century, Communism.
 
Kandahar said:
The number of people who have ever set foot on another world is still in the single digits.

Apollo XI, XII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII = 6 missions times two men each = 12 = double digits.

picky picky...
 
Engimo said:
That's sarcasm... right?

Right?

No. That's fact. Clearly the decline of the nation had to begin before it's effects are noted.

The purpose of the United States was to ensure the benefits of liberty for it's citizens. The 20th saw:

The Sixteenth Amendment, which made all wages property of the government, though it graciously permits citizens to keep a little for their own use. At one time, more than 90% of some people's incomes were taken by tax.

The 19th Amendment, which forbade the sale of alcohol for drinking.

The submission of the US Constitution to the UN.

The rise of the welfare state, wherein the useless can demand the productive work as their slaves.

The surrender of the nation to illegal invaders from Mexico, with no sign of a backbone in sight to say "no more".

Some things improved. The unconstitutional nonsensical Jim Crow laws were overturned. Certain behaviors are no longer illegal, and society as a whole are more tolerant of deviants. Technology advances, and the United States is still the best place in the world to be. But it could be better if we went back to the Constitution.
 
Scarecrow Akhbar said:
The Germans surrendered after a naval shipyard strike in Gdansk(?) convinced the Kaiser that the cause was hopeless.
No, Germans call Gdansk, "Danzig", thats the original name, before the Soviets capyured it in WWII, then they changed the name to Gdansk.
 
Comrade Brian said:
No, Germans call Gdansk, "Danzig", thats the original name, before the Soviets capyured it in WWII, then they changed the name to Gdansk.

Yeah, I was trying to think "Danzig", but the name wouldn't surface.
 
Originally posted by Scarecrow Akhbar:
Yeah, I was trying to think "Danzig", but the name wouldn't surface.
Danzig! They rock!
 
Billo_Really said:
What do you think America's greatest acheivement on earth has been?

I am going to have to democracy.It provide the right enviroment for inovation.
 
Billo_Really said:
What do you think America's greatest acheivement on earth has been?

There's no option for ketchup.:(
 
I don't care what anyone says, America's finest hour was Landing on the Moon!
 
Originally posted by Trajan Octavian Titus
You Commie bastard! Heinz 57 is an American icon. Such anti-Americanism is repugnant to me, next you'll be talking of the superiority of tea to coffee, or worse yet of Ale to Lager, go back to Russia.
I hate coffee!
 
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