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For those that don't think America is the greatest country, tell us which country is and why.
For those that don't think America is the greatest country, tell us which country is and why.
Why does there have to be one at all? Is there a leaderboard where we rank all the countries based on "greatness points"?
For those that don't think America is the greatest country, tell us which country is and why.
With pleasure - there is none - the entire concept is a nonsense. I am sure my ancestors thought Great Britain was the greatest nation on earth, just because they got to boss a third of the world about, and had better grenadiers and men o' war than the French and the Spaniards - but that was just as much a bit of grandiose self-delusion. There is simply no such animal. If a nation is to be judged upon anything that matters, it is how the least advantaged fare - and neither Imperial Britain nor the current USA score particularly well there.
Yeah, there's a leaderboard. So who do you think is the greatest?
I already answered that question earlier in the thread.
And no, there is no leaderboard. "My country is better than your country" is a juvenile pissing contest.
If I say there's a leaderboard, there is one. Stop arguing with me. I don't think I'm back through over 175 posts to read yours. I'll just assume you said there is no greatest country.
Not necessarily a specific response to how the least advantaged fare, but the Human Development Index includes a lot of factors that benefit the least advantaged:If a nation is to be judged upon anything that matters, it is how the least advantaged fare - and neither Imperial Britain nor the current USA score particularly well there.
With pleasure - there is none - the entire concept is a nonsense. I am sure my ancestors thought Great Britain was the greatest nation on earth, just because they got to boss a third of the world about, and had better grenadiers and men o' war than the French and the Spaniards - but that was just as much a bit of grandiose self-delusion. There is simply no such animal. If a nation is to be judged upon anything that matters, it is how the least advantaged fare - and neither Imperial Britain nor the current USA score particularly well there.
I used to think so, but we're falling further into mediocrity these days.
I already answered that question earlier in the thread.
And no, there is no leaderboard. "My country is better than your country" is a juvenile pissing contest.
Not necessarily a specific response to how the least advantaged fare, but the Human Development Index includes a lot of factors that benefit the least advantaged:
While that is mostly true (but one would have a hard time describing Afghanistan as a great nation) you will frequently see that argument made that "great" nations have UHC, wonderful "safety net" systems and decent educational systems. While no nation is clearly #1 (in all important areas) there are clear differences (a leader board?) between most OCED nations (except for Turkey and Mexico) and most non-OCED nations.
For those that don't think America is the greatest country, tell us which country is and why.
Let's look at a few of the inventions that make the modern world what it is today:
Antibiotics: A Scottish guy.
Internal Combustion engine: Belgian
Telephone: Scottish guy in Canada
Microchip: British guy
Television: A brit, a German, and a Scot invented the precursors, a pair of Russians invented the first television based on their work.
Computer: A brit if you count Babbage, Turing, or Flowers. A German if you go with Kuse.
Cars: a German
Satellites: Russians
Spaceship: Russians
Light Bulbs: Americans
Airplanes: Americans
On that list, the US has TWO things. Hell, the first personal computer was made by Italians. We often assume things are invented by Americans, when they aren't.
You are making all of that up and pretending it is true. That does not make something an "irrefutable fact", it makes it made up bull****.
With pleasure - there is none - the entire concept is a nonsense. I am sure my ancestors thought Great Britain was the greatest nation on earth, just because they got to boss a third of the world about, and had better grenadiers and men o' war than the French and the Spaniards - but that was just as much a bit of grandiose self-delusion. There is simply no such animal. If a nation is to be judged upon anything that matters, it is how the least advantaged fare - and neither Imperial Britain nor the current USA score particularly well there.
Is America the greatest nation on earth?
If you extended the scale all the way to zero, no one would look bad. Almost all listed are 0.9 or higher.
Unless your last name is Walton, Gates, Jobs, or Zuckerberger, you might want to double check your online banking balance.
Hardly true. Our best and brightest university professors also often originate from outside the US.
Modern society as I know it was perfected by the Japanese, Sony in particular, revolutionizing personal electronics.
Who would be our contemporaries?
You go--ranch dressing kicks french dressing's ass with or without gloves.
Hardly true at all.
Nothing screams American superiority like us not even being able to put a man into orbit without paying the Russians 50 years later.
Kween Kim Kardashian might have you drawn in Kwuartered.
:lamo Bashar al Assad remaining in power certainly proves your point there :ind:
Got a link for that from a source other than Fox News?
with a five yard penalty and a repeat of first down.
Actually Japan just picked up Americas old Electronics manufacturing base and its inventions and ran with it.
Fundamentally, these personal electronic devices that Sony builds use technologies that were invented and developed right here in the US decades ago.
From Tube Circuits to Microprocessors to Integrated circuit technology and software. All of it was initially developed right here in the US.
And Japan perfected the modern society ?
Huh ?
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