American Mass Shootings / Stabbings / Car Crashes/bridge collapses

Chucks_Nwoko · November 10, 2018, 10:00pm

I’ve lived in many non-English speaking counties pal.

Burned subbies in them all

Chucks_Nwoko · November 10, 2018, 11:35pm

@Bandage is a thoroughly alright sort.

Little_Lord_Fauntleroy · November 10, 2018, 11:52pm

Says the guy that cost the taxpayers billions

iron_mike · November 11, 2018, 9:22am

Tim_Riggins:

Tank:

When was the last time a skyscraper got built in the USA that was one of the tallest in the world? It’s all in Asia now, maybe even Canada.

Several.

One World Trade Centre, 432 Park Avenue, Trump Tower Chicago, all in the top 25 in the world afaik and built in the last 10 years.

The reason that you are seeing such development elsewhere is a testament to the United States and its economic policies that the world has embraced. America drove world economic expansion in the late 1800s and 1990s, of course that is why you had situations whereby the Chrysler Building and Empire State were battling to be the tallest in the world all through construction. Nearly 100 years later these buildings still stand and are functioning, the rest of the world are catching up.

Australia was a backward shithole up until the 1980s when they embraced free trade and the service economy.

It says a lot about you though that you just compare metropolitans with no doubt a good sprinkling of standard Irish attention of Fox News culture. Get out of a city maybe and talk to the locals. More Americans polled support gay marraige for example, than voted for it in Australia. Similarly Ireland had a higher vote that Australia. There are plenty of uncouth bogans in Australia outside of the coffee shops you went to in Melbourne.

In terms of great cities. What are you basing that off? A visit? Have you lived there? All those cities are excellent and have their own unique charms.

The backpacker though “knows” the world because he goes looking for quaint looking bars on TripAdvisor on his two day stopovers.

As for greatest country in the world, we all have opinions, but don’t confuse some isolated incidents of a good quality of life. The US might not be one of the the sole forces in forging ahead globally, but the vast majority of that little tech items you use on a daily basis were created in the US. The majority of scientific and medical breakthroughs the same. And this is happening all over the US btw and not just the San Francisco enclave you visited your Google mate in.

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Turenne · November 13, 2018, 12:27am

What a country.

myboyblue · January 1, 2019, 7:00pm

Thoughts and prayers

maroonandwhite · May 31, 2019, 11:28pm

Chucks_Nwoko · May 31, 2019, 11:56pm

It doesn’t even raise an eyebrow anymore. What a country.

TreatyStones · August 3, 2019, 11:09pm

Reports of 15 to 20 people shot dead in a shopping mall in El Paso Texas.

Indications are the shooter is a mentally ill white Male and not a blood thirsty Muslim terrorist.

Rocko · August 4, 2019, 1:39am

Started on the terrorism thread but better here.

At least 20 dead. Shooter unsurprisingly a right wing nutjob.

Grey Abbott (the Texas governor) is a horrible pro gun zealot and it’s nauseating watching him talk about this given everything he has done to promote gun violence.

TheUlteriorMotive · August 4, 2019, 1:48am

Without being flippant itbeing in a Walmart is a nasty irony given Walmart is supposedly the world’s largest gun retailer.

Sidney · August 4, 2019, 2:32am

A look at his Twitter was most instructive

Turenne · August 4, 2019, 3:03am

A crazed white male loser you say? Remarkable, who would have thought?

StoneCold · August 4, 2019, 5:35am

StoneCold · August 4, 2019, 5:37am

myboyblue · August 4, 2019, 7:19am

Murica

Rocko · August 4, 2019, 8:27am

Another 9 killed in a shooting in Ohio. FFS.

tazdedub · August 4, 2019, 8:27am

Another one.

At least ten dead in Ohio shooting

Juhniallio · August 4, 2019, 8:48am

That is terrible. Did you get any sleep last night at all?

anon61878697 · August 4, 2019, 8:49am

Is anyone surprised by these? It’s just normal life in America.