<p>Once again, Canada is better at hockey.</p>
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<p>He never said that all black people were racist because of this story; he just explained one black person’s opinion on the topic.</p>
<p>And yea, it was pretty dumb. Even if it were okay for black people to use derogatory comments against whites whenever they pleased (which is not), some black people are still highly prejudice towards other ethnicites as well.</p>
<p>People always insult America, but what country would you rather have be the superpower of the world?</p>
<p>The UK, France, Norway, I don’t really care.</p>
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<p>ya lets put a country of 4.5 million people in charge of the world</p>
<p>Ok first of all no one is “in charge of the world”</p>
<p>Secondly, like I said, I don’t really care. It doesn’t bother me that America is a superpower (however the thought of other superpowers seem to bother the US a lot (see china and russia))</p>
<p>Whenever anyone says anything remotely negative about the US Americans always fly off the handle with defensive claims. It’s kind of annoying.</p>
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<p>ya i’m saying the most powerful country, the next closest contenders in terms of GDP and Military power are Japan, China, Germany, and France… Do you think they would be so much better than the US?</p>
<p>I am personally thankful that it is the US with the highest GDP and military force because it seems in general america is not aggressive in terms of taking territory, and it does not oppress its citizens compared to other leading superpowers</p>
<p>I don’t think many other countries oppress their citizens either. Well any country that could feasibly be a world power. Or take territory. The world is at equilibrium in terms of territory now. But the US has taken territories in the past. The Republic of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada (Belonged to Mexico), Alaska (well bought from Russia so not forcefully annexed or taken), Hawaii, Peurto Rico, and I am sure there is more I am forgetting.</p>
<p>pretty sure none of us were alive when those places were taken</p>
<p>it’s like saying england is bad because they forcefully took over scotland and ireland</p>
<p>Ya that was in the distant past, and Russia and China definitely oppressed their citizens when they were jockeying for position as a world power. I think the world should be thankful that the US rose to the position of leading superpower and not the USSR, or China, or Germany etc.</p>
<p>The world would be a much worse place if the US had not risen to the preeminent power</p>
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<p>germany post-reunification is a pretty cool country though, they just have really restricted freedom of speech</p>
<p>but they also have freedom from speed limits i think</p>
<p>A lot of third world countries wouldn’t agree with you. I’m saying the US has taken territories like everyone else has. And like everyone else has they’ve stopped because every country has become pretty stable.</p>
<p>I don’t think you can make such broad claims about how the world would be depending on what country came to power. I personally would probably be living better if the UK was still in power since I am part of the commonwealth of nations.</p>
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<p>everyone else has not stopped, Germany tried to take over the world in WW1 and WW2, Japan tried to in WW2, China tried to take over Korea in the 50’s, communist vietnam took over in the 70’s, Iraq invaded kuwait in the 90’s, and if you look at who combated all these attempted takeovers it has usually been the USA. America generally uses their power to mediate hostile takeovers, not to gain territory for themselves, and that in my book makes a good superpower.</p>
<p>Even in the harshly contested war in Iraq, which was a bad idea IMHO, the US successfully ousted an extreme violent dictator. We have sustained heavy losses throughout history to try to make the world a BETTER place, not worse as many other superpowers have done</p>
<p>I meant they have stopped in this day in age. Like you said in a previous post all of that is in the past. And I would argue in each of those events the US had something to gain by entering everyone of those wars.</p>
<p>For the position America is in, I feel like they have done a remarkable job of not abusing their power, they seek to promote free speech, fair elections, and opportunity whenever they use military force (i.e japanese reconstruction, vietnam, korea, iraq) whether they succeed or not is another story</p>
<p>the 1970’s (vietnam) and 90’s (kuwait) and even Iraq are not very far in the past, they may have had something to gain but they have never entered conflict with the express purpose of benefiting themselves. America sends in thousands of soldiers to these countries to fight and die and not even for themselves but to make the world better and promote the ideals that make america great</p>
<p>Excuse me. The US dropped two nukes on Japan, invaded vietnam for no reason what-so-ever, same thing with Iraq, and simply doesn’t like Korea (because of who is in power).</p>
<p>These aren’t things to get too high and mighty about.</p>
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<p>I know you actually don’t think those things, you are just trying to get me mad but I will bite anyway. </p>
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<p>… to end japanese aggression with a minimum of casualties.</p>
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<p>They invaded vietnam to prevent the spread of communism (which they admittedly failed at) but the original goal was to combat the oppression that accompanies communism</p>
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<p>The ill advised war in Iraq did succeed in overthrowing an extremely corrupt dictator who had murdered thousands of his own citizens</p>
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<p>Don’t you feel like that dislike is justified considering the things kim jong il has done including his current nuclear program and threats?</p>