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[Xant]

What the US needs is a strong leader like Trump to get it back on course, otherwise China will become the new superpower and that's not going to be fun for anyone.

[LordBerenger]

What the US needs is a strong leader like Trump to get it back on course, otherwise China will become the new superpower and that's not going to be fun for anyone.

Chinese food is great.

+ China will never produce what Hollywood does and the superior American media overall that the US does.

[Grytviken]

EU citizens are losing their national identity in the same way British, Dutch and other former Europeans did centuries ago when they decided to try their luck overseas. Just shows how fragile and meaningless national identity really is. Only reason why you guys are cultivating your national identity is the same why you try mimic ancient Greece and Roman Empire on many fronts, because Europeans did it. As Heskey said, that is your weak spot. You see national identity as something cool kids have and want badly to be one of them.

Yes, open up the boarders and have one big gang bang and you will all be American in a few generations. Each European country is already learning their own unique form of butchered English to simulate the different states.

[Teeth]

What exactly has Europe accomplished in the last 100 years besides becoming a bunch of self-hating pushovers who are losing their own national identity in some foolish attempt at competing in the global market? The US is laughing at you, China is laughing at you, Russia is laughing at you, Trump is laughing at you.

Europe has achieved education systems which are apparently far better than yours, as every single point you made was beyond retarded and a case and point of international "short man syndrome".

[Angantyr]

To be fair I don't think many NA cRPG players are college or university students, though it's just a hunch. And that isn't a jab at anyone, there's many types of useful education both formal and informal, though some here may appear to lack either.

[Grytviken]

Europe has achieved education systems which are apparently far better than yours, as every single point you made was beyond retarded and a case and point of international "short man syndrome".

I expected the typical EU "our education is so great" response, barking about how great your education system is. I see Australia and New Zealand are on top of the education index, and the US is not far behind. European education widely varies. Doesn't seem like any kind of great achievement to me. Since you are now the European Union we can even take it a step further and rate you by your lowest performers, which would drag you down well beneath US standards.

[Oberyn]

He's right that the 20th century for european countries has been a century of strife and constant decline. Europe as an agregate of all the european countries (maybe even including Russia, but that whole "Russia is european" thing hasn't been popular in Russia for a while now) has inarguably declined in soft and hard power since at least the end of the first world war, and it doesn't look like the trend is reversing anytime soon, especially with new emerging regional powers. His reasons for it are so much brainless american wanking of course, but that goes without saying .

[Grytviken]

And we laugh back.

What, you think we'd actually be pleased if the US was proud of us? Lol. As if any European in the world would actually like their individual country to be more like the USA. If we were so 'self-hating' i'm sure our residents would take up arms and shoot up the nearest school to disperse their dissatisfaction at living in a shitty country - oh wait that's what people living in your country do.

Our national identity is fine and dandy atm thank you very much, it's just different from yours and that's a good thing (for reasons you'll clearly never comprehend). Let me see in the last 100 years... National Healthcare which means that if I get cancer or a chronic illness I don't become dirt-poor trying to pay for shitty US doctors to have a look at me. Yeah, we *wish* we were more like you, clearly leading the way as always. Again, you'd be pretty impressive, if this was still 1940.

I really feel that phrase should be used more often, it describes the US perfectly in so many ways.

The only thing that pertains to 1940 is the Socialist/Communist ideology in Europe that suppresses critical and independent thinking. There's a reason all the best doctor's in the EU are flooding into the US, they want to receive a paycheck for their hard earned education and work. Europeans snark in disgust at the USA and it's policies, but when trouble arises they always run back to daddy whether it's for money or protection.

[Leshma]

From what I've seen with my own eyes, western Europe needs to keep declining at much faster rate to ever catch up with USA living standard. I mean, tech is cheap there and many other things but they look like bums compared to average western European. Don't get me started on big cities they live in, bunch of concrete and high buildings with few nice parts and bunch of slums like areas. And those suburbs, oh my

USA is definitely military and economic superpower as a whole but average American is in far shittier position than, let's say average Austrian, Dutch, German, Belgian, Dane etc.

[Grytviken]

From what I've seen with my own eyes, western Europe needs to keep declining at much faster rate to ever catch up with USA living standard. I mean, tech is cheap there and many other things but they look like bums compared to average western European. Don't get me started on big cities they live in, bunch of concrete and high buildings with few nice parts and bunch of slums like areas. And those suburbs, oh my

USA is definitely military and economic superpower as a whole but average American is in far shittier position than, let's say average Austrian, Dutch, German, Belgian, Dane etc.

Of course it's not all candy-land. I've seen some pretty trashy looking Europeans in Western-Europe, fat slobs too. Noone can force anyone to live to any kind of standard, but all the tools and resources are there to be successful. Comparing the standard of living in the US to countries in Scandinavia is unfair because the population is much smaller and the governments there subsidize and control all the major resources to invest back into to the people, that combined with a higher tax and smaller population to support creates a higher standard of living. While I personally love this approach it's just not realistic anywhere but Scandinavia.

[Shemaforash]

Honestly I'm pretty sure you could put whatever situation Scandinavia has into different countries.

He wasn't comparing with Scandinavia either (except for Denmark but they're fucking shitters anyway hEHe xD)

[Siiem]

Danes are the celery of Scandinavia.

[Teeth]

The only thing that pertains to 1940 is the Socialist/Communist ideology in Europe that suppresses critical and independent thinking.

I did not think any American with access to the internet would be able to say this with a straight face, are you trolling?

In any case, I am just ridiculing your arguments, not your conclusion. I would never deny that Europe's glory age is over since World War II. Even though there are about half a dozen European countries which I consider more developed than the US, the US is a pretty damn great place to live and obviously the most powerful country in the world. Still, I'd say American domestic and international politics are nationalistic and dogmatic to an extent that seems comical and old-fashioned to me as a Dutch guy.

[Falka]

the US is a pretty damn great place to live

But not for everyone. Unlike some european countries where there's basically no poverty. Anyway, pointless babbling.

[Angantyr]

Though the process was begun by Bismarck as early as the 1880s, the European states' main achievement of the last century must be the social development that followed decolonization and reconstruction after the two World Wars.