The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[Lisnaholic]

I'd say that, like many countries, America, despite its faults, has a lot to be proud of. Not sure that Anteater has done an accurate job though:-

Originally Posted by Anteater

Well, I love movies, the Internet, AOR and jazz, so God Bless America.

movies - came out of France with the Lumiére Bros and Georges Méliés
Internet - usually credited to this guy, though as befits the invention itself, many countries contributed to the prelim developments that made it possible:-

Research at CERN in Switzerland by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989-90 resulted in the World Wide Web, linking hypertext documents into an information system, accessible from any node on the network

but jazz, yes, blues, yes, rock'n'roll, yes.

Outside of music, one of America's virtues is the ability to throw money and resources at something. To me they deserve credit for helping out the Brits in WWII and then rebuilding Europe with The Marshall Plan. Plus the whole man-on-the-moon thing, which was a spectacular milestone, even if it didn't produce much obvious benefit.

[Lisnaholic]

Originally Posted by jwb

eh... Your ancestors might not have supported him but they inspired others to. It's time you take your fair share of responsibility.

Originally Posted by jwb

Also I'm done crying over the Indians. Those slackers were wasting a perfectly good continent.

^ Nice bit of victim-blaming, jwb! You forgot to post about how rape victims are asking for it.

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by jwb

maybe if they spent less time in the drum circle and more time inventing the wheel they would've been the ones to discover the old world

They did. Then they left. Seemed like the smart decision at the time I'm sure.

[jwb]

Originally Posted by elphenor

oh you mean like smallpox...

among others, yea

[The Batlord]

jwb be like

[jwb]

Originally Posted by elphenor

natives were living sustainably

not long term

[jwb]

Originally Posted by The Batlord

jwb be like

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if you buy that it was a genocide via blankets you're a moron lol

[The Batlord]

Plenty of non-blanket genocide going around, Cletus.

[The Batlord]

He just likes to feel confident and manly cause he was raised by deep south rednecks.

[Anteater]

Originally Posted by elphenor

no mention of the atrocities in which Jazz and Blues are born from in large part?

and The Marshall Plan? Yikes.

100% about crafting a world under US control where no country could fall to the pesky communists and their talk of self-determination

Lol stop being a little bitch. Circumstances aside, America still birthed jazz. As in, it wouldn't exist today without those circumstances. Did Europe or any other country have a jazz tradition before the U.S.? No.

I missed an obvious one a few pages back too - electricity. America <3