Thread: Stupid Americans?

Originally Posted by Pensive Patrick

THANK YOU! I was just trying to start a discussion.



You'll find I labelled the thread "Stupid Americans?" with a QUESTION MARK, hence, it's a QUESTION!

You know, you're not really doing much for the Americans aren't stupid argument.

And once again why not title it "Stupid People?" I don't like my questions being avoided and I hate repeating myself. So can you explain to me why you labled it the way that you have?

Originally Posted by Ne-yo

And once again why not title it "Stupid People?" I don't like my questions being avoided and I hate repeating myself. So can you explain to me why you labled it the way that you have?

He also said this...

Originally Posted by Pensive Patrick

It's my opinion that even if the intelligent answers were left out, the stupid ones were a lot more stupid than you might find in a country that doesn't have a flawed education system.

That was a dis on the people of the U.S. I don't see any way around that.

Originally Posted by Ne-yo

And once again why not title it "Stupid People?" I don't like my questions being avoided and I hate repeating myself. So can you explain to me why you labled it the way that you have?

Because the video was in America, that's why. I wasn't asking if people everywhere were stupid, but if Americans in particular were stupid. Hence, the "Stupid Americans?".

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Originally Posted by Pensive Patrick
It's my opinion that even if the intelligent answers were left out, the stupid ones were a lot more stupid than you might find in a country that doesn't have a flawed education system.

That was a dis on the people of the U.S. I don't see any way around that.

Yeah, that was a 'dis' on the American education system, which I have been subjected to, by the way.

So......who did win in Vietnam?

Oh darwin awards... oh how I worship thee!

I'm sure they just picked the worst of the bunch to show when the questioned the public, but still... ARGH!!!

Originally Posted by indescribable

Flawed education system? Aren't they ALL seriously flawed? And wasn't the US originally a BRITISH colony? (Even though now its very diverse.)

Don't play the British colony card. That's a lame card to play. Sure, you started off as European settlers, but you got your independance, and I am pretty damn sure that the modern American education system has very, VERY limited links to colonial rule. And no, not all education systems are seriously flawed. Many European countries have very effective education systems (Britain, unfortunately, is not one of them.).

Originally Posted by Neruo

I already covered this. I really, really doubt Pensative Patrick really though every single man, woman and child in America is stupid. : )

Thanks for your support Neruo. I definitely do not mean to say that all Americans are stupid.

Originally Posted by Ynot

So......who did win in Vietnam?

Barry Levinson

Originally Posted by Ynot

So......who did win in Vietnam?

Interesting topic. Approximately 58 thousand Americans were killed in the Vietnam War. The number of Vietnamese killed has been difficult to determine because the North Vietnam government was suppressing the numbers for propaganda purposes. The lowest estimate I have found is 1.5 million. The highest estimate I have found is 4 million. If you want to keep score that way, we whipped their asses. However, Ho Chi Minh refused to surrender, and the American left had put so much pressure on Washington to get us out of Vietnam that we left in 1975 without bringing about a surrender. South Vietnam remains unfree to this day because of that. So in terms of whether we were able to get the North Vietnamese schmuck ass dictator to surrender and get his government out of South Vietnam, we failed. In that way, we lost. But we were not outgunned by any stretch of the imagination. I think we needed to focus on assassinating the dictator instead of killing his soldiers and civilians and trying to get him to surrender. That sociopath was never going to surrender. He needed to be killed.