America Is Now a ‘Second Tier’ Country

[Svad1287]

Pretty much everything in scandinavia is "free" education/healthcare etc etc.

If you dont have a job, you get a welfare check, and if you have two kids, you get paid even more, you get something called "børne penge" translated its a pay check for having children.

We have 5 weeks + 7 "free days" of paid vacation a year and when a woman gives birth, she gets the month before she gives birth + 12 months of maturnity leave, which is paid for by her job + the state, they both chip in, so she pretty much get the same amount of money as she would, if she was still working her job. The father gets 2-3 months (im not 100% sure on that one).

Alot of things mentioned above, is why immigrants from the ME and North Africa come here, there are web pages and sites explaining which country is best in X amount of free things and such, that they can access.

The sorta right wing goverment, has made it their cause to "lower" everything, for "none" ethnic scandinavians, so as to make sure the immigrants stay away from here.

Ps. Denmark / Norway and Sweeden arent socialist, but we care for our citizens and make sure, everyone is taken care of.

[Animalhouse]

Oh look!
MMO-Champion European posters attacking America...again. Who would have thought?

Like so many others have said, if it wasn't for the US many of you would be clacking your heels together with an outstretched arm. I have a feeling many of you would like that though.

[Tehshocka]

Don't kid yourself, you lost that war.



The largest military that can't beat someone with less than a hundredth of their power. Yeah, I bet that makes you proud.



What, like WWI when you came around just before the party ended? Or WWII, when you pretended that everything was fine until halfway through, when Japan bitch-slapped you awake? Don't kid yourself, you helped, nothing more. You have earned no more glory or bragging rights than anyone else who fought.

In short, you are nothing special. Doesn't matter how much it hurts, it's still the truth.

LOL what?????

Omg I just spit my coffee every where bwhahahahahaha.

Are you seriously trying to imply that if Americans didn't interfere in both WW's things would end the same???

BWHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA

Japan sucker punched us yes. Then we leveled two of their cities along with almost their entire Naval Fleet.

There's no way you could of sat there and typed that bullshit with a straight face lol.

[Svad1287]

96% of people in Denmark can access 100mb/s at 300 DKK a month. 300mb/s at 400 DKk a month the maximum on cable. We also have fiber 1000mb/s at 600 DKK a month. Source yousee.dk; dst.dk

Even cheaper if you live in an "andels boligforening" or something similar, thanks to STOFA <3

[Allybeboba]

Yes that is true but the fact that we have a healthcare department and the fact that it's funded on tax payer money and it's wasted is sad. Either dismantle it and go full private or curb that useless research.
I don't have a problem with creating government programs that generally help the people but please don't keep a system that doesn't do much if something else can do it better.

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It wasn't a war though. More like a proxy war. And we lost because congress went new left I.e the younglings of the counter culture but not hippy like and decided to abandon treaties signed with the south insuring protection against agression.

The research isn't "useless" as you say. Many breakthroughs have been made by researchers.
We can have government, public and charitable funding can't we?
I have had the same doctor for 35 years, my children have had the same doctors their entire lives. The same dentist for 25 years. The same eye doctor for 25 years. With socialized medicine we wouldn't be able to do this.

[Tehshocka]

Just look at how much the poor benefit from that.

US median household income is 53k USD.

I think you should rethink the term poor if most Americans can afford to have food, shelter, car, and iphones.

Like seriously rethink that term poor.

[Draco-Onis]

Nobody cares about GDP on a percapita basis except for the small countries.

Nobody but small countries care about standard of living????

[Svad1287]

Oh look!
MMO-Champion European posters attacking America...again. Who would have thought?

Like so many others have said, if it wasn't for the US many of you would be clacking your heels together with an outstretched arm. I have a feeling many of you would like that though.

Not bashing, just saying, that things could be alot better. Its cool that you guys have the biggest army / navy / defence and such + GDP etc. But you cant feed people with bullets or jet fuel :-/

[zealo]

Yeah?

http://www.g2mil.com/lost_vietnam.htm

Turns out you lost 98 battles in Vietnam.

But what really matters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War

Result North Vietnamese victory

What ultimately gave way to a north vietnam victory was more in the line of political pressure against the war back home for the US.

The US had been in Vietnam with boots on the ground for well over a decade by the end of the war, if pressure to pull out hadn't been piling up domestically the US was in a position to keep it going for plenty more.

[Deleted]

When it comes to socialism, I guess the lower the score, the better? Since when is more socialism a good thing? I thought we won the cold war, not the commies.

[LedZeppelin]

Not bashing, just saying, that things could be alot better. Its cool that you guys have the biggest army / navy / defence and such + GDP etc. But you cant feed people with bullets or jet fuel :-/

No, its definitely nation bashing. It could have been "Group releases index of Social Progress! See your countries rank!" but we got what we have now.

But then again, success breeds jealousy.

[Tehshocka]

When it comes to socialism, I guess the lower the score, the better? Since when is more socialism a good thing? I thought we won the cold war, not the commies.

If upvotes were a thing, you'd get one sir.

[Zecora]

LOL what?????

Omg I just spit my coffee every where bwhahahahahaha.

Are you seriously trying to imply that if Americans didn't interfere in both WW's things would end the same???

BWHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA

Japan sucker punched us yes. Then we leveled two of their cities along with almost their entire Naval Fleet.

There's no way you could of sat there and typed that bullshit with a straight face lol.

It might have taken a while longer, but the war would have ended. Much as it may hurt your fragile feelings, the Soviet's did more to end WWII than you did.

[Draco-Onis]

What ultimately gave way to a north vietnam victory was more in the line of political pressure against the war back home for the US.

The US had been in Vietnam with boots on the ground for well over a decade by the end of the war, if pressure to pull out hadn't been piling up domestically the US was in a position to keep it going for plenty more.

But that was the whole strategy of the Vietnamese, they knew they could never win the war but make it so painful so atrocious that the US would be forced to leave. That war would have gone on with no end in sight, their strategy won.

[Zecora]

When it comes to socialism, I guess the lower the score, the better? Since when is more socialism a good thing? I thought we won the cold war, not the commies.

Well, if you don't know the difference between "Social", "Socialism" and "Commies", you CERTAINLY lost the war on ignorance...

[Svad1287]

What ultimately gave way to a north vietnam victory was more in the line of political pressure against the war back home for the US.

The US had been in Vietnam with boots on the ground for well over a decade by the end of the war, if pressure to pull out hadn't been piling up domestically the US was in a position to keep it going for plenty more.

Wasnt it because of all the Journalists and TV outlets sent back horrific stories, and cable news, about the stuff being done over there, that had people back in the US, being less than amicable about the war?

[ItsRainingMetal]

But then again, success breeds jealousy.

Definately, just look at the jealous 'muricans.

They wish they had it as good as us.

[Tehshocka]

It might have taken a while longer, but the war would have ended. Much as it may hurt your fragile feelings, the Soviet's did more to end WWII than you did.

You mean letting millions of their own people starve to death? You call that progress?

LOL we ended the Pacific Theater by dropping two freaking bombs. You might of remembered in the EU Theater this thing call D-Day? You know the Allied push to get freaking Nazi's out of the freaking Western Front of Europe.

Do you think all those folks gave a damn a bunch of red blooded Americans were shooting Germans next to them? HELL NO.

Lol figures you'd want to give credit to a bunch of commies hahahahaha.

[khazlol]

When it comes to socialism, I guess the lower the score, the better? Since when is more socialism a good thing? I thought we won the cold war, not the commies.

We are capitalists not communists. google the nordic model

[Deleted]

Well, if you don't know the difference between "Social", "Socialism" and "Commies", you CERTAINLY lost the war on ignorance...

What has "social" have to do with anything? Strawman much?

As for socialism and communism, they are both about stealing other peoples work and giving it to the undeserving. Nothing is "free", someone still has to pay for it and in socialist countries at gunpoint cause if you refuse, men with guns will come take it anyway and throw you in jail to boot.