As a non-American who just went to Montana a few days ago, I saw some kids hitting a pile of snow with a baseball bat. And last month when I went, I saw a completely different group of kids smoking up and throwing shovels at a pile of snow. I gotta say, wtf? Are these the same kids who’ll be running the free world in a couple decades, because, like, wtf? It’s a pile of snow.

woah woah I just missed that. Token, did you just call the current government socialistic? Dude the current PM used to be Reform, which is roughly the Canadian equivalent to Libertarian. If you think that Canada is homogeneously socialist, you’re ignant.
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As for crappy hospitals, once when I living in the States I got so sick and I was on my death bed, practically. Now my family growing up was quite wealthy and had great insurance and stuff and I stay in a waiting room for a good 18 hours till we finally went home. However, in Canada, I’ve never been in an Emergency waiting room for more than 1/2 hour.
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Oh, yes, and there’s also the increasing trend, in the US, for more and more doctors to specialize in lifestyle drugs. I mean, why even bother with an HMO when you could get payed four times the amount inventing a new diet pill. Just remember that the next time some family member gets cancer, all the greatest medical minds in your country are working on a cure for baldness.

I remember how on 9/11 and 12 the newspaper printed out little American flags and there were paper flags in every house and car window in the city. For the next year or so, US flags were a common sight in Canada and Portugal alike and even those who disagreed with the Afghanistan thing understood it and weren’t too vocal. US was probably more popular than it’s ever been. I also remember that on September 12th, Four US Senators got together and demanded something be done about Canada for letting terrorists into the United States, strongly suggesting sanctions. Of course they just guessed where the terrorists came from.
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Then the Republicans started planning out Iraq. I’m talking about before the invasion itself, but, like, when Bush was announcing it and such. Yeah, France and a few countries openly condemned Iraq, but for the most part, countries disagreed and didn’t want to be involved in COW. From that moment onward the Republics – especially Senators – started to openly threaten countries that wouldn’t join the effort, copping this with-us or against-us shit that we haven’t seen since the 1950s. I remember every day the newspaper looked like this: “US Senator Southern Fat Hick has called Estonia the greatest terrorist holding house in the history of the world composed of 100% terrorists and has called for its nuclear annihilation.” There was literally a checklist of countries that didn’t join cow, all of which were threatened by the Republicans one by one. All in all it’s ironic that Bush used the word ‘Willing’ when him and his party were so frequently threatening European and Asian nations to get them to join.
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I don’t know how much you America’s heard about the various US Senators making direct and indirect threats against every country that wouldn’t join COW, but we heard a lot about it in other countries. No one likes to be threatened or pushed around: US doesn’t like to be pushed around by Arabs, and the world doesn’t like being pushed around by US, especially for not joining an alliance which no previous treaty has specified.
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I realize that it was the Politicians, not the Americans, who made the big fuss about COW, but after that had long started it was *you people* who reelected them. Thanks a lot.

Holy shit ITT: Zhuangzi vs. Confucius. Reboot have you considered that, instead of investing, you should just start contemplating your Ich und Du with trees and watching fish in streams? srrsly dude