No, the USA is NOT Exceptional

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

We always hear how the US is an exceptional nation, but it simply isn't true. Exceptional nations don't have 160 people killed over the weekend in their cities. They have don't have riots and looting in the streets. Their major urban cores don't look like Hiroshima after the bomb. They don't have tens of thousands dying of drug overdoses every year. They don't have one of the most expensive education systems with one of the poorest outcomes.

I have been to 17 countries and while all of them have their set of issues, most of them don't experience the things I listed above on a scale anywhere near what we do. There was a time when America may have been exceptional, but that day is behind us. Neither the country nor the people in it are worthy of that title. The brutal truth is we've become the trailer trash of the industrialized world.

Gun violence kills 160 as holiday weekend exposes tale of 'two Americas'

With more than 500 wounded across the US, local leaders see racism and under-investment at the root of the crisis

www.theguardian.com

 

[miketx]

It used to be until democrats took over those crime holes you're posting about. Get rid of them and we are fine.

 

[L.K.Eder]

well, your coronavirus response management is kind of exceptional. maybe Belarus and bolsonaro's Brazil come close.

 

[TNHarley]

We never have been exceptional, besides being the badasses. Thats only good depending on how you look at it.
I still love this country though.

 

[22lcidw]

We always hear how the US is an exceptional nation, but it simply isn't true. Exceptional nations don't have 160 people killed over the weekend in their cities. They have don't have riots and looting in the streets. Their major urban cores don't look like Hiroshima after the bomb. They don't have tens of thousands dying of drug overdoses every year. They don't have one of the most expensive education systems with one of the poorest outcomes.

I have been to 17 countries and while all of them have their set of issues, most of them don't experience the things I listed above on a scale anywhere near what we do. There was a time when America may have been exceptional, but that day is behind us. Neither the country nor the people in it are worthy of that title. The brutal truth is we've become the trailer trash of the industrialized world.

Gun violence kills 160 as holiday weekend exposes tale of 'two Americas'

With more than 500 wounded across the US, local leaders see racism and under-investment at the root of the crisis

www.theguardian.com

Technically, the people that came over here may have been the trailer trash of their home nations.

 

[rightwinger]

Any nation that could elect Donald J Trump is not exceptional

 

[basquebromance]

Traitors who say such things should be deported, my friends

 

[toobfreak]

They have don't have riots and looting in the streets.

They don't have the freedom to.

Their major urban cores don't look like Hiroshima after the bomb.

They don't have cities run by democrats or a government who's spent every last nickel on military spending because they know the USA will do it for them.

They don't have tens of thousands dying of drug overdoses every year.

They don't have the freedom or economic access to get it.

They don't have one of the most expensive education systems with one of the poorest outcomes.

They don't have Democrat-run school unions.

There was a time when America may have been exceptional, but that day is behind us.

America has been run into the ground by Radical Extreme Leftist Progressive-Socialists.

The brutal truth is we've become the trailer trash of the industrialized world.

Speak for yourself. It didn't get this way in three years. You can thank decades of liberalism and progressivism for that.

 

[basquebromance]

We always hear how the US is an exceptional nation, but it simply isn't true. Exceptional nations don't have 160 people killed over the weekend in their cities. They have don't have riots and looting in the streets. Their major urban cores don't look like Hiroshima after the bomb. They don't have tens of thousands dying of drug overdoses every year. They don't have one of the most expensive education systems with one of the poorest outcomes.

I have been to 17 countries and while all of them have their set of issues, most of them don't experience the things I listed above on a scale anywhere near what we do. There was a time when America may have been exceptional, but that day is behind us. Neither the country nor the people in it are worthy of that title. The brutal truth is we've become the trailer trash of the industrialized world.

Gun violence kills 160 as holiday weekend exposes tale of 'two Americas'

With more than 500 wounded across the US, local leaders see racism and under-investment at the root of the crisis

www.theguardian.com

please produce a list of those countries

 

[shockedcanadian]

America is Exceptional, primarily because of your Constitution, culture of forgiveness, open debate and opportunity in a more Free Market system. Some wish to change that.

As for crime, the more free a society, the more you should expect, especially when some are convinced by other profiteers that they can't make it due to their race, or economic status. There are many people who profit from crime, and I'm not talking about the criminal...

 

[Mac1958]

We always hear how the US is an exceptional nation, but it simply isn't true. Exceptional nations don't have 160 people killed over the weekend in their cities. They have don't have riots and looting in the streets. Their major urban cores don't look like Hiroshima after the bomb. They don't have tens of thousands dying of drug overdoses every year. They don't have one of the most expensive education systems with one of the poorest outcomes.

I have been to 17 countries and while all of them have their set of issues, most of them don't experience the things I listed above on a scale anywhere near what we do. There was a time when America may have been exceptional, but that day is behind us. Neither the country nor the people in it are worthy of that title. The brutal truth is we've become the trailer trash of the industrialized world.

Gun violence kills 160 as holiday weekend exposes tale of 'two Americas'

With more than 500 wounded across the US, local leaders see racism and under-investment at the root of the crisis

www.theguardian.com

Seems to me that those who keep pushing the "exceptionalism" stuff are choosing to ignore the fact that we all have different priorities.

For many, just being happy and content in their lives is a higher priority than desperately chasing riches or fame.

So, if just being happy and content were the main components of "exceptionalism" - yeah, I doubt we'd be exceptional.

 

[Persistence Of Memory]

We always hear how the US is an exceptional nation, but it simply isn't true. Exceptional nations don't have 160 people killed over the weekend in their cities. They have don't have riots and looting in the streets. Their major urban cores don't look like Hiroshima after the bomb. They don't have tens of thousands dying of drug overdoses every year. They don't have one of the most expensive education systems with one of the poorest outcomes.

I have been to 17 countries and while all of them have their set of issues, most of them don't experience the things I listed above on a scale anywhere near what we do. There was a time when America may have been exceptional, but that day is behind us. Neither the country nor the people in it are worthy of that title. The brutal truth is we've become the trailer trash of the industrialized world.

Gun violence kills 160 as holiday weekend exposes tale of 'two Americas'

With more than 500 wounded across the US, local leaders see racism and under-investment at the root of the crisis

www.theguardian.com

Totally agree. But you have to compare it to 330mil vs their populations. Lot of countries are as big as one of our states.

If you take educational stats out of ghettos. We'still beat everyone. I look at education stats that don't include scores of our Mogadishus where not one student is proficient.

 

[L.K.Eder]

Any nation that could elect Donald J Trump is not exceptional

au contraire, that is very exceptional.

 

[Dick Foster]

We always hear how the US is an exceptional nation, but it simply isn't true. Exceptional nations don't have 160 people killed over the weekend in their cities. They have don't have riots and looting in the streets. Their major urban cores don't look like Hiroshima after the bomb. They don't have tens of thousands dying of drug overdoses every year. They don't have one of the most expensive education systems with one of the poorest outcomes.

I have been to 17 countries and while all of them have their set of issues, most of them don't experience the things I listed above on a scale anywhere near what we do. There was a time when America may have been exceptional, but that day is behind us. Neither the country nor the people in it are worthy of that title. The brutal truth is we've become the trailer trash of the industrialized world.

Gun violence kills 160 as holiday weekend exposes tale of 'two Americas'

With more than 500 wounded across the US, local leaders see racism and under-investment at the root of the crisis

www.theguardian.com

We're exceptional simply because we still allow assholes like you to run around free and even open your stupid fucking mouth.

 

[L.K.Eder]

We always hear how the US is an exceptional nation, but it simply isn't true. Exceptional nations don't have 160 people killed over the weekend in their cities. They have don't have riots and looting in the streets. Their major urban cores don't look like Hiroshima after the bomb. They don't have tens of thousands dying of drug overdoses every year. They don't have one of the most expensive education systems with one of the poorest outcomes.

I have been to 17 countries and while all of them have their set of issues, most of them don't experience the things I listed above on a scale anywhere near what we do. There was a time when America may have been exceptional, but that day is behind us. Neither the country nor the people in it are worthy of that title. The brutal truth is we've become the trailer trash of the industrialized world.

Gun violence kills 160 as holiday weekend exposes tale of 'two Americas'

With more than 500 wounded across the US, local leaders see racism and under-investment at the root of the crisis

www.theguardian.com

Totally agree. But you have to compare it to 330mil vs their populations. Lot of countries are as big as one of our states.

If you take educational stats out of ghettos. We'still beat everyone. I look at education stats that don't include scores of our Mogadishus where not one student is proficient.

if you take all negatives out of your calculations, you will most surprisingly end up with a positive result.

 

[rightwinger]

Any nation that could elect Donald J Trump is not exceptional

au contraire, that is very exceptional.

It was an exception but far from exceptional

 

[Meathead]

We always hear how the US is an exceptional nation, but it simply isn't true. Exceptional nations don't have 160 people killed over the weekend in their cities. They have don't have riots and looting in the streets. Their major urban cores don't look like Hiroshima after the bomb. They don't have tens of thousands dying of drug overdoses every year. They don't have one of the most expensive education systems with one of the poorest outcomes.

I have been to 17 countries and while all of them have their set of issues, most of them don't experience the things I listed above on a scale anywhere near what we do. There was a time when America may have been exceptional, but that day is behind us. Neither the country nor the people in it are worthy of that title. The brutal truth is we've become the trailer trash of the industrialized world.

Gun violence kills 160 as holiday weekend exposes tale of 'two Americas'

With more than 500 wounded across the US, local leaders see racism and under-investment at the root of the crisis

www.theguardian.com

Trailer parks are not the sites of the carnage. Try again.

 

[L.K.Eder]

Any nation that could elect Donald J Trump is not exceptional

au contraire, that is very exceptional.

It was an exception but far from exceptional

let me guess. you think that exceptional has to be a positive attribute. i am not agreeing.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

We always hear how the US is an exceptional nation, but it simply isn't true. Exceptional nations don't have 160 people killed over the weekend in their cities. They have don't have riots and looting in the streets. Their major urban cores don't look like Hiroshima after the bomb. They don't have tens of thousands dying of drug overdoses every year. They don't have one of the most expensive education systems with one of the poorest outcomes.

I have been to 17 countries and while all of them have their set of issues, most of them don't experience the things I listed above on a scale anywhere near what we do. There was a time when America may have been exceptional, but that day is behind us. Neither the country nor the people in it are worthy of that title. The brutal truth is we've become the trailer trash of the industrialized world.

Gun violence kills 160 as holiday weekend exposes tale of 'two Americas'

With more than 500 wounded across the US, local leaders see racism and under-investment at the root of the crisis

www.theguardian.com

yes, the Democrats are the problem.

 

[Drop Dead Fred]

We always hear how the US is an exceptional nation, but it simply isn't true. Exceptional nations don't have 160 people killed over the weekend in their cities. They have don't have riots and looting in the streets. Their major urban cores don't look like Hiroshima after the bomb. They don't have tens of thousands dying of drug overdoses every year. They don't have one of the most expensive education systems with one of the poorest outcomes.

I have been to 17 countries and while all of them have their set of issues, most of them don't experience the things I listed above on a scale anywhere near what we do. There was a time when America may have been exceptional, but that day is behind us. Neither the country nor the people in it are worthy of that title. The brutal truth is we've become the trailer trash of the industrialized world.

Gun violence kills 160 as holiday weekend exposes tale of 'two Americas'

With more than 500 wounded across the US, local leaders see racism and under-investment at the root of the crisis

www.theguardian.com

If the U.S. is not exceptional, then why do huge numbers of people from all over the world immigrate to the U.S. every year?