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  1. The Don Kiluminati

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    USA - Greatest Civilization In the World.

    The United States has the largest economy in the world. The United States also has the most powerful military on the entire planet. The United States has produced most of the greatest movies that the world has ever seen. But the United States is also number one in a lot of categories that are not go great.

    Ladies and gentlemen, the most advanced Civilization in the modern day -

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    Lol'd.

    As history has shown us, all the great civilizations paid their price and in the end fell. Anyone that believes in Karma (not saying I do btw lol), this must not be a suprise to you, given some of the things the USA has done in its history.

    Love to hear the theories on how this has happened in a country that prides itself on "freedom".
     
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    Many of the points listed above are why I intend on leaving the country.
     
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    A lot of the points above will cause the end of civilization as we know it.
     
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    I sourced some of this through other websites, your information seems really unreliable, didn't find many sites that supported your findings.

    South Africa has the highest reported rape.

    Anyhow, Over eating isn't hard. The size of meals people in the states can buy, for such a small amount of money evidently doesn't help. You could probably buy a super-size meal, for the same price of a regular hamburger and chips in the UK.

    -Obesity leads to health problems.
    -Pornography isn't really a bad thing, there's 4 'porn' webpages for every 1, of anything else. So really, the internet is just a large hub of 'porn'.

    Some of the others, I couldn't begin to Imagine, military costs seemingly don't help.

    From what I learnt in History, wars are what made the US so prosperous?

    And can I just say: +1 reason for being british. ;)
     
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    Which will most likely go bust due to your deficit being as high as your GDP which is $14 Trillion

    And also most of the shit ones too... :D

    (this was just tongue in cheek by the way)
     
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    The same is true with me. I plan to move to Europe as soon as possible.
     
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    Please read the facts you paste next time before you eat them. False and manipulated facts misinform others and are just pointless.

    #2 is false. The US has the 9th highest obesity rate. (http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/07/worlds-fattest-countries-forbeslife-cx_ls_0208worldfat.html)
    #4 is false; US is 6th, behind Russia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce_demography)
    #5 is false. Canada has a higher drug rate (the world "illegal" manipulates the fact).
    #6 is manipulated. There are many more cars in the US then in any country in the world. The US is 9th of major countries (http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_car_the_percap-crime-car-thefts-per-capita)
    #7 is manipulated because of the amount of US citizens. The US is 4th in rapes per capita (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics#UN_Statistics)
    #8 is manipulated because of the amount of US citizens. The US isn't even in the top 20 for murders per capita. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate)
    #9 is also manipulated because the US has more people than the competition. Also, countries like China are known to be unable to obtain their reported crime rates due to localization of police.
    #10 is a good thing, right?
    #11 is a good thing, right?
    #12 is definitely a good thing. If you don't like it, move to Myanmar and die of malaria, which would be near impossible in the US.
    Please carefully examine the facts next time before eating them.
    #14 is a good thing. Student loans are proven to improve both the individual and the economy.
    #15: As societies become more advanced they become more hedonistic. Isn't that a major purpose of advancement?
    #16 is because people are willing to work for less in other countries. Due to globalization, this will eventually pull the US economy down to a lower level. However, it does not say anything bad about the US itself, just something good about the competition.
    #17 is in a attempt to control world trade (which we do control). That's a positive for a world superpower.
    #18 is in a attempt to control world trade (which we do control). That's a positive for a world superpower.
    #19 is subjective and neither good nor bad.
     
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    #2 Actually, the data from nationmaster is from 2005. The data you showed is from 2007, the most recent data shows USA as #3, not 9. (This was published today - http://www.expatify.com/news/the-worlds-top-10-fattest-countries.html )

    #4 I don't think it's false, the sources Wiki uses for the countries above date from 2004-. Whilst the USA it takes a source which dates from 2009.

    http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/peo_div_rat-people-divorce-rate

    ^Nationmaster is regarded as quite a reliable source. Atleast more then Wiki lol.

    edit: #9/7/8 You said their "munipulating"? Re-read what the sentence actually says. Never mentions ratio (for those particular numbers), talks about "total".
     
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    America has more debt than the fiscal output of the whole world.

    America, 'the greatest civilization' will cause the next world war.
     
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    Ok...it's still not 1, so the fact is false.

    I know what the fact says, it doesn't lie. It does, however, make the US look bad in comparison to other countries just because those countries are smaller. You are also using your fact to derive at your final conclusion that the US is worse than people think when the facts that are not related to population are not relevant for that point.
     
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    Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
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    Statistics mean shit to me... I'm in the army and have spent time in every major European, and Asian country. England, Germany, and Italy were just as bad as the US. The only places I've ever seen that's truly extraordinary was Japan, Dubai, and Singapore (I plan on moving to Singapore when I retire from the army). Though the Japanese have the highest suicide rate (maybe they need some of those anti-depressants our women have).
     
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    It's about to become the most corrupted civilization in the world.
     
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    USA just does a lot of achievements, but honestly its condition sucks. And if you gauged greatness on happiness, there are several countries that beat US by a longshot.
     
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    How so? There are plenty of corrupt governments in Africa and from what I've seen on the History Channel Indonesia is corrupt as well. But as for your statistics... I'm american and they really trouble me
     
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    The United States is terrible. Looking at the list of happiest countries, for how many "great things" the USA does, it has a shit rank.

    PS: Canada/Europe/Australia ftw?
     
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    They sure do have it all... But really, is there any definitive answer to why this has all happened? Is capitalism to blame?
     
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    You mean is capitalism to thank? Better many achievements than none at all (communism).
     
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    The trade deficit is not that big of a issue, if you paid attention in Economics you would understand.
     
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    Corruption in the US is more organized and painted over to show a different, more acceptable appearance. Basically its done right in front of us but many don't see the truths.
     
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    None of this is new, its what happens when you have a huge population. But we do overdo things I will admit. Doesn't mean you should bash us as a whole after all not everyone falls into some of those categories.
     
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