Its one thing to do it at the championship games and stuff but does every single game need to have the damn anthem. Please, enough of all this.

1/17/2016 1:02:33 PM

It only takes a couple minutes

1/17/2016 1:03:45 PM

What if we got a better national anthem? Like Ride the Lightning or Seek and Destroy.

1/17/2016 4:42:16 PM

land of The free and home of The brave makes no sense when you have most of the world's prisoners and citizens have to keep a gun because they are scared.

1/17/2016 6:51:06 PM

Its not perfect by any means, but as somebody who has travelled the world and the seven seas for many a decade, the USA is the best dern place in the world to live bar none and its not even close.

God bless this beautiful land O'Bounty.

God bless us, every one.

America, fuck yea.

1/17/2016 7:26:15 PM

The USA is not even a top 5 place to live and theres tons of objective data to support that.

1/17/2016 7:27:58 PM

wrong

1/17/2016 8:02:08 PM

http://hdr.undp.org/en/composite/HDI
#8 in human development

http://www.businessinsider.com/top-countries-on-oecd-better-life-index-2013-5?op=1
#6 in better life index

http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mef45ejmi/10-united-states/
#10 in happiness

http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/human-freedom-index-files/human-freedom-index-2015.pdf
#20 in freedom

http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
#12 in economic freedom

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/04/03/24-7-wall-st-healthiest-countries/70859728/
#34 in health

http://www.neit.edu/blog/index.php/2015/01/most-educated-countries-in-the-world/
#4 in education

http://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp
#76 in crime

http://www.visionofhumanity.org/sites/default/files/Global%20Peace%20Index%20Report%202015_0.pdf
#94 in safety

http://worldjusticeproject.org/sites/default/files/roli_2015_0.pdf
#19 in rule of law (justice)

The US is pretty good when you compare it to poor countries but Its obvious the US is nowhere near being the best place to live but I don't even know a single thing that its the best at.

[Edited on January 17, 2016 at 8:31 PM. Reason : What is exceptional about the US besides your 1st grade teacher putting that in your head?]

1/17/2016 8:21:40 PM

Bread and circuses. The circus is more effective if you sneak in a little nationalism. Throw in a big tax-payer funded halftime show with a huge American flag, some armed forces members, and maybe a fly-over and you've really got something going on.

1/17/2016 9:16:23 PM

if you don't like America, then u can just git out!!!

1/17/2016 9:39:18 PM

LOL your douchey "objective" freedom index has freakin Hong Kong #1, give me a fucking break. I lived there for 4 years, also during the protest against the fuckin commie gubment deciding it would hand pick candidates for "elected offices". I definitely didn't feel free when I was unable to access certain websites due to guberment blockage.

Get your garbage anti-murrican proganda off my lawn. I've been all over the world and I kiss the ground and thank god for my murrican citizenship every time i get back here, go live somewhere else if you hate it so much. (Also lucky for you you dont live in China, otherwise the commies would have already scooped you up for spreading this garbage around.)

America, fuck yea.

1/17/2016 10:13:45 PM

FTR, Hong Kong ranks 29th in fundamental rights, but I'm sure you didn't make it that deep into the report.

1/17/2016 10:19:36 PM

No of course not, those reports are garbage.

So if murrica is so bad, which country would you prefer to live in if you could?

1/17/2016 10:23:40 PM

What I prefer and what is "the best" are not the same. I wish more people could realize that. Just because you like it better and want to live here does not make it the best. Thats bias.

Kinda like how saying widely accepted research thoroughly conducted by a group of experts is "garbage" is also bias.


[Edited on January 17, 2016 at 10:39 PM. Reason : if it doesn't fit my preconceived world view its "garbage"]

1/17/2016 10:37:38 PM

LOL. You just proved my point. Thank you.

[Edited on January 17, 2016 at 10:54 PM. Reason : Also, I don't have a "world view". I am my own objective study on the world.]

1/17/2016 10:44:41 PM

if these two trolls keep trolling each other it's gonna open up some kind of wormhole or something

1/17/2016 11:09:41 PM