• Why is America better than Japan?
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[QUOTE=Leon Trotsky;22173774]more guns and lenient gun control = more shootings brohound there's a reason the US has more shootings than any other advanced nation in the world[/QUOTE] US gun laws are far from lenient. Beside, Japan doesn't have space for crimes to happen.They don't even have private space to even have sex, last I heard.
[QUOTE=gufu;22173949]US gun laws are far from lenient.[/QUOTE] uh, yeah they are. name one advanced nation that has more lenient gun laws than the US. the only countries with less gun control than the US are ones like Somalia.
[QUOTE=Leon Trotsky;22173913]yes, look at seung hui cho. he easily obtained firearms even though he was deemed mentally incompetent which means he should've been denied the purchase. someone gets them legally. they don't just go and build their own firearm. if you trace back the guns they most likely came from a gun shop. they get their guns from places where gun control isn't as strict.. i.e they'll go to a bordering state and get their firearms and then come back look at places like Japan. they have very strict gun control and hardly any shootings. a person with an AK47 in the US can do a lot more damage than a person wielding a knife. all you have to do is aim and pull the trigger and the person could be dead in an instant.[/QUOTE] That's not how it works at all. Criminals don't buy weaponry legally, they either steal it or buy them from dealers illegally. The average citizen cannot buy buy full automatic weapons legally and in places like Chicago and DC, which have some of the highest gun crime rates in the nation and some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, you cant but handguns or any kind of assault rifle at all. If criminals go out of state to buy their firearms, why would they go all the way back just to commit crimes? Why not stay where they are, where gun laws are "lenient" and go crazy? You are also forgetting that the US shares a border with MEXICO. Mexico has practically outright banned firearms for civilian use, yet they have the highest gun crime rates in the continent. The drug cartels and traffickers always have a chance to export illegal firearms into this country, just like they do with illegal drugs and immigrants. As long as we have that border open, we will always have illegal firearms flowing into the country. Japan shares a border with noone. A person in Japan who attacks innocent by standards with a knife is never going to be shot back by a citizen who carry's, they can do massive amounts of damage. Again, areas of the US that properly uphold the 2nd Amendment have LOWER crime rates than those who don't. [url]http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1812808,00.html[/url]
[QUOTE=MegaChalupa;22174158] Japan shares a border with noone. A person in Japan who attacks innocent by standards with a knife is never going to be shot back by a citizen who carry's, they can do massive amounts of damage. Again, areas of the US that properly uphold the 2nd Amendment have LOWER crime rates than those who don't. [URL]http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1812808,00.html[/URL][/QUOTE] Nice argument.
Japan is managing to run out of people, and run out of land at the same time.
Japan's government is how people say "Watching a train wreck."
I think america is better than Japan because we could easily kick there ass in a war.
[QUOTE=shibbywalkkownu;22175845]I think america is better than Japan because we could easily kick there ass in a war.[/QUOTE] Ah, but they enforce education. I would say that the quality of a nation is based on it's teenaged generation. I feel sorry for America.
[QUOTE=Klownox;22175884]Ah, but they enforce education. I would say that the quality of a nation is based on it's teenaged generation. I feel sorry for America.[/QUOTE] Heh nationalism.
[QUOTE=emPiRe14;22175921]Heh nationalism.[/QUOTE] I'm Canadian. I did not promote Canada in one way.
When dealing with details such as overall intelligence of the entire population, only a person who has actually lived in both countries for a long period of time can have a legitimate argument about it.
Japan doesn't have a large military. Most of the Government's Money goes towards Military. The U.S Government spends about $240,000 a year on Viagra for the Military. The US Government spends about $40 billion (That it doesn't have) a year on Military, while around $1 billion on Health Care. It's excessive how much the Government spends on Health Care. Due to International Treaty on Japan's Military: They have very little militia and as such, have more traditional family values (Little-no people overseas, people see their families more, etc), they have invested more in their own culture, and they spend a lot more money on other useful things. TL;DR: America spends too much on it's Military, so it can't afford other shit. Japan has no military, and they are significantly smaller.
If you value a country by lack of culture and pure military power and arrogance, then sure, :patriot: But then again, aside from the occassional madman who couldn't afford to put guns on his airplane, Japan is pretty neat, and wins two major pluspoints, first one is having a decent culture instead of raping it's current one. And two: [IMG]http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:v9gL0z2vqLEgFM:http://ui32.gamespot.com/991/cosplay02lilith_2.jpg[/IMG] Nerdy girls dressing up like succubuses = Profit.
Kama-fucking-kazi
[QUOTE=TH89;22171600][img]http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/files/2010/03/the-cove.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] That movie was well-made, but it's also fucking retarded. We kill cows and pigs and shitloads of other animals for food, so what makes killing dolphins any worse? Because they're cute? Because they're [I]intelligent[/I]? It's idiotic, and most people who support this movie are hypocrites.
[QUOTE=Leon Trotsky;22156694]yeah, one that invades and occupies countries and polices the world. lol see: arizona immigration bill - in polls, most Americans support it mosque being built near 9/11 - holy shit. how dare them! etc.[/QUOTE] Dude shut the fuck up with your policing the world bullshit. I sure as hell would rather have a rational country keeping the relative peace than the oligarchic fuckhole that is Russia or the pseudo-communist authoritarian shithole that is China. Also what has Japan ever invented?
[QUOTE=Earthen;22176670]Dude shut the fuck up with your policing the world bullshit. I sure as hell would rather have a rational country keeping the relative peace than the oligarchic fuckhole that is Russia or the pseudo-communist authoritarian shithole that is China. Also what has Japan ever invented?[/QUOTE] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_inventions[/url]
[QUOTE=Earthen;22176670] Also what has Japan ever invented?[/QUOTE] Flying mech warriors
[QUOTE=Zachary1392;22176691][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_inventions[/url][/QUOTE] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_american_inventions#Colonial_Period_.281500s.E2.80.931775.29[/url] quite a lot more and arguably more influential
[QUOTE=Earthen;22176782][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_american_inventions#Colonial_Period_.281500s.E2.80.931775.29[/url] quite a lot more and arguably more influential[/QUOTE] Hey let's compare shit for no reason
[QUOTE=Earthen;22176782][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_american_inventions#Colonial_Period_.281500s.E2.80.931775.29[/url] quite a lot more and arguably more influential[/QUOTE] Keep in mind American article is more heavily contributed to because it is an English-language website
[QUOTE=Earthen;22176670]Dude shut the fuck up with your policing the world bullshit. I sure as hell would rather have a rational country keeping the relative peace than the oligarchic fuckhole that is Russia or the pseudo-communist authoritarian shithole that is China.[/QUOTE] lol keeping the peace bombing little brown people is keeping the peace?
[QUOTE=laval;22176826]Keep in mind American article is more heavily contributed to because it is an English-language website[/QUOTE] Even so, it's a dumbfucking retarded thing to compare. Heck, this whole thread is retarded. Why are we comparing these two countries? They're both fine places to live in. The quality of living is high in both. They're not shitholes like Pakistan or Zimbabwe or whatever.
1.We don't have babies like a pez dispenser. 2.We don't eat Cat/Dog. 3.We don't censor porn. 4.The chicks in america are incomparably hotter.
They have their ups and their downs. America is an anti intellectual hole full of "proactive" fucknuggets and retarded rednecks, Japan is a crazy ass repressed nation of racists and fuckups. On the other hand America is relatively free in terms of expression, and Japanese media is willing to tackle subjects America isn't.
[QUOTE=RiotashumaV2;22176924]1.We don't have babies like a pez dispenser. 2.We don't eat Cat/Dog. 3.We don't censor porn. 4.The chicks in america are incomparably hotter.[/QUOTE] God damn, you're fucking retarded.
[QUOTE=RiotashumaV2;22176924]1.We don't have babies like a pez dispenser. 2.We don't eat Cat/Dog. 3.We don't censor porn. 4.The chicks in america are incomparably hotter.[/QUOTE] 1. Never been to the south have yah. 2. Never been to the south have yah. 3. Never been to the south have yah. 4. That's a matter of taste.
[QUOTE=Brage Nyman;22172414][img]http://208.116.9.205/10/content/16832/1.jpg[/img] Pretty gay to try finding it though. Pretty proud to have a swedish dick among the biggest white dicks.[/QUOTE] Thats because Sweden fucking kicks ass. What don't they have that is awesome? Hot Chicks. 40-80% Athiest population. Gorgeous land. Technological advancements. Cole The Vikings Princess Madeleine Socialized Healthcare Log Cabins The Longest Bridge in the World The Nobel Prize Ikea It is a Real Country (unlike Scotland) Hot Girls Free Education Elves from Norse Mythology Dynamite Stave Churches The Days of the Week (From Norse Gods) Valhalla Swedish Meatballs Ingrid Bergman A Living Language The Cities of Stockholm and Jönköping Santa Lucia Land of the Midnight Sun One of the Highest Qualities of Life and Life Expectancies in the World And now some of the biggest dicks. :bravo: I hope somewhere in my gene pool theres a little bit of sweden...
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I mostly noticed that most Japanese are more scared than hateful of outside culture. Collectivist culture makes them shy away from those who are individualists, and a lot of collectivists are only comfortable with other collectivists. Honestly, it seems that the Japanese were one of the few that didnt hate America during the Bush years. You know, its kind of hard to judge Japan without knowing the place you know? I was born there, and I am half Japanese, and I go there every once in a while. Having lived in both countries, and being both American and Japanese, I liked Japan a lot more. However, school years in Japan are pretty shitty due to the amount of work. It seems that whether living is better here or Japan really depends on your job, and at older years definitely Japan. Infrastructure is way better there; you dont ever need cars. You can walk because things are tighter placed, take buses which are often used thus theres a lot of them, the trains which can take you anywhere. When I was younger I can go far away by my self, unlike in here where I am too limited as we kinda need cars. And surprisingly, rape rates here are 20 times that of Japan. Edit: to the guy who said Japan eats cats/dogs, no they dont. They dont eat fetuses either. Thats China your thinking of. China != all of oriental Asia
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