What do you think the US does well?

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1. Civil libertarianism. What other country allows anywhere near the amount of 'offensive', 'profane', 'blasphemous', or 'pornographic' content to regularly be published and widely accessible? What other country doesn't lock you up for saying the wrong words or thinking the wrong thoughts (mostly looking at European social democracies here, what with your 'hate speech' laws and all)? What other country has the kind of sustained, civil libertarian ethos that the United States has had since perhaps its foundation? I love the fact that in America there are organizations and people that will go to bat for you on any perceived slight of your rights. America is truly unique in this aspect, as its always been kind of the loud, irreverent stepchild of bourgeois civilization.

2. Gun culture. Again, no one comes close to the U.S. in this regard. We have the freest access to arms of any developed nation on Earth and, despite a large minority of pearl-clutting ninnies that want that to be done away with, that isn't changing anytime soon.

3. Technology.

4. Immigration. While we occasionally get this wrong (the 1920s-60s), we have, more or less, a much more rational and sustainable immigration system than do our European cousins. And beyond that, immigrants, while exposed to some fairly nasty rhetorical abuse from our resident lunatic right, don't have nearly as hard a time here as they do in the homogenous, race-conscious European states across the pond.

5. Culture. Jazz, rock and roll, Hollywood, television, etc.

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1. Civil libertarianism. What other country allows anywhere near the amount of 'offensive', 'profane', 'blasphemous', or 'pornographic' content to regularly be published and widely accessible? What other country doesn't lock you up for saying the wrong words or thinking the wrong thoughts (mostly looking at European social democracies here, what with your 'hate speech' laws and all)? What other country has the kind of sustained, civil libertarian ethos that the United States has had since perhaps its foundation? I love the fact that in America there are organizations and people that will go to bat for you on any perceived slight of your rights. America is truly unique in this aspect, as its always been kind of the loud, irreverent stepchild of bourgeois civilization.

Meanwhile, European televisions can show nipples and use curse words.

Yeah, that's one area where we're certainly deficient. But at least we don't lock people up for saying that the Holocaust didn't happen.

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1. Civil libertarianism. What other country allows anywhere near the amount of 'offensive', 'profane', 'blasphemous', or 'pornographic' content to regularly be published and widely accessible? What other country doesn't lock you up for saying the wrong words or thinking the wrong thoughts (mostly looking at European social democracies here, what with your 'hate speech' laws and all)? What other country has the kind of sustained, civil libertarian ethos that the United States has had since perhaps its foundation? I love the fact that in America there are organizations and people that will go to bat for you on any perceived slight of your rights. America is truly unique in this aspect, as its always been kind of the loud, irreverent stepchild of bourgeois civilization.

Meanwhile, European televisions can show nipples and use curse words.

Yeah, that's one area where we're certainly deficient. But at least we don't lock people up for saying that the Holocaust didn't happen.

I thought you were in favour of the suppression of far-right/fascistic political groups? Or does that only apply in a revolutionary situation?

Correct.