Tag: Country

How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind

Authored by David Wong, originally posted at Cracked.com,

I’m going to explain the Donald Trump phenomenon in three movies. And then some text.

There’s this universal shorthand that epic adventure movies use to tell the good guys from the bad. The good guys are simple folk from the countryside …

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… while the bad guys are decadent assholes who live in the city and wear stupid clothes:

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In Star Wars, Luke is a farm boy …

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… while the bad guys live in a shiny space station:

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In Braveheart, the main character (Dennis Braveheart) is a simple farmer …

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… and the dastardly Prince Shithead lives in a luxurious castle and wears fancy, foppish clothes:

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The theme expresses itself in several ways — primitive vs. advanced, tough vs. delicate, masculine vs. feminine, poor vs. rich, pure vs. decadent, traditional vs. weird. All of it is code for rural vs. urban. That tense divide between the two doesn’t exist because of these movies, obviously. These movies used it as shorthand because the divide already existed.

We country folk are programmed to hate the prissy elites.

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Stucky Question Of The Day: Craptastic Countries

I’m not sure what it means to “love America”.  I was taught that one shouldn’t love “things” — because things/objects  can’t “love” back.  Only people (and, God) can love, and are worthy of being loved.

On the other hand, I am on record as having said “I hate America.” … or, at least what she has become. Hate is just the other side of the coin, so hating things/objects is just as foolish as loving them.

Besides all that, where would I go?  The list of countries that suck ass is vastly larger than countries I’d want to inhabit …. especially considering the fact that I would only move to a country whose primary language is either English or German.  A small list. I’m too fuckin’ old to learn a new language. And, I’m too proud to “Press 1 for English” in Burundi.

So, we’ve had discussions here about “good” countries to consider.  Llpoh went to Australia cuz of me.  This is the opposite of that.

Here’s the question:  Which country on this planet do you HATE the most?

Note that I didn’t say “shittiest”.  There are lots of shitty countries in the world, but I don’t “hate” them.  Yeah, I’m looking for HATE! And don’t give me any bullshit how you don’t “hate” anything.  That’s a crock of shit.  If you’re on TBP … you hate plenty of things!!

Feel free to choose more than one.  If possible, add a couple lines as to why.  I have a future Pictorial Essay in mind to be titled “10 Reasons Why ‘insert name-of-country’ Is The Worst Country In Humanity’s History”.  I’ve already chosen a country (not the USA).  Maybe your choices will change my opinion.

Helpful aid to choose a country follows;