What is your opinion about your country (or your state in the case of the United States)?

[P_A_Z]

I live in France and the Melting Pot is good, France: "terre d'accueil"

 

[DynamiteKaitorn]

"Whelp. We're DooM-ed."

 

Personally I just wanna head down to London and start blasting this song:

 

One and 1 last point:

No it DOESN'T rain all the bloody time. just every other day. XD

[s4f3s3x]

Not many people playing classic DOOM here

Edited October 16, 2023 by s4f3s3x

[Sonikkumania]

11 minutes ago, s4f3s3x said:

Not many people playing classic DOOM here

What led you to such conclusion. 

[Optimus]

It's just a bit hot and good food.

[LuzRoja29]

argentina: we are going to the trash and we are reaching the trash

[Kuro_mahoh]

We make the best pizza here, Chicago and Detroit has nothing on us. 


New York #1

[Scypek2]

What's my opinion? Certainly higher than a couple days ago now that 72% of Polish people turned up to vote in the election, and with pretty good results despite the relentless propaganda.

[Gothic Box]

Come to Iowa, we've got government corruption and an ethanol obsession that also extends to alcoholism, including our governor, who had her DUIs expunged in order to run for office. There's also the monolithic agricultural industry that bribes politicians and dumps pollutants (nitrates, manure, carcinogenic fertilizers, etc.) into the water supply, which in turn drains into the Mississippi river. Speaking of manure, most of that is produced by pigs, who outnumber humans 8 to 1. We're so into farming that we converted ~90% of our state's surface area for agricultural use, with native prairie being nearly nonexistent only 200 years after colonization! :)))

 

According to our politicians none of that's a problem. What's really a problem is the existence of the scary scary gays and transgenders! ^{god i hate it here}

[coderamen]

Tennessee 

Republican infested hell

[coderamen]

1 hour ago, Gothic Box said:

Come to Iowa, we've got government corruption and an ethanol obsession that also extends to alcoholism, including our governor, who had her DUIs expunged in order to run for office. There's also the monolithic agricultural industry that bribes politicians and dumps pollutants (nitrates, manure, carcinogenic fertilizers, etc.) into the water supply, which in turn drains into the Mississippi river. Speaking of manure, most of that is produced by pigs, who outnumber humans 8 to 1. We're so into farming that we converted ~90% of our state's surface area for agricultural use, with native prairie being nearly nonexistent only 200 years after colonization! :)))

 

According to our politicians none of that's a problem. What's really a problem is the existence of the scary scary gays and transgenders! ^{god i hate it here}

You should threaten to trans your gender every hour until your demands are met. - sincerely, a lg(bt) person.

[Hellektronic]

Thread should be named "who's happy and who's unhappy"

Me? I'm pretty happy.

[Quagsire]

Ohio.

 

...Our pizza sucks.

 

Oh, and funny not at all beaten into the ground meme too, I guess.

[aloysiusfreeman]

Yes, I can make say my opinion before this gets locked. 

 

Ever since becoming a parent I have dug into despising the US. Both my wife and I have well-paying jobs and its a constant struggle. The Expanded Child Tax Credit would help (but not fix the issue of childcare being so damn expensive), but then Joe Manchin killed it. Fuck him. I absolutely resent that this country makes parenting miserable when it shouldn't be - unless you have retired grandparents then you are tossed in the ringer of misery. And of course there's the general rants of the things the US can be a shitstain about, but I don't want to be the one that pushes this thread to be locked.

 

As far as Minnesota, I'm at least proud that the state tries better than my home state of Wisconsin. But winter is coming soon and I am looking forward to waking up before the sun rises and breathing in frigid air - no sarcasm.

[Doomkid]

 

😭
 

Key points about FL:

- Has always been fairly insane

- Has nice beaches

- Didn’t have Nazi flags flying on the way into Disney when I was there

- Most every area seemed designed to put poverty and excess wealth right the fuck on top of eachother

Key points about AU:

- One of the friendliest cultures I’m aware of

- Lacks the thrill of health problems (inevitable for all humans on this planet) leading directly to bankruptcy

- Has way fucking nicer beaches than FL

- The outback and most small towns within are old, rusty, beaten up, and the pubs pretty much always have a very warm and welcoming vibe. Absolute comfort zone

 

I love both in terms of geography and natural beauty. Swamps, as well as arid deserts, are both genuinely gorgeous in my eyes.

 

[Naarok0fkor]

Winter's coming in Canada...

[SkeletronMK666]

the united states is in late stage capitalism and is scheming between the far left and the far right. the turbulent polarizing politics seem to be over culture wars about trans people, and also seem to be controlled opposition as the propagandized news stations, fox, and cnn, seem to stoke the fires of culture wars in America that distract us while the wealthy and powerful suck the finances dry of our country. - how does this affect me? well im scared one day that my rights as a bisexual will be striped away by far right politicians in some sort of infuriating culture war one day. I HATE modern day politics, it's just reactionary causing violence, bigotry, and vitriol, and nobody listens to each other! sorry if my post seems to be very polarizing but in genuinely scared for my nation.

[SkeletronMK666]

i could be wrong on some of my assertions on modern day politics, i can stand to be corrected if need be but im just calls it as i sees it.

[s4f3s3x]

8 hours ago, Sonikkumania said:

What led you to such conclusion. 

 

Lack of quality localized YT channels, for one thing. But also personal experience (never knew anybody who had or was playing classic DOOM, and I've known many nerdy people).

I'm talking about my country of course, it probably wasn't super clear in my first post!

[IRCModerator]

ohio is tooooo dang coldddd

[coderamen]

51 minutes ago, SkeletronMK666 said:

the united states is in late stage capitalism and is scheming between the far left and the far right. the turbulent polarizing politics seem to be over culture wars about trans people, and also seem to be controlled opposition as the propagandized news stations, fox, and cnn, seem to stoke the fires of culture wars in America that distract us while the wealthy and powerful suck the finances dry of our country. - how does this affect me? well im scared one day that my rights as a bisexual will be striped away by far right politicians in some sort of infuriating culture war one day. I HATE modern day politics, it's just reactionary causing violence, bigotry, and vitriol, and nobody listens to each other! sorry if my post seems to be very polarizing but in genuinely scared for my nation.

The only thing I disagree with is the part about the far left. There is no far left in American politics. Where are the red flags with the hammers and sickles? They have literally no representation in Congress.

[SkeletronMK666]

4 minutes ago, coderamen said:

The only thing I disagree with is the part about the far left. There is no far left in American politics. Where are the red flags with the hammers and sickles? They have literally no representation in Congress.

seems accurate.

[coderamen]

17 minutes ago, IRCModerator said:

ohio is tooooo dang coldddd

I consider myself in many ways an Ohioan in exile. You might dislike the cold, but it's better than TN hands down.

[xScavengerWolfx]

I'll hop on this wagon with the rest of the loonies and doomers

 

I live in Washington State....Eastern Washington State (yes there's a eastern side of seattle) I love the country side since i don't have to put up with the whole bullshit of getting my house broke into, people trying to scam me out of money or walking down the street and some crack head animal creature trying to mug me for money to get there fix.

 

As far as the country of America goes...... i think most of us Americans will agree, this country is fucked and not in a good way either.

[Mr. Freeze]

There's no far-left in Congress because they are inherently unelectable. 

[coderamen]

Just now, SkeletronMK666 said:

seems accurate.

It's literally the far right alternately collaborating with liberals to help wall street/the military industrial complex and bickering with them over gay people.

[SkeletronMK666]

1 minute ago, coderamen said:

It's literally the far right alternately collaborating with liberals to help wall street/the military industrial complex and bickering with them over gay people.

bickering over gay people, so fucking stupid man. just leave us alone.

[coderamen]

4 minutes ago, Mr. Freeze said:

There's no far-left in Congress because they are inherently unelectable. 

A respectable left wing (social democratic or democratic socialist) politician would be very electable if they could get their message across and instead of portraying themselves as left wing (which is synonymous with liberal here) present themselves as completely separate from the 2 party system.

 

Disclaimer: I'm a democratic socialist. I oppose capitalism and support its peaceful replacement worldwide. I'm also LGBT.

Edited October 16, 2023 by coderamen
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[Murdoch]

1 hour ago, Doomkid said:

Lacks the thrill of health problems (inevitable for all humans on this planet) leading directly to bankruptcy

 

Couterpoint - half the wildlife wants to murder you and drown your dog.

[Mr. Freeze]

19 minutes ago, coderamen said:

A respectable left wing (social democratic or democratic socialist) politician would be very electable if they could get their message across and instead of portraying themselves as left wing (which is synonymous with liberal here) present themselves as completely separate from the 2 party system.

 

Yeah no, that is outright ahistorical at best. At every level the far-left runs and doesn't compromise, they get annihilated by the garden-variety Dems and Repubs because thats who people want leading the country. The Green Party ain't winning the nomination because their policies suck, not because others are keeping them down.