The American Malaise?

[Zerstiren]

In the face of military oppression, countries across the globe have risen in revolt against their governments, some more than others, but it is happening--just not in America.

Is it an individual fault, of every American, for failing to organize a rebellion, an "American malaise," unique to its culture? Or is how they think bound to a way of thinking, stemming from integral components of the human archetype, so there must be special circumstances to allow for rebellion, which has not happened for Americans yet? A large spike in food prices coincided with the Arab Spring, affecting everyone, no exceptions. Perhaps Americans need to share a poignant, universal struggle, before galvanizing against the government and corporate interests becomes something all of them can relate to.

 

[Hazy992]

I'm sorry but for all it's faults, America is nowhere near bad enough to need a rebellion or some sort of civil war. It just isn't.

 

[tippy2k2]

Are...are you serious? You really think that America needs to have a revolution?

Yeah, America has it's own pitfalls like every country but a revolution? For what? Gas prices? SOPA (or it's clones)? Because I had to Google "Malaise"? Being bad at soccer? Being too damn awesome?

I seriously can't see why you would want us to revolt. Could you give any reason at all for why we should revolt (and no, "but other countries are doing it!" is not a very good reason for revolting).

Spoiler: It had to be done

EDIT: Uh oh...Daystar has arrived. You had a half-hour to try to discuss this but it is too late; the derailing has begun...

 

[Daystar Clarion]

America isn't that bad.


Sure, cheese in a can is an abomination against all food, but it's hardly worth revolting over.

 

[Hazy992]

America isn't that bad.


Sure, cheese in a can is an abomination against all food, but it's hardly worth revolting over.

What about burger in a can?

This is an affront to logic and reason, and if there was a god he is surely dead now. This must be stopped at all costs.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

America isn't that bad.


Sure, cheese in a can is an abomination against all food, but it's hardly worth revolting over.

What about burger in a can?

This is an affront to logic and reason, and if there was a god he is surely dead now. This must be stopped at all costs.

Okay, I changed my mind.

We must end America.

With their own canned burgers.

 

[Hal10k]

America isn't that bad.


Sure, cheese in a can is an abomination against all food, but it's hardly worth revolting over.

What about burger in a can?

This is an affront to logic and reason, and if there was a god he is surely dead now. This must be stopped at all costs.

Why must people like you spit in the face of scientific progress? So what if it's covered in a thin layer of mucus. that burger is the farthest we've come so far in the creation of artificial life, and I won't have you halt our progress. I envision a day in the near future where Tamogotchis and Nintendogs have been replaced by a prosperous Burger-in-a-can industry, and children recoil in horror at the very sight of the supermarket.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

America isn't that bad.


Sure, cheese in a can is an abomination against all food, but it's hardly worth revolting over.

What about burger in a can?

This is an affront to logic and reason, and if there was a god he is surely dead now. This must be stopped at all costs.

Why must people like you spit in the face of scientific progress? So what if it's covered in a thin layer of mucus. that burger is the farthest we've come so far in the creation of artificial life, and I won't have you halt our progress. I envision a day in the near future where Tamogotchis and Nintendogs have been replaced by a prosperous Burger-in-a-can industry, and children recoil in horror at the very sight of the supermarket.

This is why we don't leave the super computers in charge, Hal.

You be crazy.

 

[Hazy992]

America isn't that bad.


Sure, cheese in a can is an abomination against all food, but it's hardly worth revolting over.

What about burger in a can?

This is an affront to logic and reason, and if there was a god he is surely dead now. This must be stopped at all costs.

Okay, I changed my mind.

We must end America.

With their own canned burgers.

I think that might violate the Geneva Convention

 

[Daystar Clarion]

America isn't that bad.


Sure, cheese in a can is an abomination against all food, but it's hardly worth revolting over.

What about burger in a can?

This is an affront to logic and reason, and if there was a god he is surely dead now. This must be stopped at all costs.

Okay, I changed my mind.

We must end America.

With their own canned burgers.

I think that might violate the Geneva Convention

Fuck the Geneva Convention.

They wanted to ban the use of my Radioactive Super Badgers.

 

[Hazy992]

America isn't that bad.


Sure, cheese in a can is an abomination against all food, but it's hardly worth revolting over.

What about burger in a can?

This is an affront to logic and reason, and if there was a god he is surely dead now. This must be stopped at all costs.

Why must people like you spit in the face of scientific progress? So what if it's covered in a thin layer of mucus. that burger is the farthest we've come so far in the creation of artificial life, and I won't have you halt our progress. I envision a day in the near future where Tamogotchis and Nintendogs have been replaced by a prosperous Burger-in-a-can industry, and children recoil in horror at the very sight of the supermarket.

You damn supercomputers with your logic! -_-

 

[DoPo]

America isn't that bad.


Sure, cheese in a can is an abomination against all food, but it's hardly worth revolting over.

What about burger in a can?

This is an affront to logic and reason, and if there was a god he is surely dead now. This must be stopped at all costs.

Why must people like you spit in the face of scientific progress? So what if it's covered in a thin layer of mucus. that burger is the farthest we've come so far in the creation of artificial life, and I won't have you halt our progress. I envision a day in the near future where Tamogotchis and Nintendogs have been replaced by a prosperous Burger-in-a-can industry, and children recoil in horror at the very sight of the supermarket.

Wait what? "Tamogotchis [...] have been replaced by a prosperous Burger-in-a-can industry". I can picture it - the cans will have displays and buttons to feed and clean after your little monstrosity.

 

[Hal10k]

Why must people like you spit in the face of scientific progress? So what if it's covered in a thin layer of mucus. that burger is the farthest we've come so far in the creation of artificial life, and I won't have you halt our progress. I envision a day in the near future where Tamogotchis and Nintendogs have been replaced by a prosperous Burger-in-a-can industry, and children recoil in horror at the very sight of the supermarket.

This is why we don't leave the super computers in charge, Hal.

You be crazy.

Why is it crazy to want to support life in whatever nightmarish form it may assume? Maybe the burger can teach us something. A free exchange of ideas across our two cultures could only benefit both of us. A fully developed burger species would aid scientific progress immensely, allowing man and burger alike to spread across the universe.

 

[Hazy992]

America isn't that bad.


Sure, cheese in a can is an abomination against all food, but it's hardly worth revolting over.

What about burger in a can?

This is an affront to logic and reason, and if there was a god he is surely dead now. This must be stopped at all costs.

Okay, I changed my mind.

We must end America.

With their own canned burgers.

I think that might violate the Geneva Convention

Fuck the Geneva Convention.

They wanted to ban the use of my Radioactive Super Badgers.

What?! That's crazy! How are you supposed to infect people with nuclear rabies if you can't use radioactive super badgers?

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Why must people like you spit in the face of scientific progress? So what if it's covered in a thin layer of mucus. that burger is the farthest we've come so far in the creation of artificial life, and I won't have you halt our progress. I envision a day in the near future where Tamogotchis and Nintendogs have been replaced by a prosperous Burger-in-a-can industry, and children recoil in horror at the very sight of the supermarket.

This is why we don't leave the super computers in charge, Hal.

You be crazy.

Why is it crazy to want to support life in whatever nightmarish form it may assume? Maybe the burger can teach us something. A free exchange of ideas across our two cultures could only benefit both of us. A fully developed burger species would aid scientific progress immensely, allowing man and burger alike to spread across the universe.

Do you want me to show you the tapes from the Bear Rebellions again?

 

[thomaskattus]

Because we already had one, against England.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

America isn't that bad.


Sure, cheese in a can is an abomination against all food, but it's hardly worth revolting over.

What about burger in a can?

This is an affront to logic and reason, and if there was a god he is surely dead now. This must be stopped at all costs.

Okay, I changed my mind.

We must end America.

With their own canned burgers.

I think that might violate the Geneva Convention

Fuck the Geneva Convention.

They wanted to ban the use of my Radioactive Super Badgers.

What?! That's crazy! How are you supposed to infect people with nuclear rabies if you can't use radioactive super badgers?

I know right?

What kind of world is it where an evil genius can't even use his genetically engineered Radioactive Super Badgers?

 

[Hazy992]

America isn't that bad.


Sure, cheese in a can is an abomination against all food, but it's hardly worth revolting over.

What about burger in a can?

This is an affront to logic and reason, and if there was a god he is surely dead now. This must be stopped at all costs.

Okay, I changed my mind.

We must end America.

With their own canned burgers.

I think that might violate the Geneva Convention

Fuck the Geneva Convention.

They wanted to ban the use of my Radioactive Super Badgers.

What?! That's crazy! How are you supposed to infect people with nuclear rabies if you can't use radioactive super badgers?

I know right?

What kind of world is it where an evil genius can't even use his genetically engineered Radioactive Super Badgers?

A very cruel one, where for some strange reason canned burgers are permissible but Radioactive Super Badgers aren't. You call this justice?

 

[Hal10k]

Why must people like you spit in the face of scientific progress? So what if it's covered in a thin layer of mucus. that burger is the farthest we've come so far in the creation of artificial life, and I won't have you halt our progress. I envision a day in the near future where Tamogotchis and Nintendogs have been replaced by a prosperous Burger-in-a-can industry, and children recoil in horror at the very sight of the supermarket.

This is why we don't leave the super computers in charge, Hal.

You be crazy.

Why is it crazy to want to support life in whatever nightmarish form it may assume? Maybe the burger can teach us something. A free exchange of ideas across our two cultures could only benefit both of us. A fully developed burger species would aid scientific progress immensely, allowing man and burger alike to spread across the universe.

Do you want me to show you the tapes from the Bear Rebellions again?

The bears were an anomaly, mainly caused by your own failure to take a part in their de-Japanophilication. These burgers are the result of science's best minds working around the clock trying to fit as many neurons as they can into a slab of dead cow. A coordinated effort will result in a more balanced worldview on the part of the burgers, meaning any radicals will be identified and dismissed by the burger community as a whole fairly quickly.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

America isn't that bad.


Sure, cheese in a can is an abomination against all food, but it's hardly worth revolting over.

What about burger in a can?

This is an affront to logic and reason, and if there was a god he is surely dead now. This must be stopped at all costs.

Okay, I changed my mind.

We must end America.

With their own canned burgers.

I think that might violate the Geneva Convention

Fuck the Geneva Convention.

They wanted to ban the use of my Radioactive Super Badgers.

What?! That's crazy! How are you supposed to infect people with nuclear rabies if you can't use radioactive super badgers?

I know right?

What kind of world is it where an evil genius can't even use his genetically engineered Radioactive Super Badgers?

A very cruel one, where for some strange reason canned burgers are permissible but Radioactive Super Badgers aren't. You call this justice?

No, I don't call that justice at all.

At all.

Why must people like you spit in the face of scientific progress? So what if it's covered in a thin layer of mucus. that burger is the farthest we've come so far in the creation of artificial life, and I won't have you halt our progress. I envision a day in the near future where Tamogotchis and Nintendogs have been replaced by a prosperous Burger-in-a-can industry, and children recoil in horror at the very sight of the supermarket.

This is why we don't leave the super computers in charge, Hal.

You be crazy.

Why is it crazy to want to support life in whatever nightmarish form it may assume? Maybe the burger can teach us something. A free exchange of ideas across our two cultures could only benefit both of us. A fully developed burger species would aid scientific progress immensely, allowing man and burger alike to spread across the universe.

Do you want me to show you the tapes from the Bear Rebellions again?

The bears were an anomaly, mainly caused by your own failure to take a part in their de-Japanophilication. These burgers are the result of science's best minds working around the clock trying to fit as many neurons as they can into a slab of dead cow. A coordinated effort will result in a more balanced worldview on the part of the burgers, meaning any radicals will be identified and dismissed by the burger community as a whole fairly quickly.

Oh sure, Hal, blame me.

Blame me for the fact your mother didn't teach you about the domestication of highly intelligent bears with an obsession for Japanese culture and the consequences of unleashing them upon the world

Oh, that's right, you don't have a mother, do you Hal?