You may be thinking to yourself, “Ugh, another Bored Panda article bashing on America!” However, it comes from a place of utter fascination. It’s the land of the free for a reason!
Where else in the world can you achieve all your wildest dreams? Where else are you allowed to be yourself to the fullest extent, knowing that there will be people that understand you? Where else will you find a bullet vending machine? Intriguing place. Now, that’s not to say that it doesn’t have its negative sides, but that’s not what we’re here to talk about today.
We’re back again featuring the posts by the Facebook group called “Wow, That’s Violently American.” The group’s founder was kind enough to answer more of Bored Panda’s questions, and you can find a link to our previous article here.
But now, let’s dive into the wonderfully chaotic pictures that showcase all the different sides of what American life is like. Upvote your favorites, leave some comments, share your experiences, and don’t take everything super seriously—life’s too short for that as it is!
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America, the land of the free, home of the brave! But there’s a sister definition, going by Amurica, the land of beer-drinking rednecks, home of the red, white trash, and blue! We can thank the Urban Dictionary for the latter. These two sentences showcase the two extremes between which the different American experiences fall.
All of those then find a home in the Facebook group called “Wow, That’s Violently American,” because, truthfully, there are very many things that scream “USA!” that are complete opposites of one another. The founder of the group previously told Bored Panda that rarely do people consider “the complexity that truly exists in this country,” overlooking the “layers upon layers of social and governmental infrastructure.”
“It’s a sign that they don’t (or won’t) view the identity of this country as associated with minority or diversity, which is a lie that reinforces divisiveness and literally excludes non-white demographics from the image of America,” they stated. “Considering the truth of our diversity as told through statistics rather than rhetoric, this country is far from only white or conservative. It’s far from that.”
Since the last conversation, the founder of the page told Bored Panda that there have been a couple of challenges that they needed to overcome, regarding issues with the social media platform as a whole. “I posted a meme captioned ‘giant wall sticker in San Antonio’ with a photoshopped image of Ted Cruz’ head on the guy in a masculine dominatrix outfit. They zucced the post and pulled a lot of tools my page had access to,” they said.
This in turn restricted the reach of the page, affecting every single post and stalling further growth. “It kind of sucks that I have practically no options that Meta/Facebook doesn’t provide me with,” they said, but the challenges don’t seem to be limited to the platform only.
Although the page has over 131k followers, with many of them loving the content, the creator has been met with a lot of criticism and outright hate. It only seems to fuel an “expectation of this page to be focused on one side.” “I always try to be mindful of how some members follow the page believing I am on their ‘side,’” they said. “There’s those that follow my page because they think I’m against them, the ones who think I agree with them, and the ones who laugh with me between the two.” At the end of the day, the goal of the page is simple: “ I just want to be a vehicle to get people to think for themselves.”
“I still stand by that I don’t seek to prescribe to people what to think with this page,” they said. “I seek to find a way to give people both sides of comedy while avoiding the pitfalls of incendiary content. I try to ensure I don’t exclude people by race from the image of America, and have been called a racist before. It gets taxing sometimes, and the struggle with Meta’s automated moderation tools and lack of support for users in my situation to pursue a dispute over content.”
Regardless of it all, America is a place many call home. “Conceived in liberty,” as Abraham Lincoln noted, “and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” the nation and its people have survived many long nights of war and trial. As Sonny Fulks states, “We fought Great Britain (twice), we fought ourselves (The Civil War), we fought the World Wars, the Korean War, and wars unspeakable since 1776” for the freedom Americans have today.
However, freedom comes with responsibility, which seems to be understated in a lot of aspects, especially when we consider recent history with the COVID-19 pandemic. “This is America and therefore I don’t have to do anything I don’t want to do,” could be heard and seen in the news as mandates and restrictions fell upon Americans.
“Most of the behavior I still see plays out like people trying to find out which ‘side’ everyone else is on,” said the founder of the Facebook page. “It’s like some giant football game, and we aren’t interested in each other. We are just looking for who is wearing what jersey. It’s less about how we can all be more excellent to each other and more about who we should be excellent to.”
The divide in opinions as to what it means to have “free-speech” continues on, and the founder of the page believes that this exact debate “seems to prevail itself in so many other topics within the cultural conflict heading into 2023.”
His laces are undone. She is standing on one. Please let him move first.
“[S]o far as a man has a power to think, or not to think; to move, or not to move, according to the preference or direction of his own mind, so far is a man free,” stated philosopher John Locke, but what that fails to note is consequence and impact, showing freedom to be quite an individual endeavor.
The founder of “Wow, That’s Violently American” believes that ‘freedom’ as a concept is idealized and attached to rhetoric. “I think that there’s just no easy way to sit with the fact that complete freedom devolves into chaos, and oppressive regulation leaves a society marginalized and subjugated to whatever force maintains the greatest privilege within a society,” they said, arguing that the best lens to view freedom is through the lens of body autonomy, consent, and common need.
As stated in Simply Philosophy, if freedom is the essence of a person, then, consequently, it acts as a duty; man is enslaved by his freedom. “We have the relationship between the rights of a single person against the will of many, coupled with what the role of the government is to be involved in the relations between people,” stated the founder of the Facebook page.
Paul Vitols believes that to become free, we must first seek knowledge of the way things really are, and then put ourselves into the correct relationship with that knowledge. Yet, politically, the most important freedom is freedom of speech. We need this for truth, good thinking, tolerance, open-mindedness, humility, self-confidence, love, and humor.
“If there is ANYTHING I believe about American culture is that change is inevitable,” stated the founder of the Facebook page when asked about the near-future. “Instead of trying to describe the future I would predict, I want to draw on my own dreams for the future. I want to be hopeful in America, so I’ll dream of the country that can possess the largest amount of love and pride shared between people.”
However, without a shared ideal of unity between Americans, this dream will stay frayed. “In order to grasp this dream that keeps us all together, it starts with being honest with our current state of affairs. It requires humility to call out the darkness of our past, and the mistakes we must learn from,” they stated.
“It requires us to recognize that diversity comes with discomfort sometimes; we have to accept that diversity doesn’t look like a homogenous society. There is no shortcut to comfort with differences between people, and if we avoid every pain-point we avoid the truth.”
As Paul Stearns states, we develop the virtues of tolerance and open-mindedness only when we are free to hear disagreeable ideas. We develop humility when our ideas are tested in a free public arena, while self-confidence arises from those ideas that survive these tests. We love only in freedom as we learn to love others in spite of their ideas, not because of them. And we can laugh deeply only where there is freedom to potentially offend.
The whole point of the “Wow, That’s Violently American” page is to help one discover the “beautiful irony to the lives we share within this beautiful country.” And the founder of the page concluded that “inside each group of people are shreds of the greater truth, and we don’t get anything but violence and death where love and the value of life cannot prevail.”
We hope that this article didn’t offend any of you, dear Pandas, and that you’ll continue scrolling onward, upvoting your favorites. Leave us your thoughts in the comments, and I hope to see you in the next one!
It’s a special kinda beautiful
Probably going to get downvoted, but if the kids are destroying his property after repeatedly trying to reason with them, he is well within his rights and the Karen parents can just go have fun with themselves. No one is entitled to another person's property. I really can't blame the guy and can't help but wonder what happened for it to get to this point
Getting worked up about what skin color a fictional imaginary mermaid is …is unreal. So are you gonna get mad if my unicorn is pink and glittery and farts rainbows or is that way too LGBTQ for ya ? Lol
Made by someone who never set food in Cleveland. Edit: I live in Ohio. I like it here. But Cleveland is the only place I've ever had cops go the wrong way on a one way street to ask what I'm doing, and tell me to gtfo. I'm white, and was at a minor tourist attraction tucked into a residential neighborhood.
bobby: wait you mean i cant simp on jeff bezos? do i have to cancel my prime now
Imagine having a panic attack cus you got pulled over and they just wanna give you this stupid shirt.
It's like the alleged Dutch tourists complaining about Switzerland, "You couldn't see almost anywhere, damn mountains blocking the views".
The costume is pretty cool. Unless its 'dress up like your hero day', then you need to get the whip out ASAP.
As a civilian, there is no duty to use rank towards military. Rank is personal and does not extend to relatives anyway. This sticker is the well known mark of a species not-so-rare to meet in the wild near military bases, the dreaded Dependapotamus (Dependasaurus Uxorem)
My cousin is married to a career Marine and her husband would be weirded out by other people not in the military addressing him by rank. Ditto for my cousin since she's not a dependa. Btw I asked my cousin's husband about the ufos and he says he doesn't know much about it.
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There was a r/maliciouscompliance about this. An Officer's wife insisted that she be addressed by her husband's rank. Word got around the base, and by the end of the week it would take her half and hour to walk a 100 meters. Everyone...everyone...would salute her, hold her gaze, and remain at attention until she was out of sight. The officer was called to the carpet, 'cause work on base had basically ground to a halt.
I've been on the involuntary receiving end of that. I was teaching at a Police college and the cadets had been instructed to address anyone in a suit as "Sir" and had to acknowledge them. I stepped out my class to take a leak, just as they came out a lecture. Every... single... one... addressed me as "Sir".
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I came here to say this. I mean, there's nothing WRONG with being a PO3 but it's not the flex she thinks it is.
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I spent ten years in the military and always heard tales of military spouses yet never met up with one who had this attitude in person. Every spouse I met was like anyone else you would meet.
as a former military brat and military spouse this makes my want to gag! there are those wives who wear their hubby's ranks. while a spouse waiting for an appt at the naval hospital i witnessed a woman who demanded that she be put at the head of the list to see dr. while the corpsman tried to explain why that wouldn't happen and the woman started to vapor lock a young woman w/her sick baby on her hip walked to her and said: honey, get over yourself. you make your way in the world just like i do - you sleep with a sailor.
'Hi, Mrs. Most-Common-Rank-In-The-US Navy (71,986) Petty Officer 2nd Class.'
I was in the Navy. I have never seen a sticker like this. Is this a new thing? And no one is going to address someone by their spouses rank. Besides thats not even that high of a rank to be snooty about.
If you were not in the military, then you will not be addressed by someone else's rank. Period. The entitlement! WOW
I was raised military and no the f***k I will not. That's not how any of this works.
Perhaps amusingly, I had already censored myself. That's ric in the middle not uc. -_-
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What did she do to deserve to be addressed by any rank other than dumbass.????
"Certainly, Mrs. Ranked Absolutely Dead Last in Judgement When Choosing a Spouse."
I'll be happy to call her petty, for short...and probably pregnant with another dude's baby while her husband is deployed. Yeah, I read a lot of BP
OMG! I hated this when I was in the military. If you want that rank, EARN it yourself
I can remember when "Mrs. Colonel So-and-so was a thing among officers' wives, but Mrs. Petty Office 2nd Class? WTF? My mother once told such a colonel's wife that she would not be using that form of address and the wife told her husband that my father was not properly managing his wife. The Colonel told Dad to tell my mom that she was doing just fine and that his own wife was an insufferable witch.
When I worked on military bases, when I was a dependent or a wife, this was not ALLOWED to happen on base. Even in the Officer's clubs. It was always Rate-surname and Mrs./Mr. surname when introduced.
The husband's commanding officer's wife needs to whoop some sense into this one.
Until you put on a uniform, earn your own rank and put your life on the line for others, you can pucker up and kiss my a$$, Karen.
That's kinda gross. My father was high ranking military. He never brought it up outside of work unless specifically asked. He knows it doesn't mean that you can discriminate against others by boasting or demanding extra respect.
Officer's wives are the absolute worst. My dad was a 30 year Army sergeant and his little punkass lieutenant's wife thought she was a queen. My mom taught her otherwise. 😄😄
Not a chance in hell I would ever do that, he deserved the rank you didn't.
When I was in the Navy I used to just love when some captains wife would tell me that exact thing, and I tell her Ma’am YOU’RE not in the military.(and I do not salute your car when you are alone or in it either)
"All right, Mrs. A*****e. How is Major A*****e and all the little A******s?"
There’sa whole subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/justdependathings/) devoted to delusional military spouses and spouses of cops, linemen, oil workers, etc. I am a double police next door neighbor; you will refer to me as Double Officer Detective Neighbor.
This is bananas. Delusional even. Would they expect to be called Doctor if their husband had a PhD?
Or if their husband was a registered sex offender?
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Is ms entitled a*****e a rank because I don't see you defending our country, you want rank go earn it yourself
As a person who was raised in a place where the army was often seen as an invading force, America's lionising of the military has always made me deeply uncomfortable. Something like this sticker is just unfathomable. I genuinely would not know how to react if someone said that to me.
I am so over these ridiculous military wives who think their husband's rank or active military status is theirs to claim and use. Actually, I'm just over the glorification of the military in general.
To me this is doubly funny because the rank shown is Petty Officer Second Class or E5. I was a first class / E6. It's not really a rank worth flexing over. Just a slightly higher enlisted rank that usually has a little bit of supervisory experience. Please tell me this bumper sticker is just a sad joke. I served for 9 years, never met any dependents like this. Never met any active military like this. On duty it would be "Smith" or "Petty Officer Smith" but never "Second Class Petty Officer Smith". And outside of work it would have just been "Bob" or whatever. Or possibly "Smith" with other active due to we were used to using last names.
Nope. Just because you sleep with him you don't get to be called sir. Unless you do
I wouldn't even address your husband by his military rank! As a proud Civilian, military ranks mean Jack S**t to me!
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*Gasp* Can it be? Can it honestly be? It is that magical, mystical time boys and girls. Is it time for BoredPanda's weekly the US is a third world country and dystopian hellscape populated by slack-jawed yokels who live off beef jerky and beer. BoredPanda staff, how would you like it if we constantly bashed the Czech Republic every week. You wouldn't, then stop posting c**p like this and actually WRITE YOUR OWN LISTICLES! Stop listicles like this-- it is pure laziness and makes you look bad.
Hey, maybe we can do a story on Great Britain, the gun-free, holier than thou populace with a knife attack every 4 minutes. /s Maybe people just don't realize how big this country is.... I mean, Texas has more gangbangers than many British cities have citizens. Entire Czech Republic has 10 million people... we have over 2 million gangbangers...
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I don't know if anyone reads the text just before each listicle, but here's what the BP staff wrote at the head of this post: "You may be thinking to yourself, 'Ugh, another Bored Panda article bashing on America!' However, it comes from a place of utter fascination. ". Yeah, bull s**t. You guys know *exactly* what you're doing. Shame on you.
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I'm an American (not willingly) and I enjoy these a ton
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Hey BoredPanda staff, how would you like it if we made a thread bashing your country ever week? You wouldn’t!? Then why is it alright to continually steal clickbait material from Reddit and bash the US? Do you have to post a country bashing post a week or you get fired? Why don’t you post something positive for once!!
Best is to down vote the entire article (from the main page) so they keep getting buried low on the list and the BP "writers" see it as a waste of time. Edit: Also, up vote all the articles around this garbage to bump them up above these anti American posts.
Unfortunately, so many people upvote articles like this because it’s pure clickbait and they think bashing other readers is fun. If BoredPanda wrote a listicle explaining how “strange Europe is” readers would be up in arms.
Load More Replies... Canadian here: This should have been titled using Fox News, not US. Please don't bash indiscriminately. We also have some these types, and i spotted some similar ones at certain rallies in Europe.
Thank you for the words of support and for refusing to buy into the fear mongering elements on this site.
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Load More Replies... "You may be thinking to yourself, 'Ugh, another Bored Panda article bashing on America!'" You guessed it! And don't pretend you do it out of "fascination," either -- it's just fun and profitable (especially profitable!) to bash the U.S. by portraying us all as a bunch of violent, stupid, inbred degenerates. No wonder you refuse to hire remotely -- you might get one of us ignorant, toothless hillbillies by accident, and boy, oh boy, would that be awkward! I used to really enjoy BP -- I even thought I felt a bit of community forming here. Now the only reason I ever log in anymore is to defend my country -- as f'ked up as it is, it's still MY f'ked-up country -- against narrow-minded, ignorant, mean-spirited garbage like this article. Why don't you hit the Russians like this instead? How about the Saudis? Or are Americans just too safe a target? I mean, it's not like we're going to nuke Europe over a few hurt feelings. But why do you feel the need to hurt anybody at all?
I want to let you know that most panda's here on this site who are not from the USA are also getting sick and tired of this USA bashing. Believe me, I've met more unpolite Europeans than Americans....
Load More Replies... It’s fun to laugh at yourself once and awhile. But post like this always turn into America bashing parties. I don’t bash other countries and the stupid stuff they do and believe. Edit: ok maybe I do a little.
But the cat thing was nice tho. It really is USA bashing again. I'm wondering if the clients=advertising know this????
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When I was young, back in the 70s and 80s, there were movies we thought were funny at the time, and I look back at them now and cringe at some of it now. And despite how progressive we think we are here in 2023, I see some of the "jokes" we still make and wonder how funny we'll think those jokes are 20 or 30 years from now.
Every time the comments are full of people condemning these posts for being US bashing. Maybe if it was possible to make a thread of more than about 3 pictures of any other country being so ludicrous then they would. Yes it's only a tiny percentage of Americans and reductive, but you can still make these posts until the end of time without running out of new material. Cue the downvotes.
I honestly don't know what has happened to this site. I think that the "writers" don't even read what they copy-and-paste from Reddit. It's actually pretty pitiful anymore.
Load More Replies... vomit. Can we please have the decent americans stand up for themselves here? surely you are not all as f****d up as this?
No, we certainly are not all as f****d up as this. As for me, I'm simply tired of responding to these posts.
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I like to just look around me at the convenience store sometimes and realize in terror that I'm surrounded by people who could definitely be in one of these lists.
That's all it takes to fuel terror? Oh, California would ruin you. friend.
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Europeans are a strange bunch. While visiting Italy wife's family says trump is the US version of Bellisario. I pointed out how Bellisario wasn't in command of the most powerful military or enough nukes to lay waste to the planet. I wonder if they picked up how Italy doesn't matter in the overall.
I'm a U.S. veteran I like the articles STFU. Waving a flag or carrying a gun doesn't make you a patriot. You gotta put in the f*****g work.
I know we shouldn't continually put down the US, but have people ever thought that the number of pots about them, above anywhere else is because of the sheer amount of s**t they put on the internet? Like, most of BP is copied from other sources, so there is obviously more out there than for elsewhere. I could be wrong though, so maybe someone should search for content from other countries.
I am an American and all of these post make me wish I wasn't.... I am really starting to hate this country so much!
Jennifer, I am an expat. from Scotland living in the Unites States and while the US has a lot of problems so does my home country and so many other parts of the world. This constant and idiotic US bashing from BoredPanda is really getting old.
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Shhh....If we keep quiet, they won't notice us down here....
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*Gasp* Can it be? Can it honestly be? It is that magical, mystical time boys and girls. Is it time for BoredPanda's weekly the US is a third world country and dystopian hellscape populated by slack-jawed yokels who live off beef jerky and beer. BoredPanda staff, how would you like it if we constantly bashed the Czech Republic every week. You wouldn't, then stop posting c**p like this and actually WRITE YOUR OWN LISTICLES! Stop listicles like this-- it is pure laziness and makes you look bad.
Hey, maybe we can do a story on Great Britain, the gun-free, holier than thou populace with a knife attack every 4 minutes. /s Maybe people just don't realize how big this country is.... I mean, Texas has more gangbangers than many British cities have citizens. Entire Czech Republic has 10 million people... we have over 2 million gangbangers...
Load More Replies... I don't know if anyone reads the text just before each listicle, but here's what the BP staff wrote at the head of this post: "You may be thinking to yourself, 'Ugh, another Bored Panda article bashing on America!' However, it comes from a place of utter fascination. ". Yeah, bull s**t. You guys know *exactly* what you're doing. Shame on you.
Load More Replies... I'm an American (not willingly) and I enjoy these a ton
Load More Replies... Hey BoredPanda staff, how would you like it if we made a thread bashing your country ever week? You wouldn’t!? Then why is it alright to continually steal clickbait material from Reddit and bash the US? Do you have to post a country bashing post a week or you get fired? Why don’t you post something positive for once!!
Best is to down vote the entire article (from the main page) so they keep getting buried low on the list and the BP "writers" see it as a waste of time. Edit: Also, up vote all the articles around this garbage to bump them up above these anti American posts.
Unfortunately, so many people upvote articles like this because it’s pure clickbait and they think bashing other readers is fun. If BoredPanda wrote a listicle explaining how “strange Europe is” readers would be up in arms.
Load More Replies... Canadian here: This should have been titled using Fox News, not US. Please don't bash indiscriminately. We also have some these types, and i spotted some similar ones at certain rallies in Europe.
Thank you for the words of support and for refusing to buy into the fear mongering elements on this site.
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Load More Replies... "You may be thinking to yourself, 'Ugh, another Bored Panda article bashing on America!'" You guessed it! And don't pretend you do it out of "fascination," either -- it's just fun and profitable (especially profitable!) to bash the U.S. by portraying us all as a bunch of violent, stupid, inbred degenerates. No wonder you refuse to hire remotely -- you might get one of us ignorant, toothless hillbillies by accident, and boy, oh boy, would that be awkward! I used to really enjoy BP -- I even thought I felt a bit of community forming here. Now the only reason I ever log in anymore is to defend my country -- as f'ked up as it is, it's still MY f'ked-up country -- against narrow-minded, ignorant, mean-spirited garbage like this article. Why don't you hit the Russians like this instead? How about the Saudis? Or are Americans just too safe a target? I mean, it's not like we're going to nuke Europe over a few hurt feelings. But why do you feel the need to hurt anybody at all?
I want to let you know that most panda's here on this site who are not from the USA are also getting sick and tired of this USA bashing. Believe me, I've met more unpolite Europeans than Americans....
Load More Replies... It’s fun to laugh at yourself once and awhile. But post like this always turn into America bashing parties. I don’t bash other countries and the stupid stuff they do and believe. Edit: ok maybe I do a little.
But the cat thing was nice tho. It really is USA bashing again. I'm wondering if the clients=advertising know this????
Load More Replies... When I was young, back in the 70s and 80s, there were movies we thought were funny at the time, and I look back at them now and cringe at some of it now. And despite how progressive we think we are here in 2023, I see some of the "jokes" we still make and wonder how funny we'll think those jokes are 20 or 30 years from now.
Every time the comments are full of people condemning these posts for being US bashing. Maybe if it was possible to make a thread of more than about 3 pictures of any other country being so ludicrous then they would. Yes it's only a tiny percentage of Americans and reductive, but you can still make these posts until the end of time without running out of new material. Cue the downvotes.
I honestly don't know what has happened to this site. I think that the "writers" don't even read what they copy-and-paste from Reddit. It's actually pretty pitiful anymore.
Load More Replies... vomit. Can we please have the decent americans stand up for themselves here? surely you are not all as f****d up as this?
No, we certainly are not all as f****d up as this. As for me, I'm simply tired of responding to these posts.
Load More Replies... I like to just look around me at the convenience store sometimes and realize in terror that I'm surrounded by people who could definitely be in one of these lists.
That's all it takes to fuel terror? Oh, California would ruin you. friend.
Load More Replies... Europeans are a strange bunch. While visiting Italy wife's family says trump is the US version of Bellisario. I pointed out how Bellisario wasn't in command of the most powerful military or enough nukes to lay waste to the planet. I wonder if they picked up how Italy doesn't matter in the overall.
I'm a U.S. veteran I like the articles STFU. Waving a flag or carrying a gun doesn't make you a patriot. You gotta put in the f*****g work.
I know we shouldn't continually put down the US, but have people ever thought that the number of pots about them, above anywhere else is because of the sheer amount of s**t they put on the internet? Like, most of BP is copied from other sources, so there is obviously more out there than for elsewhere. I could be wrong though, so maybe someone should search for content from other countries.
I am an American and all of these post make me wish I wasn't.... I am really starting to hate this country so much!
Jennifer, I am an expat. from Scotland living in the Unites States and while the US has a lot of problems so does my home country and so many other parts of the world. This constant and idiotic US bashing from BoredPanda is really getting old.
Load More Replies... Shhh....If we keep quiet, they won't notice us down here....
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