Best Moment:Worst Moment:Best American:Worst American:Most Overrated Moment:Most Underrated Moment:Smartest Moment:Dumbest Moment:Biggest Monkeys Paw:Most Based Moment:Most Cringe:Biggest Historical Negative:Greatest Historical Positive:Most Cinematic Moment:Most Funniest Moment:Feel free to add your own. Feel free to give reasons why for each.
Saving Europe from the Nazis. Best or worst moment, depending on your view...
Best Moment:Underground RailroadIt's a massive conspiracy that was actually good.Worst Moment:Trail of TearsPure evil.Best American:Jimmy CarterWe didn't deserve him.Worst American:Eugene Bull ConnorVery cringe lad desuMost Overrated Moment:The Moon LandingIt's just a rock. Everything else is propaganda. The space race ended with the satellite and that is still infinitely more useful than muh white rocks.Most Underrated Moment:The election of 1976. Carter, the humble Christian peanut farmer was delivering us from the evils of Watergate.Smartest Moment:The formation of the ConstitutionVery high IQ workDumbest Moment:The 2024. Imagine watching Trump Botch Covid, the 2016, the Jan 6 fiasco and saying "I want a rerun". Then the Zero IQ logic of "the guy who says who wants to blow up Iran is not going to start a war there" and the anti vax autism and the low quality grifting and the documents case. Like I legitimately can't look at the country the same after that.Biggest Monkeys Paw:The Highway Act of 1956. It created drive thru explosive obesity and the eternal American suburb that destroyed the youth through isolation (thus inceldom) and ruined the housing market with it's zoning laws, wrecked small towns overnight if your place wasn't connected, put millions of Americans eternal debt, began the American commute and made climate change impossible to manage without wrecking the "normal". Nevermind all the deaths of animals.Most Based Moment:Sherman's March He didn't do enough.Most Cringe:"Muh corrupt bargain!'Biggest Historical Negative:Way too nostalgic. Y'all need to grow up and move on.Greatest Historical Positive:The average American actually is pretty "normal". Just 60 IQ and no concept of philosophy.Most Cinematic Moment:The Storm during the Washing Burning on 1812. Roland Emmerich wrote that one.Most Funniest Moment:Not sure. Maybe that fist fight in Congress
>>538427474why did you put so much effort into typing out something so obviously baityou could have at least made it ambiguous so you'd get more bites
>>538427475Which part is bait? I 100% believe this.
>>538427476>the greatest thing ever done by america is helping the heckin niggerino slaves find freedom>the worst thing america has ever done is a random expulsion of some injuns
Americans are subhumans
>>538427475>why did you put so much effort into typing out something so obviously baitHe didn't. It's AI.
>>538427477I don't see the problem. Most Americans probably would be fine with those
>>538427472>Best Moment:Declaration of independence, fighting to be free from an unnecessarily oppressive and authoritarian government and declare that ordinary people had INHERENT rights, that the constitution merely acknowledged what already existed and didn't "grant" these rights, and that they were no longer "subjects" to any person. >Worst Moment:Wall Street Crash.>Best American:Frederick Banting, guy who invented insulin. He could have easily made millions from selling it, instead he selflessly gave it away so that it could help people. Corporations still managed to Jew it, but his intention remains.>Worst American:Just one? Uhh... Reagan?>Most Overrated Moment:9/11. A single terrorist attack and the entire world has had to change the entire way we do everything.>Most Underrated Moment:Invention of the internet. Somehow viewed as some inevitable thing that was just going to happen anyway, no that shit was fully funded by the US government, changed human history in ways too big to be comprehensible.>Smartest Moment:Monroe Doctrine. Basically assured American hegemony of the Western hemisphere, and thus infinite scaling.>Dumbest Moment:War of 1812.>Biggest Monkeys Paw:Funding Islamists in Afghanistan to destroy the USSR.>Most Based Moment:Mexican Cession.>Most Cringe:https://youtu.be/L_hH7YGcgfg>Biggest Historical Negative:Terror-bombing and world policing from Korea onwards.>Greatest Historical Positive:Basically made "human rights" the default, instead of to be gifted at the liberty of the state.>Most Cinematic Moment:https://youtu.be/uAYKTMQl7MQ&t=130>Most Funniest Moment:Unironically electing Trump. He's the epitome of everything America is. Loud, uncouth, arrogant, fat, utterly fake in appearance and personality, your highest elected representative is a caricature of what you are as a people. It's incredible. It'd be like if France elected a man with a curly moustache, wearing a beret, striped shirt, and onions around his neck.
>>538427472Best Moment: Hiroshima and NagasakiWorst Moment: Obergefell v. Hodges
>>538427481I feel like there are a very long list of Americans who were a little worse than Reagan. Ted Bundy, LRH, Jim Jones, Kissinger, etc.
>>538427472>Best Moment:Victory in Japan. Solod the Japs after years of fighting from hellhole island to hellhole island, capped off with a fireworks display.>Worst Moment:Vietnam War in general. Military reputation destroyed for the next century because boomers were being delicate little pussies and crying about everything.Honorable mentions to bombing a girls' school on the first day of the Iranian SMO.>Best American:Rich Piana>Worst American:Lydon Johnson or Reagan >Most Overrated Moment:Star Spangled Spanner/Battle of Baltimore. Congrats fellas you sat in a fort with 300 people while Napoleon is raising armies of 600k in Europe.>Most Underrated Moment:Gold Rush/Oregon Trail. Pure gamer mentality.>Smartest Moment:Louisiana Purchase>Dumbest Moment:Civil War. Imagine sending your sons to die so that the local fatass planter can keep exploiting zulu labor.>Biggest Monkeys Paw:Anything to do with the middle east/Israel>Most Based Moment:Wright Brothers>Most Cringe:WEAR A FUCKING MASKCharlie Kirk funeralhonestly pick anything from the last 10 years>Biggest Historical Negative:Ever legalizing slavery.>Greatest Historical Positive:Probably 20th century+ technological progression in general>Most Cinematic Moment:Pic rel>Most Funniest Moment:2016 Presidential race
>>538427472>Best Moment: landing on the moon>Worst Moment: this is hard but I will go with the good old reliable burning of the White House during the War of 1812. >Best American: oh boy, this is a tough one. I'll just say Teddy Roosevelt because I know there are better options, but I can't think of them immediately. >Worst American:This one's also a bit tough, idk>Most Overrated Moment: I don't like the word "overrated," but I think the landing at Omaha Beach gets a little bit too much hype. >Most Underrated Moment: purchase of Alaska>Smartest Moment:Setting up the post-World War II order to benefit them: Bretton Woods, NATO, etc. >Dumbest Moment:Inventing Plastic >Biggest Monkeys Paw:Birthright citizenship is probably going to bite the Americans in the ass in the long run. >Most Based Moment:Bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima: it's a very controversial moment, but it essentially is the heralding that from now on wars will be different and America and humanity have entered the nuclear age. >Most Cringe:Getting involved in Israel's Conflict >Biggest Historical Negative:Warping How People Understand Slavery: It's kind of difficult to talk about slavery without having to point to the American example, even though the United States of America wasn't the biggest importer or owner of slaves in the New World. They just make so much media about slavery that they have become the typical default. People imagine slaves being treated >Greatest Historical Positive:Well, for all its faults, Pax Americana did ensure there's some peace in the world. >Most Cinematic Moment:The entire American Wild West frontier is really interesting to learn about, and that's why it's its own genre. >Most Funniest Moment:Would it be cheating to say now?
>>538427472I don't fly the flag of pedophiles and tyrants
>>538427486based
>>538427474Tighten that belt, Chud. Stop drinking so much water, Chud.
>>538427483The abandonment of the post war consensus and adoption of neo-liberal economics has caused untold destruction to millions, obviously Reagan wasn't the sole person pushing for that, but he's the proud figurehead of it, so he gets the prize as the embodiment of it as a whole.>a heckin serial killerinoHe impacted what, a dozen people? Reagan, billions.
>>538427486Austria and European Union flag? Holy based: the post
>>538427474>Underground RailroadBest engineering achievement too. Nobody else could have built a massive underground railroad from the north to the south without slaveowners finding out about it
Best moment:Putting a guy on the MoonWorst moment:Basically the entire year of 2020Worst American:Woodrow WilsonMost overrated moment:Meaningless naval victories and the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812Most underrated moment:Ending the two millenia-long cycle of nonstop European warsSmartest moment:Giving guaranteed protection to free speech and owning a gun in the Constitution, two things no other country in the world has.Dumbest moment:Vietnam WarBiggest monkey's paw:Either Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois or letting Japan, etc. wipe out our industries so LBJ could keep stores shelves stocked while US manufacturing was tied up with Vietnam and the space program.Most based moment:The entire handling of WW2 was mostly excellent and showed the nation at its best.Most cringe:Jimmy Carter telling the American people to accept shitty Eastern bloc living conditionsBiggest historical negative:Guilt over past racial injusticesGreatest historical positive:Wrapping up the Civil War with peaceful reconciliation with the South instead of vengefulnessFunniest moment:James Garfield's assassin being an incel so disgusting he couldn't even get laid at a free love commune.
>>538427492>>538427485>>538427484interesting to see so many (presumably) americans point to WW2 as an example of something good the US didWW2 was not some good vs evil conflict and the world didn't start on December 7th 1941.America basically bullied Japan into war with blockades and embargos, gave them no other option than war (well, their other option was a slow grinding death in China with millions of casualties due to no oil) and yet you presumably buy into the official cartoon superhero narrative that Japan attacked Peal Harbor for no reason and America was just saving the world to be good guys.Japan should probably have let the US declare war first, as they were always going to do one way or another, to at least take some wind out of the US propaganda's sails.
>>538427489By this standard, every American president is tying for the worst American title since every decision they make influences billions, and they all make retarded decisions at some point, often at several points.
>>538427493>Japan was forced to do it (please ignore that part were they just had to gtfo out china, a war they started to begin with)
>>538427495What possible business is it of America's whether or not Japan is in China?Oh, yes, of course. They were threatening their investments there. Opium plantation dividends for me but not for thee.
>>538427492>Either Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois or letting Japan, etc. wipe out our industries so LBJ could keep stores shelves stocked while US manufacturing was tied up with Vietnam and the space program.qrd on these?
>>538427496>you can't interfer in our business>but we can more than interfer in others business and if you dare not give us your shit we will chimp out (like we did before)
>>538427494Before Reagan every US president ultimately tried to improve US infrastructure, manufacturing, and standard of living.Reagan changed all that so that the only figure that mattered was GDP line go up.This cause the entire US manufacturing industry to die, China to be propped up as the greatest economy in the world, hundreds of towns in the US to become post-apocalyptic shitholes beleaguered with crack, opioid, and now fentanyl epidemics, and he shifted the entire Western world to this model. He singlehandedly destroyed Western living standards. This wasn't just a one term thing either, this was the start of a process that solely continued on from there and now sees such delightful consequences as fecal matter in our drinking water, and microplastics in our balls.
>>538427497Wabash was as far as I can tell the first time the courts decided the commerce clause was a positive power Congress had instead of merely forbidding the states to enact tariffs on each other. The other one:>a large amount of US industry is tied up with Vietnam and the space program>LBJ doesn't want rationing to come back and he wants consumer spending to continue uninterrupted>so he invites the East Asian countries to flood store shelves with goods instead, and once here they're here permanently
>>538427498I never said Japan were morally right, I said America weren't.By agreeing with me that both America and Japan were self-serving and desiring to continue exploiting the rest of Asia you're proving that America has no reason to feel proud of WW2.
>>538427493>no oilThey really should have considered that while planning the invasion of a foreign country. Apparently oil is very important for moving large numbers of people and supplies, so you need to make sure you have enough of it>no other option than warThey could have ceased invading foreign countries
>>538427492>Biggest historical negative:>Guilt over past racial injusticesthe Civil Rights Act will never be repealed, /pol/
>>538427502So how do you suppose Japan get oil if:>they do not domestically produce oil>all the areas near them that have oil (Indonesia) are European coloniesAgain it comes down to colonies for me but not for thee hypocrisy.
>>538427474Lmao
>>538427503Karmelos in prison lmao
>>538427504>So how do you suppose Japan get oil if: >>they do not domestically produce oil That's a really good question, japan's elites should have tried answering that>Again it comes down to colonies for me but not for theeYes. Colonial powers generally aren't interested in sharing resources or power when they have a choice
>>538427503>/pol/ be like if only the 13th and 19th Amendments were repealed, I would finally get laid and move out of my mom's basement
>>538427507ChatGPT post.
>>538427509Okay
>>538427493>le innocent nipponeseThose fuckers were the most blatantly immoral country in WW2. They would literally eat us whenever that had the chance.
>>538427472Best Moment: the Emancipation ProclamationWorst Moment: Trail of TearsBest American: Too many to pick just one but I'll say Ulysses S. Grant, definitely the most conscientious, forward-thinking and militarily brilliant man to serve as presidentWorst American: Also too many to pick just one but I'll say Strom Thurmond, embodied the ugliest aspects of the country in many waysMost Overrated Moment: the Moon LandingMost Underrated Moment: forcing Japan to end their isolationist period without firing a shotSmartest Moment: leveraging the Marshall Plan to gain hegemony over the westDumbest Moment: funding Islamic extremists to get a cheap shot in on the USSRBiggest Monkeys Paw: unleashing nukes on the worldMost Based Moment: baiting the Axis into open conflict and then obliterating them in WWIIMost Cringe: being slaves for IsraelBiggest Historical Negative: crushing socialism and aspirations of a better future for our lifetimesGreatest Historical Positive: nominally entrenching rights of the common citizen against the aristocracyMost Cinematic Moment: tilting the balance toward the Cuban and Filipino revolutionaries in the Spanish-American WarMost Funny Moment: Electing Trump for a second time, largely out of spite, and thus ensuring the decline of American influence
>>538427506So what? He killed a guy. Has nothing to do with civil rights. Totalitarian larpers are all universally faggots
>>538427512fuck off LBJfag
>>538427472Worse one are poo esl larping as polack
>>538427472Best moment ending the charter on the first private central bankWorst moment Wilson sign the federal reserve act.
>>538427478Random seethe lmao
>>538427501>I said America weren't.There is a big difference between starting shit and someone doing shit to stop you from doing shit. America was morally in the right to stop Japan. The bombs were justified because it ended the war and America dropped leaflets telling people to not be in cities. The only one you can say is morally dubious is the Doolittle Raid since it was an emotional response not tactical.
>>538427493>America basically bullied Japan into war with blockades and embargos>blockadesWhen specifically >embargoNot an act of war>their other option was a slow grinding death in China with millions of casualties due to no oilWhy didn't they just withdraw from China? Why did they need a Chinese colony? They already had Korea and Manchuria. >they were always going to do one way or another,Baseless assumption with 0 proof backing it. Fact of the matter is. America gave Japan an ultimatum. Withdraw from French Indochina (which Japan previously promised not to invade and lied about) and then you can have oil again. Yet they chose to start a larger war causing uneeded death and destruction.
>>538427500Eh I like my Yamaha crap.
Smartest moment: not using nuclear weapons during the Korean War