What is up with America?

I fail to see what that has to do with this thread.

Still not getting it sorry.

The country was an expansionary wing of the british empire, stolen land build on stolen labor.

The empire that gave the world the American colonies, collapsed.

With slavery:

Without slavery:

I'm sure it's just a coincidence that a few years after abolishing slavery colonies like Canada etc. started demanding Independence. No, slavery wasn't holding that empire together at all.

I love how Brits chest thump about abolishing the slave trade (although slavery continued on in several colonies and rights restrictions in most meant a subservient legal position to British extraterritoriality). They were still paying compensation to the descendants of plantation owners up until recent decades!!

Back to the US though and it's hard not to see that slavery continued on indirectly after the civil war via Jim Crow laws.

Anyway the modern threat to the US is the fact that there are 90 guns in civilian ownership for every citizen, but that's just registered sales. Then there's the unregistered ghost guns that are increasingly popping up in mass murders. The true estimate is probably well over one gun per US citizen.

It is literally a civilian arms race and even though the US military has far more advance weaponry it is designed mainly for foreign strategic deployment and not much good in asymmetric street level domestic warfare. Added to that a lot of militias are made up of ex military so in the instance of a state rebellion there would be extreme tensions within the national militia to intercede and it may force other states to rebel too.

Where in the name of Jaysus are you getting the 90 guns in civilian ownership for every citizen. Lets do the math as they say over there in the US. There's about 330,000,000 people in the US. Are you seriously suggesting that there's 330,000,000 x 90 = 29,700,000,000 guns in the US. Not a chance.

What is true is that there are more guns than people. That much is acknowledged. Estimates put it between 400,000,000 and 500,000,000 guns civilian ownership in the US.

Law enforcement are estimated to have a little over 1,000,000 guns.

Source: https://www.smallarmssurvey.org/sites/default/files/resources/SAS-BP-Law-Enforcement-Firearms-Numbers.pdf

US military are estimated to have approximately 4,500,000 guns.

Source: https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-business-gun-politics-crime-6caba27108d05a8b7c1860959d1ae130

So, back of an envelope calculations there is a little over 505,500 guns in the US. That's not even 2 guns per citizen. Yeah, it's still a lot, but it's a long way off 90 guns per person as claimed.

It is a very divisive population though with lots of tensions bubbling away under the surface with the occasional problem breaching that surface. I wouldn't like to live there although it must be said that there are some very nice areas with very nice people.

Thank you, my mistake. I meant to write 90 guns per 100 citizens.

All my life, there's trouble in America

They have weirdos who believe in Qanon running for election , the Democrats need a new candidate for the next election, Biden is too old. Basic laws to protect the environment are being stopped , Biden seems to have run out of steam Re bringing in green energy programs even though they can print money. In terms of money America is doing OK, the dollar is strong. The basic laws to protect people are not being passed, outlaw military type weapons, pass red flag laws. There seems to be a shooting every 2 to 3 days. The American political system is biased , big company's pay off Politicans to pass laws to reduce competition and allow them to destroy the environment. Right now texas has to shutdown crypto coin mining. They are using 99 per cent of the energy they generate. Rents are going up, there's a great shortage of housing for ordinary workers. Who earn less than 80k gen z is really getting screwed.

The republicans are trying to pass laws as soon they can that make abortion illegal even in case of rape, threat to the mothers life. Its a divided country, between white maga extremists and

Democrats who respect minoritys and women's rights . A nation that does not respect women's rights in 2022 is going in the wrong direction. The supreme Court is just waiting to take away gay marriage and lgbt rights and maybe even the right to buy an iud. If you look at how much truck drivers and other trades get paid its no wonder there s a shortage of workers

America produces media, TV, films, podcasts more than any other country and its mostly in English , there's fox news and CNN, msnbc, and 100s of TV stations ,

They have more influence on global culture than India China or the EU the right to free speech is

guaranteed by the constitution. There's no general medical health care, most people rely on heathcare insurance provided by their employers. The states, Texas etc with the fastest growing population are facing, drought, forest fires, extreme heat, falling levels of water. Many city's have rising crime and a serious homeless problem. Many company's can't get workers, even the US army is struggling to recruit soldiers, inflation rising energy costs is a major problem it turns out fit young people have more options Re careers than joining the army

One example fertisers that farmers use are now 700 per ton versus 140 dollars a ton 3 years ago this effects the cost of basic products bread wheat etc

I think the General situation in America will get worse unless they take serious steps to tackle climate change and it seems to get worse every year in terms of extreme heat drought low levels of water I think experts will look at 2019 as the peak of Americas power and influence before the pandemic happened

There's so much going on the war in Ukraine high oil prices sanctions on Russian imports I think it will be very difficult to control inflation without causing a recession

even the big tech company's are stopping taking on new workers due to falls in advertising demand

Of course many Americans never travel outside the US so they presume they are still the best