Do they mean these?
Posted on 07/04/2018 8:16:46 PM PDT by mkleesma
America is the greatest country on the face of the earth. The greatest of all time. In the entire history of the world — there has never been a country so great. Science proves it. History proves it. It is beyond debate. Therefore, let us celebrate the 50 most American things of all time.
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That’s more of a stereotypical list, but it’s good they included winning world wars.
Cute. (I don’t think we ‘invented’ fireworks...but we’ve got them, especially today!
AK47, apple pie and the French Bikini...
Americans invented just about every major artifact of the modern technological world.
No other country has given as much to humanity as America has. Not one.
Do they mean these?
Windy, I agree that no nation has given so much to others as we have. But I can’t think of any great technological invention that was born in America ‘ex nihilo’. They were built by men standing upon the shoulders of others from all over the world.
The brilliance of America is that it has given such great opportunity to the mind-power of the entire world.
America gave the world fire-breathing V8 Corvettes, Camaros, etc.
Everywhere else, a fast car has to be as expensive as a house and is only found parked on the executive parking lot...No blue collar guys allowed,
We invented the Jeep, and the RV to pull it behind.
We invented Harley Davidsons and Airplanes.
The oil industry? We invented it in Pennsylvania.
Before America, people dipped it out of natural seeps, and all they could think to do with it was smear it on things for waterproofing, the dumb asses.
We invented Rock and Roll,
We invented the electric guitar and the record player, then the 8 track. The man who invented the 8 track invented the Lear Jet.
We invented Baseball,
We invented Jazz,
We invented Country music,
(but i guess to be fair, that’s kinda hard to do unless you actually have a ‘west’)
We invented the Hamburger, the cheeseburger too, and the Chimichanga.
(Yeah, that was Arizona not* Mexico)
We invented fried chicken and skyscrapers, (not including the pyramids, which didn’t have apartments or office space. Any ignoramus can simply stack up blocks.
We invented the ice cream cone at the St Louis world’s fair.
And even though yeah...in 1302, some remote king *somewhere* probably had a frozen ‘something’ flavored with grass sprouts or beetles, etc and again, no working class dog *anywhere* on earth ever tasted it until we came along, made it taste right, and then mass produced it, in scooped, soft serve, and 31 flavors.
The same for chocolate.
Italy invented it...but yeah, pizza Magarita is horrible with a basil leaf for a topping. It was the USA that perfected pizza. You want it thick, thin, frozen?
Did I mention we also invented pizza delivery? Oh and hey, not to lay it on too thick, but ALSO the telephone which you used to call in the order in the first place!
We invented Jell-O, and Kool-Aide.
We invented computers, AND the internet.
Macaroni and Cheese? It started here too, back in our revolutionary war days.
(By the way,, ours was pretty much the *only* revolution where the winners didn’t quickly organize a mass murder of the opponents, unlike France, Germany, Russia, China, Mexico, Laos, Pakistan, the Aztecs, Cuba, Iraq, Iran, etc,,,)
We invented the Colt 1911 .45 automatic pistol which is still the ne plus ultra in pistolcraft worldwide.
We also invented the six-shooter, the pump-action shotgun, the lever action rifle, and the happy little childhood joy the .22 cartridge. We also invented the Machine gun, and the concept of extreme accuracy in sporting rifles.
And this probably says something far deeper about us psychologically than i’m qualified to understand, but think of this, we invented *every single comic-book superhero*, bar none,,)
We also invented the comic books for them to live in...
Last, our founding document is the only one on earth that says the MAIN goal is for individuals to be free to ‘pursue happiness’. NOT to have it handed to you for free, but just to be free to pursue it!
Someone needs to remind that Jackass Obama, Hillary, Bernie and Kamala and those snooty Europeans (who don’t even have free speech anymore) that America gave the world every damn thing that makes life worth living.
This list isn’t exhaustive or all encompassing, it’s just off the top of my head.
I’m tired,
I think I’m going to go drink a Coke now, or maybe a Pepsi, or maybe a Dr Pepper, or an RC Cola, or maybe...
well, u get my point,,,
We didn’t invent chocolate.
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Baloney. We were cranking out chocolate candy in San Francisco in 1849. Europe had it then but it was horrible stuff and mostly used in drinks. Theirs sucked.
USA!
Cadbury made the 1st milk chocolate.
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‘Country Music’ is an amalgam and evolution of the folk music brought here from the Celtic countries, England, and other European nations whose people immigrated here.
Every nation has had some form of fried chicken.
Jefferson imported a pasta machine from Italy (our word ‘macaroni’ actually refers to pasta in general) and he probably wasn’t the first to bring it ‘home’; and it was probably made with some kind of cheese in Italy, before.
Without African influence, we probably wouldn’t have Jazz and Rock and Roll, as they’ve come down to us.
And the roots of much of our Constitution lie in the Magna Charta.
(Have a Moon Pie with your coke. I think it’s a genuine American invention ;-)
I think that chocolate was imported to Europe from the New World and used before the (our) Americans started making candy out of it. The Spanish and Italians may have done that first.
Sure American inventors and innovators drew much base knowledge from primary sources in mathematics and the sciences, but something about the mindset and character of Americans caused them, above the people of all other nations, to turn those fundamental principles into useful machines and products.
There was just something about this place that brought out the best in humankind. Gladly, our people still have that certain 'something', despite the best efforts of enemies foreign and domestic, trying to wipe it out.
Good lord... that was perfect. You were wrong on every one of those.
Denim was actually invented in Nimes, France...
What good has come out of Africa?
I don’t think it’s the ‘place’ (though I’ve lately been mulling the idea that ‘terroir’ does get into the human physical/psychic constitution just as it does into wine).
I think it’s the *philosophy*; it sets people free.
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