"Americans who don't travel, who 80% don't have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naïveté,"
Fuck this dumb cunt and the other champagne socialists. Most Americans are working two jobs just to not be homeless. Sorry not all of us got to blow Harvey Weinstein to become millionaires. I might actually embrace the Bernie Bro mentality and say we need a 99% tax on actors.
The whole "Americans don't have passports" thing always cracks me up.
We're the fourth largest country on the planet by area, with the first two being Russia and Canada. Russia and Canada are both largely unpopulated, or very sparsely populated, with the vast majority of people living in around 20%-30% of that area. Sure, US also has plenty of low population areas, but it's not nearly as much as the others. Even China, the third largest, has more areas that aren't really inhabited, from what I can tell. Furthermore, the US has much more people than Russia or Canada, meaning you're going to have more populated places.
So America may very well be the largest country geographically when you take populated areas into account, depending on how all that is broken down and measured. At least second. We also have a bunch of geographical diversity, as well as diversity of states.
Point is, we're not Europe, a collection of often tiny countries. Americans could (and I'm not saying they do) travel more without a passport than Europeans generally do with a passport. Also, we can go to Hawaii, Alaska, and outlying territorial islands without need of a passport as well.
Americans simply don't need passports in the same way Europeans often do.
EDIT: For those curious, it's a bit hard to measure, but I believe USA is third in amount of populated area, after India and China. India isn't as big as the US, but is packing such a massive amount of people in there they populate a lot of the area. Similar with China; already larger in area, and with a lot more people to fit. USA is almost as big as all of Europe. Bigger, if you exclude Russia.
I was talking to someone from Europe before that had never been to the U.S. and had no concept of just how big it is. They couldn’t believe it when I said you could start at the bottom of California drive 18 hrs and still be in California.
These idiots live like the French aristocracy and just can’t comprehend why us unwashed masses would load up our families in the minivan and drive to something reachable in a day as opposed to just going to Monaco for a week.
I just watched a Ken Burns documentary about Lewis and Clark, the first American citizens to reach the west coast. It took them 2.5 years and ~8000 miles (13000 km) in total. That's quite mind-boggling for a European, maybe Russians can comprehend it.
I had a friend who wanted to fly from the UK to NYC, spend a day or two touring around and then casually drive down to Florida to go to DisneyWorld. He was shocked when I showed him on the map it would take ~ 18 hours of non-stop driving to make it.
I had a similar discussion once regarding the whole planes vs. trains thing and in the process blew their minds, by showing a Google Maps screenshot of driving distance Seattle - Dallas (31h) and how that would look in Europe: Lisbon (Portugal) - Warsaw (Poland) - crossing 6 countries in total.
"Americans who don't travel, who 80% don't have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naïveté,"
Fuck this dumb cunt and the other champagne socialists. Most Americans are working two jobs just to not be homeless. Sorry not all of us got to blow Harvey Weinstein to become millionaires. I might actually embrace the Bernie Bro mentality and say we need a 99% tax on actors.
The whole "Americans don't have passports" thing always cracks me up.
We're the fourth largest country on the planet by area, with the first two being Russia and Canada. Russia and Canada are both largely unpopulated, or very sparsely populated, with the vast majority of people living in around 20%-30% of that area. Sure, US also has plenty of low population areas, but it's not nearly as much as the others. Even China, the third largest, has more areas that aren't really inhabited, from what I can tell. Furthermore, the US has much more people than Russia or Canada, meaning you're going to have more populated places.
So America may very well be the largest country geographically when you take populated areas into account, depending on how all that is broken down and measured. At least second. We also have a bunch of geographical diversity, as well as diversity of states.
Point is, we're not Europe, a collection of often tiny countries. Americans could (and I'm not saying they do) travel more without a passport than Europeans generally do with a passport. Also, we can go to Hawaii, Alaska, and outlying territorial islands without need of a passport as well.
Americans simply don't need passports in the same way Europeans often do.
EDIT: For those curious, it's a bit hard to measure, but I believe USA is third in amount of populated area, after India and China. India isn't as big as the US, but is packing such a massive amount of people in there they populate a lot of the area. Similar with China; already larger in area, and with a lot more people to fit. USA is almost as big as all of Europe. Bigger, if you exclude Russia.
I was talking to someone from Europe before that had never been to the U.S. and had no concept of just how big it is. They couldn’t believe it when I said you could start at the bottom of California drive 18 hrs and still be in California.
These idiots live like the French aristocracy and just can’t comprehend why us unwashed masses would load up our families in the minivan and drive to something reachable in a day as opposed to just going to Monaco for a week.
And, heck, you can drive 48 hours - two days - nonstop, from the Oregon coast to Massachusetts coast, all on the same highway.
That's nothing. You can drive for 6 hours on any highway 10 miles out from San Fran, and still not make it into San Francisco.
I just watched a Ken Burns documentary about Lewis and Clark, the first American citizens to reach the west coast. It took them 2.5 years and ~8000 miles (13000 km) in total. That's quite mind-boggling for a European, maybe Russians can comprehend it.
I had a friend who wanted to fly from the UK to NYC, spend a day or two touring around and then casually drive down to Florida to go to DisneyWorld. He was shocked when I showed him on the map it would take ~ 18 hours of non-stop driving to make it.
Truly the european mind cannot even comprehend.
I was unironically asked if I went to the Vancouver Olympics games by a French friend.
I'm from Quebec. So I asked him if he went to the Sochi Olympics games in Russia, or was that too far.
''No that's way too far''
Well that's the same distance.
Oh how time flies. Now the answer would be about the Russian invasion.
I had a similar discussion once regarding the whole planes vs. trains thing and in the process blew their minds, by showing a Google Maps screenshot of driving distance Seattle - Dallas (31h) and how that would look in Europe: Lisbon (Portugal) - Warsaw (Poland) - crossing 6 countries in total.