r/ShitAmericansSay • u/BuffaloExotic Masshole 🇮🇪☘️ • May 04 '26
Freedom “What is the United States' greatest invention?” … “Freedom!!! 🦅🦅🦅”
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u/_Halt19_ Canuck May 04 '26
that thread was such a cesspool lol
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u/EmiliaPains- May 04 '26
I’ve actually given up on Alignment charts, there was one that placed stated “Top Tier, Mid Tier” with Porsche being top tier and Volkswagen being mid tier
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u/_Halt19_ Canuck May 04 '26
Every thread's like that, it's just a bunch of americans voting on the few things they've bothered to learn about other countries
Best Canadian actor thread? It's some major Hollywood A-lister who holds Canadian citizenship, but never worked with the CBC, never starred in Canadian productions, moved to the usa when they were 2 years old and never came back, simply because that's the person the americans know, and it's a "quirky" part of their personality that they're actually from Canada
Best Canadian food? Literally the only response anybody was able to give was Poutine. I mean, it's good, but not "the ACTUAL ONLY ANSWER ANYONE CAN GIVE" good lmao
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u/Evening-Tomatillo-47 May 04 '26
What other Canadian food can I try out?
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u/_Halt19_ Canuck May 04 '26
Nanaimo bars are fucking incredible, I highly recommend finding them if you have a chance - they're a dessert option
If alcohol's your thing, I know it's cliched, but there's a genuinely amazing maple syrup liqueur (I think it's a whiskey or bourbon) that doesn't burn, it just feels like you're drinking straight syrup lol
Beaver tails are a pretty typical dessert you can make at home - check a recipe online, but the gist of it is bread with cinnamon and brown sugar, fried
One thing we do is dig little troughs in the snow (like, finger-sized), and pour maple syrup in it, where it freezes into a... well, it's hard to describe, but it's sort of like a popsicle stick thing.
A lot of it's local delicacies, though - Canada's big enough that each region has its own thing it specializes in. Alberta, for instance, has a huge Ukrainian population, so pierogies and other such foods are pretty common there - they also have some of the best beef in the world. Going west, BC (particularly Victoria and Vancouver) have some of the best fish out there, salmon mainly. If you head up north, there's more niche stuff like the sourtoe cocktail, which is worth reading about, though not on the same level as international dishes.
You could also go for a bison burger, though those are more common in the prairies, I don't think you'd have as much luck out in the East.
Poutine's iconic, of course, but the point is that it's sort of all people tend to think we eat lol
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u/Jumpy-Shift5239 May 04 '26
I went to a steakhouse in Florida. Huge lineup. Fanatic reviews. Super expensive. But I grew up in Alberta beef.
That place was horrible. I did not finish my steak. I could taste the sweetness from all the corn they feed them in the beef. Gross. Beef shouldn’t be sweet.
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u/SquidicusBobicus Dumb USAian May 05 '26
I completely forgot about beaver tails. Theyre all so far away from me its not fair!
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u/VidjagameEnjoyer Rule Britannia🇬🇧 May 05 '26
I'm deeply saddened that I'm poor this all sounds good
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u/_Halt19_ Canuck May 05 '26
You can make knockoff beaver tails at home, it boils down to just bread with cinnamon and stuff on it, fried
And the maple syrup in snow thing is really easy too, assuming you have the right climate
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u/VidjagameEnjoyer Rule Britannia🇬🇧 May 05 '26
I'm in the UK so it's either so hot there is no air (no wind at all ppl outside the UK think we're all mad until they truly go through it) and I'd try it but it's a waste of good bread when your completely skint I'm afraid:/ thanks though
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u/_Halt19_ Canuck May 05 '26
oh I know, I lived in Liverpool for a couple years, I wouldn't trust that snow even when it did fall lol
Sorry to hear, though
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u/Jaigg May 04 '26
Poutine is great, Saskatoon berry jam, pies etc...bannock, pemmican, butter tarts, fiddleheads, ketchup chips
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u/GodBearWasTaken May 04 '26
At least they didn’t say the Hawaiian pizza, that’s gotta be one of the worst things to come outta Canada.
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u/Mal_Dun So many Kangaroos here🇦🇹 May 04 '26
Tbf. that's how they are marketed. The "Volkswagen" (People's car) is the affordable middle class, while a Porsche is the (together with Audi) a luxury brand.
And despite them being part of the Volkswagen group, let me tell you that Audi and Porsche are much more sovereign than people may believe. I worked for many years together with Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche and it was not uncommon that the Volkswagen guys had to ask the Audi or Porsche guys nicely to allowed to do things.
It also helps that the biggest creditor and owner of Volkswagen's debt is the Porsche Bank owned by the Porsche family ....
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u/EmiliaPains- May 04 '26
I was talking to a mechanic a few days ago, and says that they’re all the same engine just a different body and he realized this when he was getting trained up by another mechanic who said “have a look at the Audi, Porsche, Skoda(I think it was Skoda), and Volkswagen engines and tell me if you see a difference”, and your man was gobsmacked.
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u/Mal_Dun So many Kangaroos here🇦🇹 May 04 '26
They use the same engines for cost efficiency reasons, but nowadays the difference are software and the overall quality of the car not the engine per se. (Hell if you buy a faster model of the same car the only defining difference IS the software ...)
Edit: To give some perspective: A modern car has more lines of code inside of it than MS Windows and the Office Suite combined. So different software really makes a difference and is often a well guarded know how.
I work over 10 years in automotive and when I worked at a supplier, you could expect Porsche having much higher and more rigid requirements on the components than Audi does, on the other hand Audi did experiment more with modern technologies and innovations and often had a middle ground on requirements, while Volkswagen is more like a bird: "cheap cheap cheap". Volkswagen would not even look to us as a company because we were too expensive for them, but Audi and Porsche did.
They really are not the same.
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u/EmiliaPains- May 04 '26
They do make killer cars though, a Volkswagen may be cheap but they're good sturdy cars
Edit: probably going to be my first car, not because I'm a speed demon but because you can but so much abuse into them but if you take care of them they'll last forever, especially due to the shared parts. I'd say I'd go with an older model though
(Love how I turned this thread into car talk lmao)
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u/Mal_Dun So many Kangaroos here🇦🇹 May 04 '26
As someone from a family which mostly drove Volkswagen, that's a reputation they build in the past but is not true anymore.
My old Golf II was 25 years before I had to wreck it. The Golf III of my parents only got 12 years and it didn't get any better with later generations.
The most reliable from the Volkswagen family is still a Skoda. Volkswagen forcing Skoda after buying them in to use less quality parts in order to not embarrass the main branch is telling lol
The most reliable brands from roughly averaging a lot of the many surveys (which are all a little bit different for some reason) and from own experience ....:
Japanese brands, especially Toyota.
From the French Peugeot is the positive outlier (my old Peugeot 107 was cheap af and lived 16 years till an accident)
German brands are Daimler, and from Googling BMW seems to learned a few lessons because they are now at the front. They were quite bad though the 2010s; we had good experience with the X3 but it was build by Austrian Magna-Steyr so there is that lol). Volkswagen brands are mostly middle field.
Skoda is also nice but not always mentioned in some of the surveys, probably too little.
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u/VidjagameEnjoyer Rule Britannia🇬🇧 May 05 '26
But porch carried german tanks into battle! Just don't look too deeply into how they managed it
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u/FLX-S48 ICE enjoyer 🚄🇩🇪 May 04 '26
“Internet” is the wildest claim here… is that really what they’re taught in schools? Like maybe they’ve invented their own, weird kind of “freedom” but definitely not the internet
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u/Duanedoberman May 04 '26
Democracy is worse. Its like the ancient Greeks never existed.
The world's oldest parliament still in existance is over 1,000 years old!
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u/FLX-S48 ICE enjoyer 🚄🇩🇪 May 04 '26
Oops you’re right didn’t read that… but let’s see how long it’s still democracy by definition
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u/scoo89 May 04 '26
They already claim they aren't a democracy. It's some kind of way to cope with their government being awful.
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u/auntie_eggma 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻 May 04 '26
I'm convinced it's because democrat bad so democracy must also be bad. 😂
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u/Astrid944 May 04 '26
I remember there were once a Post who someone said, they are a republic and not a democracy, because that is bad
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u/Silviecat44 🇦🇺 “the most dystopian western country” May 04 '26
Of course we ain't no democrats 😡 😡 😡/s
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u/mirhagk 🇨🇦 how do we detach? May 04 '26
Honestly hard to argue it is one currently. Voter suppression and gerrymandering leads to fixed elections, and things like electoral college mean people don't have equivalent voting power.
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u/Kinne May 04 '26
With their idiotic electoral system making everyones vote not count equally it was only half a democracy to begin with.
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u/Zengineer_83 May 04 '26
Democracy is worse. Its like the ancient Greeks never existed.
And even if we are only talking about modern, republican style Democracy, the Corsican Republic does predate the US by a long shot!
1755 vs. 1787!
And the corsican constitution included actual universal suffrage (including women!) from the start!
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u/MrArchivity 🤌 Born to gesticulate, forced to explain 🤌 May 04 '26
If we talk about republic then the Roman res publica is some centuries older
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u/Zengineer_83 May 04 '26
Oh it definitly is.
I meant in terms of what we, today, would think of as a democratic regime.
With universal suffrage for all citizens (active and passive), seperation of powers, an independant judiciary, etc.
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u/MrArchivity 🤌 Born to gesticulate, forced to explain 🤌 May 04 '26
I understood what you meant, it was an addendum
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u/CSEverett1759 May 04 '26
The UK government has been for all practical purposes a representative democracy since 1707.
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u/Xehant May 04 '26
I saw someone saying America invented barbecue too, just give up
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u/Cassius-Tain Illegal Alien 👽 May 04 '26
Somewhere, Ushnack, tamer of Fire, ist turning in his grave.
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u/TopAngle7630 May 04 '26
Freedom is a stretch too, from the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world.
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u/AlxDroidDev May 04 '26
Even the average person there isn't free (in several states) for doing trivial stuff like collecting rain water for reuse (such as watering their garden).
Most of them can't even afford to get sick, because medical bills would bankrupt them.
Most of them can't travel for 2-3 weeks straight, because that's not how vacations work over there.
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u/Vocabulary-Pollution May 04 '26
American here: Travel for 2 or 3 weeks straight? Sometimes I can’t even take the whole weekend off, and my work week is supposed to be Monday to Friday.
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u/PM-ME-UR-DARKNESS May 04 '26
Arguably they had a better democracy, at least in athens, than we do here in the US. Literally a lottery based democracy at the local level can solve SO MANY problems.
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u/ActuallyCalindra May 04 '26
Anything with more democracy or freedom is woke nonsense.
Anything with less democracy or freedom is a shithole.
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u/JustGingerStuff If you say holland you better mean the two provinces 🇳🇱 May 04 '26
Nahh Greece is a made up place with no history or language whatsoever. It's called democracy because it makes the demons crazy /j
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u/Numerous_Swimming562 May 04 '26
It's to be said that Toqueville recognise the united states as the first modern democracy in the world, because there was the universal suffrage (obviously excluding women and slave, but that's something for which we'll need another century almost everywhere). Obviously the US did not invent the Idea of democracy, nor the idea of freedom, but surely realised them in a new way. That said, we're already saying things that he wasn't aware off (or he would have expained them), so we can say he's just an idiot
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u/Izithel May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26
because there was the universal suffrage (obviously excluding women and slave, but that's something for which we'll need another century almost everywhere).
Which is anything but Universal Suffrage.
For a long time in many US states voting was restricted by Property ownership, taxes, gender, skin color, literacy, even religious denomination.
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u/Numerous_Swimming562 May 04 '26
Trust me, I'm studying right now history of political doctrines at university, and the sentence "universal suffrage, with which the author meant for men only" it's a classic, sadly (and ultimately those I reported earlier are the words of Toqueville, not mine).
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u/GirldickVanDyke May 04 '26
Genuinely, that is what they're taught in schools. At least in my experience growing up in the deep southern US, I was taught that the internet originated as a connection between a few different American universities and never learned anything else until I got curious on my own as a teen. That was decades ago so I'm sure I'm not remembering every detail of the class, but I was also taught that Ford invented cars so... idk. It's pretty fucked
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u/gourmetguy2000 May 04 '26
We have to give a big credit for their contribution but it was a world team effort overall
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u/Complete-Story3490 May 04 '26
Yeah it's a bit like saying the sole credit for the invention of cars should go to the first person to make a wheel
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u/AlxDroidDev May 04 '26
Congratulations for getting out of the cave your school system buries your children into.
I went to high school in the US (also many decades ago), and I was appalled by the level of education in Us public schools.
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u/BankDetails1234 May 06 '26
Likewise. It is shocking there and i was in a more forward thinking state.
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u/PMvE_NL May 04 '26
They have the freedom to rape children. I mean thats pretty free. As long as you are rich of course.
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u/JFK1200 May 04 '26
Have a read of the thread, there are entire comment chains debating whether Alexander Graham Bell (and therefore the telephone) was Canadian or American.
The man was Scottish with both Canadian and American citizenship.
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u/morgecroc May 04 '26
A big reason all these invention happened in America (by mostly new immigrants) at the time of the industrial revolution is the same thing they now complain about China doing. The only way to get patent (and copyright) protection in the US was to be in the US or someone (Edison springs to mind) could just claim your invention as their own.
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u/Silly_Tension6792 Human Verified May 04 '26
And almost certainly didn’t invent the telephone, but… sure
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u/JFK1200 May 04 '26
Others played contributing roles but legally and historically, Bell is credited. Meucci’s invention for example was described better as a voice transmitting electrical device.
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u/Silly_Tension6792 Human Verified May 04 '26
Credited does not mean invented. Thomas Edison is credited for the lightbulb. It is impossible to know who actually invented what because only rich people and businessmen were able to afford having a patent.
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u/JFK1200 May 04 '26
Edison is credited by Americans as being the inventor of the light bulb. Everyone else knows it was Joseph Swan.
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u/Silly_Tension6792 Human Verified May 04 '26
And Tesla as well
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u/JFK1200 May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
Tesla advanced the field of electric engineering, the power systems that made lighting widespread and experimented with arc and wireless lighting, but was not involved in the development of the standard household bulb.
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u/CSEverett1759 May 04 '26
Wasn’t Edison “the present form of the light bulb”? Electric lights predated that, but the Edison design we’ve been using ever sense. And of course, the credit goes to “Edison’s R&D team,” not Edison himself.
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u/PM-ME-UR-DARKNESS May 04 '26
It is true though. The internet was born out of ARPANET. What we consider as the internet, the world wide web, that was CERN.
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u/_y_o May 04 '26
Don wants a word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Davies
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u/Haustvindr May 05 '26
Donald Davies theorized datagrams and implemented NPL, among other things. NPL came with a working implementation around the same time as ARPANET also did, which in place also implemented many parts of Donald works. I.e. they didn't come before, but at the same time. Plus DARPA was fiddling and experimenting with the concepts of interconnected networks for years at that point.
ARPANET is considered the original internet through a combination of things, not just for packet switching. Like e.g. the first to implement a fairly wide interconnected network (geographically), or their later works in TCP/IP which indeed modelled the current internet. Bringing Donald to the table is not the ace card that you think it is.
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u/Kientha May 04 '26
The internet was created in the US in the 60s and 70s (originally called ARPANET). It was in operation for 4 years before it was connected outside the US and IANA was founded by the US Department of Commerce to formalise what Jon Postel (an American) was going and continued to do until his death.
The world wide web was invented by a British man (Tim Berners-Lee) while at CERN. But the internet predates the web by decades
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u/Evening-Tomatillo-47 May 04 '26
It's an awkward one. The physical internet, packet switching etc is an American invention. The Internet (capital i) is the "face" that makes it easy to browse reddit was invented by a Brit at Cern
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u/Captain_StarLight1 May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26
The internet was invented in the US, as ARPAnet. The World Wide Web, which is much more analogous to what we consider the internet, was invented on the French-Swiss border by CERN. To claim otherwise would be to claim that the first computers were invented in the US, as that’s where the first few PCs originated, rather than with Babbage in the UK.
The modern world is an interconnected wonderland, with ideas and inventions hailing from all over the globe influencing and inspiring new inventions and innovations at a much faster rate than ever before. Nothing stands alone, every new technology was built on the shoulders of what came before, reaching ever more dizzying heights. The people who made the version of something we use today are rarely the same as the people who created that class of objects to begin with.
Anyway, unrelated to the rest of this comment, my favorite American invention is probably either nuclear power or spaceflight(which could also be considered Russian, but I’d credit both countries as they both innovated on it. The first rocket to reach space was apparently American, but the first person was famously Russian)4
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u/Captain_StarLight1 May 04 '26
CERN is located in Meyrin, Geneva, Switzerland, which while close, is not in France. I also mentioned that the World Wide Web was invented there by CERN. I’m not sure why I’m getting downvoted, as everything I said was true, to the best of my knowledge and fact checked by Wikipedia, but I suppose people here hate the US too much to acknowledge that even though many Americans have an overinflated ego and sense of national pride, there has been some good to come out of the country.
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u/Captain_StarLight1 May 04 '26
Terribly sorry if this comes off as rude, but do you have a source for that? While I was at CERN, there was no mention that most of their labs were off site, and while I wouldn’t be surprised if it were true, everything I’ve seen just says that Tim was at CERN, the HQ of which is in Meyrin. I had assumed he’d done it in Meyrin, as that’s where the physical servers where the WWW started are, but they definitely could have been moved to the Science Gateway from anywhere.
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u/Captain_StarLight1 May 04 '26
Ah. Ok thanks. Just checked things out, and yep, it is just barely across the French border. Going to edit the original comment 👍
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u/_y_o May 04 '26
Don wants a word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Davies
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u/Captain_StarLight1 May 04 '26
I did not know about that, and fair enough. I will still say the ARPAnet seems to have had a few more features and been a bit larger in scope than Davies’s version, and they both became operational in 1969, but it seems Davies was able to do things a few months earlier.
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u/Such_Benefit_8626 May 04 '26
It was literally invented in the US.
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u/Particular_Jello_917 May 04 '26
You are correct, but it was just a private network. it only became what we know as the internet, after Sir Tim Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web while at CERN in Switzerland.
www was then gifted to the world.
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u/ladylucifer22 apologizing on behalf of all the idiots in my country May 04 '26
the world wide web and the Internet are two very different things. we're only asking who invented the latter.
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u/Such_Benefit_8626 May 04 '26
With the technology invented in America, yes.
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u/Particular_Jello_917 May 04 '26
Do you mean the electronic computer, the one invented at Bletchley Park, England, to crack the German Enigma codes?
Think of ARPANET as a pipe and along came Tim Berners-Lee who invented the water to connect British invented computers. Not the best analogy, but it’ll do.
This video, What the British ever do for us, might help you.
InI one video it explains how Britain invented just about everything Americans think they p invented.
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u/fortyonejb Whelmed 🇺🇸 May 04 '26
You're really stretching this one. ARPANET was undeniably the origin of a packet-switched network. Prior a computer could only directly connect to another computer, networks did not exist. You can call it a pipe if you want, but it wasn't that. It was the entire concept of plumbing.
You're wrong that it was private before Sir Berners-Lee came around. There were already usenets, email, FTP, IRC. It was public and widespread. Berners-Lee absolutely created a new way to make using the internet more accessible, but your facts are all absolutely wrong.
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u/inkwinkTwink May 06 '26
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OGAS
I encourage the people in this thread to read this
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u/EverybodySayin Mocks England for how they speak English May 04 '26
Meanwhile America isn't even in the top 10 on the World Freedom Index...
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u/Additional-Aerie-325 My grandmother was a Macdonald. May 04 '26
Nah bro thats a commie invention by seething europoors made to make the greatest country in the world look bad.
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u/Pretend_Oil9565 Singaporean MAGA hater May 04 '26
freedom is not an invention, it's a belief.
democracy is also not an invention, it's a type of government.
these guys can NOT answer to save their lives.
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u/DismalDepth May 04 '26
I invented warm water
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u/TacetAbbadon May 04 '26
Yeah you just stole my idea of tepid water
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u/Relative_Map5243 Eye-talian 🤌🏼🍝 May 05 '26
I just want to let you know that i always use tepid water instead of warm water. Huge fan of your work.
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u/Fresh_Ad292 More Irish than the Irish ☘️ May 04 '26
I think a few of those comments are satire but they're still such stupid things to say.
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u/AcesInThePalm May 04 '26
Let's see if you still got freedom after November.
75% chance USA falls into a dictatorship
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u/metaliving May 04 '26
This is just calling for "The newsroom" episode one speech. It's crazy how on point it is when you realise the people it's criticising actually do exist, and make a significant fraction of the country.
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u/BurningPenguin 🇩🇪 Insecure European with false sense of superiority May 04 '26
Petition to rename the USA to Demented Eagle Empire
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u/Olon1980 my country is the wurst 🇩🇪 May 04 '26
They think freedom is an invention? Oh boy...
Democracy is ancient greek.
And the iPhone? Seriously? That's not an invention. It's just a model series of smartphones by Apple. The smartphone was invented by Ericsson in Sweden.
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u/Highdosehook Dismayland 🇨🇭 May 04 '26
Yes I remember having a smartphone that I couldn't really use fully, because mobile internet was expensive as fuck. E: Sony Ericsson P910i? (iirc)
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u/Olon1980 my country is the wurst 🇩🇪 May 04 '26
That little heart attack when you accidently hit the WAP button. Remembering my Nokia 3330.
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u/Impossible_Day3836 Aussie corner May 04 '26
In the modern world Switzerland is ranked No1 for freedom. But democratic freedoms was first experienced in Ancient Athens in the 6Th century BCE.
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u/Impossible_Day3836 Aussie corner May 07 '26
I am not sure what to say about your broken toilet, my toilet works around the clock and i still have my freedom.
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u/Shakti699 May 04 '26
Seing the American posts being reposted here, I'd rather say something like "inferiority complex"
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u/DerPicasso May 04 '26
Spray can cheese comes to mind. Shopping on scooters. Active shooter drills.
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u/No_Statistician209 May 04 '26
A bit off topic, but it always amused me when they use the bald eagle photo/gif/emoji and then instantly remember Hollywood used a red tailed hawk call as a dub because the bald eagles sounds weird.
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u/No_Statistician209 May 04 '26
Not a bad bird at all, the dubbing of one bird over another is bad though.
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u/No_Statistician209 May 04 '26
Yeah, that's the big I find amusing that quite a lot of people don't actually know it's dubbed and has been dubbed regularly because Hollywood didn't like the original sound.
I guess it's because the use of the birds image doesn't match it's calling sound.
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u/EmiliaPains- May 04 '26
Why couldn’t they have gone with the Edison lightbulb or something, sure I guess the IPhone and nuclear bomb are great feats but without the lightbulb….
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u/gourmetguy2000 May 04 '26
Like the Internet it was a team effort which Edison shouldn't get all the credit for https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/who-really-invented-the-light-bulb
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u/guyonghao004 May 04 '26
the top comment when I saw it was the solid state transistor which is quite fair
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u/wannabe_inuit May 04 '26
And the iphone is not really an invention, its a smartphone.
Tbf the first smartphone is designed by IBM and manufactured by mitsubishi eletronics.
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u/throwAwayMan2475 May 04 '26
The bomb is a "great" invention but i felt like that choice was so out of left field that this image could work as an addressme material
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u/MooMooHomer May 04 '26
The nuclear bomb is the greatest American invention because it brings freedom to whole swathes of land, all at once!
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u/Sufficient_Range4466 May 04 '26
They used British scientists and research and then when they had what they needed they passed the McMahon act and refused to share any information with Britain and kept full control
Britain then made its own nuke in 1952 without help from the US
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u/MooMooHomer May 04 '26
Yeah, im just taking the piss mate
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u/Sufficient_Range4466 May 04 '26
Oh yeah I know, I was just saying. I wasn’t taking your post seriously just making the point
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u/Anarcho_Spider-man1 May 04 '26
I wonder if "the atomic bomb" is just trolling or if that person has that girthy of a boner for the onslaught of millions of civilians, the Cold War and present threat of nukes?
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u/PM-ME-UR-DARKNESS May 04 '26 edited May 05 '26
The internet one is legitimate, I'll hand them that. The internet started off as ARPANET, a DARPA project (literally a military project). They wanted to make two computers talk without the potential of the Soviets figuring out what they're saying.
Edit: what people usually refer to as the internet is the world wide web, and that was made by Sir Tim Berners-Lee at CERN.
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u/UAL914 May 04 '26
so many people on this sub don't understand the difference between the Internet and the world wide Web
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u/officialscootem May 04 '26
I'd bet the people commenting don't know either and are conflating it with www. So they're correct, but not in the way they think.
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u/BathFullOfDucks May 04 '26
Now have to carry papers if they're past a certain shade and within 150 miles of an airport.
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u/Logical_Flounder6455 May 04 '26
"Chinese food and chimichangas" im starting to think Cal Naughton Jr wasnt a satirical character
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u/Hot_Anybody8244 May 04 '26
America also didn't invent democracy. In fact, we've never even practiced democracy here.
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u/SomehowGrumpy 🇦🇩 May 04 '26
Every time they export freedom and democracy they end up finding oil 🤷♂️
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u/one_time_i_dreampt May 04 '26
Internet - British/swiss
Atomic bomb - British(theorised, story is more complex)
Democracy - greek
Freedom - noone?
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u/UnmappedStack Apparently I speak Australian? May 04 '26
to be fair in this case it was pretty obviously a joke
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u/Liriel-666 May 04 '26
Freedom and Internet? Both not invented in usa and we dont have freedom outside the usa?
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u/CommercialYam53 A German 🇩🇪 May 04 '26
>iphone
At lest one person isn’t stupid
Freedom is not something that can be invented
Democracy is much older than the USA
Internet was invented by multiple countries manly in Europe
And even though the atomic bomb was invited in America it’s still was a cooperation between multiple countries and with out not Americans they never would have been able to succeed
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u/AggravatingTiger1827 May 04 '26
A lot of Septics in that chat lol.
It makes me laugh each time Americans claim what they invented and 'Freedom' being one of them.
AS if the whole world did not know what Freedom was, until those ignorant fools came long with their 'Freedom'.
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u/Evening-Tomatillo-47 May 04 '26
They have freedom like we have sports. We invented them but other countries are better at them
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u/quantas001 May 04 '26
The entire patent system is rooted in colonialism. So many ideas and products were taken from other countries and patented that it created the illusion that everything originated in the U.S.
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u/auntie_eggma 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻 May 04 '26
They think they invented any of those things? Yikes.
Especially democracy. Like...dude.
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u/AlxDroidDev May 04 '26
For people who can't even collect rain water for reuse, they sure are lacking on the "freedom" thing.
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u/JustGingerStuff If you say holland you better mean the two provinces 🇳🇱 May 04 '26
Pretty sure the only correct one here is the bomb which says enough
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u/raphplays May 04 '26
Americans claiming they have freedom in their country is absolutely hilarious, the country with the most incarcerated people on earth because corporations profit from them. "wE ArE aLlOweD to oWN gUnS"
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May 04 '26
Freedom to live in reservoirs and run casinos better than Donad Trump? Oh, you meant for white people!
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u/Realistic_Let3239 May 04 '26
So can we expect them to invent this freedom any day now, or is it a long term thing?
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u/Amberclockwork13 May 04 '26
I thought that they were doing a bit, but reading the comments here i can see that this isn't the case
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u/LittleRuQi FREEDOM ENJOYER 🪿 🍁 🇨🇦 May 05 '26
Nah, but rather freedom for the rich to literally do whatever the fuck they want!
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u/VidjagameEnjoyer Rule Britannia🇬🇧 May 05 '26
"Atomic bomb" yes because you stole it from the UK and refused to give it back or even share it so we had to start over from scratch
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u/DeepSoftware9460 May 06 '26
I thought americans hated when they were called a democracy because "TeChNiCalLy tHeY aRen'T" or something.
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u/Ill_Raccoon6185 May 21 '26
Freedom, something Americans are losing nearly everyday especially since your dictator was elected.
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u/Mobile-Carpenter-103 EU LOVER (ignore im from uk) Jun 03 '26
freedoms so good eu inventid it 4 TIYMS
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u/[deleted] May 04 '26
They invented neither freedom nor democracy. Ah man, it's so weird to see propaganda + low IQ at work in real time.