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..I never laughed so hard. You have and odd (and funny) way to describe things…perfect post.
And you’re right (or at least, I agree with you).

America-slamming is so last year.

….and this is why I live in hong kong and not back in the states. i have more freedom here that I ever did in the US. Similar to a lot of the freedoms Roosh mentioned about Brazil (except the wall pissin’ part) and i’m paying less on taxes. the US is way too overregulated and government needs a massive overhaul at all levels. and there’s still too much Puritanical Christianity enmeshed into the US psyche for my tastes. Jesus freaks and Bible humpers have set the US back a good 10 years on our scientific progress. Firmly planting their Bible on Top of the American Flag like it was a table cloth.

I still vote both local and federal, but I’m disheartened with the choices and what I see when I am back in the US visiting. It seems people are more self centered than self reliant nowadays. “Me Time” is now the common statement of the day back in the US.

I totally dig the less rules outside the US, but there are some good sides to the restrictions there – when I lived in DC, I liked the 3am closing time, because if you were out with a girl, by 2:30 it’s either let’s go to my place, or you go to bed and get some sleep. Where I am now, no closing time, so if you take a party girl out, you can club-hop until 6am and by that time even if she’s had enough partying and wants to get down to business, I’m already falling asleep.

I lived in Puerto Rico and I found this to be true even there, and PR is a US territory.

Part of the reason for this is tangled up with very complicated socioeconomic reasons. The authorities know exactly what they’re doing, and this is a conscious policy that is deeply rooted in the history of Latin Ameirca.

There is so much poverty in these places that these societies are only a few short steps away from social rebellion. I think the relative leniency of the police and authorities is a longstanding, historic tactic used by governments to allow some steam to bubble off the “pressure cooker” and act as a release valve to let the poor play out their frustrations, while forestalling the more organized revolt that these societies — particularly the rich — fear.

I think you’ll see the same thing even in today’s Venezuela under Chavez, where street crime is stil very high, and definitely in Brazil, where recently there was a huge revolt by gang bangers in a Sao Paulo maximum security prison. The imprisoned gang leaders were actually calling the shots in an open street rebellion against police.

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Pussyfied culture? Yes, to a large extent.

We should look up to Brazil? Eeh, only if we’re allowed to be VERY selective in which parts we pick and choose. Brazil has a lot to learn from America too.

I don’t know how you can say paying your way out of an arrest is a good thing. Are you a Paris Hilton fan too?

Although prob much easier to get monetarily ahead if you have a dream and some balls in the states to save some of that loot.

Problem with the US is that it used to be there were all these rules in school that you had to abide by. Rules that were not life and death things. Kids looked at adults and saw free people. Kids wished for adulthood so they could be free of the rules. Except now the same stupid shit from school all the little tiny things apply to adults now with worse consequences. There is no longer an escape from frivolous bullshit.

By saying “Brazil and these other countries” you are making a huge generalization. But I guess it was to be expected, given the tone in other parts of your comment. Actually, I think that Brazil is one of the countries in Latin America that locals want to leave the least.

And to compare what it means to live in Brazil with what you see in City of God… that’s just too much… have you ever been there????? Even the poor people have an optimist predisposition, an amazingly cheerful spirit, and absolutely love their country, despite its many problems.

You are projecting an image of Latin immigrants to the US to the whole of the region, and that is just not the way things are. Of course there are reasons for which people leave their countries, but I think even most important are the reasons that make them miss them so much once live in American society.

But guess what? The fraction of the population that is a criminality-prone minority is HUGE compared with the other European countries that are mentioned. You want their level of freedom? Then prepared to deal with hooligan Hispanics and blacks all over the place.

And Brazil? Ha, whatever said it right. It’s great for the high status american, but watch City of God and tell me that you want to live there.

There are reasons why people want to LEAVE Brazil and all these other countries, and come to America.

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I travel a lot to Frankfurt, Germany. I was amazed the first time I stepped down into their excellent subway system and saw huge crowds of soccer fans heading to the stadium for a match, most of them carrying open bottles or cups of beer. It’s totally legal to carry open containers of alcohol in Germany. You don’t have a bunch of deranged fundie city councilmen wringing their hands at how immoral it would be, and that is refreshing.

And though I’m not a big customer, prostitution is also legal (and regulated) all over Germany. Forget about Holland, most big German cities also have their red-light districts, and unlike here in Vegas, German escort services are actually authorized to provide (ahem…) the full range of services.

Whenever I travel abroad, it is so refreshing. The stink of government-enforced “morality” emphatically does not hang in the air.

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My second comment was regarding the rest of your post, bashing Brazil.

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I heard stories about people almost being arrested for eating at the metro in DC… that is pretty ridiculous…

When writing this i knew people would say “so roosh your idea of freedom or a good culture is peeing on the streets?” but those examples were the most obvious i could easily show. The overall vibe is if you cross the line just a little, there wont be a cop on your ass writing you a ticket.

A couple months before I left DC, i remember officers writing tickets in jaywalking stings in georgetown. That doesnt happen here, and it shouldnt.

Pot is illegal here, but there is not this huge fear of getting caught and having to deal with the legal system.

As luck would have it, I’m moving to Texas for a new job. I know it’s still America, but they have much less rules, regulations, and restrictions down there that it might as well be a whole different country! I’m moving to Houston in a week or so.

Oh, and I urinated on a tree right across the street from the washington monument at 230 am… nyah nyah nyah :)

roosh, well said. freedom does seem to be on the retreat in the US and it’s all part and parcel of the feminization of first world cultures. women value security and stability, men value freedom and opportunity. and the voting patterns reflect that. a big problem is that a lot of men have morphed into women, so there are fewer freedoms every year.

but a balance has to be struck. too much freedom and lawlessness, like in southern italy, leads to the mafia and corrupt police. justice suffers when chaos reigns supreme. and unbridled freedom can cause a tragedy of the commons and stuff like this:

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=937

but you’ve correctly identified that the problem today in advanced countries is not too much freedom, but too little, and i include taxation and regulation and PC thought police in this observation.

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I agree with monoechomieda (though I think you’re missing an R in that name). While I agree that the US can be a bit restrictive in some ways, and that deep down Americans must be really depressed to drink as much as we do, there are reasons laws are in place. You’re seeing the nice side of Rio, not the dirty, corrupt side.