The picture above was created on Quickmeme this Monday after the Mars landing stole London's Olympic thunder. The picture's ensuing popularity spawned several other versions of the image macro. Now it's the "One-Up America" meme, in which the good ol' U.S. of A. can't let anybody else outdo us at anything or take the limelight for too long. Because America, that's why. Like it or leave it, pinko scum! USA! USA! USA!
Um, excuse me. Got carried away for a second. BY HOW AWESOME WE ARE. USA! USA! USA!
Our 20 favorite One-Up America pictures are collected here. There's some salty language in some of these. If you have any complaints about that, we can't hear them over the sound of our freedom.
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I like that the pot-related image appears at #4 of 20.
The appropriate song to listen to while viewing this slideshow is Les Claypool’s “One Better”
“…after the Mars landing stole London’s Olympic thunder.”
I couldn’t give a shit about landing on Mars!
lol. love it.
UK and US. Both with serious problems with the economy and high unemployment rates.
So the UK makes huge efforts to get and then host the Olympics, spending £10 Bil. ( a lot of which is recovered in ticket sales, merchandise and consessions etc) in an attempt to massively increase Employment, expendature in the UK economy and also to reconnect with an international community from which they have become increasingly alienated.
…..so the ‘Muicans show off that USA ‘outdid’ them because i(n similar economic troubles) it spent $3 Bil to land a remote control car on Mars, which they did because…. ‘f**k you that’s why’…?
yep…. I think given enough thought that Meme perfectly sums up the USA
(although you may want to replace the Eagle with the obnoxious rich kid at elementary school that everyone else hated because he always tried to put others down to ‘be the best’)
@Hewk I’m sorry, I couldn’t hear your disapproval over the sound of my freedom.
“Both fronts”. Huh.
Okay, well, fuck Joe Stalin, I guess.
@ Hewk, jesus christ you’re a tool
A lot of those are wrong, half-truths or nothing to be proud of.
This is hilarious in an extremely depressing way. The fact that you brag about freedom, being an American, is laughable in the extreme. Do you have any idea that America is a fascist state? Do you realise income tax is voluntary and you don’t have to pay it? Yet everyone is America loses all their earnings because the government is so corrupt? This is probably the least unfair of all the things you don’t know about your terrible country. Well done, well done on being so free.
I am convinced that if you traced Morpheus’s IP you’d find that he is Kim Jong-un.
Morpheus is jealous, and jealousy starts wars… wars that America wins
I think that Hewk, Arsini and Morpheus are the only ones that aren’t spruiking bullshit comments here. You yanks are so up yourselves.
I wish more people would pay attention to Morpheus’ comment about the income tax not actually being a legally ratified tax. When the bill was introduced to create the income tax, it did not actually receive enough votes to be ratified. As he said, it is legal to not pay your income tax, as there is no law that says you have to. This is just a small hint at how corrupt the U.S. government is, that is would enforce such a non-law as this.
Went to vietnam with a whole fucking army and got beat by kids in tunnels!
Cuz Hiroshima and Nagasaki were sooo proportionately equal to Pearl Harbor. I’m so sick of Americans. “Wah, waahhh, 9/11 was the worst thing EVERR.” Sure. Cuz you really have any right to complain after you reduced women and children who had never lifter a finger against you to ash. You deserve much worse than some fu**ing landmarks blown up. Ugh. Disgusting.
Dani, In WWII America had few choices in how to take care of the Japanese. 2 of them were to drop those bombs or invade the country. Because of the Japanese belief in honor and giving their life to protect for emperor, the American army would have had to kill all Japanese person on that island. Those bombs saved millions of lives. I’m not saying it’s a good thing, but it was certainly better then the alternative. Maybe you should read a history book before you start judging people. I’m sure whatever country you live in has made some decisions in the past that caused the death of civilians.
*lifted
I love how the British always fail to mention the horrible things they have done when it comes to talking crap about the US. Nobody’s perfect, no country is either. The only difference is, us “yanks” whooped the shit out of the British.
lol there is in fact a law that says you have to pay income tax. [docs.law.gwu.edu]
And your argument that we are Fascist because we voluntarily pay it is a terrible one. If people voluntarily pay taxes to the government that is one: as far from Fascist as possible and two: voluntarily paying money so your government can run is a wonderful sounding idea. That means you care enough about your country that you are willing to help it.
People will always complain about America. Complain when we invade Iraq and Afganistan (Iraq was questionable to stay after we took out Saddam. Oil interests were a part of it). Yet everyone else complains that we haven’t invaded Syria to help. Why must America be the only country that has to intervene? Probably because we are the only country skilled enough to do it.
Japan being bombed is always questionable. Japan would have fought to the last person so the first bomb saved countless lives. The second bomb might not have been needed. I think it was dropped too soon after the first.
Every country has done things that are regrettable. No country is perfect. So quit complaining about America because no matter how much you hate we will still come save your ass when you need it. Winners of WW1 and WW2 you are welcome.
Haters gon’ hate. We are ‘Murica. Not a hero but a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight.
It is sad that so many Americans really enjoy declaring how they saved the Europeans’ asses and how they went and “won” two World Wars. Europeans are no doubt very grateful they arrived to fight against a common enemy but let’s see if Americans are justified to gloat? Decide for yourselves.
—– WW1 started on 28 July 1914
Where was the USA? The USA pursued a policy of non-intervention, avoiding conflict. American civilians had to die when the Lusitania was sunk on 7 May 1915 and 7 more American ships had to be sunk by German subs to persuade the USA to finally join. Unfortunately it was a bit late, declaring war 6 April 1917 and sending an army in 1918 when it was nearly all over.
—– WW2 started 1 September 1939
Where was the USA? The USA stayed neutral … it took the Japanese to sink their fleet to finally declare war on Japan on 7 December 1941.
By the time they arrived in 1943 to “save European asses” the RAF had beaten the Luftwaffe in the West and on the Eastern front, the Russians had reduced elite German armies to a fraction of their 1939 force.
these memes make me depressed to be an american, and even more so do these comments, you are all a bunch of twats! supporting wars you know nothing about, get your heads out of your asses and start educating yourselves, im glad to fuck i got out of that fascist country, full of a bunch of dim-witted people who don’t know shit because america is as full of as much propaganda as north Korea!
For those stating that there is no law that mandates US citizens to pay income tax… hogwash:
[docs.law.gwu.edu]
Also from: [www.msnbc.msn.com]
It is true that it took several false starts before the legal foundation for taxing personal income was strong enough to make it a permanent source of revenue for the U.S. government. The first U.S. income tax, enacted in 1862 to pay for the Civil War, was repealed 10 years later.
In 1894, Congress tried to bring back income taxes, but a year later the Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional in the landmark “Pollack” case. (A central issue in that case was how these taxes would be “apportioned” to the various states.) By 1913, Congress gave it one more shot, and the states ratified the Sixteenth Amendment, which says:
“The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.”
Some modern tax skeptics claim this amendment was not properly ratified. Alas, so far, none of them have been able to convince a federal court of the validity of their claim.