Disclaimer: These are not my personal opinions. I only post compositions and/or satirical caricatures of what I find online. Please do not conflate me with the representations I make.

I'm no fan of that sad excuse for a country that's about as united as a herd of cats. The only thing in/on which it seems to be United is its bigotry, hatred and determination to oppress and subjugate anyone who isn't a cisgendered, heterosexual, and Christian right-wing white man. (Being a cisgendered heterosexual white man, I am far from thrilled about being mistakenly lumped in with that crowd because I happen to share a number of traits due to the circumstances of my birth. I've taken steps to distance myself from them and change my mindset and attitudes. It's largely been an exercise in futility, since so many still judge based on appearances, which we all know can be deceiving.)

I'm not the only one who has no love lost for that so-called "great nation". The British and French offer some particularly fine sentiments on it, but Americans themselves are also quite happy to denigrate it. So much for patriotism, eh? It truly is the last refuge of a scoundrel, as Dr. Samuel Johnson observed. Let's start things up with some words from Trent Reznor:

Now, for some choice extracts taken from the "Americans" section of Jonathan Green's Dictionary of Insulting Quotations (1996-8; ISBN 0-304-34926-7):

"America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation."
 — Georges Clemenceau (28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929), French Prime Minister (1906 to 1909 and 1917 to 1920)

"Their [...] demeanour is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a people so entirely destitute of humour, vivacity or the capacity of enjoyment."
 — Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870); British Novelist

"No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute."
 — Paul Gallico (1897 – 1976); US Novelist and Sport Writer

"The organisation of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by a mass media notoriously phony."
 — Paul Goodman (1911 – 1972); US Writer and Social Critic; The Community of Scholars (1962)

"I am willing to love all mankind, except an American." — Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784); British Critic, Poet, Playwright and Lexicographer

"The American has no language. He has dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth." — Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936); British author and poet

"The 100% American is 99% idiot." — George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950); Irish Playwright, Polemicist and Social Critic

"America [is] just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."
— Hunter S. Thompson (1937 - 2005); US Journalist and Author; Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail (1972)

That's not even all of the quotations that can be read in that particular section, but you get the idea, right? Not even Americans like themselves, which is probably why they're so "Rah, rah, we're the greatest"; it's all an obviously flimsy attempt to bolster a horrendously low national self-esteem.

Finally, there is The Snark's rant about Juneteenth (the real salted and spiced meat of this piece) on read.cash. It's both long (about eight minutes, according to read.cash) and salient, so I won't quote it in full. I cannot do it justice by quoting it in part, either. However, here's a sentiment expressed by that author and a few choice extracts:

"I'd beseech the FSM to f**k the USA, but the country does a good enough job of that all by itself."

"Your whole education system is garbage, not just your History. Your countrymen (collectively) can’t spell, have poor reading comprehension, struggle to identify their own country on a map (never mind anyone else’s), are still stuck in the 1960 as far as race relations go, have no grasp of basic Physics or Biology, lobby against teaching evolution in schools (as opposed to Creationism), ad infinitum, ad tedium …"

"Honestly, if my country of origin was one that once housed the thousands of minds that successfully worked out and executed the challenge of going from near-Earth orbit to manually landing a craft on the moon and getting it back to Earth without incident in less than a decade (using technology less powerful/accurate than the average pocket calculator, nog al); a feat so statistically improbable as to be practically impossible … to this sordid state of affairs, I would either retreat to the backwoods and whittle while seriously contemplating my ancestors’ poor life choices or I would diligently apply myself to getting a proper education through online courses. I certainly wouldn’t run my mouth about how great my nation is when it’s clearly appallingly and embarrassingly backward. Only an idiotic, ignorant, arrogant motherfucker does that. This is far beyond something rotten in the state of Denmark. So yeah, I’m very much anti-American and I’m definitely not ashamed of it."

"Now, I realise, of course, that generalisations are generally wrong and not every American is an illiterate and poorly-educated backwoods hillbilly, but Fook Mi, the smart ones are needles in the haystack (and it’s a very big haystack)."

Let's end this off with a German perspective, courtesy of Rammstein:

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