User blog comment:Scrawland Scribblescratch/England vs America/@comment-4621372-20140116000154

America has a larger population, a larger military, more political freedom, cultural dominance over most of the world (Although interestingly, Bollywood movies are actually more widespread than Hollywood), a stronger economy, and etc.

Unfortunately, they cannot be considered a superpower for three reasons.

1) The sports. What the actual eff? Which idiot invented American Football? Ice Hockey is literally the most violent game on Earth- you stop the game after someone dies; baseball is a ripoff of Cricket, except for fat people; Basketball is... ok, I guess, actually, no fault there.

2) Politics. I mean, actually? The "Left Wing" party in US- the Democrats- would be considered centre-right anywhere else on the planet.

3) Kim Kardashian. Snooki. What is wrong with American celebrities?

Britain has a richer history, have better sports, invented rock, was superpower longer (China and India will both catch up to America economically by 2030, so that's when I'm ending the American superpowerdom), has cultural dominance over most of the world, and just generally aren't viewed as massive assholes by 99.5% of the globe.

Unfortunately, they cannot win this for three reasons.

1) Side of the road. Scraw is right there. I mean WTF?

2) If even 1% of what happened in Yes, Minister was actually real, then Britain has the worst governmental (not political) system on the planet. Except India.

3) Imperialism and stuff. Wow. Just wow. They aren't assholes right now, but 100 years ago, DAMN....