Righty10294 cannot legitimately defend his claim

While reading this, keep in mind that I posed this debate directly to him to allow him to defend himself but he declined to debate me. Our young friend righty10294 posted the following comment on a debate entitled "Best Countries in the World": "Lets see, wuthout US we would have no demorcracy, no fridge, revolver, etc etc. In other words, without the US the whole earth would be led by some tyrant, with technoalgical advances the same as the 1700's. We are the best country, and best supperpower." The full context can be viewed here: http://www.debate.org... In this debate I intend to show that this statement is baseless and full of factual errors. I will examine his statement point by point. Much of the information can be found within a few minutes of searching on wikipedia. 1"Wuthout US we would have no demorcracy..." (common sense, as well as wikipedia, democracy/suffrage) Spelling and grammar errors aside, this is still an incorrect statement. To refute this, all I have to do is show examples of Democracy that existed before the United States (ignoring the fact that the United States is best described as a republic, not a direct democracy). See: Ancient Greece, Maha Janapadas, Ancient Rome, the Iroquois Confederacy, English Parliament, Scandinavian Things, etc. In the area of women's/universal suffrage, even this is not an American invention. See: Corsican Republic (1755), Paris Commune (1871), Tavolara, Franceville, Finland, New Zealand, etc. Women were allowed to vote in New Zealand in 1893, and Australia in 1902. It wasn't until 1920 that the 19th Amendment was passed in the United States. Hell, the 15th Amendment was only passed in 1870! 2"no fridge" (wikipedia, refrigerator) Here I simply have to show that a refrigerator existed that was not invented in the United States, and is not an improvement on an American invention. Artificial Refrigeration was invented by William Cullen at the University of Glasgow in 1748, years before the American Revolution. Compression refrigeration was invented by an Englishman, Michael Faraday. James Harrison, of Australia, introduced vapor-compression refrigeration to the brewing and meat packing industries. The absorption refrigerator was invented by Swedes. Marcel Audiffren, a FRENCHMAN championed the idea of a refrigerating machine for cooling and preserving foods at home. His patents were purchased by the American Audiffren Refrigerating Machine Company. As for other, American advancements in refrigeration (or any invention, for that matter), there is no proof, nor way to prove, that these things would not have eventually existed without the United States. 3"revolver" (wikipedia, revolver, James Puckle) Snapchance revolvers were first made in the late 17th century. The earliest specimen is dated to 1680 and attributed to John Dafte of London. Elisha Collier patented a flintlock revolver in Britain in 1818, with significant numbers of them being produced in London by 1822. Not to mention "The Puckle Gun", first demonstrated in 1718 by James Puckle. So the first sentence would appear to be refuted. On to the second. "without the US the whole earth would be led by some tyrant" Please show the proof, or even evidence of this ridiculous theory. Perhaps you haven't yet studied imperialism? We've been friends of the French Empire under Napoleon, and more importantly, the British Empire all through the age of Imperialism. But still, no country has come closer to world domination (through political, economic, and military means) than the United States itself. "with technoalgical advances the same as the 1700's" This is the most laughable claim yet. I will not waste time on it, since the only thing that has to be shown is that one technological advance has been made since 1799 in another country besides the United States. I've already shown this, actually, in the section about revolvers. "We are the best country, and best supperpower." Without an agreed upon set of standards, this is impossible to determine. Even with a set system to decide it, every single point you made was incorrect, and so they do not support this argument. I'm not picking on you but I hate to see a younger person just blindly following rhetoric without looking at facts. Making claims like this is conducive to furthering the image of the stubborn, stupid American. It leads to fervent nationalism and war. It's a short step (and one that's already been made) to go from "We're the best" to "Let's spread our goodness around the world through violence".