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hedgehog50 Flag Croydon 25 Aug 17 2.49pm

Originally posted by jamiemartin721

I think its still more about the kind of politics the people who 'revere their tradition and heritage of the South and the Confederacy' than the actual people the statues are of.

The irony of course is that the South would have done away with Slavery fairly soon, as industrialisation was rendering slavery an expensive proposition anyhow - Slavery isn't really conducive to a industrialised economy. The North, being more industrialised largely done away with the concept of slavery not on moral grounds, but pragmatic ones.

Well, according to you, on another thread, the USA is some totalitarian hell-hole where innocent muslims are imprisoned and tortured and nazi storm troopers roam the streets with the government's blessing. So it seems it didn't matter who won - all Americans are fascists aren't they?

 


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wordup Flag 25 Aug 17 3.24pm

Originally posted by hedgehog50

Well, according to you, on another thread, the USA is some totalitarian hell-hole where innocent muslims are imprisoned and tortured and nazi storm troopers roam the streets with the government's blessing. So it seems it didn't matter who won - all Americans are fascists aren't they?


Let's contort other peoples beliefs to make ourselves more comfortable with our own world view. That'll be fun. Right? Right??

 

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wordup Flag 25 Aug 17 3.41pm

I look forward to the era of Covfefe Statues in decades to come.

 

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jamiemartin721 Flag Reading 25 Aug 17 4.03pm

Originally posted by hedgehog50

Well, according to you, on another thread, the USA is some totalitarian hell-hole where innocent muslims are imprisoned and tortured and nazi storm troopers roam the streets with the government's blessing. So it seems it didn't matter who won - all Americans are fascists aren't they?

There seems to be a very big difference between what you think I think about the USA and what I think about the USA and Americans.

For the record, if it makes it easier, I'm with Ken Kesey in regards to 'Sometimes a Great Nation'.

 


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Originally posted by jamiemartin721

There seems to be a very big difference between what you think I think about the USA and what I think about the USA and Americans.

For the record, if it makes it easier, I'm with Ken Kesey in regards to 'Sometimes a Great Nation'.


America is a wonderful place in many respects and yet shamefully inadequate in others.

Where paranoia and witch hunts are concerned, McCarthyism is an easy reference but any nation at odds with another suffers from the same fears. Britain had it in two world wars.

 

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Ray in Houston Flag Houston 25 Aug 17 5.10pm Send a Private Message to Ray in Houston Add Ray in Houston as a friend

Originally posted by jamiemartin721

For the record, if it makes it easier, I'm with Ken Kesey in regards to 'Sometimes a Great Nation'.


As Winston Churchill noted: America will always do the right thing...after its exhausted every other possibility.

 


We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

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hedgehog50 Flag Croydon 25 Aug 17 5.16pm

Originally posted by wordup

Let's contort other peoples beliefs to make ourselves more comfortable with our own world view. That'll be fun. Right? Right??

Like what you are doing you mean?

 


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hedgehog50 Flag Croydon 25 Aug 17 5.17pm

Originally posted by jamiemartin721

There seems to be a very big difference between what you think I think about the USA and what I think about the USA and Americans.

For the record, if it makes it easier, I'm with Ken Kesey in regards to 'Sometimes a Great Nation'.

The left in general hate America.

 


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wordup Flag 25 Aug 17 5.56pm

Originally posted by hedgehog50

Like what you are doing you mean?

No not really, sadly I've not conducted such a Liberace like dramatic make over of someones views.

 

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wordup Flag 25 Aug 17 5.58pm

Originally posted by hedgehog50

The left in general hate America.

More OTT dramatic comments. The jazz hands of HOL.

The left hate America and the right love it. Yes, so easy, so straight forward. Let's go with that.

 

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hedgehog50 Flag Croydon 25 Aug 17 6.06pm

Originally posted by wordup

More OTT dramatic comments. The jazz hands of HOL.

The left hate America and the right love it. Yes, so easy, so straight forward. Let's go with that.

The left has a long history of attacking most American policy while lending their tacit support to America's enemies - Vietnam for example. Pre-WWII the left openly supported Stalin's Russia.

 


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wordup Flag 25 Aug 17 6.31pm

Originally posted by hedgehog50

The left has a long history of attacking most American policy while lending their tacit support to America's enemies - Vietnam for example. Pre-WWII the left openly supported Stalin's Russia.

Whereas instead it's now Trump getting on his knees for a Russian government that bumps off its own people and attempts to interfere with US democratic process - and he desperately tries to remove sanctions applied for doing so.

It's possible to have a certain political bent, but not be blind to such behaviour. No-one wins when they become overly affiliated with left or right because they just create an opportunity for, and get into bed with, others keen to ramp up disharmony.

 

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