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Man, Russia or China on their own can destroy America. China's military is probably larger than the population of America. If China decides to invade us, we are dead. One Chinese soldier per American; think about that.
You're so funny! I almost thought you were serious. 
The Chinese military uses outdated equipment and they can hardly afford to arm all those people let alone train and feed them.
The most efficient, experienced, well-trained and most technologically advanced army in the world vs a mob of ill-trained, poorly armed Chinese? Wake me up when it's over.
And we defeated Russia already, didn't have to fire a shot. They bankrupted themselves trying to keep up with us and are still in shambles.
EDIT: Here a fun fact
China’s military budget is about $120 billion and the United States budget is about $663.8 billion.
Here's another fun fact.
The American Economy is based on a credit system, and other countries buy into the American dollar to make it valuable, with China being one of the top investors in the American Financial Scheme, going to war with China would not be beneficial regardless of the amount of $ American Military budget is. it's all money America doesn't actually own. Remove the stability that china's investment into the American $ provides and the military is already looking at hard times. And then on top of that you're looking at using weapons of mass destruction to destroy a military over a huge expanse of land. Mixed in with the economic and ecological side effects, America would be inevitably defeating itself if war between the two countries of that much power ever actually happened.
Not to mention last I checked China DOES have nuclear weapons and they still work whether detonated with a yoyo or a time machine.
In regards to the OP's subject:
I dislike America, And many Americans I meet are rather annoying and incorrigible. Talking to them is like speaking to a wall, they don't want to listen and everything is something they know or don't want to know. A country where pretty much no one has ever left it's borders is bound to suffer from delusional tendencies, and Having lived there for 13 years, have experienced that first hand.
The Chinese economy is heavily dependent on the US. If the US suddenly stopped trading with China, it would be devastating for their economy.
https://www.uschina.org/statistics/tradetable.html
Neither country would want a nuke war. If that did happen, you'd have to hope our defense systems could take out enough of them to spare as much of the US as possible. With their roughly 240 nukes, it's a distinct possibility. As for our more than 5,000 active nukes, there won't be a China left.
As for your 13 years first hand experience... I think your bigotry and ill attitude might be why you have such problems conversing with Americans. It would also have to depend on which state you were in. Some are very open minded, some are populated with ignorant racists.
As for Americans never having left their borders, most of the people I know have visited other countries. I myself have spent 1-2 months every year for the past 7 years all over China, including inner Mongolia and Tibet.
But as large and diverse as the US is, you can experience quite a lot with without ever needing a passport. You can't say that about many countries.
You see, I avoided slinging names around because It's unnecessary, but I guess you wanted to cross the boundary. If you notice my age, and the fact I spent 13 years there, how old do you think I was when I lived there? Do you really think I'm the same person I was when I was in America? If that's not something you know, then calling me a Bigot, and having an Ill attitude as the cause of my experience with Americans, is not only a very poor assumption, but unnecessary mud-slinging.
I gave my opinion based on my experiences, that's what the OP asked. I may not have been entirely correct but the fact remains is that America is completely in Debt, and many of the facts presented to the US populace is heavily inaccurate and completely unknown. U.S. Wealth is entirely within the grasp of private enterprise, which last I checked didn't hire that many Westerners to do the labor work.
Maybe next time if you refrain from stereotyping and insulting a specific people, you won't come off as a bigot.
As for that affecting your experience, "I think" and "might be why" are often ignored when people's emotions get the better of them. I wasn't stating a fact, I was suggesting a possibility.
How can I know if you're the same person or if you've changed when I didn't even know you existed until today?
Sorry if you're offended by being called something you're not, but that's exactly what you were doing to much of America.
The big difference is I have been a part of American Culture for 13 years (Florida) I understand that it differs state to state, and region to region And I think 13 years is enough time to gauge an understanding of the culture I was subjected to, and make an opinion.
The Education system is ridiculous and poorly funded, and runs by a one size fits all system (England is the same way here, and It's still stupid) It would have cost me 180,000 dollars to get the degree I have, which in England it cost me around 17,000 dollars (excluding living expenses) And then you're not even guaranteed a job, because America is big and bloated. (I work for a Visual Effects company, In Florida I would have been working at a melon stand at a flea market, yeah I'm exaggerating a bit there)
Being black put ridiculous and stupid expectations of my personality, (gang banger, ghetto, Ebonics etc) and for whatever reason this is seen (especially amongst the younger generation) as a cool thing, and I detest that. This stereotype is coming to England as well, and while it's still not really that big of a deal Americanization is happening rather rapidly with each new generation coming into adult hood.
Racism, I was purposely hit by a truck while riding my bike from behind, and upon discovery of my less than satisfactory resistance to being destroyed, they then backed up to attempt to hit me again. Automatically excluded attitude comes along with this, Unless you're a boisterous person (which I absolutely am not) you're generally put on the back burner or thought of as an unfortunate side effect to someone else's company. Racism is everywhere, I know, but I will generally not enjoy it a bit more if someone attempts to kill me.
Brain washed levels of religion. People spouting religious beliefs in favor of specific political interest is not only asinine but a completely ridiculous concept. A massive amount of the American population goes by this logic, trying to find a like minded individual is like searching for a needle in the haystack. And even some of my closest friends are rather judgmental and ill informed on Atheism and quite hateful.
" Freed om" Minor issue really here, but many Americans think they're the only country that is free, or that they invented it. And even if they don't know for sure, it is funny to just say they are and ignore history. (Hey we are red-white-and blue here to oh and france and.. oh so many countries)
Equality and Egalitarian logic is lost on the American public. Movements within sexual, and gender rights are either over the top or completely late to the party. And the amount of misinformation and hatred surrounding these topics only fuels gender and sexual hatred. It may not be very apparent, but to those affected by can see it as plain as day.
I'm sure you're very happy where you are, and maybe you have great friends and family, or maybe you're the same type of person who just believes what he wants to without questioning why, or How things are working out so well for you. And the "refrain from stereotyping and insulting a specific people" You may want to read more carefully I specifically stated "Most american's I've met" as a frame of judgement, nor did I call anyone any kind of names or say the entire American populace was deplorable, the insults came from you first.
When was I talking about any of that? Nobody said we're perfect. We know our faults, we don't need kids like you telling us about them. We live here, we know about all of that. Why not take all your effort into pointing out our flaws and put it into doing something about your own country's issues?
We were talking about what you're now backing away from and denying.
If you want to pretend you never gave a harsh stereotype about Americans, then I'll just leave you in your little dream world because apparently Americans aren't the only ones " like speaking to a wall." Talk about your "delusional tendencies."
Which, if it isn't a band name(delusional tendencies), it should be.
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Having been around the world to some really, really shitty places, America has it pretty damn good. Our melting pot of races and cultures does have its issues (Oh, boy does it). But Europe has it's issues, Asia has it's issues (Hi China!), hell the Aussies have their issues. I honestly feel things are SLOWLY getting better. It's still going to take awhile for the Cold-War era generation of Americans to pass on before I think real equality will set in.
unrelated note: Whoever said something about the Chinese military destroying the American military, you are high.
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As second generation Chinese American, my family overseas generally don't have a kindly view of Americans, whom they see as arrogant, self-assured, the whole 'Ugly American' get up.
And, as an American, there is always a feeling of cultural inferiority to the rest of the world, in that America's culture is either derivative from the other cultures of Europe and Asia, or else, we have eliminated any aboriginal culture, or else commoditise it, just like everything else in America. There is a shame in knowing that we are a consumer culture, that we base our self worth on the ability to purchase items.
Americans like to view ourselves as the new people around, as hard working, straight talking, manly sort of people, and, in films, certainly comedy, action, etc. The blue collar American is usually fighting against this effeminate European, or Rich, Euro-fied American, villain, sometime an object of ridicule, sometime a totally sinister figure. It is evident, however, that we actually borrowed the image of the 'Frank, Manly American' from Britain, who tend to view themselves as earthly, uncultured, but virile people, as opposed to the French effeminacy, who we replace with a generic 'Old world, Blue blood snob'.
As this is so, it seems that we like to pretend that we are sturdy, American, manly individualist (as, hence, probably born the image of Americans are overly concern with hyper-masculinity), who don't care what the rest of the world think, but we are always mindful about our own feeling of being inferior to the rest of the world culturally, because our country and our civilisation is too 'new', and so, always sensitive to how they think about us.
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If you want to pretend you never gave a harsh stereotype about Americans, then I'll just leave you in your little dream world because apparently Americans aren't the only ones " like speaking to a wall." Talk about your "delusional tendencies."
Which, if it isn't a band name(delusional tendencies), it should be.
Okay, I wanted to write a long post, working my way through your discussion/verbal fight, and then finally conclude that while he was stereotyping, he was not being any more of a bigot than you. He didn't try to hide the fact that he stereotyped, he actually made it clear. He is answering the OP's question and he even goes out of his way to explain to you why he feels the way he does, and yet you don't see it.
He really is speaking to a wall. Calm down dude and be less defensive. You don't have to attack him personally to get your point across. Just pointing out that he is stereotyping like crazy would be enough to completely negate the value of his stereotyping, without you needing to resort to name-calling.
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I'm Australian, and I can tell you the majority of us think America is the best place in the world.
However, we also believe that it's extremely dangerous and full of lunatics.
ummmm yes to the full of lunatics (the violent ones are more on the east coast I've noticed...a lot of crazies though) But it's probably no more dangerous here than anywhere else. The world is a dangerous place.
Well I have no doubt that most countries won't differ in danger.
But if you look at the major difference between America and Australia, it's that one legalises guns and the other does not. It's also illegal to carry a knife on you in Australia, while I believe in America it is allowed.
So based on that, I'd think Australia is much safer than America.
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Man, Russia or China on their own can destroy America. China's military is probably larger than the population of America. If China decides to invade us, we are dead. One Chinese soldier per American; think about that.
You're so funny! I almost thought you were serious.
The Chinese military uses outdated equipment and they can hardly afford to arm all those people let alone train and feed them.
The most efficient, experienced, well-trained and most technologically advanced army in the world vs a mob of ill-trained, poorly armed Chinese? Wake me up when it's over.
And we defeated Russia already, didn't have to fire a shot. They bankrupted themselves trying to keep up with us and are still in shambles.
EDIT: Here a fun fact
China’s military budget is about $120 billion and the United States budget is about $663.8 billion.
Here's another fun fact.
The American Economy is based on a credit system, and other countries buy into the American dollar to make it valuable, with China being one of the top investors in the American Financial Scheme, going to war with China would not be beneficial regardless of the amount of $ American Military budget is. it's all money America doesn't actually own. Remove the stability that china's investment into the American $ provides and the military is already looking at hard times. And then on top of that you're looking at using weapons of mass destruction to destroy a military over a huge expanse of land. Mixed in with the economic and ecological side effects, America would be inevitably defeating itself if war between the two countries of that much power ever actually happened.
Not to mention last I checked China DOES have nuclear weapons and they still work whether detonated with a yoyo or a time machine.
In regards to the OP's subject:
I dislike America, And many Americans I meet are rather annoying and incorrigible. Talking to them is like speaking to a wall, they don't want to listen and everything is something they know or don't want to know. A country where pretty much no one has ever left it's borders is bound to suffer from delusional tendencies, and Having lived there for 13 years, have experienced that first hand.
The Chinese economy is heavily dependent on the US. If the US suddenly stopped trading with China, it would be devastating for their economy.
https://www.uschina.org/statistics/tradetable.html
Neither country would want a nuke war. If that did happen, you'd have to hope our defense systems could take out enough of them to spare as much of the US as possible. With their roughly 240 nukes, it's a distinct possibility. As for our more than 5,000 active nukes, there won't be a China left.
As for your 13 years first hand experience... I think your bigotry and ill attitude might be why you have such problems conversing with Americans. It would also have to depend on which state you were in. Some are very open minded, some are populated with ignorant racists.
As for Americans never having left their borders, most of the people I know have visited other countries. I myself have spent 1-2 months every year for the past 7 years all over China, including inner Mongolia and Tibet.
But as large and diverse as the US is, you can experience quite a lot with without ever needing a passport. You can't say that about many countries.
You see, I avoided slinging names around because It's unnecessary, but I guess you wanted to cross the boundary. If you notice my age, and the fact I spent 13 years there, how old do you think I was when I lived there? Do you really think I'm the same person I was when I was in America? If that's not something you know, then calling me a Bigot, and having an Ill attitude as the cause of my experience with Americans, is not only a very poor assumption, but unnecessary mud-slinging.
I gave my opinion based on my experiences, that's what the OP asked. I may not have been entirely correct but the fact remains is that America is completely in Debt, and many of the facts presented to the US populace is heavily inaccurate and completely unknown. U.S. Wealth is entirely within the grasp of private enterprise, which last I checked didn't hire that many Westerners to do the labor work.
Maybe next time if you refrain from stereotyping and insulting a specific people, you won't come off as a bigot.
As for that affecting your experience, "I think" and "might be why" are often ignored when people's emotions get the better of them. I wasn't stating a fact, I was suggesting a possibility.
How can I know if you're the same person or if you've changed when I didn't even know you existed until today?
Sorry if you're offended by being called something you're not, but that's exactly what you were doing to much of America.
The big difference is I have been a part of American Culture for 13 years (Florida) I understand that it differs state to state, and region to region And I think 13 years is enough time to gauge an understanding of the culture I was subjected to, and make an opinion.
The Education system is ridiculous and poorly funded, and runs by a one size fits all system (England is the same way here, and It's still stupid) It would have cost me 180,000 dollars to get the degree I have, which in England it cost me around 17,000 dollars (excluding living expenses) And then you're not even guaranteed a job, because America is big and bloated. (I work for a Visual Effects company, In Florida I would have been working at a melon stand at a flea market, yeah I'm exaggerating a bit there)
Being black put ridiculous and stupid expectations of my personality, (gang banger, ghetto, Ebonics etc) and for whatever reason this is seen (especially amongst the younger generation) as a cool thing, and I detest that. This stereotype is coming to England as well, and while it's still not really that big of a deal Americanization is happening rather rapidly with each new generation coming into adult hood.
Racism, I was purposely hit by a truck while riding my bike from behind, and upon discovery of my less than satisfactory resistance to being destroyed, they then backed up to attempt to hit me again. Automatically excluded attitude comes along with this, Unless you're a boisterous person (which I absolutely am not) you're generally put on the back burner or thought of as an unfortunate side effect to someone else's company. Racism is everywhere, I know, but I will generally not enjoy it a bit more if someone attempts to kill me.
Brain washed levels of religion. People spouting religious beliefs in favor of specific political interest is not only asinine but a completely ridiculous concept. A massive amount of the American population goes by this logic, trying to find a like minded individual is like searching for a needle in the haystack. And even some of my closest friends are rather judgmental and ill informed on Atheism and quite hateful.
" Freed om" Minor issue really here, but many Americans think they're the only country that is free, or that they invented it. And even if they don't know for sure, it is funny to just say they are and ignore history. (Hey we are red-white-and blue here to oh and france and.. oh so many countries)
Equality and Egalitarian logic is lost on the American public. Movements within sexual, and gender rights are either over the top or completely late to the party. And the amount of misinformation and hatred surrounding these topics only fuels gender and sexual hatred. It may not be very apparent, but to those affected by can see it as plain as day.
I'm sure you're very happy where you are, and maybe you have great friends and family, or maybe you're the same type of person who just believes what he wants to without questioning why, or How things are working out so well for you. And the "refrain from stereotyping and insulting a specific people" You may want to read more carefully I specifically stated "Most american's I've met" as a frame of judgement, nor did I call anyone any kind of names or say the entire American populace was deplorable, the insults came from you first.
When was I talking about any of that? Nobody said we're perfect. We know our faults, we don't need kids like you telling us about them. We live here, we know about all of that. Why not take all your effort into pointing out our flaws and put it into doing something about your own country's issues?
We were talking about what you're now backing away from and denying.
If you want to pretend you never gave a harsh stereotype about Americans, then I'll just leave you in your little dream world because apparently Americans aren't the only ones " like speaking to a wall." Talk about your "delusional tendencies."
Which, if it isn't a band name(delusional tendencies), it should be.
Dude, give it up. seriously If your goal is defending the honour of your country and countrymen, you're not helping.
Your entire thesis is that a person who responded to a request for an opinion has resorted to name calling, and that they should shut up because they aren't American.
You might as well have just called him a "Fag" or started speaking in '133t'. Either way, resorting to personal attacks or telling someone to 'just shut up' instead of addressing their points, well... In a war of words, it just proves that you showed up with your guns unloaded.
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Some do, some don't. and even the ones that like either the nation or it's people are never going to be happy with you about everything all the time. I think that's an unreasonable expectation, don't you?
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BearSol wrote:
If you want to pretend you never gave a harsh stereotype about Americans, then I'll just leave you in your little dream world because apparently Americans aren't the only ones " like speaking to a wall." Talk about your "delusional tendencies."
Which, if it isn't a band name(delusional tendencies), it should be.
Okay, I wanted to write a long post, working my way through your discussion/verbal fight, and then finally conclude that while he was stereotyping, he was not being any more of a bigot than you. He didn't try to hide the fact that he stereotyped, he actually made it clear. He is answering the OP's question and he even goes out of his way to explain to you why he feels the way he does, and yet you don't see it.
He really is speaking to a wall. Calm down dude and be less defensive. You don't have to attack him personally to get your point across. Just pointing out that he is stereotyping like crazy would be enough to completely negate the value of his stereotyping, without you needing to resort to name-calling.
I never denied anything. I was trying to have a have a point-counter-point discussion, while he obviously kept changing the subject. Perhaps you should reconsider who it was that was like talking to a wall. Perhaps you should calm down and stop trying to make things worse.
PS You do a great job of writing plenty while saying little.
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Man, Russia or China on their own can destroy America. China's military is probably larger than the population of America. If China decides to invade us, we are dead. One Chinese soldier per American; think about that.
You're so funny! I almost thought you were serious.
The Chinese military uses outdated equipment and they can hardly afford to arm all those people let alone train and feed them.
The most efficient, experienced, well-trained and most technologically advanced army in the world vs a mob of ill-trained, poorly armed Chinese? Wake me up when it's over.
And we defeated Russia already, didn't have to fire a shot. They bankrupted themselves trying to keep up with us and are still in shambles.
EDIT: Here a fun fact
China’s military budget is about $120 billion and the United States budget is about $663.8 billion.
Here's another fun fact.
The American Economy is based on a credit system, and other countries buy into the American dollar to make it valuable, with China being one of the top investors in the American Financial Scheme, going to war with China would not be beneficial regardless of the amount of $ American Military budget is. it's all money America doesn't actually own. Remove the stability that china's investment into the American $ provides and the military is already looking at hard times. And then on top of that you're looking at using weapons of mass destruction to destroy a military over a huge expanse of land. Mixed in with the economic and ecological side effects, America would be inevitably defeating itself if war between the two countries of that much power ever actually happened.
Not to mention last I checked China DOES have nuclear weapons and they still work whether detonated with a yoyo or a time machine.
In regards to the OP's subject:
I dislike America, And many Americans I meet are rather annoying and incorrigible. Talking to them is like speaking to a wall, they don't want to listen and everything is something they know or don't want to know. A country where pretty much no one has ever left it's borders is bound to suffer from delusional tendencies, and Having lived there for 13 years, have experienced that first hand.
The Chinese economy is heavily dependent on the US. If the US suddenly stopped trading with China, it would be devastating for their economy.
https://www.uschina.org/statistics/tradetable.html
Neither country would want a nuke war. If that did happen, you'd have to hope our defense systems could take out enough of them to spare as much of the US as possible. With their roughly 240 nukes, it's a distinct possibility. As for our more than 5,000 active nukes, there won't be a China left.
As for your 13 years first hand experience... I think your bigotry and ill attitude might be why you have such problems conversing with Americans. It would also have to depend on which state you were in. Some are very open minded, some are populated with ignorant racists.
As for Americans never having left their borders, most of the people I know have visited other countries. I myself have spent 1-2 months every year for the past 7 years all over China, including inner Mongolia and Tibet.
But as large and diverse as the US is, you can experience quite a lot with without ever needing a passport. You can't say that about many countries.
You see, I avoided slinging names around because It's unnecessary, but I guess you wanted to cross the boundary. If you notice my age, and the fact I spent 13 years there, how old do you think I was when I lived there? Do you really think I'm the same person I was when I was in America? If that's not something you know, then calling me a Bigot, and having an Ill attitude as the cause of my experience with Americans, is not only a very poor assumption, but unnecessary mud-slinging.
I gave my opinion based on my experiences, that's what the OP asked. I may not have been entirely correct but the fact remains is that America is completely in Debt, and many of the facts presented to the US populace is heavily inaccurate and completely unknown. U.S. Wealth is entirely within the grasp of private enterprise, which last I checked didn't hire that many Westerners to do the labor work.
Maybe next time if you refrain from stereotyping and insulting a specific people, you won't come off as a bigot.
As for that affecting your experience, "I think" and "might be why" are often ignored when people's emotions get the better of them. I wasn't stating a fact, I was suggesting a possibility.
How can I know if you're the same person or if you've changed when I didn't even know you existed until today?
Sorry if you're offended by being called something you're not, but that's exactly what you were doing to much of America.
The big difference is I have been a part of American Culture for 13 years (Florida) I understand that it differs state to state, and region to region And I think 13 years is enough time to gauge an understanding of the culture I was subjected to, and make an opinion.
The Education system is ridiculous and poorly funded, and runs by a one size fits all system (England is the same way here, and It's still stupid) It would have cost me 180,000 dollars to get the degree I have, which in England it cost me around 17,000 dollars (excluding living expenses) And then you're not even guaranteed a job, because America is big and bloated. (I work for a Visual Effects company, In Florida I would have been working at a melon stand at a flea market, yeah I'm exaggerating a bit there)
Being black put ridiculous and stupid expectations of my personality, (gang banger, ghetto, Ebonics etc) and for whatever reason this is seen (especially amongst the younger generation) as a cool thing, and I detest that. This stereotype is coming to England as well, and while it's still not really that big of a deal Americanization is happening rather rapidly with each new generation coming into adult hood.
Racism, I was purposely hit by a truck while riding my bike from behind, and upon discovery of my less than satisfactory resistance to being destroyed, they then backed up to attempt to hit me again. Automatically excluded attitude comes along with this, Unless you're a boisterous person (which I absolutely am not) you're generally put on the back burner or thought of as an unfortunate side effect to someone else's company. Racism is everywhere, I know, but I will generally not enjoy it a bit more if someone attempts to kill me.
Brain washed levels of religion. People spouting religious beliefs in favor of specific political interest is not only asinine but a completely ridiculous concept. A massive amount of the American population goes by this logic, trying to find a like minded individual is like searching for a needle in the haystack. And even some of my closest friends are rather judgmental and ill informed on Atheism and quite hateful.
" Freed om" Minor issue really here, but many Americans think they're the only country that is free, or that they invented it. And even if they don't know for sure, it is funny to just say they are and ignore history. (Hey we are red-white-and blue here to oh and france and.. oh so many countries)
Equality and Egalitarian logic is lost on the American public. Movements within sexual, and gender rights are either over the top or completely late to the party. And the amount of misinformation and hatred surrounding these topics only fuels gender and sexual hatred. It may not be very apparent, but to those affected by can see it as plain as day.
I'm sure you're very happy where you are, and maybe you have great friends and family, or maybe you're the same type of person who just believes what he wants to without questioning why, or How things are working out so well for you. And the "refrain from stereotyping and insulting a specific people" You may want to read more carefully I specifically stated "Most american's I've met" as a frame of judgement, nor did I call anyone any kind of names or say the entire American populace was deplorable, the insults came from you first.
When was I talking about any of that? Nobody said we're perfect. We know our faults, we don't need kids like you telling us about them. We live here, we know about all of that. Why not take all your effort into pointing out our flaws and put it into doing something about your own country's issues?
We were talking about what you're now backing away from and denying.
If you want to pretend you never gave a harsh stereotype about Americans, then I'll just leave you in your little dream world because apparently Americans aren't the only ones " like speaking to a wall." Talk about your "delusional tendencies."
Which, if it isn't a band name(delusional tendencies), it should be.
Dude, give it up. seriously If your goal is defending the honour of your country and countrymen, you're not helping.
Your entire thesis is that a person who responded to a request for an opinion has resorted to name calling, and that they should shut up because they aren't American.
You might as well have just called him a "Fag" or started speaking in '133t'. Either way, resorting to personal attacks or telling someone to 'just shut up' instead of addressing their points, well... In a war of words, it just proves that you showed up with your guns unloaded.
Not defending our country at all. I was simply pointing out to him things he seemed oblivious about. Perhaps you missed the whole point of what I was saying, much like our friend.
And not addressing the points? Scroll up and take another look, that's all I was doing. I wasn't the one who kept trying to change the subject by bringing up facts that had nothing to do with what I or he was previously talking about in our little "tiff". But thanks for trying to smooth things down, instead of charging in and making stuff up, re-kindling a fire that was dying out.
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I can see that there is a really brainwashed person in here. That's too bad.
Patriotism has got to be one of the dumbest things ever created by the human mind.
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I can see that there is a really brainwashed person in here. That's too bad.
Patriotism has got to be one of the dumbest things ever created by the human mind.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus wrote
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori:
mors et fugacem persequitur uirum
nec parcit inbellis iuuentae
poplitibus timidoue tergo.
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What do other countries think about americans in general. 
