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white_wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 09:54 PM Original message |
America is just another country with another flag. |
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FiveGoodMen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 09:56 PM Response to Original message |
1. We get worse the more we say we're better. |
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givemebackmycountry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 10:15 PM Response to Original message |
2. Well we can blow every inch of the planet into oblivion, so there is that. |
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immoderate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 10:29 PM Response to Original message |
3. We have become exceptionally mediocre. |
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Angry Dragon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 10:34 PM Response to Original message |
4. A country is judged by the way it treats the people at the bottom |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 10:37 PM Response to Original message |
5. Opinions do vary. nt |
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PETRUS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
6. What's wrong with uncritical patriotism? |
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A HERETIC I AM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-11 01:55 AM Response to Reply #6 |
40. "Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious." |
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Fool Count (878 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-11 07:12 PM Response to Reply #40 |
48. "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel" |
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Throd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 10:52 PM Response to Original message |
7. The irony police have just maced themselves in the face and retreated in the stupidity of your post. |
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Logical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 10:54 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. You think we are better than any other country? Really? Wake up! |
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Throd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 10:58 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Where did I say better? |
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white_wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 10:56 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. The U.S. is not special. |
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Throd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 11:00 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. Yes it is. |
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Logical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 11:11 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. LOL......better than Canada? The UK? Australia? You don't get it..... |
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Throd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 11:13 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Once again, "special" doesn't equal "better". |
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white_wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 11:18 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Okay, what makes America special, in your opinion? |
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Throd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 11:22 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. That at this time in history the USA is the international power. |
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white_wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 11:25 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. That doesn't make the U.S. special, certainly not in the way Romney meant it. |
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Throd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 11:26 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Fuck Romney sideways. |
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white_wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 11:28 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. It's not defeatism to accept reality. |
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Throd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 11:55 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. Be careful what you wish for |
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DocMac (429 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-11 07:08 PM Response to Reply #27 |
47. I'm pretty sure we have enough nukes |
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Withywindle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-11 12:23 AM Response to Reply #23 |
33. The idea of being an empire in decline doesn't sound that bad to me. |
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themadstork (797 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-11 12:02 AM Response to Reply #19 |
29. How does that make us special? |
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Throd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-11 12:08 AM Response to Reply #29 |
31. You don't really understand why the USA is special on November 22, 2011? |
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themadstork (797 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-11 12:24 AM Response to Reply #31 |
34. Meh. Your use of the word special |
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white_wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-11 12:05 AM Response to Reply #19 |
30. So based on your premise, was the Soviet Union special? |
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Throd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-11 12:08 AM Response to Reply #30 |
32. Absolutely. |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-11 02:37 PM Response to Reply #14 |
44. Reagan was a big fan of American Exceptionalism, too. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 10:57 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. So was Rome. Did I mention Spain? Oh yes England.... |
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Throd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 10:58 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. And they were all special. That is why you cite them. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 11:16 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. No, I cite them because that was an imperial phase |
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Throd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 11:25 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. And that imperial phase made them special |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 11:32 PM Response to Reply #20 |
25. Well the us is an empire in decline |
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Throd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 11:51 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Empires are what they are, good and bad |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-11 12:30 AM Response to Reply #26 |
35. And they rise and fall |
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Lionessa (842 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 10:57 PM Response to Original message |
11. Unfortunately, I've heard Dems say the exact same thing, including Obama. |
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Downwinder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 11:29 PM Response to Original message |
24. I really have never understood people covering up by wrapping |
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themadstork (797 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-22-11 11:58 PM Response to Original message |
28. I like how House put it a few weeks ago - |
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Zax2me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-11 12:44 AM Response to Original message |
36. we are not special or better than any other country in the world? |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-11 01:37 AM Response to Reply #36 |
37. Actually we are 36 in health outcomes |
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RZM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-11 02:17 PM Response to Reply #37 |
42. And where did you get this 38th in Press Freedom ranking? |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-11 02:30 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. Oh my ... |
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RZM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-11 03:09 PM Response to Reply #43 |
46. They aren't my stats. They were complied by RWB and Freedom House |
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apocalypsehow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-11 01:47 AM Response to Original message |
38. 1972 called. It wants it's "how we lost to Richard Nixon" talking point back. n/t. |
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themadstork (797 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-11 01:50 AM Response to Reply #38 |
39. The truth called, |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-11 11:15 AM Response to Original message |
41. It's just the way it is with people who talk about how wonderful their marriage is-- |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-11 02:45 PM Response to Original message |
45. "Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains.... |
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