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Junkyard Wars: The Next Generation
A reader writes: "The makers of Junkyard Wars are starting up a new series called Ultimate Machine Combat. 30 teams and 30 days each to build "ultimate fighting vehicle" to battle in a "secret arena". This is attracting gear heads of all genres, including my local Jeep Club."
For God's sake, do not kill us! We surrender!
quoting from rw: Before dawn in Afghanistan last Thursday, US Green Berets launched a surprise attack on their unarmed allies, storming a disarmament depot with indiscriminate fire, then rounding up survivors only to tie their hands behind their backs with plastic bands and execute them. This according to that America-hating, propaganda-strewn leftist rag, The New York Times. God bless America.
(yes, I'm very much abusing my 50 karma account and spamming this message all over the place with a +1 bonus. People need to read it, ok? Read the fucking nytimes link. Thanks for your time.)
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The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason. --Ben Franklin
Yeah, I'm sure that they were unarmed and allies.
Right.
This has to be the first war were our news media gets their news from the enemies, and then reports it as fact.
And also, the American hating NY Times is spewing hatred by blasting the military with bullshit claims, which is pretty consistent since the leftists hate the military.
I read the story, but don't believe a word of it, mainly becuase I know the military, and they just don't do this kinda thing.
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
haha I KNOW i got modded down for not ever being modded down. stupid bitches, mod this one down too you stupid fucks. as much as i add interesting commentary and have never trolled and the 1 time i call a moderation into question i get modded as a troll, haha laughable (that's okay, one day i'll have mod points too, that is the point isn't it to use you mod points to exact revenge?)
I would like some milk from the milkman's wife's tits
Of course everyone hates the US. Everyone hated the British Empire, everyone hated the Roman empire.
As for the uneducated, we still need people to pump gas and flip burgers, so oh well.
A lot of people outside of the US also have misconceptions about the people in the US. The majority of Ameicans (well, at least the ones that complete college) don't like our media or our government very much, either. And the military is just the tool of the current government, so it is basically neutral. The military in the US can't say "No". The generals can resign, but that's about it. Yes, the US has done, is still doing, and most likely will do stupid stuff abroad.
But for the somewhat educated who actually pay attention to what the government is doing rather than relying on TV sound bites, we don't like a lot of what is going on in general. There is a growing number of conservatives that are trying to roll back what the gov can do. We're trying to reverse the past 30-some years of leftist/socialist (probably means something else in your country, but here it basically means more/bigger government, more government control in your everyday life) policies so that the "if it feels good, do it" and "it's not my fault, I have a bruised pysche because I squirrel bit me once" attitudes get reversed to ideas of self-responsibility, self-support, and really trying to get along (rather than Al Sharpton's reverse racism talk).
As I said above, the military is just a tool of the gov. The people I work with are good people who want to serve the country and do good things.
Whew! Hope I clarified a bit in how a somewhat average American views eveything. Maybe you won't hate us as much, or be able to split your view between citizens and the gov.
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
Sorry, I used the term "reverse racism" because it is generally meant to be racism against caucasian folks, whereas plain "racism" is against non-caucasian folks. Stupid, I know, but I (dumbly, I admit) got used to those terms by hearing them enough.
Hell, as long as even 1% is trying to make it better, I'll be optomistic (sp?).
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.