USA is not different from any other country. Given enough power, it will become a bully. It's as simple as that.
The USA are particularly harmful because of the theory of Manifest Destiny, that states the Americans have some divine mandate to be the baby sitters of the world. Claiming to belong to some God-chosen people is extremely dangerous, as can be seen in other places in the world, like, ahem... your best-ever friends, that suffer from the same disease.
When the Haiti earthquake struck, many countries sent doctors and medical equipment (including 3rd World country Cuba), the USA sent 20.000 soldiers loaded with weapons, and militarily invaded the country. This wasn't 100 years ago.
Imagine you're not USAian. Would you trust a country like this to give you any "help"? I wouldn't, and you neither.
I'm Spain's closest neighbour. What do the peoples of Spain have to thank you Americans? Being all hugs and kisses with the dictator Franco that, among many other atrocities, asked his friend Hitler to bomb the rebel city of Guernica? And executed hundreds of thousands of his own people because they didn't agree with him? This is the kind of scum the USA likes to partner with.
My computer and cell phone were both made in China. I use the GSM cell network, invented in Europe. And you didn't give me any freedom, dude. The USA were all friends with the Portuguese dictatorship. Portugal was accepted in NATO while the secret police was torturing and killing opposition members . Some of my family members were being sent to Africa, together with thousands of young men, to rape and slaughter people in the colonies that simply wanted to be independent. If it wasn't for the left-wing military overthrowing the dictatorship, we'd all still be waiting for the American Liberators (haha). Get out of your mama's basement, maybe you'll learn something.
of course, we shouldn't INVADE haiti. we should simply approach the haitians and the un and say "maybe two three decades of outside stewardship by a world power with lots of resources might do haiti some good?"
Yeah, because that worked so well for all the other countries in Lating America that now they all absolutely love the USA.
And you live in a fantasy world where the external policy of the USA is done for the good of ANYONE except for the American big-ass corporations and their friends.
Some of the examples you gave were supported at some time by the USA, while they were doing those "absolute horrors". Also, you forgot a very, very long list of tyrants and mass murderers that were/are all hugs and kisses with the USA while spreading the same "absolute horror". Some of them were even put in power by the USA directly!
Oh, those fucking nanny-state latte-drinking faggie euro-trash tree-hugging abortionist lesbian pot-smoking liberals! That be a strike against liberty!
God gave me the right of freezing to death without having that nanny-state surplus heat fed into my heating system. If I want heat, I'll buy my own oil and heat myself, thank you!
First, you accept their surplus heat, then you go to the hospital for free, when you least expect it you're all dressed in red, singing "The International".
You shouldn't drink RO water. Some mineralisation is needed or else the water will corrode the minerals in your body, causing osteoporosis and other issues.
His opponent is on record for a variety of...odd positions: eliminating the US Department of Education, pulling out of the United Nations, getting rid of Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare; wants to protect our purity of essence and precious bodily fluids by opposing fluoridation of water, similarly wants to get rid of alcohol, thinks global warming is a hoax and is for drilling for oil here, there, everywhere. Is also the nutter who thinks overthrowing the duly elected government of the United States via a violent revolution is a good idea
So, that's what he means with Nevada being Saudi Arabia!
I saw a documentary the other day about the Mexican drug cartels and the huge problems they cause. Cities like Ciudad Juarez have the same bodycount as a war zone.
The doc said most of this is because of marijuana money. I was amazed, but if you think of it, it's simple: The sheer numbers of people smoking marijuana are very high compared to other drugs, making it a huge and highly profitable market. Also, marijuana is not hard to manufacture, comparing with say, cocaine, which allows for great margins.
Most of the people that smoke a few joints are just normal people that will never touch any other drug. We're talking about many many millions of otherwise law abiding, tax-paying people. Those who use the other drugs you mentioned are junkies, and that's just a small segment of the population. And the junkies smoke joints, too:-)
Legalise marijuana. It's better if people get high on natural products they can grow in their own homes. And it would bankrupt most of the drug cartels overnight. And marijuana is pretty harmless, even compared with legal drugs like tobacco and alcohol.
In this case it's, "made more money letting a few cameras wander around his family's life than in decades of laborious rock and roll."
It's not like the decades of Rock n' Roll didn't give him money. He just can't remember where he left it. He probably can't remember those decades, either.
It has to do with the fact that the USA, being a large, complex, and diverse place, cannot be so simply characterized.
Large, complex and diverse??? Compared to Europe????? I want some of what you're smoking.
> I mean, you teach stupid things like abstinence...
No I don't.
"You" is in the collective sense. Abstinence is taught in many schools in the US instead of proper sex education. If you, individually, give your children the knowledge they don't learn at school, the better for you. But the vast majority of parents can't or won't.
Agreed. I don't think either topic in general reaches the level of 'taboo'. That said, claiming that 'creating life' is the taboo subject ignores both that the content we're talking about is casual sex that doesn't result in reproduction, and that the intent is to limit childrens access to the content (since it's undesirable physiologically and financially for 14 year olds to be pregnant).
Please explain to me why the USA, being such a puritan country, ranks
a lot worse in teenage pregnancy that European countries, that have a very liberal vision regarding sex education of teens. I mean, you teach stupid things like abstinence (that is considered ridiculous by most normal Europeans) instead of teaching contraception, then your results are so bad, and you still think your way is better? How about some rational behaviour, for a change?
Come on, if you don't want your 14 year old daughter to get pregnant, teach her some responsibility, it's the best way. Hiding to her that sex exists, feels good and people do it will only result in the opposite effect.
It's mainly an American problem. In Hollywood movies you're lucky if you can glance at a nipple, but in European movies full nudity is common.
That thing with Janet Jackson, for instance, was completely ridiculous. Here, you can see tits occasionally during prime time, and it's common in commercials for body products.
I'd rather have my kids seeing people naked on TV than people cutting each other to pieces.
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USA is not different from any other country. Given enough power, it will become a bully. It's as simple as that.
The USA are particularly harmful because of the theory of Manifest Destiny, that states the Americans have some divine mandate to be the baby sitters of the world. Claiming to belong to some God-chosen people is extremely dangerous, as can be seen in other places in the world, like, ahem... your best-ever friends, that suffer from the same disease.
When the Haiti earthquake struck, many countries sent doctors and medical equipment (including 3rd World country Cuba), the USA sent 20.000 soldiers loaded with weapons, and militarily invaded the country. This wasn't 100 years ago.
Imagine you're not USAian. Would you trust a country like this to give you any "help"? I wouldn't, and you neither.
I'm Spain's closest neighbour. What do the peoples of Spain have to thank you Americans? Being all hugs and kisses with the dictator Franco that, among many other atrocities, asked his friend Hitler to bomb the rebel city of Guernica? And executed hundreds of thousands of his own people because they didn't agree with him? This is the kind of scum the USA likes to partner with.
My computer and cell phone were both made in China. I use the GSM cell network, invented in Europe. And you didn't give me any freedom, dude. The USA were all friends with the Portuguese dictatorship. Portugal was accepted in NATO while the secret police was torturing and killing opposition members . Some of my family members were being sent to Africa, together with thousands of young men, to rape and slaughter people in the colonies that simply wanted to be independent. If it wasn't for the left-wing military overthrowing the dictatorship, we'd all still be waiting for the American Liberators (haha). Get out of your mama's basement, maybe you'll learn something.
of course, we shouldn't INVADE haiti. we should simply approach the haitians and the un and say "maybe two three decades of outside stewardship by a world power with lots of resources might do haiti some good?"
Yeah, because that worked so well for all the other countries in Lating America that now they all absolutely love the USA.
And you live in a fantasy world where the external policy of the USA is done for the good of ANYONE except for the American big-ass corporations and their friends.
Some of the examples you gave were supported at some time by the USA, while they were doing those "absolute horrors". Also, you forgot a very, very long list of tyrants and mass murderers that were/are all hugs and kisses with the USA while spreading the same "absolute horror". Some of them were even put in power by the USA directly!
Hipocrisy of gigantic proportions.
Who said anything about oil spills? I guess it's MY point you're not.
They show footage of oil wells all the time on TV, what's your point?
The nutcase website you sent me has nothing about crematoriums in Sweden. Have you taken your pills today?
Yeah, right. I can also pull a lot of made-up shit out of my ass and post it anonymously. Good luck.
Your analytic skills amaze me. You should run for the Nobel Prize.
Oh, those fucking nanny-state latte-drinking faggie euro-trash tree-hugging abortionist lesbian pot-smoking liberals! That be a strike against liberty!
God gave me the right of freezing to death without having that nanny-state surplus heat fed into my heating system. If I want heat, I'll buy my own oil and heat myself, thank you!
First, you accept their surplus heat, then you go to the hospital for free, when you least expect it you're all dressed in red, singing "The International".
Then we'll all have Polish names.
You shouldn't drink RO water. Some mineralisation is needed or else the water will corrode the minerals in your body, causing osteoporosis and other issues.
How do you tell when a politician is lying?
Well, when his lips are moving, of course!
His opponent is on record for a variety of...odd positions: eliminating the US Department of Education, pulling out of the United Nations, getting rid of Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare; wants to protect our purity of essence and precious bodily fluids by opposing fluoridation of water, similarly wants to get rid of alcohol, thinks global warming is a hoax and is for drilling for oil here, there, everywhere. Is also the nutter who thinks overthrowing the duly elected government of the United States via a violent revolution is a good idea
So, that's what he means with Nevada being Saudi Arabia!
I saw a documentary the other day about the Mexican drug cartels and the huge problems they cause. Cities like Ciudad Juarez have the same bodycount as a war zone.
The doc said most of this is because of marijuana money. I was amazed, but if you think of it, it's simple: The sheer numbers of people smoking marijuana are very high compared to other drugs, making it a huge and highly profitable market. Also, marijuana is not hard to manufacture, comparing with say, cocaine, which allows for great margins.
Most of the people that smoke a few joints are just normal people that will never touch any other drug. We're talking about many many millions of otherwise law abiding, tax-paying people. Those who use the other drugs you mentioned are junkies, and that's just a small segment of the population. And the junkies smoke joints, too :-)
Legalise marijuana. It's better if people get high on natural products they can grow in their own homes. And it would bankrupt most of the drug cartels overnight. And marijuana is pretty harmless, even compared with legal drugs like tobacco and alcohol.
In this case it's, "made more money letting a few cameras wander around his family's life than in decades of laborious rock and roll."
It's not like the decades of Rock n' Roll didn't give him money. He just can't remember where he left it. He probably can't remember those decades, either.
Please bring back the BLINK tag.
Why use the BLINK tag when we got Flash instead?
It's being done already. Nigerian scammers, trojan creators, governments and telcos have been in that bussiness for ages.
Bah. amateurs. There's no match for banks.
It has to do with the fact that the USA, being a large, complex, and diverse place, cannot be so simply characterized.
Large, complex and diverse??? Compared to Europe????? I want some of what you're smoking.
> I mean, you teach stupid things like abstinence...
No I don't.
"You" is in the collective sense. Abstinence is taught in many schools in the US instead of proper sex education. If you, individually, give your children the knowledge they don't learn at school, the better for you. But the vast majority of parents can't or won't.
"I'm saving myself for marriage, fuck me in the ass instead"...
Wait, that sounds fun. Thank you, Moral Brigade.
Agreed. I don't think either topic in general reaches the level of 'taboo'. That said, claiming that 'creating life' is the taboo subject ignores both that the content we're talking about is casual sex that doesn't result in reproduction, and that the intent is to limit childrens access to the content (since it's undesirable physiologically and financially for 14 year olds to be pregnant).
Please explain to me why the USA, being such a puritan country, ranks a lot worse in teenage pregnancy that European countries, that have a very liberal vision regarding sex education of teens. I mean, you teach stupid things like abstinence (that is considered ridiculous by most normal Europeans) instead of teaching contraception, then your results are so bad, and you still think your way is better? How about some rational behaviour, for a change?
Come on, if you don't want your 14 year old daughter to get pregnant, teach her some responsibility, it's the best way. Hiding to her that sex exists, feels good and people do it will only result in the opposite effect.
It's mainly an American problem. In Hollywood movies you're lucky if you can glance at a nipple, but in European movies full nudity is common.
That thing with Janet Jackson, for instance, was completely ridiculous. Here, you can see tits occasionally during prime time, and it's common in commercials for body products.
I'd rather have my kids seeing people naked on TV than people cutting each other to pieces.