Steiner
Dyslexics Untie!
"Sorry, but I think America is just a joke...I love the fact that if I'm smart enough I can break the laws..."
How can you have even a remotely intelligent conversation with somebody who celebrates that? People like that give Americans a bad name, not people who have a little nationalism running through their veins. People w/pride in this country can't stand what you say or how pretentious your opinions are, but if it came down to it they'd be the first to fight for your right to say it.
I deleted that big post the other day because, well, what's the point? What's there to stress over? Somebody who would write what Brent wrote is either 1.) not old enough to vote 2.) doesn't have his shit enough together to even find the closest voting booth if he was 18+, or 3.) would probably vote for the green party "let's legalize pot" candidate who, even at 10pm on a Saturday night, could never get more than 5% of the popular vote anyways.
On top of that, whether you like Bush or not, lately it's "en vogue" for people to say "Fuck Bush!". Usually it's followed by something equally intelligent like, "No more war in Iraq!". This administration has made some major mistakes in Iraq...that's not even debatable...but being there is not one of them. For those that wanna tuck tale and head home, look back ten years to Somalia. 18 Army Rangers go down and Clinton pulls out all 10,000+ troops after the media repeatedly airs footage of dead US servicemen being dragged through the street of Magadishu. American viewers became depressed, not empowered. To this day Al Queda uses that example as a battle cry...kill one and they all go home. They remind each other that the soul-less US politicians will always act in mindless accordance w/public opinion polls. That's the justification behind the bombing of the USS Cole and the twin bombings of the US Embassies is Africa.
For some reason in America people see Rodney King, a convicted repeat felon and womanizer, getting beat and they get hella pissed, break windows, burn down buildings, attack innocent people, and think every cop's a power hungry fuck. But people see 18 and 19 year old US infantrymen getting shot at, coming home with one leg, or even coming home in boxes and they become divisive and distrustfull of our military. It's the easy way to go. People are always looking for the easy way out. It's the lowest common denominator. If you are like that you have plenty of company.
And to panzerOx...that guy from Oslo...I'm glad you disagree w/me. Pissing off a European during a political discussion is like a litmus test. If you've done a good job of it then you know you must have really said something politically and socially sound. You of all people should know better though. Of all nations in this world that could have benefited from a timely dose of nationalism I'd have to put Norway at the top of the list. But your contrymen like Vidkun Quisling (much like the modern left wing "down w/the borders" radicals in the US right now) chose to take it in the ass and appease the enemy rather than fight it because it was the easy thing to do. And now you tell me "nationalism" is the enemy. It looks like they don't teach much history in Norwegian schools.
How can you have even a remotely intelligent conversation with somebody who celebrates that? People like that give Americans a bad name, not people who have a little nationalism running through their veins. People w/pride in this country can't stand what you say or how pretentious your opinions are, but if it came down to it they'd be the first to fight for your right to say it.
I deleted that big post the other day because, well, what's the point? What's there to stress over? Somebody who would write what Brent wrote is either 1.) not old enough to vote 2.) doesn't have his shit enough together to even find the closest voting booth if he was 18+, or 3.) would probably vote for the green party "let's legalize pot" candidate who, even at 10pm on a Saturday night, could never get more than 5% of the popular vote anyways.
On top of that, whether you like Bush or not, lately it's "en vogue" for people to say "Fuck Bush!". Usually it's followed by something equally intelligent like, "No more war in Iraq!". This administration has made some major mistakes in Iraq...that's not even debatable...but being there is not one of them. For those that wanna tuck tale and head home, look back ten years to Somalia. 18 Army Rangers go down and Clinton pulls out all 10,000+ troops after the media repeatedly airs footage of dead US servicemen being dragged through the street of Magadishu. American viewers became depressed, not empowered. To this day Al Queda uses that example as a battle cry...kill one and they all go home. They remind each other that the soul-less US politicians will always act in mindless accordance w/public opinion polls. That's the justification behind the bombing of the USS Cole and the twin bombings of the US Embassies is Africa.
For some reason in America people see Rodney King, a convicted repeat felon and womanizer, getting beat and they get hella pissed, break windows, burn down buildings, attack innocent people, and think every cop's a power hungry fuck. But people see 18 and 19 year old US infantrymen getting shot at, coming home with one leg, or even coming home in boxes and they become divisive and distrustfull of our military. It's the easy way to go. People are always looking for the easy way out. It's the lowest common denominator. If you are like that you have plenty of company.
And to panzerOx...that guy from Oslo...I'm glad you disagree w/me. Pissing off a European during a political discussion is like a litmus test. If you've done a good job of it then you know you must have really said something politically and socially sound. You of all people should know better though. Of all nations in this world that could have benefited from a timely dose of nationalism I'd have to put Norway at the top of the list. But your contrymen like Vidkun Quisling (much like the modern left wing "down w/the borders" radicals in the US right now) chose to take it in the ass and appease the enemy rather than fight it because it was the easy thing to do. And now you tell me "nationalism" is the enemy. It looks like they don't teach much history in Norwegian schools.
