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Old 12-01-2020, 01:36 PM   #8821 (permalink)
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No, I think sanctions are abuse. Telling other countries who they can and can't trade with is American Obnoxiousness, and it rarely works outside of the Western world (Iran, Cuba, N. Korea, but did work with S. Africa)
Surely America is a very arrogant nation with many double standards etc. But sanctions are in my opinion a legitimate option of politics. But there are of course dumb and destructive sanctions which have no ethical background. Sanctions must have a good justification.

What Trump did concerning Iran or concerning North Stream 2 is in my opinion very dumb. Trump argues that Germany becomes to dependent from Russian gas. Isn‘t it crazy?

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Those actions substantiate the bad image of the United States in the world. The alleged nation of "freedom".

PS: Let me say as a European to you that hybris is the biggest problem of your country. I mean hybris is the problem of all countries more or less. But the more "powerful" a country is the more it has a problem with hybris.

And it is a complete absurdity that the alleged most christian nation in the world maintains the biggest military and the biggest arsenal of nuclear weapons.

You know this Genesis song from the eighties...

What about making this song your national anthem?

Just an idea.
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Old 12-01-2020, 01:56 PM   #8822 (permalink)
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Old 12-01-2020, 03:22 PM   #8823 (permalink)
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PS: Let me say as a European to you that hybris is the biggest problem of your country. I mean hybris is the problem of all countries more or less. But the more "powerful" a country is the more it has a problem with hybris.
Where the **** did you find that jank ass spelling of hubris? The Canterbury Tales?
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Nah dude you're the one spelling it wrong cause you're a white cis het male who is ruining the planet with his factory farmed bananas
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Old 12-01-2020, 04:10 PM   #8825 (permalink)
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Where the **** did you find that jank ass spelling of hubris? The Canterbury Tales?
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Nah dude you're the one spelling it wrong cause you're a white cis het male who is ruining the planet with his factory farmed bananas
you forgot American
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Hitchens was so so overrated

you could say the same to someone living in the UK when the Tories push for cuts to the NHS
Yes, Hitchens was overrated. And Nirvana was cringe. Call me when you've got the balls to take a position publically you'll be hated for.

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I agree. That's why I disagree with liberals who criticize Trump's policy towards North Korea and seem to favor the traditional approach we've seen over the last few decades. Biden seems to be of that mindset.

I honestly think for all the talk of the dangers of supposedly legitimizing NK, Trump's basic tactic of trying to be friendly is more promising than what the establishment has been pursuing over the last few decades.
IIRC Clinton's position on N. Korea was to be friendly with them. A position 180'd by Bush who wanted to be the "tough on crime guy." And South Korea favors a Sunshine policy. It's only favorable to be anti-peace talks when a Republican follows a Democrat.
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Yeah, I've seen. And while I disagree with them, at least you've got a stance.

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Yes, Hitchens was overrated. And Nirvana was cringe. Call me when you've got the balls to take a position publically you'll be hated for.
Stop demonizing the right wing working class who the liberal city dwellers see as redneck trash, abandon gun control that separates them from all of the left and reinforces conspiracy theories that foments militia culture, target the pharmeutical companies that cause the opiod epidemic that destroy working class belief in a better life, and encourage local level mutual aid that makes use of the kinds of communities fostered by militia culture.
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well "overrated" implies I'm taking a stance contrary to public opinion
On a message board no one comes to and where said opinion is very much supported.

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Stop demonizing the right wing working class who the liberal city dwellers see as redneck trash
The people who do this moved to the wealthy suburbs.
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