or burning it to be more accurate.
armyowalgreens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jul-11-09 06:44 AM
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The United States of America Sucks.
It's about ****ing time that someone admitted this. I am so sick and tired of all these nationalists hailing to the stars and stripes like this is divine territory.
It isn't. We are not the greatest. We are not the brightest. We are no better than any other 1st world nation. And in many ways we are worse.
We are behind on just about everything. We are behind on education. We are behind on healthcare. We are behind on civil liberties. Our economic system is jerry-rigged like Mcgyver made it out of paper clips and bubblelicious.
All we have left is our military. Is that the best we can do? Is that what makes America great? We export more weapons and death than any other country on the planet. Lets tack that award up on the wall next to the signed photo of Ronald Reagan.
What good is the constitution if no one is willing to honor it? We torture, imprison and kill innocent men and women. We abandon those in poverty. We deny each other civil liberties. We profit on death. And where are the massive protests? Where is the resistance? I am ashamed of my fellow countrymen. But most of all, I am ashamed of myself.
This country is going down like a flaming zeppelin. "Oh the humanity" is right.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6039690#6039694armyowalgreens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jul-11-09 06:58 AM
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4. I'm glad we are losing our "super power" image.
We got that image because we were bullies. Sure, our economic might played a roll, but the fact that we could basically level almost any nation on the planet played the biggest role.
Divine Discontent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jul-11-09 07:14 AM
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10. you are right... they're loud and obnoxious - the ranting fools on July 4th on the street corner at
the center of town are corrupted with hatred - they're certainly 95% racists who hate an AA man being successful and intelligent, more so than their favorite dumbass Dumbya.
I yelled at them, "where were all of you when B*sh ran the deficit up 9 TRILLION dollars????"
They were just as vocal about the spending under Bush, now tell me where your calls for impeachment for war crime calls are now that Obama is at the helm.
armyowalgreens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jul-11-09 07:20 AM
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12. We let the Rwandan genocide happen.
Edited on Sat Jul-11-09 07:27 AM by armyowalgreens
The UN stood by and watched as 1,000,000 people were slaughtered in the streets. And the US did basically nothing. We were even to cowardly to admit that it was a genocide.
However, if you really want to blame a nation for the 94 genocide, you can point the finger at France.
Chickenhawk. You wanted the US to attack a nation that never did anything to us and you werent about to enlist to do so.
armyowalgreens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jul-11-09 07:46 AM
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16. I'm not looking for a popularity contest. There will always be criticism.
And I am not a big fan of the idea that the US is the world police.
But if you honestly think it's okay for the US to sit on their hands as one of the largest mass murders in history took place, simply because other countries were not acting, you are insane.
For 8 years you dummies cried cuz the world didn't look favorably on the US. And all the celebrating on jan 20th this year how the world will love us again with Big O in the white crib at 1600 Penn Ave.
Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jul-11-09 10:28 AM
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31. The fact that you can say this without being taken out and shot proves you wrong.
Yes, we have many, many flaws that fall far short of ideals, but suck? Nah.
The eating utensil primitive makes a valid point.
Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jul-11-09 10:42 AM
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32. Europe is hardly some great bastion of tolerance and liberty.
China has enumerable problems ranging from severe economic inequity to discrimination and political repression. Latin America has more problems than I can count. There are no great beacons.
Wait I thought Europe was a utopian society that we should be striving to emulate.
Kurska (686 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jul-11-09 11:12 AM
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36. You sound like the typical angsty teenager.
America isn't perfect, but man is there not only worse places to live, but america is really despite all it's flaw right up there among the best.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jul-11-09 11:14 AM
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37. Oh bullshit.
Edited on Sat Jul-11-09 11:14 AM by redqueen
Just because you'd rather focus on the bad than the good does not negate the existence of the good.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jul-11-09 11:18 AM
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39. Prezactly.
:thumbsup:
Those 3 posts qualify as the best of DU.
Taitertots (677 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jul-11-09 11:27 AM
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42. Hey, you know where the door is...
Don't let it hit your ass on the way out.
Why are you taking part in what you believe to be so wrong? It must be that you benefit from being in America more than you whine about how much it sucks.
Stinking freeper troll.
mnhtnbb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jul-11-09 11:32 AM
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44. Reality check has never been high on the US list. Updated at 12:10 AM
Edited on Sat Jul-11-09 11:33 AM by mnhtnbb
We have been a thieving nation from the beginning. White Europeans came over and stole the land
from the native Americans. Then they imported Africans for slave labor. They imported Chinese to build
the railroads while stealing more land from more native Americans.
They claimed high ideals in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, but they meant those
ideals only applied to white males--and more specifically property owners.
We are still engaging in wars of empire--what else is Iraq?--after refusing to get the idea despite
all the protests and resistance during Vietnam. We have assassinated leaders of other countries
and installed puppets favorable to the American capitalists wanting access to resources in other countries.
I don't know that we are "going down" as much as we are on our last gasp of hypocrisy.
Tell you what, donate your crib to some Native Americans unless you are ok with living on stolen land.
leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jul-11-09 12:39 PM
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47. Dude! We're Number One in sucking!
:woohoo:
Well if you mean "We're" is DU then you are right.
