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re: How old is the USA to you? (and maybe discuss the revolution and founding?)
Posted on 7/4/14 at 12:38 pm to RummelTiger
Posted on 7/4/14 at 12:38 pm to RummelTiger
quote:It isn't a matter of liking or disliking the country. I love living here. There are some great aspects to the USA. There are also some incredibly problematic aspects that get overshadowed by the "land of the free" rhetoric that really need to be addressed.
Why are you people still here then, I mean seriously? If the country is so bad, then get the frick out.
Criticizing the often in your face irony of saying that you "live in the land of the free" is healthy.
Now, I will admit that doing on a day like July 4th is probably in poor taste.
And yes, I'm not talking in the 3rd person. I have the freedom to not do that today.
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Posted on 7/4/14 at 12:40 pm to RummelTiger
Who said this country was so bad? I just said it isn't head-and-shoulders above the rest.
Posted on 7/4/14 at 1:06 pm to High C
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All I can think of is he may be referring to the US giving up some perceived autonomy with the League of Nations.
Well no, that's not correct. We didn't join the League of Nations because the U.S. Senate would not ratify the Treaty of Versailles peace treaty ending WWI.
The Republican leadership of the Senate was suspicious of the League of Nations and was opposed to the possibility of giving up U.S. autonomy over its own foreign policy. Isolationists believed the League was the sort of entangling alliance the George Washington warned against in his Farewell Address.
Maybe you are thinking of the United Nations after WWII? We see how effective that has been.
Posted on 7/4/14 at 1:10 pm to Napoleon
quote:IWHI
How old is the USA to you?
Posted on 7/4/14 at 3:15 pm to Napoleon
OP --> Well done.l
Posted on 7/4/14 at 4:12 pm to Napoleon
I go by the declaration so 238 years but that's pretty damn ironic these days considering we are not free much. shite, we don't even own the land our house is built on thanks to property taxes.
Posted on 7/4/14 at 4:20 pm to RummelTiger
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Posted by RummelTiger quote: didn't a viking find us? Chris Carter?
No. It was the other WR, Anthony Carter.
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