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America is just a word. The meaning behind it is much more. Yes the past is shady but the future has never been more clear. We can make it right...
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Shiithead]
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there is no meaning behind it... you make the "meaning" up.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Marihuana]
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Excactly
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Shiithead] 3
#21995424 - 07/25/15 02:10 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Shiithead said: America is just a word. The meaning behind it is much more. Yes the past is shady but the future has never been more clear. We can make it right...
L0L I'm better than you because I was born here just like I'm better than you because I'm white right?
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Shiithead]
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Not sure if that's what u were trying to say
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Marihuana]
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I'd rather not limit it with words anyways.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Shiithead] 1
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Shiithead] 8
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Shroomslip] 2
#21997770 - 07/25/15 11:33 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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one giant red white and blue clusterfuck that I'm proud to be apart of, victories, fuckups, and everyhing in between included.Even if I do envy those who grew up in beautiful, virtually ancient cities that are teeming with stories and history that I wish I had access to even living in the city our nation was formed in.
and even though I find myself facepalming and cringing at the sideshow we call our government(I've got my popcorn ready for the primaries) and my fellow countrymen, ultimately, I'm glad to be from here and I think it's beautiful that being American is not dependent on where you were born or from, or how long or short you've been here.
Goddamnit, once I get a few drinks in my I am all for a good old patriotic circle jerk, patriotism is definitely proportionate to amount of alcohol consumed.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Shiithead] 2
#21997778 - 07/25/15 11:36 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Niffla]
#21997890 - 07/26/15 12:07 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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gonna rise up, I'm gonna kick a little ass, Gonna kick some ass in the USA, Gonna climb a mountain, Gonna sew a flag, Gonna fly on an Eagle, I'm gonna kick some butt, I'm gonna drive a big truck, I'm gonna rule this world, Gonna kick some ass, Gonna rise up, Kick a little ass, ROCK, FLAG AND EAGLE!
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shit thread. fuck the U.S.
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#21998019 - 07/26/15 12:34 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Niffla] 2
#21998168 - 07/26/15 01:08 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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The only two people who hate Mercia that much as Islamic terrorists and Canadians.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: trekie]
#21998200 - 07/26/15 01:23 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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America is legit... I have never loved America more than these past few days. We are most definitely free. If you live in America and feel different, you have lost the battle. I have been there... You can rise again. America is on the verge of something great.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Shiithead] 2
#21998327 - 07/26/15 02:55 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Why do people have pride in something they had no part in?
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: SteveRogers] 2
#21998333 - 07/26/15 02:59 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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SteveRogers said: shit thread. fuck the U.S.
Maybe you need a new avatar then.
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then go live in Mexico. GTFO. so sick of people living in the US and complaining. Good luck running a cartel. You'd prob be in acid within ten seconds.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Gorlax]
#21998433 - 07/26/15 04:58 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Recently I have learned that it isn't the people in power that are the problem. It is the people complaining about the people in power. And I guess I am not prideful as much as I am happy to be an American.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: my3rdeye]
#21998466 - 07/26/15 05:17 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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It really doesn't matter where it is.
Left, right, up, down, and center are illusions of the mind.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Niffla]
#21998729 - 07/26/15 07:44 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Gorlax said: then go live in Mexico. GTFO. so sick of people living in the US and complaining. Good luck running a cartel. You'd prob be in acid within ten seconds.
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Maybe you need a new avatar then.
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SteveRogers said: shit thread. fuck the U.S.

You guys have an amazing lack of a sense of humor.  Not sure why I expected better from you all, but I did.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Shiithead]
#21998735 - 07/26/15 07:46 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Hulk Hogan has been fired from the WWE for racist comments.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Asante] 1
#21998785 - 07/26/15 08:07 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Everyone in this thread just had their pre-crime threat assessment level go up a little.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-25/pre-crime-upon-us-schools-assess-students-threat-level-kindergarten
Except for shiithead of course, because he has accepted jesus as our lord and saviour.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: chopstick]
#21998791 - 07/26/15 08:10 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Asante] 1
#21999160 - 07/26/15 10:12 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Oh here is our mxe plugging messiah now!
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Can you quit that myc_check1212, its becoming a bit harrassment-like.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Asante]
#21999447 - 07/26/15 11:10 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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You brought it on yourself Asante. You've been here long enough that you oughta have known better.
As to the OP... I love this country. America has it's ills, as all countries do, but overall it's a great place to be. It's so big...so many different landscapes, from the ocean to lakes, to mountains, plains, deserts, etc.... So much to explore. So much diversity, so many awesome people. Our government is filled with douchebags, but we the people rock.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: SteveRogers] 2
#21999528 - 07/26/15 11:24 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Normally when people make a joke, it's, you know, funny.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Dark_Star]
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As to the OP... I love this country. America has it's ills, as all countries do, but overall it's a great place to be. It's so big...so many different landscapes, from the ocean to lakes, to mountains, plains, deserts, etc.... So much to explore. So much diversity, so many awesome people. Our government is filled with douchebags, but we the people rock.
I agree completely.
Except our government isn't just filled with douchebags... the top levels are filled with genocidal psychopaths who would prefer to dominate all life on Earth rather than co-exist peacefully with other human beings, as equals.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Dark_Star] 1
#21999565 - 07/26/15 11:32 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Dark_Star said: Our government is filled with douchebags, but we the people rock.
And to be fair, most, if not all governments are filled with power & money hungry, corrupt douchebags. People love to single out the United States because it's trendy -- the top dog will always receive the most scrutiny and will be dissected under a microscope. As the cool kids say, haters gonna hate.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Niffla]
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Dark_Star said: Our government is filled with douchebags, but we the people rock.
And to be fair, most, if not all governments are filled with power & money hungry, corrupt douchebags. People love to single out the United States because it's trendy -- the top dog will always receive the most scrutiny and will be dissected under a microscope. As the cool kids say, haters gonna hate.
I highly believe the hierarchical power structures are what create these problems in government and corporations. It leads to dehumanization and lack of caring.
The governments are not made from theys but Is. Rights are not handed out either. It doesn't mean there needs to be violence because authority is an illusion. The people "under" authority create it by agreeing it is a real thing in the first place. We the people are the ones who pick our government and consume lots of material goods with complete apathy as to where the products are produced or how. It's not just the US though it's almost all affluent countries.
http://haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/papers/anderson/functions%20and%20dysfunctions%20of%20hierarchy.pdf
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Despite the importance of avoiding bias in decision-making processes, research suggests that groups often select for their leaders individuals who are more biased in their decision-making style than the average person. That is, even though the average person exhibits a range of biases in their judgments (Bazerman & Moore, 2009), studies show that groups often systematically select as leaders individuals who are particularly biased. For example, in a series of studies we recently found that individuals whowere overconfident in their abilities were more likelytoattain higher rank in jointtasksthan individualswith accurate perceptions of their abilities (Anderson& Brion, 2010). Similarly, groups are more likely to give higher rank to narcissistic individuals (Brunell et al., 2008), who tend to be overconfident (Campbell, Goodie, & Foster, 2004). Along related lines, research has shown that individuals are given more influence, prominence, and status when they are dogmatic and unwavering in their views, evenwhenthoseviewsareobjectivelyincorrect(Moscovici,Lage, &Naffrechoux, 1969;Staw&Ross,1980;Tetlock, 2006).
Groups also often systematically place individuals who are more risk-prone in higher positions of authority. The needforpowerisaconsistent predictor oftheattainmentofhigherrank (McClelland &Boyatzis,1982;Winter,1988), yet those higher in the need for power tend to take risks more than others, such as gambling, physical risks, drinking, drug use, and risky sex (Winter & Stewart, 1983). Finally, recent work suggests that even the process of deliberation itself makes individuals look less powerful (Magee, 2009). Individuals who act with less consideration of possible alternatives are viewed as more influential. To make matters worse, research suggeststhat groups frequently tend to choose individualsas leaders whose biases become worse when put into high-ranking positions. We have found that individuals high in trait-level dominance let power ‘‘go to their head’’ more than others (Anderson & Berdahl, 2002). Their sense of power increases dramatically when they are placed into a high-power position, yet for individuals lower in trait-level dominance, their sense of power does not change much at all when given power. In turn, the sense of power leads to an increased propensity to takerisks(Anderson&Galinsky,2006),toperceiveinformationinamorebiased,overlypositivefashion(Anderson& Berdahl, 2002).
Yet, dominant individuals consistently attain higher-ranking positions than less dominant individuals (for a review, see Lord, De Vader, & Alliger, 1986). These findings suggest that the effects of hierarchy steepness are likely moderated by whether the group selects leaders who use unbiased decision-making processes. For example, more hierarchical groups should function more poorly when individuals who use particularly biased decision-making processes are in charge. In steeper hierarchies, those in charge have particularly strong control over group decisions, and their biases go unchecked by others around them.
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This paper makes the case for an absence of sex differences in work behavior, arguing instead that work attitudes and work behavior are a function of location in organizational structures. The structures of opportunity (e. g., mobility prospects) and power (e. g., influence upward), along with the proportional representation of a person's social type, define and shape the ways that organization members respond to their jobs and to each other. Quote:
In hierarchical systems like large corporations, the relative disadvantage of many women with respect to opportunity and power results in behaviors and attitudes (such as limited aspirations, concern with co-worker friendships, or controlling leadership styles) that are also true of men in similarly disadvantaged positions. The structure of power in organizations, rather than inherent sexual attitudes, can also explain why women sometimes appear to be less preferred as leaders. It is concluded that it is not the nature of women but hierarchical arrangements that must be changed if we are to promote equity in the workplace.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Niffla] 1
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Dark_Star said: Our government is filled with douchebags, but we the people rock.
And to be fair, most, if not all governments are filled with power & money hungry, corrupt douchebags. People love to single out the United States because it's trendy -- the top dog will always receive the most scrutiny and will be dissected under a microscope. As the cool kids say, haters gonna hate.
I'm writing my representative to change the motto of " E Plubris Unum" too "Haters Gonna Hate!" Our dollars are going to look sweet
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Niffla said: People love to single out the United States because it's trendy -- the top dog will always receive the most scrutiny and will be dissected under a microscope. As the cool kids say, haters gonna hate.
This why your government is so successful. They can bomb and kill people the world over and when the world informs you about their displeasure you respond with a jingoistic "they just hate our freedom". The fact is the rest of the world is just better informed about what the US government is doing than it's citizens are. You guys actually honestly believe you are the good guys and not the evil empire.
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If you pay taxes, you have a part in it.
You are also shaped by the cultural values of your country, to ignore that where you are from plays no part in who you become and how you act is obviously incorrect.
Pride also does not necessarily mean that you place yourself above others or ignore the inevitable flaws of what you're prideful of - and in that vein, blind nationalism is terrible, and yes you come across a decent chunk of americans who are totally oblivious or unwilling to see that there are some very real problems with this country and that our government has harmed a lot of innocent people many blind pursuits of so-called justice. But nationalism or pride does not necessarily need to be blind, and I find that more and more people, particularly younger generations, have a very frank view on our flaws culturally and as a nation. I think that pride and nationalism also include the desire to better things, improve, and innovate, and to do this, you have to address the ugly side of things. I'd say that the vast majority of Americans are very unhappy with a great deal of things about this country and how it's run, given the approval ratings for congress.
Are we doing enough to change it? Debateable. This is a large complex country, 300 million people who have to get on board and decide to take action. Societal change comes slowly and will not happen(at least not anything radical) with the next president, or the next 5 presidents - and it starts with self-awareness, we are somewhat between a rock and hard place with this ridiculous two party system and a government that is split down the middle and downright childish about cooperating. But what outsiders, and many insiders who aren't paying attention is that attitudes are shifting all across the board, and we are on the right path, but it'll be a long one.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: my3rdeye]
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Niffla said: People love to single out the United States because it's trendy -- the top dog will always receive the most scrutiny and will be dissected under a microscope. As the cool kids say, haters gonna hate.
This why your government is so successful. They can bomb and kill people the world over and when the world informs you about their displeasure you respond with a jingoistic "they just hate our freedom". The fact is the rest of the world is just better informed about what the US government is doing than it's citizens are. You guys actually honestly believe you are the good guys and not the evil empire.
Good luck up there in Canada with a China, Russia, or a Middle Eastern country ruling the world.
I'm not saying US foreign policy is perfect at all, but it's better than the other alternatives.
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pirate-blues said: one giant red white and blue clusterfuck that I'm proud to be apart of, victories, fuckups, and everyhing in between included.Even if I do envy those who grew up in beautiful, virtually ancient cities that are teeming with stories and history that I wish I had access to even living in the city our nation was formed in.
and even though I find myself facepalming and cringing at the sideshow we call our government(I've got my popcorn ready for the primaries) and my fellow countrymen, ultimately, I'm glad to be from here and I think it's beautiful that being American is not dependent on where you were born or from, or how long or short you've been here.
Goddamnit, once I get a few drinks in my I am all for a good old patriotic circle jerk, patriotism is definitely proportionate to amount of alcohol consumed.
at least you're a citizen of one of the most important empires to exist in humanity's history as of yet. that's at least how i look at it. i might be someone who a future historian may look back and think "i would like to be that guy, at least for a few days, just to see what it's like,". i'm no one of importance by any stretch. but if i were to go back and live in rome, i would be much more interested to see what it would be like to be an ordinary citizen than augustus. i mean, we kind of have a general idea as to what that was like anyway. and besides, roman politics was brutal.
i don't see much use in nationalism anyway. at the end of the day we're all just part of a larger group who are ruled by a smaller group with their own agenda, completely independent of our needs, wants and desires. we all have to look out for each other, especially when it comes to them getting over on us. robert heinlein was right when he advised us to love our country, but never trust our government.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: my3rdeye]
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This why your government is so successful. They can bomb and kill people the world over and when the world informs you about their displeasure you respond with a jingoistic "they just hate our freedom". The fact is the rest of the world is just better informed about what the US government is doing than it's citizens are. You guys actually honestly believe you are the good guys and not the evil empire.
And don't you forget it...
Seriously though... America is not the government and vice versa; America will rise again....
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: my3rdeye]
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This why your government is so successful. They can bomb and kill people the world over and when the world informs you about their displeasure you respond with a jingoistic "they just hate our freedom". The fact is the rest of the world is just better informed about what the US government is doing than it's citizens are. You guys actually honestly believe you are the good guys and not the evil empire.
Yes, we are the evil empire of the earth. And hopefully, after we take over the globe, we nuke your part of Canada for the lulz.
We'll keep the rest though for camping and hiking and shit -- I gotta admit Canada is fucking beautiful.
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America isnt top dog anymore. Its just a horrible corrupt old man that is running out of money and horrible conservative. Chuck in arrogant people who have no idea other countries exist and give them guns.
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I wish you'd just go away. Honestly. I'm in no way a patriot, but your constant anti-American talk is just fucking annoying. You constantly preach about America's intolerance and ignorance of other countries, while bashing a country you obviously know shit about.
You are doing the very damn thing you bitch about America doing. So seriously, just STFU and fuck off already. If you hate America so damn much DON'T JUMP IN A THREAD TITLED "PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN". You have nothing to offer to the conversation and are only here to further bitch about America.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Shroomslip]
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You are doing the very damn thing you bitch about America doing. So seriously, just STFU and fuck off already. If you hate America so damn much DON'T JUMP IN A THREAD TITLED "PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN". You have nothing to offer to the conversation and are only here to further bitch about America.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: kakashi68]
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I was born here just like I'm better than you because I'm white right?
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Shroomslip said: I wish you'd just go away. Honestly. I'm in no way a patriot, but your constant anti-American talk is just fucking annoying. You constantly preach about America's intolerance and ignorance of other countries, while bashing a country you obviously know shit about.
You are doing the very damn thing you bitch about America doing. So seriously, just STFU and fuck off already. If you hate America so damn much DON'T JUMP IN A THREAD TITLED "PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN". You have nothing to offer to the conversation and are only here to further bitch about America.
I speak facts. It you dont like those facts you are free to express your potato as you feel. However truth is truth.
Almost nothing you state is fact. They're just your biased views and opinions you spew in the form of verbal diarrhea.
Tell me, how long have you lived in America and in what part of the country did you live in?
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Shroomslip]
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Now I dare you to find one American to watch that who doesn't automatically face palm.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Asante]
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I'm sorry, I find national pride (any country includihg my own) a bit silly. Its led to so many bad things and patriots often make a bit of a spectacle of themselves.
Its OK to feel COMFORTABLE about your country, everyone should either feel that or work to create the change they hope to see, but to thump your chest and proclaim yourself Better Than All The Rest.. its lulzy.
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Shroomslip said: I wish you'd just go away. Honestly. I'm in no way a patriot, but your constant anti-American talk is just fucking annoying. You constantly preach about America's intolerance and ignorance of other countries, while bashing a country you obviously know shit about.
You are doing the very damn thing you bitch about America doing. So seriously, just STFU and fuck off already. If you hate America so damn much DON'T JUMP IN A THREAD TITLED "PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN". You have nothing to offer to the conversation and are only here to further bitch about America.
I speak facts. It you dont like those facts you are free to express your potato as you feel. However truth is truth.
Almost nothing you state is fact. They're just your biased views and opinions you spew in the form of verbal diarrhea.
Tell me, how long have you lived in America and in what part of the country did you live in?
So you telling me you are still economically number 1? You dont have a gun problem? you dont have a police murder problem? You dont have a greed based justice system? I could go on, but thats not to say countries dont have there problems. But its always the attitude. Always needing to defend and be #1 at everything. While compared to any other modern society, the average person cares little to none about the rest of the world.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: kakashi68]
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'Shop for: toilet paper', lol.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: kakashi68]
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Every country has problems, America is still awesome. Why so much hurts?
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: kakashi68]
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Shroomslip said: I wish you'd just go away. Honestly. I'm in no way a patriot, but your constant anti-American talk is just fucking annoying. You constantly preach about America's intolerance and ignorance of other countries, while bashing a country you obviously know shit about.
You are doing the very damn thing you bitch about America doing. So seriously, just STFU and fuck off already. If you hate America so damn much DON'T JUMP IN A THREAD TITLED "PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN". You have nothing to offer to the conversation and are only here to further bitch about America.
I speak facts. It you dont like those facts you are free to express your potato as you feel. However truth is truth.
Almost nothing you state is fact. They're just your biased views and opinions you spew in the form of verbal diarrhea.
Tell me, how long have you lived in America and in what part of the country did you live in?
So you telling me you are still economically number 1? You dont have a gun problem? you dont have a police murder problem? You dont have a greed based justice system? I could go on, but thats not to say countries dont have there problems. But its always the attitude. Always needing to defend and be #1 at everything. While compared to any other modern society, the average person cares little to none about the rest of the world.
"economically number 1?"
The US still is #1 largest economy measured by GDP.
"You don't have a gun problem?"
No, what's the problem? Inner city punks killing each other? Fuck them, it has nothing to do with my guns.
"have a police murder problem?"
No, US police have been justified in 99% of those killings, what's the problem?
"greed based justice system"
Most justice systems around the world are corrupt for many different reasons including greed.
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myc_check1212 said: Oh here is our mxe plugging messiah now!
Can you quit that myc_check1212, its becoming a bit harrassment-like.
You deserve just as much stick for your nonsense as Zombi does for his. If you cant take the heat you never should have told us. You are a shitty example to the youth on this site with your incredibly irresponsible actions.
I'm gonna be "bleu cheese" until he posts after release from the hospital. Then I go back to being "horrid asshole".
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I would say I feel lucky to be an American, not proud.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: zappaisgod]
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You are a shitty example to the youth on this site with your incredibly irresponsible actions.
What incredibly irresponsible actions? My accidental drug OD of 2011 caused by having been given a highly potent stimulant instead of the low potency MDMA analog I ordered? I handle my drugs fine after that caper.
I have been using my drug of choice once every two weeks for a year and for months now I have taken it back to once a month, this on a site where people fuck themselves op on a daily basis with anything they can lay their hands on.
I'm a fine example.
That you and some others can't handle "the nonsense" I post gives you no right whatsoever tom keep bashing me over the head with it in hopes that I will shut the fuck up.
No I won't, in fact I will step it up the more resistance I get.
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You are a shitty example to the youth on this site with your incredibly irresponsible actions.
What incredibly irresponsible actions? My accidental drug OD of 2011? I handle my drugs fine after that caper.
What are you talking about? You just ingested a pile of drugs that have totally addled your mind. Yeah. I thought you were nuts before but you are even crazier now. Not good.
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You just ingested a pile of drugs that have totally addled your mind.
When?
You guys act like I'm on drugs 24/7 but you just can't handle my take on reality.
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You are a shitty example to the youth on this site with your incredibly irresponsible actions.
What incredibly irresponsible actions? My accidental drug OD of 2011 caused by having been given a highly potent stimulant instead of the low potency MDMA analog I ordered? I handle my drugs fine after that caper.
I have been using my drug of choice once every two weeks for a year and for months now I have taken it back to once a month, this on a site where people fuck themselves op on a daily basis with anything they can lay their hands on.
I'm a fine example.
That you and some others can't handle "the nonsense" I post gives you no right whatsoever tom keep bashing me over the head with it in hopes that I will shut the fuck up.
No I won't, in fact I will step it up the more resistance I get.
Nice stealth edit. If you think what you did and what you believe you have learned is not harmful to almost every youngster here you are impressively delusional. I had a fuckton of 'shrooms the other week because I had no idea how good they were. I had a good time but I sure as shit don't recommend anybody else do it. I put my experience out as a cautionary tale. You, on the other hand, think that those sophomoric insights you got were revelatory and useful and should be adopted. No. They are juvenile and nonsense. If that is where MXE takes you I suggest that none of you kiddies take MXE. Ever.
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You just ingested a pile of drugs that have totally addled your mind.
When?
You guys act like I'm on drugs 24/7 but you just can't handle my take on reality.
I can handle it just fine. It is nuts. That's how I handle it.
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Your opinion right? So much better than another one's, right? Fuck off.
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I just had to quote this because I think it's my first time seeing you lose your cool a bit.
You're awesome Asante, if anything I love your love everyone attitude, I envy you since I wish I had that kind of mentality towards everyone, you seem like a gentle soul .
I usually enjoy reading your theories and explanations of things, even if I don't always agree with them, you offer a unique perspective and I can usually still take something away from it even if I don't agree with it fully.
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I just had to quote this because I think it's my first time seeing you lose your cool a bit.
You're awesome Asante, if anything I love your love everyone attitude, I envy you since I wish I had that kind of mentality towards everyone, you seem like a gentle soul .
I usually enjoy reading your theories and explanations of things, even if I don't always agree with them, you offer a unique perspective and I can usually still take something away from it even if I don't agree with it fully.
Keep doing you 
There is nothing unique about his ramblings which he can barely put together. It is mostly the same hippy dippy bullshit I have heard since before he was born. And love everybody? No. There are some real egregious assholes out there. Total douchebags and violent punks. I have no intention of loving the murdering punks of, say, the Cali cartel.
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That's where my envy comes in lol, I can't look at people doing violent or terrible things and have a loving heart, I wish I could have some type of forgiveness for everyone, but I can name people off the top of my head who couldn't possibly do anything to make me forgive their actions, let alone feel any kind of love for them.
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Truth has always been stranger than fiction... and Asante's posts have always been strangely close to the truth ..
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It's kinda weird being American these days. I mean yeah I'm lucky because I could have been born in some shithole country. At the same time, it's kinda awkward when you have lots of friends from other countries or when you travel and everyone seems to think the US is the only country it's PC to openly talk trash about. I get it though, our foreign policy and healthcare situations are pretty much the laughing stock of the modern world.
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The US is the scapegoat in the media in other countries, there's no wonder that others outside of the US have such a negative viewpoint.
I find it amazing how much the US is a focus in European media, kind of like an obsession.
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I find it amazing how much the US is a focus in European media, kind of like an obsession.
Yeah it's laughable how much time they spend obsessing/bitching/whining about us. Meanwhile nobody here gives a rat's ass about whatever the fuck they're up to.
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A distraction from how fucked they are. Also, every Eurotrash cocksucker should latch onto an American knob because we saved their asses. from the Nazis and the Soviets. The only country there worth a shit is England
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America is satisfactory.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Niffla]
#22005074 - 07/27/15 03:13 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yeah it's laughable how much time they spend obsessing/bitching/whining about us. Meanwhile nobody here gives a rat's ass about whatever the fuck they're up to.
It's because America is on the cusp of something extraordinary. Again.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: zappaisgod]
#22005080 - 07/27/15 03:15 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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It's kinda like the trainwreck that you can't help but watch as you drive by
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The American people may have lost their way but when faced with tragedy. We unite.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Shiithead]
#22008233 - 07/28/15 07:10 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Shiithead said: The American people may have lost their way but when faced with tragedy. We unite.
Until The Batchelor/Bachelorette, Big Brother and American Idol start back up. Then the sting of bad vibes are blocked out and can once again return their heads to the sand/up their ass.
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What do you mean until?? With that attitude you have already lost the fight. This isn't a battle of the flesh. This is a battle of the mind.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Shiithead]
#22013297 - 07/29/15 04:44 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Americans landed people on the friggin moon. That thing you see in the sky: Americans have been there.
And that is pretty cool.
I can make a list with a thousand things on it why America is one of the greatest nations on earth. I can make an equally long list filled with atrocities and human rights violations that Americans have commited, mostly in the name of their God: the "Aeconomie" or something.
This thread is chill, let's keep talking about how America is great. We can always talk about how it is more or less a modern Roman empire in another thread.
Did you Americans know that the graves of those who have fallen in the war are still looked after and remembered here in the Netherlands? Shit, every shithole village has a monument for the Allied soldiers that liberated it, and on every monument you can see the words: lest we forget.
We send a shitload of tullips to Canada every year, too, as a thankyou for keeping our royal house safe and for all the soldiers that died for our freedom.
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Turtletotem said: Americans landed people on the friggin moon. That thing you see in the sky: Americans have been there.
And that is pretty cool.
I can make a list with a thousand things on it why America is one of the greatest nations on earth. I can make an equally long list filled with atrocities and human rights violations that Americans have commited, mostly in the name of their God: the "Aeconomie" or something.
This thread is chill, let's keep talking about how America is great. We can always talk about how it is more or less a modern Roman empire in another thread.
Did you Americans know that the graves of those who have fallen in the war are still looked after and remembered here in the Netherlands? Shit, every shithole village has a monument for the Allied soldiers that liberated it, and on every monument you can see the words: lest we forget.
We send a shitload of tullips to Canada every year, too, as a thankyou for keeping our royal house safe and for all the soldiers that died for our freedom.
America needs more people like you here. I actually have been considering moving to the Netherlands for the past couple months. Until recently I have decided, that when the shit hits the fan, I want to be one of the souls reclaiming what is right instead of off in a foreign land just simply existing.
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Re: Proud to be an American [Re: Shiithead]
#22015532 - 07/29/15 03:14 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Shiithead said: What do you mean until?? With that attitude you have already lost the fight. This isn't a battle of the flesh. This is a battle of the mind.
I lost nothing until there is an actual fight. When that comes you want to be on my squad.
I was bitching about civilians, not citizens. There is a very fine line.
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