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02 Jul 2012, 9:05 pm

The only hard drug I know of is Viagra.


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02 Jul 2012, 9:06 pm

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Your country used to have the best people in the world back when it was founded. People like Jefferson are worth 50000 Jesus.



Jesus neither owned for f*cked a slave. The same cannot be said of Jefferson.

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02 Jul 2012, 9:15 pm

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Your country used to have the best people in the world back when it was founded. People like Jefferson are worth 50000 Jesus.



Jesus neither owned for f*cked a slave. The same cannot be said of Jefferson.

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My point stands.


I don't think your point stands at all.



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02 Jul 2012, 10:24 pm

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The only hard drug I know of is Viagra.

Viagra is the drug of the downfallen.

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02 Jul 2012, 11:04 pm

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The only hard drug I know of is Viagra.

Viagra is the drug of the downfallen.

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I understand they want to rise up.



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03 Jul 2012, 3:29 am

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The only hard drug I know of is Viagra.

Viagra is the drug of the downfallen.

I understand they want to rise up.


Stop knocking Viagra. It's very uplifting and has helped millions reach new heights.



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03 Jul 2012, 1:11 pm

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The Second World War and the US' involvement is also justified, in that they were quite clearly attacked. Japan and the Axis nations were aggressive and war was inevitable. If the US had not entered at that point, they would have fought Japan and Germany eventually, and probably on their own soil


If the U.S had not restricted trade with Japan, Pearl Harbor would not have happened.

The U.S. should have been totally neutral about the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. It was of no concern to the U.S. in the first place.

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03 Jul 2012, 1:31 pm

ruveyn wrote:
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The Second World War and the US' involvement is also justified, in that they were quite clearly attacked. Japan and the Axis nations were aggressive and war was inevitable. If the US had not entered at that point, they would have fought Japan and Germany eventually, and probably on their own soil


If the U.S had not restricted trade with Japan, Pearl Harbor would not have happened.

The U.S. should have been totally neutral about the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. It was of no concern to the U.S. in the first place.

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I think restricting trade was one of the best things they could do to stop Japan's massacres of Manchurians, Koreans and Han Chinese. If they had not restricted trade Japan would have had the fuel reserves for their fleet that would enable them to cut off the Allies (pre-US allies) operating in the Far Eastern Theater. Australia and New Zealand would have been on their own, and Japan would advance into China unchecked. The Axis would have attacked the US eventually, and it was better that the US got in early when it could operate from the soil of allied nations. The UK served as a giant aircraft carrier for the US. Without it, they would not have been able to strategically bomb Germany. The Axis would have swept into India (from SE Asia) and the Middle East (from N. Africa and the Caucasus), taking oil reserves that would fuel a monster war machine not even America could stand against. They might even have built nuclear weapons


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03 Jul 2012, 3:35 pm

The rest of the world has very good reasons not to like America.



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03 Jul 2012, 4:21 pm

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The rest of the world has very good reasons not to like America.



Hate occasioned by butthurt envy more often than not...... :roll:



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03 Jul 2012, 4:30 pm

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The rest of the world has very good reasons not to like America.


Yes. Most Americans are not covered with sh*t and most Americans have a pot to pee in. That is sufficient reason for the dislike.

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03 Jul 2012, 4:42 pm

America has its good sides and its dark sides.The good sides are freedom,helping out other countries in need and inventions of so many things.The dark side is the corruption greed warmongering imperialistic ways.The constant meddling in foreign affairs the arrogence, the dark history as well hundreds of years of slavery the killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians examples like Hiroshima, and Nagasaki.Let us not forget bosnia etc


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03 Jul 2012, 7:03 pm

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The rest of the world has very good reasons not to like America.


Yes. Most Americans are not covered with sh*t and most Americans have a pot to pee in. That is sufficient reason for the dislike.

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Execpt those who are not filthy rich :wink:



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03 Jul 2012, 7:12 pm

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The rest of the world has very good reasons not to like America.


Yes. Most Americans are not covered with sh*t and most Americans have a pot to pee in. That is sufficient reason for the dislike.

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Execpt those who are not filthy rich :wink:


There is an operational middle class in the United States. How much longer it will last, I do not know.

The majority of United Statseans, in fact over 60 percent have sufficient means. 20 percent are somewhat strapped and 20 percent are in bad shape.

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03 Jul 2012, 7:17 pm

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The rest of the world has very good reasons not to like America.


Yes. Most Americans are not covered with sh*t and most Americans have a pot to pee in. That is sufficient reason for the dislike.

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Execpt those who are not filthy rich :wink:


There is an operational middle class in the United States. How much longer it will last, I do not know.

The majority of United Statseans, in fact over 60 percent have sufficient means. 20 percent are somewhat strapped and 20 percent are in bad shape.

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The south is really getting hit hard to in this econoimc crisis.



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03 Jul 2012, 8:21 pm

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America has its good sides and its dark sides.The good sides are freedom,helping out other countries in need and inventions of so many things.The dark side is the corruption greed warmongering imperialistic ways.The constant meddling in foreign affairs the arrogence, the dark history as well hundreds of years of slavery the killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians examples like Hiroshima, and Nagasaki.Let us not forget bosnia etc


I guess some of the helping of other countries in need could be seen as meddling, depending on how you want to look at it.

The alternative to nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a land invasion of Japan. Given the military and civilian casualties during the battle for Okinawa I think we can pretty much rule out an un-opposed invasion of Japan to put it mildly. Not to mention how long it would take to complete it.

In Bosnia we were there to stop the genocide, not carry it out.