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We are all sick of the US acting like the big boss around the world. +1 to Hong Kong, Russia and the rest giving it the big middle finger.
by nayefc 13y ago
We are all sick of the US acting like the big boss around the world. +1 to Hong Kong, Russia and the rest giving it the big middle finger.
- amorphid 13y agoMy step-father told me a great story about the Cuban Missile Crisis. While Washington and Moscow at each other's throats, he was on a US Navy warship turning away freighters carrying missiles bound for Cuba. As his boat got close to the Russian ships, the crews on either side would wave at each other and take pictures. Regular ol' people to be friendly no matter their background and are not representative of how their governments operate! Please remember the difference between us Americans and the policy makers who represent us :)
- zepolud 13y agoThe Good American syndrome.
- wavefunction 13y agoHaha, just like the Innocent Foreigner syndrome. Most people on this world have to live by the rules of others unfortunately.
- nayefc 13y agoOf course I do :) I've been living in the US for 4 years now. Some of my best friends are American. Regular people are just regular people, just like me and you and most [1] people reading this. [1] Thanks to Snowden, I can confidently write most and not maybe
- outside1234 13y agowe voted for the policy makers, so despite being friendly, its our fault.
- cglace 13y agoIt's not like the policy makers do what you vote them in to do anyway.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y agoLooks like we've got our work cut out for us then.
- dllthomas 13y agoSome handful of us voted for any particular policy-maker (except the President, where it's more like a whopping 20% of us), but yes.
- smokeyj 13y ago> we voted for the policy makers most people don't vote
- notaddicted 13y agoPaying taxes is a lot more in line with "Material support or resources" [1]. Anyway, grin-fucked is still fucked [2]. 1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2339A http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2339A 2] http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/03/28/dont-be-a-grin-fucker/ http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/03/28/dont-be-a-grin...
- pekk 13y agoIt will be much preferable, of course, to have Russia acting like the big boss around the world, or China.
- nayefc 13y agoThere's really no better. They're all worse than each other.
- Tloewald 13y agoSeymour Hersh is still writing for the New Yorker, Woodward writes extensively on US politics, Michael Moore is still making movies, and Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg can still discuss US foreign policy over a kitchen table. Do you honestly think they're all the same? We're discussing a scandal about the NSA being exposed as doing something I for one have always assumed they were doing as a matter of course (indeed, I assumed they did worse and believe they probably do). Mostly I hoped the NSA was more competent.
- nayefc 13y agoMaybe not China, but the thought that the US is somehow "free-er" than the rest of the world (yes, including Russia) is false. People in Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, UK, Japan are probably as free as people in the US, if not more.
- refurb 13y agoI would categorically disagree with that. Look at freedom of speech as one example. Talk to the authors in Canada who have been stifled because their speech didn't conform to the gov't multicultural agenda. Is the US the most free country in the world by every measure? Of course not. Overall is it one of the most free or the most free? I would say yes.
- Tloewald 13y agoFree-er is not the only metric I care about, but in fact in terms of individual liberties the US is hard to beat. Can you buy assault rifles in any of those countries? Do you elect judges and vote on how national parks control predator populations? It's "free" and democratic in ways that seem pathological. (The fact that the exercise of some of these liberties is a disaster for the majority who would happily surrender them is another story entirely.)