So the happy drones like to demonize beyond reality whoever they are told to demonize. You cheer on whatever CIA coup the pretty face on tv tells you to cheer, and worry about every protest the pretty faces on tv tell you to worry about. Your two minutes of hate are up, and it's back to entertainment.
I'm not American and I think you're an idiot. Does that help?
Gadhafi is a raging psychopath. He's an unpleasant dictator who took power and imposed his will on the people. He's not a nice man and his rule isn't a fair or pleasant one. I'm not some
Of course this will get moved to AAH because it is "off topic". Because it is just about impossible to even explain how warped American and western perception is until a deep look at both cultures can be understood.
US perception can indeed be warped as hell. I often find that US news is a disturbing blend of information and entertainment, take Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly and Keith Olbermann for examples. I know they aren't straight up news shows but they're presented as news based factual programming as far as I can tell.
That doesn't mean that brutal dictators who supress the people of their nations are just given a bad press though. Guess what? I studied crap like this at university and we used direct sources and academic texts to look at people like him and they came out as pretty much agreeing that they are monsters. Pinochet, Ghadaffi, Kim Jong Il, Stalin...all beaten upon in the US/Western press
and all still vicious dictators.
I just hate injustice, hypocrisy, and greed.
Yet you support Ghadaffi? Holy logical disconnect Batman!
I am not trying to impress anyone. I am not trying to get laid on the JREF forums, okay?
We know. You're just an idiot who thinks he knows everything because he's seen through the MSM's lie machine.
Kooks like you are, to borrow an Americanism, a dime a dozen. You aren't special, you aren't educated, you're just an idiot.
Let me put it this way. You say the MSM in the US is corrupt and badly flawed. I completely agree with you. I think it's a terrible source of news most of the time. That doesn't mean that everything or even most of what they say is wrong, it just means they spin factual stories or present them in a bad way. Anyone who tells you that the US is imperialistic is an idiot. I come from a genuinely imperialistic country (in the past) and while I have no love for the creeping spread of American influence, it's only imperialist if you desperately imagine it is.
I'm also no fan of the Iraq war, I think the whole "War on Terror" thing is a sick joke and I dislike a lot of American policy, both foreign and domestic. I still think that Ghaddafi is a lunatic.
but JREF is full of some of the biggest nationalist sycophants I have ever seen.
Anyone who disagrees with you right?
I hypothesize it is because many of the intelligent people have obtained a comfortable life for themselves, and anything that challenges that life disturbs them.
Wow are you ever a poor sociologist. Dissent in the US isn't punnishable and dissent against US policy is often criticised here. Even the most conservative posters disagree with conservative news or policy some times, and even the most liberal posters disagree with liberal policy or people sometimes. It's called "discussion". You can have a discussion on whether the latest war is right, or what we should do about terrorism, but what you can't have a sensible discussion about is something as plainly obvious as whether Ghadaffi has his head screwed on right. No one that I can see is advocating US expansionism into Libya, or Tunisia, or Egypt or any of the other countries whose tyrannical leaders caused the country to go into meltdown, wo why bring up "US hegemony" here?
Democracy is a good thing. It enables the will of the actual people to be heard and while it's certainly flawed and susceptible to us and them style lunacy (as you can find in the US at any election) it's STILL better than having a despot control the state. I would take the pathetic bickering of the US parties over Colonel Psychopath any day of the week.
Which is unfortunate, because it is also full of many intelligent people, so it is sad to see that the same percentage of the intelligent are as easily swayed by M.I.C. propaganda (marketing, some of you call it) as the average six pack drinking reality tv watchin' joe.
Well that isn't me. I hate marketing, I hate PR and I'm no fan of corporations. In fact, I really ******* hate them. I hate corporations, I think the dominance of the economy by a handful is shameful and I espouse Socialism, and I
still think you need to take your head out of your ass, hang the tin-foil hat up on a hook and join us in the real world.
Not everyone who disagrees with you do so because they're corporate slaves who love McDonalds and Disney and want the US to span the globe. Your paranoia is showing, by the way.
What is just as amazing, is some of those average, six pack drinking reality tv watchin' joes, are somehow impervious to the tactics, and see through the bull's backside. same with atheists vs. christians. Some atheists are militant nationalists,
Good grief Charlie Brown. Standing up and saying "Hey, America is pretty damn good" isn't being a militant nationalist. I don't want to live in the USA. I really don't. I'm happy with my healthcare, my lack of rabid religious zealots and my comfortable life on this small island nation, but I still disagree with you. Why do you think that is?
even though they would deny it,
Mainly because it's not true. You don't get to redefine English to suit you, you know.
while some Christians are quite aware of the misery America exacts upon the world.
Ok, I'm jut going to come right out and say it. You're a tool.
The US has screwed the pooch over and over and over again with it's foreign policy. It's provided ample fodder for the Anti-Western lunatics in the Middle East and it isn't by far the best nation on earth no matter what some people keep saying, but explain to me, exactly, what misery the US has spread?
This should be a laugh.
But you know what? Your little worlds are starting to crumble. U.S. hegemony is starting to show severe stress cracks.
You tell those shills! One day we'll be living under the gloriously fair and just system of....something, as espoused by the great leader....someone.
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