en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to pnh102
Re: I used to see it that way...
What other country have you lived in to experience this ?
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pnh102
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| said by en102  :What other country have you lived in to experience this ? I don't have to live anywhere else to know.
I do however, read about the daily lives of people living in places like the old Soviet bloc, North Korea, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, and Cuba to know that in the USA, we have it very good.
You don't have to pee on an electric fence to know that it is generally a bad idea.
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | Most G8 countries have it pretty good.
And not to sidetrack, but if the U.S. could cut its oil consumption to it being an export commodity, it would be even better.
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SilentMan
join:2002-07-15
New York, NY
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said by pnh102 :said by en102 :What other country have you lived in to experience this ? I don't have to live anywhere else to know. I do however, read about the daily lives of people living in places like the old Soviet bloc, North Korea, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, and Cuba to know that in the USA, we have it very good. You don't have to pee on an electric fence to know that it is generally a bad idea. Venezuela? You have been watching too much Faux News.
Oh! Millions of energy saving light bulbs have been installed in Venezuelan homes and every single one of them contains a microphone so that the Government can listen in to what people say in their houses. /sarcasm  |
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pnh102
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| said by SilentMan :Venezuela? You have been watching too much Faux News. And if you watched any news at all you might not sound like such an idiot when you say that. Perhaps you should try googling for criticisms of Hugo Chavez's human rights record before you spew more verbal diarrhea.
Oh, and I'm adding Bolivia to that list. The fact that 4 eastern states of that country want to secede from the rest of Bolivia is also telling.
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ackman
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| said by pnh102 :said by SilentMan :Venezuela? You have been watching too much Faux News. And if you watched any news at all you might not sound like such an idiot when you say that. Perhaps you should try googling for criticisms of Hugo Chavez's human rights record before you spew more verbal diarrhea. Oh, and I'm adding Bolivia to that list. The fact that 4 eastern states of that country want to secede from the rest of Bolivia is also telling. Any you're feeling pretty confident in the United States' record on human rights? When did we let women start to vote? How about how we treat people of color? Slavery really wasn't that long ago. More recently, we unilaterally invaded another sovereign country and killed their leader, violating international law. How many hundreds of thousands of people of Iraqis did we kill in that one? Estimates are as high as 1 million and as low as 300,000. I don't think those were all Bush's "terrorists". Oh, and Chavez? Yep, he was giving low cost heating oil to the poor in our country. You might say he was doing it to shove a stick in devil Bush's eye. But the difference between Chavez and Bush is at least Chavez was helping people in the US. Did you know the US has more people in prison than any other country in the world? Let's not even talk about the alleged "terrorists" we have kept in prison without any right to a trial. How about the ones we rendered and tortured, then let go when we found out they were innocent. Yep, we're just a pillar of human rights.
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pnh102
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| said by ackman :Any you're feeling pretty confident in the United States' record on human rights? When did we let women start to vote? How about how we treat people of color? Absolutely. I would never say we are a perfect country, but we do better for people here than just about every other country. Anyone who feels different is free to leave, which unlike the countries I listed, we make very easy to do.
said by ackman :I'm proud to be an American, I'm ashamed and embarrassed of our government. Sure you are. If you are that proud, you would go read up on the facts surrounding the Iraq War as well as Hugo Chavez before you take the Simon Cowell approach to sticking up for "your" country.
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SilentMan
join:2002-07-15
New York, NY
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said by pnh102 :said by SilentMan :Venezuela? You have been watching too much Faux News. And if you watched any news at all you might not sound like such an idiot when you say that. Perhaps you should try googling for criticisms of Hugo Chavez's human rights record before you spew more verbal diarrhea. Oh, and I'm adding Bolivia to that list. The fact that 4 eastern states of that country want to secede from the rest of Bolivia is also telling. Watching such news is what makes you write comments so stupid. Unlike you who only watch Faux News or google criticism of Chavez made by ignorants, I go to Venezuela quite often and get involved with the education missions that the Government has instituted there which gives me an opportunity to travel throughout the country teaching people how to read and write; that gives me first hand experience of the Revolutionary process being conducted there. You, on the other hand, know nothing about Chavez or Venezuela or Bolivia (probably can't even find them on a map) except what the ignorants in the corporate press tell you, so you should get educated first before making such illiterate and ridiculous comments about those countries. |
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pnh102
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| said by SilentMan :Watching such news is what makes you write comments so stupid. ... I go to Venezuela quite often ... Again, you clearly have no idea what you are talking about regarding Hugo Chavez. I can go to Cuba too and see for myself all the wonderful things that Fidel Castro would want an ignorant westerner to see, and then leave the place thinking that he's God's gift to humanity.
Of course, I know better than that. And until you learn more about Hugo Chavez, then there is no point in you attempting to "school" me with regards to what a nice man he might actually be.
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