scott42 said:
Without war we'd all be speaking German...especially the French...
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"Yes we are going to make money and yes the Iraqis will be more free than they are now and from where I stand that aint too
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The world is and (with continued diligence on the part of America and it forces) always shall be jealous of our freedom, our power and our wealth."
i know this is a car forum and i know we should treat each other with a certain respect but such a ridiculous and blinded post afflicts me.
it is completely impossible to roll up the whole complex but we germans/europeans know a few things for sure:
- to spread a diffuse anxiety is the best way to make people believe ALL sort of irrational things and it' also a safe method to make people do what you want if you promise them to solve this problem.
- when you are told that you are manipulated and you are on a wrong way you can find a 1000 good reasons why everybody else is wrong and you are the only one whose perspective is superior and driven by good motives.
- when you finally recognize that you have heavily manipulated you are already in too deep to just stop. and how could you really admit to yourself that you have been such a major jackass who could be fooled easily ?
it's a common thing that most europeans (anybody who experienced what a regime's propaganda can cause) do not trust governments (including their own) and the media in general because those 2 are responsible for any major propaganda that exists.
whenever governments or media come up and tell people that they shall believe xxx and therefor do yyy, we get very suspicious.
and whenever we look to the usa we see a government that represents everything we fear so much: a latent and growing disposition for fear, hate,violence and deception and it seems to us that more and more of the US citizens are at the mercy of these lies due to the allgrowing lack of education and the complexity of information they are swamped with.
nonetheless we cannot believe that even one reasonable person in the US could swollow the government's s*** so willingly.
we simply won't keep still because a nation of old friends starts to transform into dull, paranoid and domineering beast.
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scott, it is a fatuous belief that anybody else is just jealous of all the oh so great things that you've got...
there cannot be any honour in a wealth that is based on raid, conquest, slavery and genocide. actually it's a shame.
and what kind of freedom are you talking about?
the freedom to be monitored whereever you are ? the freedom to get arrested for any minor fart you let go in public ? the freedom of beeing excluded and spitted on when you oppose the government ? the freedom of beeing trashed by the police when you participate in a demonstration of freedom?
you may believe it or not: little children and poor countries look up to the usa because they believe this country is made of gold. the rest of the world knows better.