Islamic State

[Blind groper]

I am proud of having brown hair. Well, at least some of my hair is brown. Most of my peers have only white hair.

[piscator]

I don't talk up the British Empire.

My parents were both Irish, and my ancestors were mercilessly oppressed by the british aristocracy.
I have no particular pride in being British at all. It's like being proud of having brown hair.

If you had been born at a different time and had enough balls to improve your lot, you might have come here and joined the US Army before you left the Boston waterfront. If you could lie and say you could ride a horse with a straight face, you might have then gone on to kill indians like cordwood in Colorado, or get shot up in Shiloh before working for the railroad as a buffalo hunter. Then you'd have something to be proud of.


That's what these dumassed jihadis are trying to do right now.

[MrJonno]

Anyone who has 'pride' in something they didn't create or build ie a country has a screw lose and is generally a very inadequate individual

I am proud of my own achievement a little shame in my failures, in the case of the UK I'm just lucky to live in a free(ish) country. Pride don't come into it

[pErvinalia]

Seth

Certainly the USA republic is different to all other democracies. NZ democracy is different to all other democracies. Zimbabwean 'democracy' is different to all other democracies. Australian democracy is different to all other democracies.

No government has unlimited powers, except for tyrannies. The NZ government has constitutional limits on government power. So does all other genuine democracies.

Argue all you will, republics are simply a kind of democracy, and so is the USA variety.

I suspect you simply want to believe that the USA is special, with unique freedoms. Apart from the idiotic lack of gun control, that is simply not true.

Ah, but it is true, you see. We actually are an exceptional country filled with exceptional people who are better, smarter, faster, stronger and better looking than you are.

Well you're clearly not from the US...

[mistermack]

Ah, but it is true, you see. We actually are an exceptional country filled with exceptional people who are better, smarter, faster, stronger and better looking than you are.

You forgot fatter, louder, and less popular.

And more modest, obviously.

[piscator]

Ah, but it is true, you see. We actually are an exceptional country filled with exceptional people who are better, smarter, faster, stronger and better looking than you are.

You forgot fatter, louder, and less popular.

And more modest, obviously.

More everything.

[pErvinalia]

MOAR MORE!!!

[Sean Hayden]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/06/world ... .html?_r=1

[Rum]

The same mindset and Pol Pot and his Year Zero. Bastards.