America in 2018

[Svartalf]

wtf is a vibrio award? what's the relationship to cholera?

[laklak]

I just made it up, I need a Florida man award. We get Vibrio Vulnificus here, the dreaded "flesh eating bacteria". Occurs other places, but it particularly likes warm, brackish water, something we have a lot of. If it gets into an open wound it can rot your limbs off. You also get it from raw oysters, but usually doesn't kill you if you consume it, most people don't realize they have it. If it gets into an open cut it can kill you, CDC says wound infections are fatal in 1 out of 7 cases.

[Svartalf]

ah, THAT one... yeah, so it's a kind of specialized Floridian award... interesting.

[Seabass]

I agree Rum. The American dream was a big con. Pure individual conservatism. Vietnam war ended because the Americans had lost. They were chased out. Like in Ethiopia. It is the aggression of the country that gets me. They just are not able to think in any other terms. It is an extreme adversarial society.

America Has Been At War 93% of the Time – 222 Out of 239 Years – Since 1776

Just unbelievable.

Whereas the Dutch have only been at war for 70% of its existence. So I guess the threshold between aggressive/adversarial and non-aggressive/non-adversarial exists somewhere between 70% and 93%.

What a load of crap. Sorry no comparison. How many wars did we start? How many did we have no option but defend ourselves. In modern times how many took place outside NATO? The USA was almost always the instigator. When did it defend itself?
Typical Trumpian arguments.

Of course. Dutch wars are the best wars, and Merkin wars are the worst wars. Everything is black and white with you.

You have a lot in common with Trump supporters. The binary thinking, the scapegoating, the fervent nationalism, the historical illiteracy, the tendency to select or discard information based on whether or not it supports your worldview. You're a bit like the left version of Forty Two.

[Tero]

American wars were napalm and agent orange! Now we have just President Orange attacking the world.

Trump will be governor of Crimea after we chase him out.

[pErvinalia]

I agree Rum. The American dream was a big con. Pure individual conservatism. Vietnam war ended because the Americans had lost. They were chased out. Like in Ethiopia. It is the aggression of the country that gets me. They just are not able to think in any other terms. It is an extreme adversarial society.

America Has Been At War 93% of the Time – 222 Out of 239 Years – Since 1776

Just unbelievable.

Whereas the Dutch have only been at war for 70% of its existence. So I guess the threshold between aggressive/adversarial and non-aggressive/non-adversarial exists somewhere between 70% and 93%.

What a load of crap. Sorry no comparison. How many wars did we start? How many did we have no option but defend ourselves. In modern times how many took place outside NATO? The USA was almost always the instigator. When did it defend itself?
Typical Trumpian arguments.

Of course. Dutch wars are the best wars, and Merkin wars are the worst wars. Everything is black and white with you.

You have a lot in common with Trump supporters. The binary thinking, the scapegoating, the fervent nationalism, the historical illiteracy, the tendency to select or discard information based on whether or not it supports your worldview. You're a bit like the left version of Forty Two.

[Scot Dutchy]

Of course. Dutch wars are the best wars, and Merkin wars are the worst wars. Everything is black and white with you.

You have a lot in common with Trump supporters. The binary thinking, the scapegoating, the fervent nationalism, the historical illiteracy, the tendency to select or discard information based on whether or not it supports your worldview. You're a bit like the left version of Forty Two.

Really do talk crap. Comparing a small country on the edge of a continent that was consistently at war being unable to avoid most of it. We were not aggressors starting almost every war that it was involved in. America is still starting wars. It cant help itself. It believes it has a god given right to.