Heheheh, I'll bite. The Gods know I do not fear confrontations
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Hangtime, to start with, I cannot really believe you think democracy is an American invention. If you do, I hope they invite you to the Jerry Springer show, alongside with the nazi who slept with his Jewish transvestite brother, because that'd be your intellectual class.
What would life in Denmark be like? Well, the sequence of events that were necessary to bring me here would not have happened. Another sperm would have fertilized another egg, and someone else would know. In other words, I cannot know, and I don't care to speculate in this area when I have no substantiated evidence to anything. Maybe I would been part of Hitler's master race; I am blonde, blue eyed and generally very superior looking. Or maybe I would be just another person under communist rule; a communist rule that would be much much stronger than what it turned out to be in Real Life(tm).
<tongue in cheek>
Or, even better, I'd be placed in the cockpit of a MiG 29 and blast True American Patriots like yourself to hell, and laugh doing so.
So, we will never know, and all you can do is speculate. This will just lead to counterclaims and is quite unproductive.
Like it or not; had America not come to fight the european war, and not shed our blood for western europe's freedom; your home would have a Russian sittin in it...
More like a German. If America hand't intervened, Germany would probably been able to take the Soviet Union as well or at least have avoided a two front war. And, since the Germans at the time considered the Scandinavians part of the Aryan race, I wouldn't be too worried. I'd probably have a handful of southern Europeans as slaves, starting with RAM's sisters. Or captured American spies.
Geesh Hangtime, you *really* like to selectively read posts. Listen to me for one second here; if I was to come screaming *every time* the word democracy was mentioned "we invented it, we defend it, we are free and you are not nyah nyah nyah", you'd be annoyed after a bit. If I then continued with "we saved your bellybutton during WWII!" and you have a thinking mind, you'd start to be irritated.
We who? Have you done so Hangtime? Did you fight the Germans? No? Your parents did? Ah, so you always claim credit
for the work of others?If, then, I chose to selectively forget about some parts of history, you'd start to be pissed and use the .squelch command of real life.
Thanks America for stabilizing southern America. God bless CIA intervention there, in defence of freedom and democracy.
My country, a little strip of not very fertile land placed on the northern hemisphere favourably close to the Gulf stream, is a nice one. It has values worth defending. But when it all comes down to it, it's just a piece of land and then someone has put arbitrary lines on a piece of paper declaring that all those on one side of the line are Danes, and the other Germans, Swedes or Norwegians. A great thinker once said "patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel" and I am inclined to agree - events in Europe from Alexander the Great to WWI, WWII and the situation on the Balkans have highlighted this truth.
Values, I'll defend. Values are without borders. As much as we disagree, I'd be the first to help defend your rights to disagree with me. But to defend some stupid piece of land because it has been labelled a specific way is foolish. To praise people I do not know who just by chance happen to be born within some lines on a map is foolish, unless it is evident that they've collectively and intentionally done something worth admiring. Even then, I would not hesitate to bring out the bad sides. I mean, the Danes have had a violent past; the Viking era wasn't precisely peaceful, and Denmark has spent more than 142 years at war with Sweden. Not to mention the feudal unfair system that used to be in place. Or currently the social democrats and their evilness
In other words, Hangtime, the ugly American I hate is the ignorant one, who selectively glorifies some parts of the action of his lines-on-the-map place, but utterly forget about others.
I've won the European Championship in soccer in 1992.
My toejamhouse is gonna outlast yer country, Hangtime, and do it with more glory.
This IS a flame thread, no? <|
But, to smooth things out; the US has come a long way. From a humble start of European trash and rejects, people who couldn't hack it "back home" <G, D, R>, it is now the most powerful nation this planet has ever seen, economically, politically and in the military sense. Fools would argue otherwise.
It's just not the moral beacon of light it claims to be, there's more work to be done in this area. Doing good, aye, but doing best, no.
To finish off this long post (Badger, your Badgerism is spreading
) I'll say that I have no animosity towards the US or Americans. On the contrary, the vast majority of Americans I've met have been very friendly, agreeable decent people who know how to drink beer and have a good time. A bit naeive at times, with a tendency to look at their own nation through the eyes of patriots, but that's just cute as long as it is not taken too far.
. Americans are sort of like big cuddly bears with huge rams; cute and nice when passive, but better run when hungry or pissed. My America bashing is only intended to tease and tickle, not enrage.
Eat that, American opportunist high altitude dweebs.
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