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Fearless

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9. To paraphrase George Bernard Shaw...

Reply to JayhawkSD (Reply #8)

Mon Dec 29, 2014, 07:36 PM

Dec 2014

Patriotism is the idea that your country is better than all others simply because you were born in it.

... Essentially what you're saying is your don't care what happens to people in other countries as long as your name can't be tangentially attached to the occurrence because yes China is doing the exact same things we are... In Africa.. South America... And soon in Russia.

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