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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 02:32 PM Original message |
Why Assange has done us a favor |
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kgnu_fan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
1. I have been in shock to realize how many DUers do accept American exceptionalism and war |
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Dawson Leery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 02:53 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. "American Exceptionalism" is the myth by which |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 02:57 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. People learn this early in life |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
2. Not sure losing the Empire is a painless procedure |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 02:59 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. I think the US will go the way the USSR. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 03:10 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Me too |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 03:12 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. And that is SOMETIMES... |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
3. Yes. We all knew. But, shoving it in our faces helps. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 03:03 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. You have been awake for a long time |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 03:11 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Yes. And, I hope that others will be just as shocked as I was many years ago. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 03:16 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Well everybody does it |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 03:29 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. We have become dependent, like our predecessors, on our Empire. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 03:42 PM Response to Reply #16 |
21. Exactly |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
5. k&r ... |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 03:01 PM Response to Original message |
8. Many of the perks we enjoy as citizens... |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 03:10 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Bullshit. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 03:11 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Then there is this issue about a reserve currency |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 03:31 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. The Dollar as reserve currency gave us more than 50 |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 06:52 PM Response to Reply #17 |
23. You seem to think military empire and reserve currency status are linked. |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 07:07 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. The military industrial complex was/is part of the civilian economy. |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 07:19 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. More bullshit. |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 02:01 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. kick |
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Gregorian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 03:39 PM Response to Reply #10 |
19. This, and the post above it would make a great thread. Now I've got to think about this a bit. |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 03:42 PM Response to Reply #10 |
20. +1000000000 |
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Mimosa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 02:15 PM Response to Reply #10 |
29. ^ +1,000 ^ Succinct explanation. n/t |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 11:37 AM Response to Reply #29 |
30. thanks! |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
18. Meanwhile, the Vandals on Wall St. keep sacking the Empire |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 03:46 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. It is not just WS... and a better allusion is not Germany |
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immune (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-02-10 07:50 PM Response to Original message |
26. Yes, sometimes a spade IS a bloody shovel. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 12:46 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Well this one is bloody |
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