2010-03-19, 23:11 | Link #6621 | |
The AnimeSuki Pet kitten
IT Support
|
Quote:
__________________
|
|
2010-03-20, 09:44 | Link #6622 | |
Disabled By Request
|
Quote:
|
|
2010-03-20, 10:03 | Link #6623 | |
The Voice of Reason
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: The Netherlands
Age: 47
|
Quote:
http://dictionary.reference.com/brow...src=ref&ch=dic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee |
|
2010-03-20, 10:14 | Link #6624 | |
Disabled By Request
|
Quote:
|
|
2010-03-20, 10:42 | Link #6625 |
NYAAAAHAAANNNNN~
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 35
|
Ever heard of the book "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"? It is written by Mark Twain in the 1880s...meaning that the term had actually existed for sometime, probably formulated after the Seven Years War or during the Independence War.
__________________
|
2010-03-20, 12:29 | Link #6629 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: China
|
Quote:
"Yankee", these days and IMHO, isn't really a negative term, but rather more as a way to show that its target is from the Northern U.S. In that sense, "Yankee Aggression" is synonymous. It's certainly better than using the historical term "carpetbagger", which was more derogatory - although no idea on how many people will know of it without looking it up.
__________________
|
|
2010-03-20, 14:53 | Link #6630 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2009
Age: 35
|
Quote:
Honestly the election of Barack Obama is not the days of colorless society, but the days of racist society bubbling up, there is a lot of resentment that a black man could be the leader of this great nation. These outbursts such as the John Roberts mouthing No at the State of the union, Joe Wilson's out burst are just some of the vocal racists thoughts leaking out of once precieved taboo thoughts. Also all the birthers are innate racists, it's sad that civil rights took a step back once the first black president took the oath of office. |
|
2010-03-20, 21:05 | Link #6631 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: USA
|
Quote:
The fact that someone can get away with making remarks like this in Congress, as part of the public record, is pathetic. |
|
2010-03-20, 21:25 | Link #6632 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2009
Age: 35
|
Quote:
|
|
2010-03-20, 23:04 | Link #6635 | |||
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: China
|
Quote:
Spoiler for To save space:
Quote:
And it does not help matters, IMHO, that you get the "good ole boys" talking the talk. Of course, their remarks tend to make good - if more negative - sound bites, so a "quality" one gets more air time, which for a politician, is good. These also play on people's beliefs that (1) the past tends to be bright and beautiful, (2) if allowed, our lives would have been better, and (3) what happened was not our fault, but rather caused by *those* people. Quote:
And before people jump [up and] down on me , I see that being a fault of everyone - Democrats, Republicans, liberals, conservatives and etc.
__________________
|
|||
2010-03-20, 23:14 | Link #6636 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2009
Age: 35
|
Quote:
Now Sherman was a general, at the time of the war his actions would cost the US government millions of dollars but at the time, after bunker hill and the battle of appomatax the notion of playing civil with the southerners would have cost Grant the war. The decisive and brutal tactics that Sherman used helped demoralize the south enough to force the surrender of the confederates. And yes the war wasn't fought solely on noble purposes of the freedom of slaves as Lincoln was a proponent of emigration of Africans back to Africa. And for the most part on Obama, yes he's more of the same, with the renewing of the patriot act, and the slow withdrawal of American troops in Iraq, and the escalation in Afghanistan, but at least on some things he's moving. Still I just want the corporatists out of washington, and for the people to become the main customer of the government not the corporations some of which are enslaving part of this great nation. (pst i know it's rhetoric, but working poor do exisit) |
|
2010-03-20, 23:34 | Link #6637 | |
廉頗
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Massachusetts
Age: 34
|
Quote:
|
|
2010-03-21, 00:29 | Link #6638 | ||
Bittersweet Distractor
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 32
|
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_507128.html
Quote:
Quote:
Lets ignore the rest of the world. Lets just focus on ourselves, and be isolationists. I'm sure we'll be ok (sarcasm).
__________________
|
||
2010-03-21, 00:54 | Link #6639 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
|
I know there is no "if" when discussing history. But let suppose that clown Wilson didn't get us into WWI, Germany & co would've won => the Czar would've been able to suppress Lenin, and there would've been no Hitler => no WWII.
And I bet you don't even know what is the difference b/w isolationism and non -interventionism. |
2010-03-21, 01:14 | Link #6640 | |
Bittersweet Distractor
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 32
|
Quote:
Also, WWI may very well have still been won by France and Britain even without the help of the US. My point still stands regardless of what history event you want me to pick out. Isolationism ==> non-interventionism. Non-interventionism ==/==> isolationism. Honestly, intellectual arrogance will get you nowhere.
__________________
|
|
Tags |
current affairs, discussion, international |
|
|