5 Reasons Why American Riots Will Be The Worst In The World - Page 2

Feuer Frei! · 08-11-11, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by AJ94CAP

I'm not sure I see this as informative at all, more just a bash of America.

EDIT: Upon reading it twice, I am sure. This is simply a slight to Americans.

Well, you don't agree with any of the points mentioned there? Not reading between the lines? Drug abuse, violence, a collapsed US dollar, narcissim, arrogance, denial?
There is, and has been for a long time a general feeling that the world thinks the US is the biggest and the best and, dare I say it the baddest in all things global.
But what about addressing inside issues, or closer to home addressing of the problems currently crippling this great nation?
Why is it that when (and yes, one of your own) addresses quiet fundamental reasons for the outbreak of riots, or violence.
The points raised can all be a trigger.
Combine them all, and you magnify that outcome by a lot.
I think the article addresses perhaps nothing new, in the way that it doesn't post anything groundbreaking that we didn't already know. But to say it's bashing yourself (because the poster is American) is a case of the Emu with it's head in the sand maybe?
Is it denial? I don't know. It seems to me, and I can speak for myself as well, that if our countries are addressed in articles we get defensive and I can attest to that too. I am not immune to that.
However, does that attitude then not back up the point about denial even more then?
I think that's something worth considering.
Thinking that everything is a-ok and that it's just another bashing article of A nation is playing into the hands of the whole point of this article.

EDIT: Just read your reply further down, no probs mate, I didn't really think you were implying i was bashing here. Phew!
And the above, addressing you is not a attack on you.
Take it as a generalised way to invite discussion.
regards.

Castout · 08-11-11, 08:15 PM

Awakening

Found an interesting youtube video on it

If you believe everything in it you're stupid, if you believe nothing in it you're no where near awakening.

Awakening is a process that begins and ends inside an individual. It is walked by the realization of freewill and exercising the power of choosing and choosing what is right consistently. It involves expanding your consciousness(instead it being restricted to locality). It means to be a better man. It's not about revolution, it is about evolution that starts in individual and hopefully ends with the whole society.

That said however

AVGWarhawk · 08-11-11, 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie

The website's name says it all.

Don't Tread on Me is Tea Party? The site does not claim to be Tea Party.

Osmium Steele · 08-11-11, 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Some paranoid tea partier got into the whiskey and banged out a screed about the end of the world.

Logic fault here.

No tea party member I know would subscribe to the very first point in this article.

We all, regardless of social/political stripe, have a tendancy to believe in "american exceptionalism" which the first point of the article decries as arrogance.

AVGWarhawk · 08-11-11, 08:21 PM

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There is, and has been for a long time a general feeling that the world thinks the US is the biggest and the best and, dare I say it the baddest in all things global.

Well, no one has really challenged this. If they did, well, look in the history books.

AJ94CAP · 08-11-11, 08:22 PM

Well it is understood among at least 95% of Americans that not everything is alright.

This guy puts Americans into three catagories:

The arrogant, the blind, ... and himself. This is stereotypical beyond imagination. Does he not think that all the people getting laid off EVERYDAY feel the burn? I wouldn't call the people stupid whose houses have recently been foreclosed on because they don't have the money to pay their double morgage. What this guy has written, IMHO, is arrogant. With nearly 10% of Americans unemployed, (must be the same 10% dependent on drugs right) I seriously doubt ANY of us think that everything is alright. Just because no one is running around like a headless chicken yet does not mean that we are in denial. It's guys like this that make me most frustrated.

AVGWarhawk · 08-11-11, 08:23 PM

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running around like a headless chicken

I witnessed this in England in the past few days.

AVGWarhawk · 08-11-11, 08:26 PM

Anyway, besides the article and the jokes I posted. I strongly believe their will be more frequent rioting in American.

mookiemookie · 08-11-11, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Don't Tread on Me is Tea Party? The site does not claim to be Tea Party.

http://www.google.com/search?q=tea+p...w=1680&bih=925

AVGWarhawk · 08-11-11, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie

http://www.google.com/search?q=tea+p...w=1680&bih=925

OK, a flag with a snake....

MOOKIE....a flag with this saying flies bow of the USS TORSK. The flag has the snake. Does this mean the boat is Tea Party?

August · 08-11-11, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

Written by an American. Let's hope the posting will not be taken out of context and that I will be held liable for spreading anti-American propaganda.
The article is, I agree somewhat negative in SOME areas of it's content, however it's a different slant of the inherent problems facing America right now. And for many years.

But it is anti-American propaganda Frei. And you are spreading it. So why shouldn't you be held liable?

Whoever wrote that article is a troll. As you read it you can just feel the authors desire for it to happen.

AVGWarhawk · 08-11-11, 08:40 PM

Seems the site is down now.

August · 08-11-11, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie

The website's name says it all.

So mookie, if I put up a website with a liberal scheme and fill it with a bunch of looney left wing conspiracy theories you figure that it would be an accurate description of you?

08-11-11, 08:51 PM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

I strongly believe their will be more frequent rioting in American.

It's not a matter of if there will be rioting.
Just a matter of when it happens.
Then a matter of why it happened at all.

History shows us again and again that this is going to happen!
Thankfully I don't live in the Big Cities where it will happen.
All I'll need to do is watch for the City Dwellers who think they can raid the countryside.

Tain't no Coppers round this here parts to protect trouble makers!

Torplexed · 08-11-11, 09:03 PM

It's okay as long as it's a quiet riot.

08-11-11, 08:15 PM	#17
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08-11-11, 08:22 PM	#21
AJ94CAP Bosun Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Washington DC Posts: 65 Downloads: 150 Uploads: 0	Well it is understood among at least 95% of Americans that not everything is alright. This guy puts Americans into three catagories: The arrogant, the blind, ... and himself. This is stereotypical beyond imagination. Does he not think that all the people getting laid off EVERYDAY feel the burn? I wouldn't call the people stupid whose houses have recently been foreclosed on because they don't have the money to pay their double morgage. What this guy has written, IMHO, is arrogant. With nearly 10% of Americans unemployed, (must be the same 10% dependent on drugs right) I seriously doubt ANY of us think that everything is alright. Just because no one is running around like a headless chicken yet does not mean that we are in denial. It's guys like this that make me most frustrated. __________________ "Where bound?" "Hell by compass."

08-11-11, 08:26 PM	#23
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,254 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Anyway, besides the article and the jokes I posted. I strongly believe their will be more frequent rioting in American. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

08-11-11, 08:40 PM	#27
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,254 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Seems the site is down now. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

08-11-11, 09:03 PM	#30
Torplexed Let's Sink Sumptin' ! Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,823 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	It's okay as long as it's a quiet riot.