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america is [negative descriptor]
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 7:21 pm
by henry quirk
Why?
Re: america is [negative descriptor]
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 8:53 pm
by Harbal
henry quirk wrote:Why?
Well if you don't even think it deserves a capital A you're not exactly setting a positive example. Are you?
Re: america is [positive descriptor]
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 8:55 pm
by uwot
Why?
Re: america is [negative descriptor]
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 9:01 pm
by henry quirk
Harbal,
I rarely title threads with caps...call it stylistic eccentricity.
Uwot,
An equally valid question which folks can answer in this thread, if they like.
Re: america is [negative descriptor]
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 9:55 pm
by Greta
America is ... stricken with hubris, as happens to all great empires after a while.
Re: america is [negative descriptor]
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 10:09 pm
by Harbal
henry quirk wrote:Harbal,
I rarely title threads with caps...call it stylistic eccentricity.
I prefer to call it sloppiness. If you must be eccentric couldn't you do it on Facebook or some other place where it doesn't matter?
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 10:24 pm
by henry quirk
You'd rather nitpick about 'style' than answer the question(s)...
*shrug*
...as you like.
Re:
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 10:35 pm
by Harbal
henry quirk wrote:You'd rather nitpick about 'style' than answer the question(s)...
*shrug*
Shrug to you, too, henry quirk. And by the way, get your name capitalised.
Re: america is [negative descriptor]
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 11:30 pm
by Obvious Leo
America is trapped in a time warp. A theocracy cannot flourish in a secular age and the US clings tenaciously to its eternal verities only because its got nothing to replace them with. They'll grow out of it, or not as the case may be, but the rest of the world has passed them by and all the US is currently demonstrating to the world is the truth of its own irrelevance. Hence Trump. He thinks he can make America great again by playing the role of the bully in the schoolyard, completely oblivious to the fact that he's making his country the laughing stock of the world.
However I love America and I love Americans and I reckon there is still hope that the US might eventually become a civilised nation. Trying to teach America anything is rather like trying to teach a teenage child. It's an uphill task educating somebody who already knows everything.
Re: america is [negative descriptor]
Posted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 12:09 am
by bobevenson
Greta wrote:America is ... stricken with hubris, as happens to all great empires after a while.
Well, maybe some other country can step up to the plate, but not likely.
Re: america is [negative descriptor]
Posted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 12:28 am
by Obvious Leo
bobevenson wrote:Greta wrote:America is ... stricken with hubris, as happens to all great empires after a while.
Well, maybe some other country can step up to the plate, but not likely.
What plate is there to be stepped up to? The days of empire are over, Bob, not just for the US but for any other nation which tries to chuck its weight around. We're going to have to learn to get along like grown-ups.
Re: america is [negative descriptor]
Posted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 9:38 am
by Pluto
Posted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 3:30 pm
by henry quirk
My follow up: how did you arrive at your opinion about America?
Re: america is [negative descriptor]
Posted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 7:02 pm
by Pluto
I don't know what to think about the US.
Re: america is [negative descriptor]
Posted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 7:49 pm
by Hobbes' Choice
henry quirk wrote:Why?
{negative descriptor] = "not what it is cracked up to be"
"Led by a plutocratic dictatorship"
"Not as democratic as it pretends to be"
"Not as democratic as Iran."
"Screwed by its own gun laws, and unable to change"
"Would be worse for having Trump as President."
"More than just the USA. There are other countries in "America", you morons"
"Not very joined up."
" East coast not too bad; west coast not too bad, but its basically a red-neck moron sandwich."
"in a dangerous love affair with Israel."
"thinks it's the centre of the universe."