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The Founders would be pleased to see how far we've come.
Instead of a light shining on a hill, we're a candle guttering on a molehill.
The founders are all dead. I'm pretty sure their mile times suck.
The Founders would be pleased to see how far we've come.
Instead of a light shining on a hill, we're a candle guttering on a molehill.
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The founders are all dead. I'm pretty sure their mile times suck.
They don't have our history or our Constitution.
What's our excuse?
Doesn't matter. As long as we are better than communist China then we are perfect.
What was that about pots and kettles?
Seriously, I keeping finding more ways to just hate the country my parents came from. I am thankful at every birthday that I was born in America and thank fate that my parents moved us out of Chicago and live in Indiana so I can own guns when I grew up 13 years ago.
The longer I stay in the big red country, the more reasons I find to stay.
The only thing that disturbs me is a lack of gun rights. I miss carrying a weapon.
Yep, because personal liberty is overrated....that, and everyone knows that China has no crime.
Our excuse is that our form of government has provided more individual freedom than any other sort of government since at least the Middle Ages.
As a guest of their country, what personal liberties are being taken away from me, aside from gun ownership?
Everyone knows the US has no crime, too. What are you trying to say?
China doesn't criticize our society. Their government criticizes our government. And our government criticizes basically the rest of the world.
Of course the US is preferable to China, but another PATRIOT Act or two, some more agencies like DHS, more internet surveillance, and it will be harder to tell the difference.
You mean something along the lines of telling the difference between Romney and Obama, or between the Dick Lugar and Teddy Kennedy?
When you find a free minute, head on down to Tiananmen Square and exercise some of that peaceable freedom of speech and assembly in criticizing the Chinese government.
Oh, wait. That didn't work out so well the last time.
My bad.
You mean something along the lines of telling the difference between Romney and Obama, or between the Dick Lugar and Teddy Kennedy?
You know that short of murder, the penalty for breaking the laws of the host country ranges from a slap on the wrist, to a small fine, to deportation/extradition, right?
This applies to all countries, not just China. The execution van doesn't drive around picking up foreigners for publically bashing the government, ffs.
Really? Try getting caught running drugs through Turkey; or getting caught in sodomy with another person of the same sex by the Taliban or the Saudis; or get caught selling arms in Thailand. Get caught spitting on the sidewalk in Singapore and see how they treat you. Try "fomenting revolution" on a street-corner in Beijing; you may get home eventually, but you'll spend a very uncomfortable time while the local government decides if it wants to make an example of you or not.
You know that short of murder, the penalty for breaking the laws of the host country ranges from a slap on the wrist, to a small fine, to deportation/extradition, right?
This applies to all countries, not just China.......