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Quote: GenoDRPh

Why didn't you leave when Obama,or Clinton or Biden were President?

Because I realize that our country fits my needs better than all the others, regardless of who is President. I have never hated the USA the way Gandler does. As I’ve opined repeatedly, who the President is is not as important as people make it out to be. With all of Trump’s foibles, life goes on. Same in NYC despite Mamdani. Etc…

Quote: SOOPOO

Because I realize that our country fits my needs better than all the others, regardless of who is President. I have never hated the USA the way Gandler does. As I’ve opined repeatedly, who the President is is not as important as people make it out to be. With all of Trump’s foibles, life goes on. Same in NYC despite Mamdani. Etc…

It's not hatred. It's a desire to fix its myriad problems.

Quote: GenoDRPh

It's not hatred. It's a desire to fix its myriad problems.

Don Quixote.

Quote: SOOPOO

Don Quixote.

You're the one who thins and acts as if nothing is wrong and nothing needs to be fixed.

Quote: SOOPOO

Because I realize that our country fits my needs better than all the others, regardless of who is President. I have never hated the USA the way Gandler does. As I’ve opined repeatedly, who the President is is not as important as people make it out to be. With all of Trump’s foibles, life goes on. Same in NYC despite Mamdani. Etc…

So most of the operations I cited above did not happen under Trump, in fact many happened under Democrats. I never said Trump was to blame, or even Republicans. These are all situations/crimes/history of America, we as a society are responsible for (good or bad.) I was simply pointing out, your argument is Iran does not deserve to exist because they fund groups that target civilians, we do the same at a much larger extent, so that is a weird hill to die on...

That being said, the thing that scares me about Trump is authoritarianism and the risk of nuclear war.

I don't hate America, in fact if you look at my post history, I spent years of getting made fun of for being a militant nationalist (back pre-2018 wov when you could debate politics.) I am not even saying I disagree with those operations (some of them were probably necessary.). I am just pointing out the hypocrisy of citing this as the primary reason to support the war, when we are far more guilty of this that Iran.

If I point out that my wife needs to stop drinking and eat healthier and make frequent comments to her about it, do I hate my wife? Or am I trying to improve her?

It is weird, that I am the one who "hates America," when not once did you say this to anyone siding with Russia or China under Biden.... So you clearly have a partisan bias...

Quote: Gandler

So the idea that we do not routinely and overwhelming supply weapons and money to extremist groups that target civilians is a farce. We are far more guilty of that than Iran ever would be. And, at least in the case of Iran, they only target about 3 different countries, whereas we have committed such crimes in every continent (except Antarctica.)

This kind of talk comes straight from Marxist dogma. I guess you pick it up from the magazines and social media you connect with

Quote: odiousgambit

This kind of talk comes straight from Marxist dogma. I guess you pick it up from the magazines and social media you connect with

Well, I don't use social media (this forum and like one other are the limit of my online presence,) and I rarely read magazines (the only magazine I read was Military History and that closed some years ago, and I liked NatGeo when I was younger, but also have not got in years) and I am definitely not a Marxist.

I guess if you consider historic truths "Marxist Dogma," I can't really help you.

Quote: Gandler

Well, I don't use social media (this forum and like one other are the limit of my online presence,) and I rarely read magazines (the only magazine I read was Military History and that closed some years ago, and I liked NatGeo when I was younger, but also have not got in years) and I am definitely not a Marxist.

I guess if you consider historic truths "Marxist Dogma," I can't really help you.

Just in case you want to read magazines, your local library has an app, which lets you access free magazines from home. (my app is called Libby). I probably use it once a week.

I moved again recently, I need to get into libraries for borrowing books.

They are also a great deal for borrowing DVDs and Blu-ray for free. They are very overlooked.

But, you are right, magazines digitally sounds smart.

Quote: Gandler

I moved again recently, I need to get into libraries for borrowing books.

They are also a great deal for borrowing DVDs and Blu-ray for free. They are very overlooked.

But, you are right, magazines digitally sounds smart.

Long time I ago I checked out movies from the library. Later I used that red box thing. Now it's cable.

I liked Redbox, because there aren't many recent movies to justify any kind of regular viewing.