Capt. Sir Mick Preston
Capitán of the Zouaves
Posts: 6,511
Talossan Since: 9-21-2006
Knight Since: 10-12-2010
Motto: Cuimhnichibh air na daoine bho'n d'thainig sibh
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Post by Capt. Sir Mick Preston on Sept 2, 2013 21:33:33 GMT -6
Who said anything about a European superiority? I talk about humanistic superiority and, quite frankly, people I hear condemning or belittling other nations frequently, are the People of the United States, in most situations. I do not believe you realise how crazy it is to go and decide on just bombing a country without any UN resolution, which the U.S. government is almost bragging about planning to do. You really don't have a clue about the current US Government, do you? Would you please update your knowledge database by a decade, and get back to us?
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Post by Magniloqueu Épiqeu da Lhiun on Sept 3, 2013 6:17:27 GMT -6
Excuse me - what knowledge is fusty about the U.S. government? And do you deny the bragging about attacking Syria without UN mandate? And do you, further, endorse the violation of privacy committed by the NSA and their very own "secret court" jurisdiction? The chase after Edward Snowden and the incitement to endanger diplomatic relations with... oh, I don't know... Bolivia?
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Capt. Sir Mick Preston
Capitán of the Zouaves
Posts: 6,511
Talossan Since: 9-21-2006
Knight Since: 10-12-2010
Motto: Cuimhnichibh air na daoine bho'n d'thainig sibh
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Post by Capt. Sir Mick Preston on Sept 3, 2013 6:51:06 GMT -6
Excuse me - what knowledge is fusty about the U.S. government? And do you deny the bragging about attacking Syria without UN mandate? And do you, further, endorse the violation of privacy committed by the NSA and their very own "secret court" jurisdiction? The chase after Edward Snowden and the incitement to endanger diplomatic relations with... oh, I don't know... Bolivia? Yes, I deny that there is any "bragging" done about attacking Syria. It hasn't been done yet, unless you've hopped aboard the Talossan Time Travel Machine, and know something the rest of the world doesn't know. If you took the time to learn, according to the Patriot Act that was passed in 2001, what the NSA was doing was authorized. The chase after Snowden was pursuing a person that had broken multiple USA laws. I do believe it's a common practice to attempt to apprehend a fugitive. Now, before you ask any other questions that you don't know the answer to - Please define "Totalitarian", "Crazy", 'god-complexed" , and most especially "regime". Because those words don't mean what you think they mean.
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Post by Magniloqueu Épiqeu da Lhiun on Sept 3, 2013 7:16:00 GMT -6
What the NSA was doing cannot have been authorised since they do not possess executional powers abroad. Now I do care little if the people of the United States care about their privacy, but I would like the U.S. government not to read all my e-mails.
Do chase after him - but do so with your powers and not by possibly jeopardising peoples' lives and other countries' diplomatic relations, by pressuring them into not accepting landing of a Bolivian presidential air-craft. I also find it awful that everybody except Russia, who always had a grudge against USA, is too cowardly, in regard to the USA, to grant Snowden political asylum, since what he did was for the sake of the republic! For the sake of human rights!
A totalitarian régime is a dictatorial form of "government" that seeks to change their subjects in a certain manner. Now I know that, de iure, the USA is a Constitutional Republic and democratic, but I see signs of a wish to "rule (totalitarianly) over all", especially abroad. Memes about the U.S. government frequently invading other countries because of their oil-craving under humanitarian pretences did not emerge out of the blue! As for "crazy" and "god-complexed", I really doubt I need to explain myself or these words.
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Capt. Sir Mick Preston
Capitán of the Zouaves
Posts: 6,511
Talossan Since: 9-21-2006
Knight Since: 10-12-2010
Motto: Cuimhnichibh air na daoine bho'n d'thainig sibh
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Post by Capt. Sir Mick Preston on Sept 3, 2013 7:53:58 GMT -6
What the NSA was doing cannot have been authorised since they do not possess executional powers abroad. Now I do care little if the people of the United States care about their privacy, but I would like the U.S. government not to read all my e-mails. Do chase after him - but do so with your powers and not by possibly jeopardising peoples' lives and other countries' diplomatic relations, by pressuring them into not accepting landing of a Bolivian presidential air-craft. I also find it awful that everybody except Russia, who always had a grudge against USA, is too cowardly, in regard to the USA, to grant Snowden political asylum, since what he did was for the sake of the republic! For the sake of human rights! A totalitarian régime is a dictatorial form of "government" that seeks to change their subjects in a certain manner. Now I know that, de iure, the USA is a Constitutional Republic and democratic, but I see signs of a wish to "rule (totalitarianly) over all", especially abroad. Memes about the U.S. government frequently invading other countries because of their oil-craving under humanitarian pretences did not emerge out of the blue! As for "crazy" and "god-complexed", I really doubt I need to explain myself or these words. Apparently, you don't have all the information needed before you make your claims. The NSA gathered information domestically. Anything occurring in the boundaries of the United States was covered under the Patriot Act. So, your interpretation is incorrect. Also, they didn't read YOUR emails unless you are a known terrorist, or member of a foreign group that advocates violent acts against USA citizens, or sabotage of any sort. The USA respected the jurisdiction of other countries, and asked them to return the fugitive. They did not break any international laws. What Snowden did, or did not do must be determined in Judicial Courts, not the Court of Public Opinion. Whose life was threatened, by the way? I deny that your interpretation of "Totalitarian" applies to the USA. I do appreciate your propaganda, though. Quite 2001-ish, and with all the inflammatory wording. Yes, you do need to define "god-complex", and "crazy", because they do not apply to the USA Government under most common definitions.
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Istefan Perþonest
Cunstaval to Fiôvâ; Regent of the University of Talossa
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Talossan Since: 2-21-1998
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Post by Istefan Perþonest on Sept 3, 2013 9:41:45 GMT -6
Who said anything about a European superiority? Oh, you weren't consciously doing so. That's what's so interesting about the phenomenon. Faced with declaring that (among others) the Bahamas, Botswana, India, Jamaica, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States are all "totalitarian, crazy or similar", the only one you bothered to comment on was the one of mostly-European descent. You either took it as an obvious given that (for example) Japan was totalitarian/crazy/similar, or you never even noticed the fact that the world's second-largest industrialized democracy (and the largest one not of largely European descent) has and enforces the death penalty.
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Post by Magniloqueu Épiqeu da Lhiun on Sept 3, 2013 11:41:57 GMT -6
I believe you do not realise that Japan is very much ancient and also endorsed the Nazis.
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Capt. Sir Mick Preston
Capitán of the Zouaves
Posts: 6,511
Talossan Since: 9-21-2006
Knight Since: 10-12-2010
Motto: Cuimhnichibh air na daoine bho'n d'thainig sibh
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Post by Capt. Sir Mick Preston on Sept 3, 2013 13:19:55 GMT -6
I believe you do not realise that Japan is very much ancient and also endorsed the Nazis. I really wouldn't use the word "endorsed". That would suggest that Japan agreed with everything Germany did. I would say that they had a common goal, and formed the Axis Alliance. The Axis promoted the alliance as a part of a revolutionary process aimed at breaking the hegemony of plutocratic-capitalist Western powers and defending civilization from communism. The Axis grew out of the Anti-Comintern Pact, an anti-communist treaty signed by Germany and Japan in 1936. The Japanese government justified its actions by claiming that it was seeking to unite East Asia under Japanese leadership in a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, that would free East Asians from domination and rule by clients of Western imperialism and particularly American imperialism. Japan invoked themes of Pan-Asianism and said that the Asian people needed to be free from Anglo-American influence. But that's really a different topic for a different thread.
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Post by Sir Alexandreu Davinescu on Sept 3, 2013 15:45:13 GMT -6
I would strongly please request that if you guys have to argue international politics like that, you do it in the Chat Room. But really, experience has taught me that it's better to just agree to angrily disagree.
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