Hes from Australia?
Gah.
I don't know what exactly the post said that this argument originated from....
But in this thread at least.... Glenn has a point.... Not that the Soviet Union are great (thier terrible) but that people could be similarly offended by praising a country like USA for example.... who are of course far less worse than the soviet union but they have done plenty of bad things
In remembrance of our great Admin Tosa Inu, A tireless worker with the patience of a saint. As long as I live I will not forget you. Thank you for everything!
Lack of edit in the watchtower is annoying...
Just ignore the post above...i was going to edit it out... but if it really annoys you read my calrification below...
he had a point in that various groups of people could be personally offended by praise of almost any leader....
In remembrance of our great Admin Tosa Inu, A tireless worker with the patience of a saint. As long as I live I will not forget you. Thank you for everything!
Posts like that do not belong in the frontroom though. Granted if you want to say Americas bad we could also point out the fact that aussie has been eradicating and reeducating there natives for hundreds of years now.
Every country has blood on its hands.
But posting such things in the frontroom only ruins threads and hurts feelings
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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