Let's talk about patriotism
are true patriots
use patriostism for their own advantage
don't care about patriotism
gah
Patriotism II
Let's talk about patriotism
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Hmmm in my country the politicians are just a scared bunch that think politics is talking about wether or not to talk about talking about talking about something, anything that mildly reeks at patriotism is sure to get you killed.
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Oh gawd, do we have to?Originally Posted by Franconicus
"If there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this one."
Albert Camus "Noces"
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Oh gawd, do we have to?
Agreed. Let's direct the conversation the way the poll implies. Towards nice, safe targets: Politicians.
Reinvent the British and you get a global finance center, edible food and better service. Reinvent the French and you may just get more Germans.
Ik hou van ferme grieten en dikke pinten
Down with dried flowers!
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Politicians:
A) Don't care about patriotism.
B) Let patriotism be hijacked by racist prigs.
This is just one of the many reasons neither Labour now the Conservatives can get more than 38% of the vote and the reason immigration is unchecked.
Here's a good one for you. The Home Office has now admitted there may be as many as 500,000 failed asylum seakers still in the UK, which effectively doubles the number of immigrants, up to 900,000.
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I voted for true patriots....but truth be told very few of them are; But I didn't want to throw them in with the worthless lying majority.
Formerly ceasar010
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Politicians on both sides of the aisle play on the strong patriotic feelings of many Americans, and use those feelings to their own advantage.
If I was a politician, I sure would.
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Double post..
Last edited by PanzerJaeger; 07-20-2006 at 19:01.
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They are only patriotic if they polls indicate that would yield them more votes. The majority of ideas are massaged to fit a marketing brand.
Our genes maybe in the basement but it does not stop us chosing our point of view from the top.
Pape for global overlord!!
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While many use patriotism for politics, many also feel deeply patriotic.
Probably more that use patriotism though.
Besides, what do you consider patriotism? Militant nationalism? Cultural Pride?
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Einstein
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Well put, and I concur -- with the questions as well. Most apt.
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
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hehe politcans. I dont think they know there are real people in the country
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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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