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    Old Town Road Senior Member Strike For The South's Avatar
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    Comparing a global hegemon to a girl with 34DDs and a wild animal is really a disservice to that global hegemon
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    Quote Originally Posted by Strike For The South View Post
    Comparing a global hegemon to a girl with 34DDs and a wild animal is really a disservice to that global hegemon
    Figurative speech isn't meant to make literal sense; they aren't direct comparisons, but showing similarities in vastly different situations.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Askthepizzaguy View Post
    Figurative speech isn't meant to make literal sense; they aren't direct comparisons, but showing similarities in vastly different situations.
    Global realtions can't be compared with such things though because you lose so much of the subtle nuance of diplomacy. The other countries are not jelaous of us because of ANY of the reasons why the other kids are jelaous of the girl.

    Painting it in such simple terms no doubt will lead to frustration
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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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    and large breasts really had nothing to do with either.

    Edit: jealousy also has nothing to do with this
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    jealousy is also not at play here.

    Edit: delete ill just edit into last post

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    And why shouldn't France be our "strongest ally"? They tried to keep us out of Iraq, giving us good advice and sticking to their guns to let us know we were wrong. Not like those sycophantic enablers, the Brits...
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    Why indeed?

    There's a lot of talk of the founding fathers these days. Who influenced them? Who did they influence? Who was their ideological brothers in arms? It certainly wasn't the British monarchist; no, it was the French revolutionary.

    Frqnce and the US have shared a common philosophy and a common goal ever since. That France is USA's spritual brother is beyond doubt.

    England is nothing more than USA's bullied little brother. France is USA's soulmate.
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    They were influenced by the French Revolution, not the French. Nice to have one's Hero a thousand miles away and several months cruise.

    They may have had a schoolboy crush on some ideals from afar, but they were British.

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