In other, somewhat less distressing news
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The Usenet Deep Space Nine recapper who helped inspire modern TV criticism
Dark is divine: What colour are Indian gods and goddesses?
People Are Screaming After This Guy Mistakenly Thought The Women's March Was Cheering Him
A Year Ago, They Marched. Now a Record Number of Women Are Running for Office
Post-work: the radical idea of a world without jobs
The Brazilian man who lives in a sandcastle (Video)
Passing: I have to fight the battle on two fronts: gender and disability.
Too Much Music: A Failed Experiment In Dedicated Listening
The fabulous story of North Korea’s fabric made of stone
Mike Pence visits Middle East but US role as peace broker may be over
Before 'Roe v. Wade,' The Women of 'Jane' Provided Abortions For The Women Of Chicago
In The Midst Of #MeToo, What Type Of Man Do You Want To Be?
Cardinal rebukes pope over Chile 'slander' comments on abuse
How Do You Rebuild Your Life After Leaving A Polygamous Sect?
Forget About Siri and Alexa — When It Comes to Voice Identification, the “NSA Reigns Supreme”
A Child Abuse Prediction Model Fails Poor Families
Striking Florida Prisoners Thrown in Solitary Confinement, Activists Say
American Democracy Is an Easy Target
Poor minorities left behind in Indian cities boom
Putin cast as national saviour ahead of Russia election
The White House Has A New Voicemail Following The Government Shutdown And It's...Something (This isn't normal either fyi.)
The Good War: How America’s infatuation with World War II has eroded our conscience (That's a must read. I was immediately reminded ofsholio's post about how our culture has more or less forgotten Vietnam. And while I was googling for that I found the next two links, so I guess this is a four-fer?)
Why Don’t Americans Know What Really Happened in Vietnam? Instead of confronting the truth, we scrubbed the record clean—and we’re still paying for it in Afghanistan and Iraq today.
The Vietnam War, as Seen by the Victors
The Usenet Deep Space Nine recapper who helped inspire modern TV criticism
Dark is divine: What colour are Indian gods and goddesses?
People Are Screaming After This Guy Mistakenly Thought The Women's March Was Cheering Him
A Year Ago, They Marched. Now a Record Number of Women Are Running for Office
Post-work: the radical idea of a world without jobs
The Brazilian man who lives in a sandcastle (Video)
Passing: I have to fight the battle on two fronts: gender and disability.
Too Much Music: A Failed Experiment In Dedicated Listening
The fabulous story of North Korea’s fabric made of stone
Mike Pence visits Middle East but US role as peace broker may be over
Before 'Roe v. Wade,' The Women of 'Jane' Provided Abortions For The Women Of Chicago
In The Midst Of #MeToo, What Type Of Man Do You Want To Be?
Cardinal rebukes pope over Chile 'slander' comments on abuse
How Do You Rebuild Your Life After Leaving A Polygamous Sect?
Forget About Siri and Alexa — When It Comes to Voice Identification, the “NSA Reigns Supreme”
A Child Abuse Prediction Model Fails Poor Families
Striking Florida Prisoners Thrown in Solitary Confinement, Activists Say
American Democracy Is an Easy Target
Poor minorities left behind in Indian cities boom
Putin cast as national saviour ahead of Russia election
The White House Has A New Voicemail Following The Government Shutdown And It's...Something (This isn't normal either fyi.)
The Good War: How America’s infatuation with World War II has eroded our conscience (That's a must read. I was immediately reminded of
sholio's post about how our culture has more or less forgotten Vietnam. And while I was googling for that I found the next two links, so I guess this is a four-fer?)Why Don’t Americans Know What Really Happened in Vietnam? Instead of confronting the truth, we scrubbed the record clean—and we’re still paying for it in Afghanistan and Iraq today.
The Vietnam War, as Seen by the Victors
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Date: 2018-02-02 10:54 am (UTC)I can say - not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the
necessary metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, political and esthetic
roots - that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and,
in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history
of the world.
- Ayn Rand
Its government, however, ain't no such a thing. Beyond the framework of necessary laws, coining of money and so forth, everything the United States achieved, that caused them to “sit bestride the world like a Colossus,” was achieved away from and in spite of Federal bureaucrats.
“For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.” - Joe-Bob Briggs
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Date: 2018-02-02 05:47 pm (UTC)If you overlook the slavery which was explicitly protected in the Constitution, maybe. And the fact that a non-zero number of our Founding Fathers actively participated in genocide.
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Date: 2018-02-02 06:32 pm (UTC)a non-zero number of our Founding Fathers
Interesting. Name two.
(Andrew Jackson doesn't count as a Founding Father; he was ten years old at the time.)
UTA: Then perhaps you could tell me where these exploits are mentioned in the US Constitution - which is the actual subject of discussion - or how they affected it. If it's important enough to mention as a counter-argument, you should be able to say how…
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Date: 2018-02-03 01:29 am (UTC)When the actions of our young nation involved slavery (enshrined in the Constitution, something you haven't addressed) and genocide and forced relocations, it's hard to say that it has any claims towards superior morality. Actions, as they say, speak louder than words.
Given that one of the few things Ayn Rand and I see eye to eye on is that racism is bad, you'd think she'd condemn those actions.