Poll of the Day > America is no longer a country

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BUMPED2002
01/17/20 12:31:12 AM
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The U.S. has lost its sense of national community. Instead of being a country, it has mutated into a vast gladiatorial arena, a place where corporations compete for profits in a zero-sum game, where everything is reduced to winners and losers, and where, unfortunately, the federal laws are so weak, they practically guarantee that the workers will always be the losers.

Your thoughts?

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Zeus
01/17/20 1:12:08 AM
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BUMPED2002 posted... The U.S. has lost its sense of national community. Instead of being a country, it has mutated into a vast gladiatorial arena, a place where corporations compete for profits in a zero-sum game, where everything is reduced to winners and losers, and where, unfortunately, the federal laws are so weak, they practically guarantee that the workers will always be the losers.

Your thoughts?


I'm still waiting to hear you think.

Otherwise the only way that America would cease to be a country is if we had completely open borders, which some far-left zealots have proposed.

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JoseAAV
01/17/20 1:26:19 AM
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yeah but rent is still around.
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fishy071
01/17/20 1:58:12 AM
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I feel the same way at times, not just for America, but many other countries as well.

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aHappySacka
01/17/20 2:50:00 AM
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It is a country in a geographical sense but what you're talking about is government structure in which American is most accurately described as an Oligarchy.

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Qask
01/17/20 4:57:11 AM
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aHappySacka posted...
It is a country in a geographical sense but what you're talking about is government structure in which American is most accurately described as an Oligarchy.
This

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Veedrock-
01/17/20 5:08:25 AM
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No less than 30 years old and conjuring thoughts like a 15-year old philosopher. You got the world figured out

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Mead
01/17/20 5:09:20 AM
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its still a country though

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Zeus
01/17/20 8:02:09 AM
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aHappySacka posted...
It is a country in a geographical sense but what you're talking about is government structure in which American is most accurately described as an Oligarchy.

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CaptainStrong
01/17/20 3:53:45 PM
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Zeus posted...
I'm still waiting to hear you think.

Otherwise the only way that America would cease to be a country is if we had completely open borders, which some far-left zealots have proposed.
Name them.
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DarkKirby2500
01/17/20 3:59:58 PM
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It's no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles.
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Zeus
01/17/20 8:59:15 PM
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CaptainStrong posted...
Name them.

Are you serious right now? There are people on Gamefaqs who argue that shit. Get the hell out of here with your faux skepticism.


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TheWitchMorgana
01/17/20 9:00:42 PM
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america is whatever zeus says it is
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CaptainStrong
01/17/20 10:53:06 PM
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Zeus posted...
Are you serious right now? There are people on Gamefaqs who argue that shit. Get the hell out of here with your faux skepticism.
So all you got are random nobodies on GameFAQs? Cool. Literally no one with any power wants completely open borders.
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Unbridled9
01/18/20 1:35:40 AM
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America is no longer a country. There is nothing between Canada and Mexico anymore except a giant expanse of ocean. Climate change has struck and it has caused America to be submerged beneath the waves where it shall remain. A fictitious nation of myth that other countries scoff at the notion of how it could possibly exist. Yet one day it shall rise again from the depths and the world, which will have known centuries of undiluted peace, will tremble in fear before the wrath and might of the U.S.A.!

I have no clue what I just wrote or why. I admit it.

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Muscles
01/18/20 2:20:29 AM
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Zeus posted...
I'm still waiting to hear you think.

Otherwise the only way that America would cease to be a country is if we had completely open borders, which some far-left zealots have proposed.
Im pretty sure you can have open borders and still be a country. All you need, when you get down to it, is a piece of land that people live in that isn't controlled by an outside government

From Merriam-Webster

a political state or nation or its territory

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Unbridled9
01/18/20 12:01:26 PM
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Muscles posted...
Im pretty sure you can have open borders and still be a country. All you need, when you get down to it, is a piece of land that people live in that isn't controlled by an outside government

From Merriam-Webster

a political state or nation or its territory

It depends on how 'open' said borders are. But if they get too open there's nothing stopping an outside government or people from another nation from just coming in and deciding what your nation does without actually becoming citizens. It would be like if Nintendo Switch fans got to decide the games that came out on the PS4 without even owning a PS4.

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Judgmenl
01/18/20 12:04:41 PM
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I find myself a winner, idk what harsh reality you live in.

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Zeus
01/18/20 7:38:34 PM
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CaptainStrong posted...
So all you got are random nobodies on GameFAQs? Cool. Literally no one with any power wants completely open borders.

Because nobody in their right mind would put somebody who wants open borders into power... well, not counting the district that put AOC into office. But thankfully she apparently has no power.

Muscles posted...
Im pretty sure you can have open borders and still be a country. All you need, when you get down to it, is a piece of land that people live in that isn't controlled by an outside government

From Merriam-Webster

a political state or nation or its territory

No borders means no territory since borders define a territory.

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Amuseum
01/18/20 7:45:03 PM
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People's Republic of America is coming. Resistance is futile.

Finally. We have waited too long to be unified under a single party.
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Unbridled9
01/18/20 7:51:58 PM
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Amuseum posted...
People's Republic of America is coming. Resistance is futile.

Finally. We have waited too long to be unified under a single party.

You ever notice that nations that have 'peoples X of Y' always seem to be dictatorial oligarchies?

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papercup
01/19/20 4:27:49 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9XeyBd_IuA

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