Current Events > Are you proud to be an American?

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No. I'm not ashamed of it either, but being American wasn't something I achieved, I was born here. My extended family is pure redneck, so the shit you guys are seeing now, I've been seeing my whole life. American exceptionalism is a joke.


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Im not proud of anything

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america is looking great

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"i'm proud of my nationality!!!"
5 mins later
"why do we have a nazi problem?"

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I'm British/Canadian, the parts of the US I've been to are alright. If I were to live there then I'd just go to Washington or Oregon.

I live in British Columbia, as reference.

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Sure. And I appreciate the idea of American Exceptionalism, but too often people take the notion for granted. I prefer to think of it as an ideal to work toward. But like most ideals, it's hard to live up to and failure is common.

CloneTheHero posted...

i love it when people equate the far right with pillaging anarchists lol

There are a few Proud Boys in the clan. One was one of the clowns who forced his way into Michigan's capitol. Another's a Qanon cultist. Strangely none of that shit on my dad's side of the family.

Whether or not they participate, that stripe of stupidity is a disease.

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Of course, there's no place better, and in Texas too? Man, I've struck gold twice.

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I like what I see at Celtics games. All ages, races, genders, cultures, classes, religions and orientations coming together to enjoy the same thing.

Thats the America im proud to be a part of, but it pretty much ends there.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPhWR4d3FJQ

HAHA LONG LIVE AMERICA BORHTER...THOSE GOOD OLD TIMES...I WOULD GRAB PABST FROM MY FATHERS GARAGE FOR ME AND THE BOYS...IT WAS THE SUMMER OF '69 AND WE SNUCK INTO THE KISS CONCERT...I MET MY FUTURE WIFE CHERYL THERE GETTING POUNDED BY 3 OF MY BEST FRIENDS...GOD WAS SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL...WE GOT MARRIED YEARS LATER AND STILL GOING 41 YEARS STRONG...GOD BLESS BEAUTIFUL AMERICA THE FREE (IF THE LIBS WILL LET US STILL SAY THAT LOL).

vigorm0rtis posted...

No. I'm not ashamed of it either, but being American wasn't something I achieved, I was born here.

I'm proud, but I wasn't born here, becoming a US Citizen has meaning for me.

The history of the country is inspirational to me and even with all it's imperfections, it's done alot of good for this world.

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FrankJaegr posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPhWR4d3FJQ

HAHA LONG LIVE AMERICA BORHTER...THOSE GOOD OLD TIMES...I WOULD GRAB PABST FROM MY FATHERS GARAGE FOR ME AND THE BOYS...IT WAS THE SUMMER OF '69 AND WE SNUCK INTO THE KISS CONCERT...I MET MY FUTURE WIFE CHERYL THERE GETTING POUNDED BY 3 OF MY BEST FRIENDS...GOD WAS SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL...WE GOT MARRIED YEARS LATER AND STILL GOING 41 YEARS STRONG...GOD BLESS BEAUTIFUL AMERICA THE FREE (IF THE LIBS WILL LET US STILL SAY THAT LOL).

Was that from Grand theft auto 5?

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the fuck's there to be proud of

weekoldhotdog posted...

Was that from Grand theft auto 5?

HAHA BROTHER I LOVE AMERICA...GOD BLESS THE FREE...HOME OF THE BRAVE...HOPE YOU ARE DOING WELL...KEEP UP THE GOOD FIGHT...

Im proud to not be an American.

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KamenRiderBlade posted...

I'm proud, but I wasn't born here, becoming a US Citizen has meaning for me.

The history of the country is inspirational to me and even with all it's imperfections, it's done alot of good for this world.

That's true, yes. I'm sure I'd feel differently if citizenship were a choice I'd made.

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FrankJaegr posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPhWR4d3FJQ

HAHA LONG LIVE AMERICA BORHTER...THOSE GOOD OLD TIMES...I WOULD GRAB PABST FROM MY FATHERS GARAGE FOR ME AND THE BOYS...IT WAS THE SUMMER OF '69 AND WE SNUCK INTO THE KISS CONCERT...I MET MY FUTURE WIFE CHERYL THERE GETTING POUNDED BY 3 OF MY BEST FRIENDS...GOD WAS SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL...WE GOT MARRIED YEARS LATER AND STILL GOING 41 YEARS STRONG...GOD BLESS BEAUTIFUL AMERICA THE FREE (IF THE LIBS WILL LET US STILL SAY THAT LOL).

lol Can't believe he's a cuck who loves the sloppy vag.

Number090684 posted...

lol Can't believe he's a cuck who loves the sloppy vag.

HAHA BRUCE SPRINGTEEN IS AN AMERICAN ICON...LIKE JOHNNY CASH...OR THE MARLBOROUGH MAN...I REMEMBER WHEN MUSIC WAS STILL ON THE RADIO...THOSE WERE THE TIMES...GOD BLESS AMERICA

I can't imagine what I'd be proud of in any sense of the word.

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haha long live america...........were not gonna let the libs tell us what to do.........i still remember when we had quality tools..........MADE in AMERICA...we used to be known for making quality products........libs want to shill for china products.........I say keep our jobs here...summer of '69...

FrankJaegr posted...

haha long live america...........were not gonna let the libs tell us what to do.........i still remember when we had quality tools..........MADE in AMERICA...we used to be known for making quality products........libs want to shill for china products.........I say keep our jobs here...summer of '69...

And almost 400,000 Americans died under a conservative party who ships jobs overseas.

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Unknown760 posted...

a conservative party who ships jobs overseas.

Actually....
It was Bill Clinton and the Democrats who brought China into the WTO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93China_Relations_Act_of_2000

https://www.courierherald.com/letters/clinton-to-blame-for-current-fight-with-china-not-trump/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-the-world-opened-the-gates-of-china-1532701482

We're suffering from the aftermath of Democrats wise decision to sell out Americans to China to this very day.

China gets alot of their influence through Wall Street who influences Capitol Hill to sell out Americans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RggIqnDruYo

Wall Street continues to sell out to China for any promise of more $
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLt9RnWtdJg

Because of China's expanding power, they're influencing South Korea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndpsJ1xcec8

They plan on Biden resetting relationships in favor of China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTbwN__8dHo

And they'll continue influeincing our Politicians:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0GhdZqMlps

Henry Kissinger is pro China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPcQ0kMD-qo

But it seems like the West aren't willing to get off their butts to do something when a fellow Democracy like HK is taken over. They lack Cajones to stand up and do what's right for all the citizens of Hong Kong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20oQ6QlXAx0

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I don't think I'd say I'm proud of it but I'm definitely happy and grateful to have been born here.

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KamenRiderBlade posted...

Actually....
It was Bill Clinton and the Democrats who brought China into the WTO.

And Republicans are still shipping jobs overseas and that's a fact.
@KamenRiderBlade

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i'm not proud of anything i do except the time i did a barspin on my scooter

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@Unknown760

And Republicans are still shipping jobs overseas and that's a fact

Please show me more hard proof than your words.

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Nope, haven't been since 2017, but I'm slowly starting to regain pride in America

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I'm proud to be alive.
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I am proud to be a sentient emergent process in a bag of soluble and insoluble substances that can sense itself and the world around it.

Some people seem desperate to lose the human race.
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Neither nor... I'm just here.

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KamenRiderBlade posted...

@Unknown760
Please show me more hard proof than your words.

When you show me first that most Democrats ships jobs overseas.

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America spends Billions on wars they have no business being in whilst forcing poor Americans to die because of the cost of medicine and health care.

Real patriotic that is.


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vigorm0rtis posted...

No. I'm not ashamed of it either, but being American wasn't something I achieved, I was born here. My extended family is pure redneck, so the shit you guys are seeing now, I've been seeing my whole life. American exceptionalism is a joke.

vigorm0rtis posted...

No. I'm not ashamed of it either, but being American wasn't something I achieved, I was born here. My extended family is pure redneck, so the shit you guys are seeing now, I've been seeing my whole life. American exceptionalism is a joke.

Exactly this

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Yes, and never lost it. Me and my familys lives are well and good here, and the opportunitys its given me to rise from poverty are second to none.

Of course this is all based on me and my circle. What happens outside of it I honestly dont care.

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Unknown760 posted...

When you show me first that most Democrats ships jobs overseas.

Bill Clinton(D) along with Diane Fienstien(D) are the ones who lobbied to bring China into the WTO so all their Wall Street Friends can ship their work over seas and avoid having to pay more Americans higher wages.

And it worked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93China_Relations_Act_of_2000
Bill Clinton signed the act and lobbied to bring China into the WTO.

Impact
When President Barack Obama met with Chinese President Hu Jintao in 2011, officials were concerned that China was not acting in the free trade spirit it agreed to when it joined the WTO 10 years earlier. They proclaimed that China was still restricting foreign investment, avoiding national treatment of foreign firms, failing to protect intellectual property rights, and distorting trade with its government subsidies.[16] There were also complaints by various lawmakers who wanted the administration to act against what they said was China's manipulating its currency, worried that it would allow China to underprice its exports and put American and other nations' manufacturing at a great disadvantage.[17]

The U.S.-China Business Council in 2014 said that China was restricting investment in more than 100 industrial sectors, including agriculture, petrochemicals and health services, while the U.S. was restricting investment outright in just five sectors.[18] A number of senators and congressmen wanted the White House to place tariffs on some of the underpriced Chinese imports, stating that if the administration wouldn't do so, they threatened to mandate some tariffs on their own.[17]

By 2018, U.S. manufacturing jobs had decreased by almost 5 million since 2000, with the decline accelerating

Diane Feinstein has been a integral part of bringing China into doing business with the US
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Husband-invested-in-China-as-Feinstein-pushed-3051244.php

An investment fund backed by the husband of U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinste in pumped millions of dollars into firms doing business in China while Feinstein was boosting expanded trade between China and the United States, The Examiner has learned.
Feinstein has denied that her husband, San Francisco financier Richard C. Blum, has investments in China.
In May, before she voted for a measure that normalized trade with China, she said through a spokesman that Blum had divested of his last holdings in mainland China in 1999.
In response to queries for this story, Blum said he had earmarked some China assets for charity and sold others, one as recently as August.
Public records show a venture capital firm backed by Blum's investment bank owns millions of dollars worth of stock in corporations doing business in China.
The firm is Newbridge Capital, a joint venture between Richard C. Blum & Associates and another firm called Texas Pacific Group. It maintains an office in Shanghai for an affiliate called Newbridge Asia, public records show.
And in the past two years, the firm has pumped more than $400 million in U.S. venture capital into East Asian businesses in hopes of profiting from the region's rebounding economy.
At least $90 million of that - perhaps more - was invested in companies whose profits are pegged to the burgeoning mainland China market, according to the companies themselves.
Two are companies headquartered in Hong Kong: Kerry Properties, a realty firm that is building highrise hotels and apartment complexes in China; and Asiacontent.com, which is establishing U.S.-style Web sites for Internet users in China. Another is IAsiaworks of San Mateo, which hopes to wire China for the

https://nypost.com/2018/08/08/dianne-feinstein-was-an-easy-mark-for-chinas-spy/

Still, Beijing got its favored trade status extended thanks in part to Feinstein. In speeches on the Senate floor and newspaper op-eds, she shamelessly spun Chinas human-rights violations, as when in 1997 she compared Beijings 1989 massacre of hundreds of young demonstrators to the 1970 Kent State shootings, calling for the presidents of China and America to appoint a human-rights commission charting the evolution of human rights in both countries over the last 20 to 30 years, that would point out the successes and failures both Tiananmen Square and Kent State and make recommendations for goals for the future.
Feinstein also led efforts to bring China into the World Trade Organization in 1999, which gave Beijing permanent normal trade relations status and removed the annual congressional review of its human-rights and weapons-proliferation records.
Feinstein, still among the Senates most influential China doves, travels to China each year. Joining her on those trips is her mega-millionaire investor husband, Richard C. Blum, who has seemingly benefited greatly from the relationship.
Starting in 1996, as China was aggressively currying favor with his wife, Blum was able to take large stakes in Chinese state-run steel and food companies, and has brokered over $100 million in deals in China since then with the help of partners who sit on the boards of Chinese military front companies like COSCO and CITIC.
China investments have helped make Feinstein, who lives in a $17 million mansion in San Francisco and keeps a $5 million vacation home in Hawaii, one of the richest members in Congress.
Feinstein has insinuated that Trump is compromised by a foreign power. But its clear Feinstein has an alarming blind spot when it comes to China and national security.

Feinstein and Chinas Influence:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-04-03-me-44704-story.html

Thank you for the March 28 article chronicling the conflict of interest Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) faces with her husbands business interests in China.
It is mind-boggling that a politician cannot see this potential conflict of interest. When she is in a position to influence legislation regarding China and when her husband is in a position to profit from those decisions, thats a definite conflict.
There has been much published about Chinas attempts to influence the Democratic administration by laundering illegal contributions through various Asian organizations; millions of dollars have been returned as a result. If China shows a proclivity for such tactics, whats to stop its leaders from offering Feinsteins husband lucrative business contracts to curry favor with the senator?
Feinstein should excuse herself when voting in the Senate on issues relating to China or should eliminate all personal business interests in that country.

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Not really.
It's not like I had any choice on where I was born.

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KamenRidereth layeth downeth theth smacketh downeth

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where at least i know i'm free

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Fuck yeah

https://youtu.be/4EBf-KKhhkg
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No, and I spent 9 years in the military. Nationalism is dumb, you're not better than someone else because you're born someone relatively nice, you're just luckier.

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No and I wish I was. I am sickened by the legit disgusting racists and anti Semites that are currently law makers. It's frustrating that Joe fucking Biden was our only hope against Trump.

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