That's where you're wrong. Not all powers are the same. Some countries, like North Korea, Nazi Germany, and the USSR became powerful by forcing their people to follow them. But, on the other hand, there's democracy. Countries like the US, Germany, Japan, and a bunch of others are powerful, and have become powerful by giving their people freedom to have their own power. I'm not claiming that any countries are perfect. I'm just saying they're not inherently evil.
Whatever, all democracies fail ya know.
There really are no true democracies. The U.S. is a republic. In a true democracy, every citizen would have to vote on every law. A true democracy is wonderful in theory, but it can't really be done. That's why we (in the U.S.) vote for people to vote on the laws for us, making it a republic. If there were a country small enough to have a true democracy, I don't think it would fail. But a republic means less people voting on laws, which significantly increases the chances of corruption.
America, with the freedoms it offers, is no better than the USSR? America's "aggression" in Afghanistan was in response to attacks that foreign terrorists made on us as well as an attempt to remove a horrifying regime. Many countries aided us and are still there with us.
I've never heard about us installing satellites in Poland, and the only country trying to take the South China Sea is China, who have been illegally creating artificial islands and military installations in other nations' waters.
We don't have bombs in Poland. I literally just listed all the locations that share nuclear weapons.
Crimea is 50/50 Ukrainian and Russian and the decision is still split. Ukraine declared independence from the Russian Empire in 1918, not the '90s. It's also nothing like Canada taking Virginia... it's like Viriginia leaving of their own free will.
Your statement about Trump has no objective facts in it, so I'm just going to entirely ignore it.
What you call freedom is gone with the new tech, if you have a smartphone the Government can hear what you say, use it as a microphone, anything!
That is true, if you said something about terrorism in the room with a smartphone, the government might start listening in.
Again, one of my three most-hated presidents along with FDR and Truman.
Yeah.... I miss liking Lincoln.
I don't. Everything "good" about his presidency (he was a good man aside from that) was made up in 1863 to further his war effort.
In fact, during the election debates, he said that the black man and the white man were not meant to live together and that all black people should be sent back to Africa.
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Wait, you were? But still, the Allies had more advanced weapons.
Yeah. It's confusing when the quote chains won't get longer than 2 posts. It saves space, sure, but it is confusing sometimes.
I feel like quote chains should have somewhere around six posts. But it is convenient that you can click on the time thing to see earlier parts of the quote chain.
America wasn't provoking Japan. We didn't even want to be in the war in the first place; Japan provoked us with Pearl Harbor.
Well America always wanted in anyway but that's my opinion, America cut their Oil production so they knew they would have to conquer to get Oil for their army and other projects, Pearl harbor had just recently have the entire Pacific fleet move their, Pearl harbor was the Pacific fleet and Japan would have to take it out to get the oil they needed, plus what about the Flying Tigers in China fighting Japanese?
The Flying Tigers started fighting a while after Pearl Harbor.
America, with the freedoms it offers, is no better than the USSR? America's "aggression" in Afghanistan was in response to attacks that foreign terrorists made on us as well as an attempt to remove a horrifying regime. Many countries aided us and are still there with us.
I've never heard about us installing satellites in Poland, and the only country trying to take the South China Sea is China, who have been illegally creating artificial islands and military installations in other nations' waters.
We don't have bombs in Poland. I literally just listed all the locations that share nuclear weapons.
Crimea is 50/50 Ukrainian and Russian and the decision is still split. Ukraine declared independence from the Russian Empire in 1918, not the '90s. It's also nothing like Canada taking Virginia... it's like Viriginia leaving of their own free will.
Your statement about Trump has no objective facts in it, so I'm just going to entirely ignore it.
What you call freedom is gone with the new tech, if you have a smartphone the Government can hear what you say, use it as a microphone, anything!
The government does have the ability to listen to what you say. But they don't, because this isn't an Orwellian dystopia.
Yes, the two big parties in America didn't have much difference. But, if someone wanted, they could form any number of new parties. And they're allowed to do that. The fact that people are allowed to follow any party they want is one thing that makes countries good.
No its about impossible to get another party in, you have to have 15% to even get in debatesm you're pretty much ignored if you're not republican or democrat.
They're ignored, but they still exist. Besides, the Libertarian and Green parties aren't ignored.
Yeah. It's confusing when the quote chains won't get longer than 2 posts. It saves space, sure, but it is confusing sometimes.
I feel like quote chains should have somewhere around six posts. But it is convenient that you can click on the time thing to see earlier parts of the quote chain.
I've been using ProBoards for two years and never knew that.
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There really are no true democracies. The U.S. is a republic. In a true democracy, every citizen would have to vote on every law. A true democracy is wonderful in theory, but it can't really be done. That's why we (in the U.S.) vote for people to vote on the laws for us, making it a republic. If there were a country small enough to have a true democracy, I don't think it would fail. But a republic means less people voting on laws, which significantly increases the chances of corruption.
Actually, a true democracy could work, but only for a small place like a town, not for a big country.
Again, one of my three most-hated presidents along with FDR and Truman.
I think Jackson was the worst president.
Jackson's... yeah. He's an interesting figure.
He was pro-big government and did not believe that the states had the right to do whatever they wanted, so in that sense the conservatives/libertarians wouldn't like him. At the same time, he did that little relocation thing you might have heard of called the "Trail of Tears," so the liberals hate him.
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I don't. Everything "good" about his presidency (he was a good man aside from that) was made up in 1863 to further his war effort.
In fact, during the election debates, he said that the black man and the white man were not meant to live together and that all black people should be sent back to Africa.
Lincoln was, though, an abolitionist. He did fight, but he fought for what's right. And that's what made him good.
