About f'n time. Getting a good look here too. Our governments have been fools for not keeping essential manufacturing here at home even if they had to run the damn businesses themselves. Capitalism only sees $$ signs and screw everybody else.
You could have just said as I have a couple times in this thread . . . Be careful what you wish for.A quote from On Law, Morality and Politics, 2nd Edition
At the time when everyone in Syracuse desired the death of Dionysius, an elderly woman prayed over and over that he would be unharmed and outlive her. An...www.goodreads.com
I'm just pointing out the problems at the time of doing so, would Truman suddenly nuke Moscow with B29s? The war was over the boys wanted to go home and there was Japan undefeated until the fall of 45. After the war in Europe was over Uncle Sam wanted the troops for the Pacific, just in case and France was given a bigger role as they recruited a new army and were GI equipped. The brits were exhausted after 6 long years of war and continental Europe was pretty well fucked. Just the Russians maintained a large army and kept on producing arms after everybody else stopped and were converting to a civilian economy which began in 1944 for some industries in America and the UK.The allies still could have knocked out Stalin if they'd done it right away. Think of all the grief we and the rest of the world would have been spared if we had. Trillions of dollars saved not having that stupid arms race for f'n nothing other than trying to one-up the other guy.
The Ruskies started into WWII helping Hitler invade Poland and only switched sides when Hitler stabbed them in the back after a joint agreement not to attack each other. Damn good thing Hitler went after the USSR or he would have taken all of Europe and the UK as well if he hadn't wasted so many resources attacking in the east.
Stupid dictators doing stupid things is half the reason the rest of us are still fairly free tho a lot of those freedoms are being eroded day by day.
That was Patton’s thinking. My dad said we were fighting the wrong people, and I’ve had difficuty with trying to think that doesn’t mean what I think it must mean…but I suppose he could have meant the Soviets
I'm glad to hear that Canada modernized its form of government.The British monarchy is just a figurehead family and has been for decades. They have no say in how gov't is run other than give permission for a new Prime Minister to be installed. They don't go to the house of commons without an invite and that only happened a couple times the whole of Queen Elizabeth's reign.
Even in Canada we disconnected from the Crown decades ago but the now King Charles is a token head of state. I get a kick when Americans say we still have a monarchy here but I blame the shoddy US education system for stuff like that.
Damn near half of the British would like to see them gone too but still a lot of royal lovers there and here would like to keep them around. Our version of magats I guess.
Turns out that the famous Churchill quote about slaughtering the wrong pig is a fabrication.
No, we have the same form of government as in the beginning, it is based on the British form of government. But it was WWI where Canada seen itself as its own country rather than just a British colony.
This is illustrated in Senator/ Jim Webb's Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America:
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This would be illustrated in the following from then Sen. Harry Truman:
https://carnegiemoscow.org/commentary/84459I was being facetious and if I offended any Canadian by implying their government was anything less than what we have in the US I will promise to never again ask a Canadian what part of the US they are from.
I know all that stuff. Can't even let a guy dream a little eh.
No, did not take it that way. The thing is our governments evolved from British roots. Way back when I was on another forum with mostly Americans they did not know your freedoms and government came about due to British history. Some there never hear of the Magna Carta or all the other major democratic advances from the Middle Ages onward that did not come out of your Constitution. Mind you, many of them did not have a good comprehension of your own history never mind others. A thought came to mind after reading your reply, that the little group of Americans here know a lot more about Canadians than most Americans. Sure, some university kids that took a softball course on Canadian history might know more details but the mindset from listening to our ramblings could easily see any of you dropped in the middle of Canadian society and function just fine. On government we are still younger than you and only in 1982 came up with our Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, still modifying things as we go.
I watched a lecture series from a Prof from one of your more prestigious universities that said the difference between the US north and south is partly due to the people who moved there. The ones in the south were more from a livestock background and you shoot first and asked questions latter as someone could walk away with your major wealth.Bagginski says the magats think trump held their best interests at heart. Which is true, and they always will.
This is illustrated in Senator/ Jim Webb's Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America:
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They ain't called The Fighting Irish for nuthin'. (NOT that there's anything wrong with that).--disclaimer for all of our Scots Irish friends.
This would be illustrated in the following from then Sen. Harry Truman:
TO POSTERS HERE: You guys are terrific. Enlightened and "woke" as you are Keep on being awake (woke). I can barely keep up with you all. Thanks.Code:https://carnegiemoscow.org/commentary/84459
Yeah but I'm pretty sure it wasn't until we ratified our own constitution that we got behind the driver's wheel. I remember when we got our own flag when I was in Grade 6 and old lady Miss Westman, a huge royalist, was up in arms about it. The principal Mr. Fitchet snuck into our home room and pinned a bunch of Maple Leaf flags all over the room. She blew a gasket when she walked into the room that morning. She never did take down the big framed photo of the Queen tho.
No worries man. Some of the best laughs I get are when some guy on TV like Stephen Cobert etc make jokes about Canadians especially our gov't. That South Park episode aboot war with Canada is one of the best.
Not…100% sure I follow you here(?) - Socrates had alopecia?Turns out that the famous Churchill quote about slaughtering the wrong pig is a fabrication.
