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  1. Suomipoika

    What is it that distances Russia from the West?

    Yes. When a post starts with "the Ukraine", you know exactly what's coming.
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    Black/White/Blue/All Lives Matter

    Hi from Finland. Finnish police fired guns only six times in 2013
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    Hypothetical - If you could be born anywhere...

    True enough. Just thought that since it was copy-pasted from the same article that I linked, and since it was from *Wikipedia* after all, it would somehow be obvious :P Btw, since you brought up the "rags to riches" phrase: personally I don't quite get it why "rags to riches" is somehow...
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    Hypothetical - If you could be born anywhere...

    Where do you get that idea from? From the real world or from American mythology? Social mobility - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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    How 9 out of 10 Americans think wealth should be distributed

    Wow. Looks like I should just leave this forum for another 2 years after this visit.
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    What exactly is "Obamacare"?

    We can all see the argument is getting really weak now. "Just because it isn't yet doesn't mean it will never be!" Self-evidently there is no causation between public healthcare and a decline of a country's economy, and appears we can't find correlation either. And furthermore, none of this does...
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    What exactly is "Obamacare"?

    Obamacare ruins Greece. The ruin of Greece raises the U.S. to the first position in all WHO statistics. Logic has never been more lucid :cool:
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    What exactly is "Obamacare"?

    What does Greece have to do with anything about this?
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    What exactly is "Obamacare"?

    ROFL Have a nice day everyone!
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    Enhanced ABC video shows Zimmerman's head injury

    So your Jesus would NOT bully people for their weaknesses by calling them "wimp", but you would? He would NOT contempt the tears they shed, but you would?
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    Enhanced ABC video shows Zimmerman's head injury

    An eye-opening documentary: "Dreams Deferred: legacy of American apartheid". DREAMS DEFERRED
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    Enhanced ABC video shows Zimmerman's head injury

    Does the Holy Spirit spur you to label people with pejoratives such as "wimp" and to talk in a contemptuous tone about crying? http://www.boingboing.net/assets_mt/2010/01/18/Jesus_gun.jpg
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    Kirk Cameron's documentary "MONUMENTAL: In Search of America's National Treasure"

    From the synopsis: "Long regarded as “the land of opportunity,” there’s no question the tiny band of religious outcasts who founded this country..." Woah woah woah wait a sec. The small Plymouth Colony of Pilgrims were the ones who "founded the United States of America"?
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    Kirk Cameron's documentary "MONUMENTAL: In Search of America's National Treasure"

    I'm currently listening to a YouTube interview of Cameron, and it sounds as if he was confusing the "forefathers" (the Plymouth Colony Pilgrims of 1620->) with the "founding fathers" (the founders of the United States of 1760-> or so). Will have to listen and watch further to be sure... ...of...
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    Kirk Cameron's documentary "MONUMENTAL: In Search of America's National Treasure"

    Anyone seen this? Comments? What was the "coming disaster" that Cameron is talking about and wants his country to avoid? When does he think it got started and how? Any suspicious interpretation of history involved? MONUMENTAL: In Search of America's National Treasure Monumental OFFICIAL...
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    Media Matters' Un-American Assault on Limbaugh

    Are the people at Media Matters citizens of the United States of America? If yes, then whatever they did is "American". Is Limbaugh a citizen of the USA? If yes, then same for him. Nationality is not a qualitative adjective.
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    Chicago Cop Arrest Local Journalist

    Is "ill intent" more 'real' than "rights"?
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    Chicago Cop Arrest Local Journalist

    If it's "in the nature" of A to do x, wouldn't it mean that A inevitably does x?
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    Is American Exceptionalism a lie??

    Yep, that is a good way to encourage kids. Works as a "pragmatic truth" in their upbringing... :) I'm actually just writing my Master's Degree thesis about Finnish-American immigrant Lutherans in the 1920's - the time when the strict new immigration laws took place and things started to...