The Spread of American Democracy.

BalcombeSt4 · 07-05-2018 10:55AM #1

Nothing to serious (except for the horriblr death & torture), I found this to be pretty funny, taught maybe some other people might might find it funny to.

pleas advice · 07-05-2018 11:01AM

tl;dw?

BalcombeSt4 · 07-05-2018 12:35PM

.. funny and horrifying at the same time

Mutant z · 07-05-2018 12:36PM

The greatest myth on the planet.

verycool · 07-05-2018 12:36PM

nothing to serious / funny to what?

Hande hoche! · 07-05-2018 12:39PM

Couldn't let the USSR win...

Chaos Tourist · 07-05-2018 12:47PM

“It became necessary to destroy the town to save it” -- some U.S Major in Vietnam according to journalist Peter Arnett.

BalcombeSt4 · 07-05-2018 12:53PM

^ The USSR was never going to win, it was pretty much falling apart slowly by the 70's.
It's just that a lot of American & Western heroics like the great victory against Fascism & Nazism is taught schools (the 26 million dead USSR citizens is usually left out tho), along with USSR atrocities during the Cold War, you never hear about American war crimes during the same periods..

BalcombeSt4 · 07-05-2018 12:55PM

Unless you are a big fan of people like Suharto, The Shah & Pinochet then I could understand.

Hande hoche! · 07-05-2018 12:57PM

BalcombeSt4 wrote: »

Unless you are a big fan of people like Suharto, The Shah & Pinochet then I could understand.

Wouldn't be a fan of Suharto based on his headwear along. Like a less fun Fez.

BalcombeSt4 · 07-05-2018 01:05PM

Chaos Tourist wrote: »

“It became necessary to destroy the town to save it” -- some U.S Major in Vietnam according to journalist Peter Arnett.

That has to be one of the most amazing quotes of thee 20th century. Kinda like Like Hilary on Libya about "we came, we saw, we killed him, muahahaha" - I forget the exact quote.

BalcombeSt4 · 07-05-2018 01:08PM

Hande hoche! wrote: »

Wouldn't be a fan of Suharto based on his headwear along. Like a less fun Fez.

What about the Shah of Iran? "can you believe that fat f... Tony Soprano says Phi leotardo looks like him?

BalcombeSt4 · 07-05-2018 01:10PM

pleas advice wrote: »

tl;dw?

I see this a lot, can some tell me what it means please?

Hande hoche! · 07-05-2018 01:10PM

BalcombeSt4 wrote: »

That has to be one of the most amazing quotes of thee 20th century. Kinda like Like Hilary on Libya about "we came, we saw, we killed him, muahahaha" - I forget the exact quote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y

It's one of her more notable moments, along with Pokemon go to the polls and why aren't I 50 points ahead.

Irish Praetorian · 07-05-2018 01:20PM

BalcombeSt4 wrote: »

^ The USSR was never going to win, it was pretty much falling apart slowly by the 70's.
It's just that a lot of American & Western heroics like the great victory against Fascism & Nazism is taught schools (the 26 million dead USSR citizens is usually left out tho), along with USSR atrocities during the Cold War, you never hear about American war crimes during the same periods..

People also tend to leave out the 20 million Chinese that died fighting the Japanese, a fight which began two years before the war in Europe erupted - one might suspect the further away people are from a conflict they less they are aware of it. Incidentally, China managed to fight the Japanese without agreeing to partition an innocent nation with them first, a la Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union and Poland.

Also, while I'm on the point, 'never hear about US atrocities' - I kinda feel like you might have missed the whole Vietnam war? Now I'm not sure about you but the words My Lai seem to have a lot more purchase in the public sphere than somewhere like Tashqurghan. Just off the top of my head I can think Grenada, the Contras, Chile, heck the toppling of Mossadegh is talked about like it just happened yesterday when it happened 65 years ago.

It's almost as if you have an axe to grind...

Gatling · 07-05-2018 01:36PM

Must be a boring bank holiday for some

Vladimir Poontang · 07-05-2018 01:39PM

Don't worry guys the caped propagandist is here like clockwork ^^^

mynamejeff · 07-05-2018 01:40PM

Americans also funded terrorist organisations in Ireland for long enough and continue to

Pinch Flat · 07-05-2018 01:46PM

Does a country just need to have vast oil reserves before American democracy is offered to them?

Hande hoche! · 07-05-2018 01:47PM

BalcombeSt4 wrote: »

What about the Shah of Iran? "can you believe that fat f... Tony Soprano says Phi leotardo looks like him?

The Shah was too much into the bling. Pincohet had a swanky pair of sunglasses at least.

Irish Praetorian · 07-05-2018 01:50PM

Vladimir Poontang wrote: »

Don't worry guys the caped propagandist is here like clockwork ^^^

Ironic coming from someone with your nickname

In any case don't let me get in the way of the usual 'US so baaaad' funtimes with those minor things like nuance.

Irish Praetorian · 07-05-2018 02:13PM

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Does a country just need to have vast oil reserves before American democracy is offered to them?

Normally if you're not getting a response it's because your comment wasn't witty or funny enough, but you seem nice so I'll toss you a crumb.

Woah gnarly dude, 'no blood for oil man', that's almost as profound as 'Ron Paul 2012'.

To add a serious remark, there are 40 countries in the world with oil reserves in excess of one billion barrels, in the past quarter century the US has invaded one of them, before withdrawing almost all troops 7 years ago.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 07-05-2018 02:22PM

Vladimir Poontang wrote: »

Don't worry guys the caped propagandist is here like clockwork ^^^

Mod note: Easy, tiger. We'll discuss the topic and not the poster, please.

Buford T. Justice

Pinch Flat · 07-05-2018 02:28PM

Irish Praetorian wrote: »

Normally if you're not getting a response it's because your comment wasn't witty or funny enough, but you seem nice so I'll toss you a crumb.

Woah gnarly dude, 'no blood for oil man', that's almost as profound as 'Ron Paul 2012'.

To add a serious remark, there are 40 countries in the world with oil reserves in excess of one billion barrels, in the past quarter century the US has invaded one of them, before withdrawing almost all troops 7 years ago.

Or you know what, it might be a double post. Anyway problem solved, as you were.

Irish Praetorian · 07-05-2018 02:34PM

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Or you know what, it might be a double post. Anyway problem solved, as you were.

A double post...15 minutes and 2 separate replies after the first? Is that even technically possible?

Buford T. Justice XIX · 07-05-2018 02:36PM

Irish Praetorian wrote: »

A double post...15 minutes and 2 separate replies after the first? Is that even technically possible?

Yes, it is.

Pinch Flat · 07-05-2018 02:37PM

Irish Praetorian wrote: »

A double post...15 minutes and 2 separate replies after the first? Is that even technically possible?

It would appear so.

Irish Praetorian · 07-05-2018 02:48PM

Fair enough, please forgive my cavalier demeanour in responding, I laboured under a misapprehension.

Hector Bellend · 07-05-2018 02:51PM

mad muffin · 07-05-2018 03:08PM

If it wasn’t for America, we’d all be speaking Germaniseian…

Irish Praetorian · 07-05-2018 03:15PM

mad muffin wrote: »

If it wasn’t for America, we’d all be speaking Germaniseian…

That might be the Soviets you're thinking of (shock horror) - unless you want to make a technical argument about whether or not the Soviets could have prosecuted the war against Germany to its conclusion without American economic assistance. The answer to that question is maybe, but I don't know for sure and it sounds so eminently tedious I don't especially care.

The Spread of American Democracy.

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