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anyone find the irony of "free people" and allowing slavery to be a just bit ironic
I mean damn, who was free in 1779? Not people of African dissent, not women, not children, not Irish, or Catholics, etc
I would say that - compared today - we in the USA are a lot more "free" than those in 1779
What you forgot was those the whine the most about wanting to go backwards in time to find their Freedom are not people that belong to any of those groups you listed.
I don't mean sending an army, or sending money and other aid.
No..YOU'D have to go yourself, pick up a rifle and fight.
If some random nation other than ours were attacked by another country (unjustifiably...or maybe not) and desperately needed military help and allowed people from other nations to take up arms with them, which country would it have to be for you to personally take up arms and help?
Me personally, the United States is the only country i'd fight for. But i'm sure some of you would fight to help another nation if attacked provided that you could get there somehow.
anyone find the irony of "free people" and allowing slavery to be a just bit ironic
I mean damn, who was free in 1779? Not people of African dissent, not women, not children, not Irish, or Catholics, etc
I would say that - compared today - we in the USA are a lot more "free" than those in 1779
By "free" I meant the size of the government intrusion into the lives of the average person. Slavery was legal everywhere in the world at the time of nation's founding. That doesn't excuse the practice, but it does show that the US was certainly not the unique perpetrator of it either.
By "free" I also meant a citizenry that was at its peak for opposing virtually every encroachment of the federal government with much greater zeal than any group of Americans since.
Thanks for the slavery red herring though, always nice to watch fallacies in action.
If I put my life on the line for Canada, there'd have to be a hell of a lot more at stake than the Great Lakes.
Otherwise, they're on their own.
Well, DD I live in a Great Lakes state, and therefore there is a vested interest. We sit next to one of the largest supplies of freshwater in the world in which we share with Canada. Chances are if an aggressor is trying to take over Canada, they're going to try to screw with the US as well, and perhaps screw around with the Great Lakes watershed. Other than that I'm with you in terms of not sending our troops overseas to police the world, and fighting other people's wars.
Well, DD I live in a Great Lakes state, and therefore there is a vested interest. We sit next to one of the largest supplies of freshwater in the world in which we share with Canada. Chances are if an aggressor is trying to take over Canada, they're going to try to screw with the US as well, and perhaps screw around with the Great Lakes watershed. Other than that I'm with you in terms of not sending our troops overseas to police the world, and fighting other people's wars.
Half of those lakes belong to Canada. As long as they don't mess with our half, I'll be fine.
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