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Old 10-08-2018, 05:59 PM
 
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I flew my American Flag today for Columbus Day. Just like I do every year.
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Old 10-08-2018, 06:00 PM
 
Location: Denver, CO
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Haha this anarcho stuff or whatever it is sounds more like communism to me. Just switch out a few words for others and it sounds like the same sales pitch the communist use.
Pot, meet kettle.

Communism, like nationalism, requires force; anarcho-capitalism prohibits it.
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Old 10-08-2018, 06:02 PM
 
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I flew my American Flag today for Columbus Day. Just like I do every year.
Wow!
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Old 10-08-2018, 06:02 PM
 
Location: Pacific NW
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The original intent of this thread was to point out the irony in the city's dumping of honoring C.C. for veterans due to C.C.'s documented slave trading and overall bad behavior.

U.S. veterans have killed many more minorities than C.C. could have ever dreamed of.

The original article even calls honoring vets non-controversial.

Really???

There are 500K dead civilians in Iraq that would argue otherwise...if they were alive that is.
There are over 1,000,000 dead civilians thanks to Saddam, how many more would he have killed without US intervention? If he'd kept killing Iraqis at the same rate another 700,000. So why don't we ask the 200,000 living thanks to US veterans?
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Old 10-08-2018, 06:13 PM
 
Location: North Carolina
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I don't know about the strange tangent this thread has headed off on with the last several posts but to get back to the original discussion, observance of Columbus Day is apparently a randomly regional occurence.

In NC, only the Fed/Post Office and banks (which close for all sorts of oddball holidays) are closed.
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Old 10-08-2018, 06:16 PM
 
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I don't know about the strange tangent this thread has headed off on with the last several posts but to get back to the original discussion, observance of Columbus Day is apparently a randomly regional occurence.

In NC, only the Fed/Post Office and banks (which close for all sorts of oddball holidays) are closed.
But it was always observed in that city named in the explorer's honor, until now because white people suck .
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Old 10-08-2018, 06:16 PM
 
Location: The Heart of Dixie
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These snowflakes have got to visit Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana!!!!!!!! Wouldn't even take the Southern heat to melt them!
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Old 10-08-2018, 06:18 PM
 
Location: The Heart of Dixie
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Washington DC is also named after Columbus.

Perhaps it should be renamed. Maybe liberals will want it named after Obama, Ocasio Cortez or Dianne Feinstein.
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Old 10-08-2018, 06:19 PM
 
Location: Santa Monica
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There are over 1,000,000 dead civilians thanks to Saddam, how many more would he have killed without US intervention? If he'd kept killing Iraqis at the same rate another 700,000. So why don't we ask the 200,000 living thanks to US veterans?
I wonder how Saddam got those weapons in the first place?

I'm sure the Iranians gassed by Saddam in the 1980's love American foreign policy too.

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Old 10-08-2018, 06:21 PM
 
Location: Denver, CO
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I wonder how Saddam got those weapons in the first place?
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