The Glade 4.0

....at least according to Harvard.

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washin ... right-wing



And I enjoy our local rallies...err I mean parades.

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— Alan Moore

What does that say about the dems if it's actually true.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

This is pure comedy gold.

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

Um, ok. What parades turn you gay?

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Folsom street fair
PRIDE
Outfest
And the Queen Parade in DE.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

The what parade where?

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

While the harvard study is silly, the entire concept of patriotism as a virtue is ridiculous.

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But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Patriotism is an archaic concept like fealty in the Medieval Ages. Good for its time, but now archaic. People who believe in it are stuck in the past.

In my opinion, that depends on how you define "patriotism." If it means a sense of loyalty and devotion to the abstract state itself, particularly with a "my country, right or wrong" attitude, then I agree - that's an outdated and destructive concept. On the other hand, if it means a sense of belonging and connection to a group with shared history, ideals, culture, institutions, etc., and a sense of pride in the legitimately positive attributes and accomplishments of that group, then I think that's both valid and virtuous.

That they find nothing to celebrate in "Independence Day"?

No surprise there.

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Really? I always thought it was the republicans that wanted to enslave us. To their religion, their corporations, their use of capital punishment, their overwhelming military budgets.....

Or that the form of patriotism liberals tend to embrace is less amenable to parade-style celebrations?

Who the **** wants to be a Republican? Or a Democrat, for that matter?

Republicans and Democrats respectively.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

I just like to celebrate blowing **** up while shouting "AMERICA! **** YEAH!"

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

+1

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I think we would have been fine under British rule. I'm not sure what is so great to celebrate. The British abolished slavery before we did, and industrialized sooner.

And the USA pulled their asses out of the fire in two world wars.

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"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

If we were part of the U.K. during WW2, Hitler might have decided it was too risky to attack Britain at all.

Hitler would have decided it was too risky to bomb the U.K. in WWII because the U.S. was still part of the U.K.?

No.

Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and at the time, India and South Africa were all still part of the U.K. He bombed Britain anyhow.

If the U.S. was part of the U.K., it would most likely have been as a dominion, like Canada, or in conjunction with Canada, which has its own separate government anyhow.

Hitler never had any serious hope of conducting a cross-channel invasion of Britain. The status of the U.S. at the time would not likely have changed his decision; we'd already come into WWI against Germany without being part of the U.K.

But then again, I don't think you really understand how the U.K. government works or what the difference between the U.K., Britain, and countries like Canada and Australia is. Maybe Talya would be good enough to explain.

As for the idea that patriotism isn't a virture.. if it isn't, then find a country you like living in. Patriotism is about wanting to make where you choose to live better, and celebrating what you like about it as it is/ That's indisputably a virture.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

/agree DE

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

I actually do understand this.

Kudos to you for keeping that hidden from us for so long.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

I'm sure he went and read it on Wikipedia before responding.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Every single participant in WW2 was essential to the war. Canadian forces (which, admittedly, were more substantial then than now) trimmed 6 months to couple years off the length of the war. Germany was suspected to be only a few weeks from the first atomic bomb test, which would have changed things entirely.

There's occasionally a misconception among Americans that they singlehandedly won the war. But America entered late, and didn't have nearly the impact it thinks it did. Was it essential? Yeah, reinforcements are always welcome, but it wasn't like America walked in and did what the rest of the allies never could. America was just another player. An important one, but still just one.

To put it another way, had Chamberlain remained Prime Minister and England sided with Germany, the Swastika would be a proud patriotic symbol through most of the world today. Had the French Resistance not kept Germany off balance in occupied France, the results might have been disastrous for everyone. Had Hitler not gone stark raving mad with his invasion of Russia...it wouldn't have mattered who joined the battle.

We barely came out of that war with a victory, and every participant was essential.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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