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Showing Original Post only (View all)The brainwashing of Americans is breathtaking [View all]
Since the inception of the USA it has been engaged in the abuse and all out war against others.
Whether it be the Native Americans, slavery, attacks on the third world to extract natural resources, and of course the middle east.
But yet somehow many many Americans believe we are the "victims".
Bottom line is, and the cold hard truth is, our lifestyles here are at the expense of the poor.
"The rich man's living is the poor man's Hell" - Peter Tosh
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To just categorize the actions of white Europeans as their own is victim blaming too
daybranch
Dec 2015
#7
To put a new twist on Bill's campaign slogan "It's the Oligarchy, stupid"
Dont call me Shirley
Dec 2015
#15
Bernie ought to use that as his campaign slogan. On the other hand, he has more tact than that.
Dont call me Shirley
Dec 2015
#23
We overthrew the democratically elected Prime Minister and Parliment of Iran and
Dustlawyer
Dec 2015
#34
The very night Reagan was inaugurated I had a dream that the nazis were coming. Prophetic?
Dont call me Shirley
Dec 2015
#17
Yes, my dream was vivid and felt real also. It is still very clear to me today. Someday we will have
Dont call me Shirley
Dec 2015
#47
But Reagan is all the Republicans have. If Saint Ronnie isn't great, then what?
Enthusiast
Dec 2015
#43
She, a Pakistani, was educated in Saudi Arabia. Who arranged the marriage? Wahhabi clerics?
DhhD
Dec 2015
#69
While the mic players are laughing all the way to their Swiss vaults.
Dont call me Shirley
Dec 2015
#19
Too bad Jimmy Carter's executive action plan to stop importing oil was reversed by Reagan
ErikJ
Dec 2015
#22
Yep. Sometimes when I'm driving my mind goes to how lousy some of this "system" can be.
BlueJazz
Dec 2015
#45