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Baruch

Well the basis of society is different ...

Mon May 28, 2012 11:24

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at least prior to 1945. America is a nation of recent immigrants, Britain is a nation of not so recent immigrants (900 - 1500 - 1900 years prior). Of course the Native Americans were marginalized, as were the Celts. The monarchy in Britain hasn't been CiC since Culloden, but the presidency from that time forward has been CiC. The US Senate, old version or new version, is neuveau riche, but the HoL until recently, is anciene riche. Americans prefer not to have present leadership related family-wise to past leadership, but that was an advantage among Brits. Both have their elite schools though, Ivy League vs Old School Tie. The House of Representatives, like the House of Commons though, are defined by machine politics and bribery.

I think the Brits believe in a Special Relationship, because the US is unlikely to Borg them, compared to France or Germany. It is best to not have your allies too close. Britain traditionally had a good relationship with Russia, perhaps for the same geographical reasons (and timber for the Royal Navy ... N Carolina performed similar service prior to 1783).

If government is fundamentally dysfunctional, shouldn't their inter-relationships be? Just look and France and Germany recently. I am sure the US took advantage of Britain during WW I and WW II, particularly financially. But the cost of survival while high, was worth it.

Shalom

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• Should man rule over women for women’s own good? — ipirate2, Thu May 24 18:30
  Should man rule over women for women’s own good? Scriptures, and other myth’s, say that God determined that men should rule over women. This gives form, --- in a demographic sense, ---- to our common ... more
• • What's far more disturbing... — Frashavan, Fri May 25 08:20
    ...is that we had gotten to a place where the idea that some we "born to rule" others had pretty much died out. Now, thanks to idiots on both the left and right, who have done more to undermine... more
  • • Re: What's far more disturbing... — ipirate2, Sat May 26 11:52
      This clip proves you are right from. FMPOV, people follow tradition and society and not religions even as they lie and say they are believers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV2VjdpVonY Regards DL
    • • Dawkins does love to give fatuous examples — Frashavan, Sat May 26 12:21
        I agree, people follow the tradition they know, and rarely bother pushing outside the box. On the occasions they do, they simply establish a new tradition amongst whomsoever they convince.
      • • Re: Dawkins does love to give fatuous examples — ipirate2, Sun May 27 14:55
          No argument. Regards DL
    • THAT GOD WAS INVENTED JUST FOR CONTROL PURPOSES! (nm) — Kasey, Sat May 26 06:26
    • • Male gods always approve of what men do ... — Baruch, Sat May 26 07:08
        actions by whom do you suppose goddesses approve? Shalom
      • • Proving the gender of any god is as.... — Kasey, Sun May 27 07:24
          difficult as that of its existence at all. But if it's similar to the hermaphrodite fish which exist, when necessary, the dominant female can convert its gender as can the dominant male in a... more
        • • Well no doubt feminazis would have all people ... — Baruch, Sun May 27 08:01
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        • And this is why... — Frashavan, Sat May 26 15:31
          ..I have stopped responding to Kasey's posts in any way. Her one liners bear no relationship to what people post. And now she's started doing all caps, too.
    • Well the ideal of progress ... — Baruch, Fri May 25 11:06
      particularly irreversible progress, has been particularly hard hit for the last 100 years. Pretty only much nations like China, India and Brazil believe in the UN version of it, because they have to. ... more
    • • But for US intervention ..... — Kasey, Sun May 27 07:30
        in WW1, the Brits' R.F's. would have gone the same way as the monarchies of Europe. Regards, Kasey
      • • Yes, but was the Zimmerman telegram a clever forgery? — Baruch, Sun May 27 08:04
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        • • If legit, then Wilhelmstrasse wasn't playing with .... — Frashavan, Sun May 27 19:22
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          • • Despairation and arrogance can be vital factors... — Kasey, Fri Jun 1 08:28
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            • • True ... — Baruch, Sat Jun 2 07:01
                Unfortunately for German, Kaiser was a dummy (and my relative). I really think that Germany (and other Europeans) are a textbook case of the tragedy of stereotyping oneself and one's neighbors. Like... more
            • Barbara Tuchman's book ... — Baruch, Mon May 28 08:01
              is a little too credulous. The British conspired for years to get the US on their side, instead of Germany's. At that time I would have been opposed to either side, both being aggressive. The... more
            • • It's the whole prodigal son thing — Frashavan, Mon May 28 10:06
                Of course the British want the Americans on their side...the father in the story ordered the fatted calf to be killed, after all. The British will do any number of things to get the US on side, and... more
              • • Well the basis of society is different ... — Baruch, Mon May 28 11:24
              • MItchell Palmer — Frashavan, Mon May 28 09:12
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              • • This was from WW I, right? — Baruch, Mon May 28 11:12
                  Reparations going back to WW I in the US, would be unthinkable. Shalom
                • • Minimal fro WWI, most of the internees... — Frashavan, Mon May 28 14:31
                    ... were, of course, deceased. Some money was given for scholarship programs. The Canadian State apologies for itself, frequently. And then embarks on policies that will, certainly, produce other... more
  • Well — sai ram, Thu May 24 20:35
    when we return to the stone age.....and probably will at some point....men will rule over women just like it was then....and women will need the protection of men...from men....we are an animal... more
  • • Re: Well — ipirate2, Sat May 26 11:56
      Yet in the early days, before weapons could kill humans, the world revered the Goddesses and not a God. Ancient status of fertility Goddess's are way older than the male Gods. Regards DL
    • • Blame the horse ... — Baruch, Sat May 26 13:52
        from the Indo-Iranian "maryannu" or chariot-warriors of the late Bronze Age, until the Western cowboys of the 19th century ... the horse has facilitated both war and patriarchy. The cows are... more
      • • Speaking of the horse — Frashavan, Mon May 28 09:37
          The latest anthropological theory is that it was the domestication of the dog that gave modern humans the edge over neanderthals.
        • • Yes, the Neanderthals couldn't outrun our pit bulls ;-( (nm) — Baruch, Mon May 28 11:26
  • Modern people don't rule ... — Baruch, Thu May 24 19:05
    they capitalize. Women are particularly good at capitalizing on men ;-) Well these are ideal Iron Age stereotype men and women. But not only are we not in the early Iron Age (but toward the end of... more
  • • SOME MEN LIKE TOTAL CONTROL.... — Kasey, Sat May 26 06:33
      Just as the three cruelest nations on earth, towards chickens, have just moved to total caged-egg production and phased out any "free-range"commercial production....Guess which ones??? China,Japan... more
    • • Having gone — sai ram, Sat May 26 15:05
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      • • Turkeys suffer, just looking in the mirror ;-) (nm) — Baruch, Sat May 26 21:00
      • Men as in men and women? — Baruch, Sat May 26 07:14
        Or are you sexist? Some men do what they do because they want do, others do it to please their women, or to stop the nagging. In any case, women usually benefit from what men do, moral or not. Well... more

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