The American character

[Core Imposter]

"Every story that has broken through the past few weeks has been about who we are as a people. And they are all disturbing."
Peggy Noonan

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303513404577354221282508372.html

I wish you all would read this story and share what you think of it. I know how I feel, this story captures something that has been going through my mind about this country for years.

 

[Lone Wolf]

The character of America and the We$t had been always degenerate, based on money, greed and liberasty. No wonder that it came to all that in America. On the contrary, the Russian national character had always been a character of mutual self-help, unity and decency. When American so-called "leaders" (in reality, these "leaders" are controlled by the financial banking elite) oppressed all people around the world, the Russians were building a Great Empire of mutual friendship and cooperation, that withstood all opposition and armed attacks from the We$t
I hope this was enlightening and shredded some light on the root causes of American degeneracy.

 

[ParkCungHee]

The American character was good, but I liked the guy with the ears, and the Russian asking about Nuclear Wessels.

 

[Bugfatty300]

Meh, none of the incidents mentioned in that article were particularly shocking or new for that matter.

 

[FriendlyFire]

No mention of US shooting sprees and handfuls of dead ?
Or increasing amount of shootings like in churchs, or democratic political events or schools.

Oh well sign of the times.

 

[Bugfatty300]

Are those things really increasing though? Edit: Or are they really anymore more despicable/disturbing than the mass killings in America during the 1970s to early 2000s i.e. KKK bombings and killings, Oklahoma City bombing, Luby's, Columbine, Eric Rudolph, the wave of abortion clinic attacks?

 

[Winston Hughes]

It's not like how it was back in the (entirely imaginary) good old days.

 

[BvBPL]

I recently had occasion to watch a 1960’s speech by JFK about the nescient space program. One of the things he said was along the lines of “we’re doing this not because it is easy, but because it is the hard thing to do.” I think that’s a sentiment that we’ve forgotten.

 

[Mise]

Yeah, this is just the same old conservative ramblings that I've always heard, and will always hear, and may eventually participate in myself some day.

 

[Quackers]

EDIT: baaah forget it

 

[Traitorfish]

Say what you like about lynchings, people dressed smart for those things!

 

[BvBPL]

That's one of the great benefits of living in the South. Seersucker is a great summer fabric, but it isn't acceptable north of the Mason-Dixon for formal wear.

 

[Formaldehyde]

People still read WSJ editorials since Rupert Murdoch bought them?

 

[Leoreth]

People still read WSJ editorials since Rupert Murdoch bought them?

It's fun! The link in the OP directly brought me to an article about how soccer is unmanly and unamerican

 

[Theige]

This country is better now than it has ever been, and it will be better tomorrow than it was today.

Anyone who thinks otherwise can GTFO

 

[wilycoyote]

Maybe we should all consider other fine objective sources like the Bible and Mein Kampf. (I am not saying anything bad about the Bible other than it isn't objective.)

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

That's one of the great benefits of living in the South. Seersucker is a great summer fabric, but it isn't acceptable north of the Mason-Dixon for formal wear.

There's a place where seersucker isn't accepted formal wear?

What sort of blasphemy is that?

 

[Cynovolans]

This article sounds more like a description of a woman discovering she can search for anything on youtube than something about a character crisis.

 

[BvBPL]

There's a place where seersucker isn't accepted formal wear?

What sort of blasphemy is that?

New England.

Boston is Hell on Earth. I don't know why people live there.

Also, by formal I don't mean black tie, I mean more like what used to be semi-formal, that is a suit.

 

[Borachio]

Remember the Gremlins?.....Gggunn!