Maybe the simple friend would like it more if he saw a fortress with a giant US flag paved into the entrance courtyard in stone and metal blocks of appropriate colors, overlooked by dozens of proud eagles perched atop gold pillars.
Need to be working on some kind of amazing megaproject, of course.
Nah, we are not Americans, in fact here we pretty much dislike it that 90% of TV shows
not to mention the NGC or others where they try to explain to rednecks the four fundamental states of matter, with a herd of sheep, seriously. And the obligatory meteor or UFO attack against D.C. in a "scietific documentary". Also even if I am not an American, even I say that on the 4th of July, History Channel shouldn't broadcast pawnstars, icetrucks and Giorgio Tsoukalos.
, films
Pretty much everything is about expression of the cultural, industrial, political or military superiority of US, in SciFi everybody speaks English, even aliens. Every future discovery is American, and every base has a USS label or flag on it. I remember the silence when we saw Oblivion, and Tom Cruise started to talk about the Super Bowl.
, news
(For us, who is elected president is basically irrelevant so we don't realy need an everyday 120 minute report on it. And other oddities like Pat Robertson financing our left leaning channel, which often criticizes the right. Imagine a liberal media channel hosting The 700 Club, and talking about how Jesus saved the US on multiple occasions.)
and political opinions
(we had a 1 minute silent stand in every school, workplace and office after 9/11 to show solidarity, yet when 300000 people died in the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, at first it didn't even made news)
are either American or influenced by the US. You know it's kind of like the feeling when you eat your favourite food every day, you begin to hate it (if you cannot eat anything else).
So he doesn't like the USA either.
Funny how this guy decided to focus on communism, of all things, instead of the baby immolation, mermaid farming, and eugenics.
Or did he just not get that far?
Also, communism didn't kill 130 million people, the people who took advantage of it to sieze power did.
For Mother Mountainhome, comrades!
He didn't got that deep in the rabbit's hole.
By the way the strong anti-communist sentiment we have here is due to the fact that they militarily conquered us, and you had to endure some serious stuff.
Like everybody had quotas of food to hand over, even if they never cultivated those plants or animals, or didn't even had a field. We had starvation in an agricultural country, because every food was shipped to the Soviet Union, however most were mishandled and rotted away in the process. Useless mega projects of building dams over rivers what disappear shortly after completion, or the world's second largest military radar dish rotting away in a remote forest. Building multi-billion dollar defense lines against a country what goes from hostile to friendly after that (the military never used it). Idiot who rigged the elections (which was an acomplishment if we consider that there was only one party), built his house with a railway turntable, so the living room could follow the Sun, on state funds of course. From this, an army general got the idea to build his fishing pier on railway tracks, so whenever he wants to fish, he just sits on the pier as it slowly ascends 500m to the lake. It was an age of unimaginable squandering and still echoes of today's mentality.
But that's the past, it never was communism. They may called it that way, but real communism never really existed, in political structure it was more like a sort of semi-aristocratic state. 60 years ago our communist leaders didn't want communism, because in communism you don't have leaders. And especially don't have ultra rich leaders.
But some people, like my friend don't realize this, they just see the label and not the content. Anyway if my enemy has a good idea, which is useable, should I discard it, because he has a different ideology?
In that way, the system Dwarf Fortress has, was always more likeable to me, though there are always some free-loaders
, but public opinion
can regulate this. I mean a social system like this teaches us to respect others better, because we rely on them, and they rely on us. Large scale implementation is another story.
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