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JennyStokes's avatar

From my view and after living in the US for 23yrs, I saw greed/terrible education but this didn't seem to worry a large amount of the population.

Americans say: "I want" the rest of the world use other ways of saying please and thank you.

Talking Politics: forget it.

So much more to say but this becomes derision.

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Loon's avatar

Lesson learned is the worship of power makes you stupid beyond belief.

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Franz Kafka's avatar

We already know that from watching the psychopath 'oligarchs'.

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Loon's avatar

Nothing like real time learning .

Lessons galore in the news !

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Drew Currah's avatar

"Why is the US of A called “America” anyway? "

Because of a crew member-I think he may have been a navigator- with Christopher Columbus named, 'Amerigo Vespucci.'.

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Discount Plague Doctor's avatar

They never sailed together. Vespucci met Columbus when working for the latter's employer, Giannotto Berardi.

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Drew Currah's avatar

"Amerigo Vespucci: Facts, biography & and naming of America ...

No, Amerigo Vespucci did not sail with Christopher Columbus on his voyages across the Atlantic. While Vespucci did meet Columbus and assist in preparing for his voyages, particularly the second and third, he later embarked on his own expeditions. Vespucci's voyages, especially the one in 1501, led him to realize that the lands discovered by Columbus were not part of Asia, but a "New World," a continent unknown to Europeans. "

Your post was a distinction without a difference.

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Discount Plague Doctor's avatar

You literally said he was a crew member - navigator, no less - of Columbus. You got it wrong, it happens, it's not a competition.

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Drew Currah's avatar

Your comment is , 'de minimus'.

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Discount Plague Doctor's avatar

First thing first, it's "de minimis" (short for "de minimis non curat praetor") and yet it doesn't apply here because you stated a wrong fact - that Vespucci was a crewmate of Columbus - and on top of that it was completely irrelevant to the article. And yet, despite being proven repeatedly wrong, you still insist. Your wounded ego doesn't allow you to just admit you fucked up, huh?

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Drew Currah's avatar

Your posts are 'de minimus'

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Jack Sprat's avatar

Americans cover it up with virtue signaling and marketing (same thing really) but essentially they are a bully culture. That's why their Jewdom Master has selected them to be Blaster.

https://youtu.be/kJ-UZ4DvYBg?si=e5_PmieRb1ODgCzG

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Kazimir Malevitch's avatar

Nice, but "Jesus was an American" comes from David Bowie lyrics "God is an American" from the song "I'm afraid of Americans" 😅 that I love it!

(best live version, in Berlin at 00:10:18 https://youtu.be/KHtLbmDe2SA) 😉

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Lycus's avatar

Hello, and thank you for your article!

You write: "For Adam, greed was the apple. For Americans, greed means money." This is not the opinion of Eastern Christians, and therefore of Orthodox Christians. The root of all problems, as you wrote in the title of your article, is pride and Adam's mythical sin: wanting to be equal to God by eating the apple of knowledge, then blaming the woman and the serpent. Without humility, there is no metanoia, just the misdeeds of hubris, both for oneself and for others.

Brotherly!

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

Hubris is the problem of the American power brokers who worship Empire, but I think it's just plain ol' fashioned fear that motivates ordinary Americans to act as they do. Fear that you'll wind up homeless if you happen to get sick and have no way to pay for health care or food and lose your home... Fear that you'll wind up in jail because you're caught driving while Black or Brown... Fear that your idiot elected officials will get you and your family nuked because they think nuclear weapons (or power plants) aren't all that bad for the environment... Get the picture? Ordinary Americans are to be pitied rather than feared.

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Davy Ro's avatar

Im sad to say America & Americans will only realise the facts of the World. When they get a fucking good slap. Just like their boss did off Iran. Until that happens they'll never learn or stop being what they are. It's going to happen it always does. It's just when it will happen that is the question.

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Charles Powell's avatar

You omitted Pine Gap and at least 7-8 more bases in Australia [Northern Territory & submarine base @ Rockingham, WA]

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seedeevee's avatar

I've never heard of Greenland being part of the Americas

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

It's technically in North America, just off the coast of Canadian Arctic islands.

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seedeevee's avatar

I know where it is!

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