01-24-2022, 06:43 PM
(01-24-2022, 03:43 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(01-19-2022, 02:28 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(01-19-2022, 12:45 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(01-10-2022, 01:42 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: German is the most common ancestry in northern middle America.You're an American by birth but that's about it these days. You're a self proclaimed Global Citizen today. So, what does that make you these days?
I have some, and a smattering of Dutch, French and Irish too, though I am mostly an ancestral Brit. I'm American for something like 8 to 10 generations on most of my lines. Doesn't that make me, uh, American?
To be a real America one practically be a global citizen because t5here are so many ways in which to be an American. A downside is that the world's favorite fake passport by country is the US passport due to the diversity of Americans. Get used to it, Classic X'er: diversity is here to stay in the Good Old USA.
(01-19-2022, 01:50 PM)David Horn Wrote:(01-19-2022, 01:39 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(01-19-2022, 06:42 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit, Classic X'er, is far better than the bilge that you and Trump spew.
What's that gibberish?
Doesn't your browser have a translate function? It's "unity and justice and freedom" in German.
Classic X'er is intellectually lazy. First five words of the current German national anthem (third verse, the other two disused).
No. I speak English not German.
I don't really speak German; I am out of practice. This said, some things are easier to remember. Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit translate literally into... David Horn says it adequately. Considering that the the Nazis pitted Germans not in their criminal syndicate against each other, that "Nazi justice" was an oxymoron, and that the Germans had no freedom that the Party did not authorize, it is safe to figure that (1) the Nazis made little use of that verse of the Deutschlandlied, and (2) that it well fit the values of the anti-Nazi leadership of the Bundesrepublik.
Note well that the British, French, and Americans did not recognize the formal independence if the German Federal Republic until it had super-solid safeguards of formal democracy that would absolutely prevent the rise of another dictatorship. Those safeguards are stronger than the US constitution. When we Americans will be in a position in which to close the seams in our Constitution, we will be fools to not do so.
Quote: American diversity has been around for a couple centuries now. How much difference is there between a black American and a white American and a Hispanic American these days?
Enough to be more likely killed in an encounter with the police! Enough to more likely be poor if living in the same general area.
Quote:You don't think the black Americans value their individual freedoms and their Constitutional rights as much as we do these days. If so, what makes you think that about them these days?
With blacks, the problem was that the white Establishment in some states trampled over those rights at every turn, especially when such a clause as "separate but equal" applied. Blacks have learned that lesson well, and recognize that Constitutional rights are far more reliable than the general goodness of white strangers.There are neo-Nazis in America who would be delighted to exterminate all blacks in the name of white power.
Quote:Are you to wrapped up in Democratic politics today?
Yes. So what!
Quote: My daughter used to have a couple of Asian friends before identity politics forced them to give up they're friendship with her and other white women/white people their age. Does that sound good or sound right to you? Does that sound like diversity to you? Does that sound like the direction that the entire country should be moving these days?
Intermarriages between whites and Asians are still at high rates.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.