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On the Greece thing 12 comments
guest
· 9 years ago
-Sir
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On the Greece thing 12 comments
guest
· 9 years ago
Due to Greece's financial trouble ("trouble" is putting it lightly) the EU must decide whether to continue giving aid to Greece or to kick them out of the EU, both of which could have possibly disastrous ramifications on the Eurozone.
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Best friends!!! 24 comments
What do you suggest we need to begin with, to fix it all? 13 comments
guest
· 9 years ago
Actually the president has almost unlimited power in foreign affairs, executive action (the ability to decide how all laws are implemented if the even will be: think weed) and executive orders (think internment). So, no, while he is in no way the god that some people make him out to be, he is in no way just a figurehead.
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Kayne West doing his Kanye Best 64 comments
Human history in a nutshell 4 comments
guest
· 9 years ago
And yet those morals led to an unstable regime that did not last. But, in other cases, "correct" morals have led to long term stability regardless of the followers.
He is so needy 10 comments
guest
· 9 years ago
If you like the style but just got tired of that song, I highly recommend you listen to Sedated, From Eden, Jackie and Wilson, or really his entire album. His music is really wonderful, to my taste.
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Oh, that male privilege of mine! 48 comments
guest
· 9 years ago
What does her comment have to do with male privilege? She made a controversial and in my opinion ignorant (or in the very least poorly phrased) comment about war and its victims. She never said the false statement of "Men are privileged to be in combat," nor did she say the very accurate statement, "Woman not serving in the front lines is a relic of sexist views and is placing woman in a well-dressed cage,"; both of the aforementioned statements (one in my opinion rightly and one wrongly) tend to elicit this reaction, but as for the posted quote... I just don't have a clue as to the connection.
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*politically correct* 37 comments
guest
· 9 years ago
If we stick with that definition of what the phrase "I am proud to be _____," means, you still run into trouble for justifying that a straight white cisgender man should say that. Think, for instance about the different connotations of saying "I am proud that my grandfather (for the sake of this example he is a white male) rose above the Great Depression and found success for his family," or "I am proud to be a white man." The first one talks about rising above something; a struggle in which you identify with the hard-working protagonist. The second phrase, however, references a historically oppressive class of humans who by some accident of fate was gifted the world for many many years. While these other groups of people have been, on average, more in strife than out of strife, white men have *enjoyed* a long and oppressive reign. Of course, as sited in the grandfather example, there is always struggle, but when painting with such a broad brush you can not paint in the white man.
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*politically correct* 37 comments
guest
· 9 years ago
But if you are an oppressed class of people who has been told they are worth less than others and struggles everyday against discrimination, then, yes, you should be proud! Maybe the phrasing is off but when someone says "I am proud to be _____," they usually don't mean "I am proud that my genetic coding made me this way," they mean "I am proud that I can face everyday with the world saying I am terrible, and that even with the cards stacked against me I can still push on."
That courage and strength gives them the right to be prideful.
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That courage and strength gives them the right to be prideful.
