twin_peaks_nikki wrote:Finn d'Abuzz wrote:twin_peaks_nikki wrote:Quote:"Well, I hate America, Louis. I hate this country. It's just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, people like you.
The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on earth sounds less like freedom to me."
Belize from Angels in America
Let's see, there is China, Burma, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Syria, Saudia Arabia, Egypt, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Vietnam, and Eritrea (to name but a few), but it is pretty clear that America leads them all in terms of oppression.
Only Finn would try to rebut a quote from a character in a play. I don't think Belize lived in any of those other countries.
Anyway, it is pretty sad when the right has to trot out Cuba and Saudi Arabia as examples of countries less oppressive than the US.
Only nikki would find it surprising that someone might respond to a statement crafted with undeniable deliberation and intent.
Only nikki would stumble so clumsily around obvious sarcasm and read my comment as delineating the countries that are
less oppressive than the US.
Nikki: Setting aside your complete misinterpretation of my comment, how is it that you did not find it "sad" that I (and my ilk) would "trot" out Burma, Zimbabwe, China, Etria, Sudan, Egypt, North Korea, Turkmenistan, Belarus, Usbekistan, Pakistan, Vietnam and Libya as examples of "countries less oppressive than the US? This suggests that you have no problem with the notion that these countries are, in fact, less oppressive than the US.
Speaks volumes.
