@waraxis:
With all due respect F_alk the scary thing about europe is that people there live under a big government system, that promotes the idea of women not having children, no gun rights, high taxes, and a very one-sided political system!!!
I disagree with the first, second, third and fifth. There is a difference between promoting “women not having children” and not promoting “women having children”. A subtle difference, but an important one. The gun rights have been addressed already, and for the one sided pilitical system… i will come to that later.
In a 60 Minutes show they said in a few generations Italians could become a minorty in their own country, because of low birth rates and mass Non-Italian Immagration.
Are native americans the majority? Is diversity a bad thing? … The problem is the european mindset often enough (exception netherlands, example germany) of not letting the immigrants become part of the contries people.
When I lived in what was known as WEST GERMANY at the time i rarely meet a german women who had 2 or more kids. … And now I have learned this problem is in Japan!!
It is a problem of industrialized countries with high educational standards. Not a problem of specific countries. And with about 9 billion people on this planet by 2050, i can’t see what is so bad about having less than two childs.
Do you know what happens when you give up your guns rights you are asking for a police state!!! … so please don’t say anything bad about my country. I hope this isn’t taken as a flame of anykind. Please excuse the saying
It’s not taken for a flame, but:
did you notice that i brought up one point that scres me personally, and you answered with a mass of points, “accusing” in the same way that mine (which was not meant to insult, i sound different then). I never called the US a one-sided police state, but you implied that on Germany…
Be careful that your patriotism doesn’t take you to see attacks on your country where there are none! That can isolate you quickly.
@waraxis:
I did not mean you have no gun rights you then get a police state what I meant was that if the government gets out of control then what do you do?? A disarmed people have no way to resist a government that decides what rights a people can have.
Strike. Something that has a tradition and history in Europe and has worked out fine to bring down the GDR, to let the Kapp-regime collapse after only a few days (during the Weimar Republic), to force out the french occupation of the rhine valley (after WWI when Germany could not pay their reparation rates to the french).
Have a look at your history book…
Ever heard of India? Why are they free, when they did not use any violence?
…You don’t consider the one-sided democracy that Europe has being a non-free democracy?? The parties are all left wing for the most part!! I don’t call that a free society
No, the US is right wing all the way. That’s not what i call a free society.
…This is to demonstrate how plausible your comment sounded to me: not at all, it does make no sense to me. I don’t consider all parties here left wing. If you do, then i have to assume that you are ultra-right wing to the max.
Did it ever come to your mind: If we europeans wanted another party (that you would call right wing), would we not have founded it already? That happens over here, we have parties that are younger than 25 years and in the gov’t, on state level it is even “faster”!! It is the people’s will not to have these parties that you miss. Accept it, but never call it “non-free”: You insult me by that, by your ignorance of how europeans feel.
Add this to the “too much patriotism” i warned you about before: If you start such things, to obtrude your defintions onto other people, you make a big step towards nationalism.
And with this Eroupean union thing I don’t recall a vote being taken for it. You may be right though most Europeans would vote for it. I’ll never understand the average Europeans love for their cradle to grave society??
We voted for it, we still vote for the european parliament, and i will never understand how the average American love their cutthroat and backstab society……
(just trying to retro-reflect your words from my point of view, not as an insult, but to make you see how you easy you can insult others by not picking your words carefully)
@Xi:
@F_k:
…and told a US truck driver which way to go. :)
I hope you meant that in a nice way!
Of course i did. And i even told him the right way to go ;) :D…. no, really, i am a nice person in general… the problem is that some of the things that i can’t stand turn up in this forum often enough… and as i did not know anything about that soldier, why should i not have been nice to him?
@Xi:
? I think kids need to know they will answer to other countries laws. It’s not a " You can’t do that to me! I’m a US citizen," world! I always got a kick out of idiots with that mentality.
It would be nice if there were more people who thought like that. Especially tourists (and there are a lot of ignorant german tourists) are good at that wrong kind of mentality.