@ToolGuy
I am trying to accept your defense of being righteous people but do you know every side in the world..... the Catholics, Hindus, protestants, Muslims, Jews, Parsis, Zoroastrians... they all claim the right the righteousness and glorious history? When given examples, their immediate response is, "oh well, those were just exceptions, just bad apples."

I like to live in the real world, not in make-believe. I accept the sad realities. You and I both cannot deny that none of our rants is going to make any difference to the world order (unless we are on to something big like George Soros, Bill Gates or other pioneers have done on a big scale). I agree that we have to hold on our values and raise a voice. But a more pragmatic and useful thing to do is address many wrongs right here in our backyard.... racism at work, crimes against children, disparity of lives due to government policies, human rights in general. I know for sure that most who say I am not racist, who have written books and articles to take a high road to righteousness..... have not ever raised a voice against racist treatment of a colleague at work against the powers. Unless, we have the courage to stand up and speak against our own interest, all the talk and writing is hollow.

I am not saying you are wrong. I am saying we should pick our fights and address wrongs in our own backyard where we can make a difference.

Thank you …. As I’ve continued to wonder why a citizen of a nation protected along side of us is so driven to bash our every move... Yes, the history is close & connected, but unless one’s a US citizen … how much different is constantly attempting to meddle in our elections from others meddling in our elections…?

When that happens enough, especially on a social media site devoted to ‘Agnosticism & Atheism’ … where’s the line, and is such behavior not an example of crossing it?

@Varn The truth is that the line is different to different people. We change lines according to convenient truths and inconvenient truths. That is why I was mentioning fighting racism at work. Nobody raises a voice there because we want to protect our asses first and our paychecks. That is called the inconvenient truth.

@ToolGuy Your story warmed my heart.

@ToolGuy I read your lead-in statements, assuming they’re what you think; that’s who & what I’m talking about. Perhaps, few do, as most such ‘link & run’ posts appear to go unresponded.

When considering yourself an officer of the World Police, I thought that was the job of the USA It’s the constant US political bashing ..bordering on interference that gets me. I suppose a do-little nation has little more to do, but watching an outsider continue to either demean or direct ‘our’ politics smacks me as exactly what gave us mr. trump & friends..

@Varn But isn't active citizenry of criticizing the government, pointing out the wrongs, coming out in the streets, exposing, protesting... the hallmarks of our democracy?

@St-Sinner It is within one’s nation. Nation bashing is different; revolving hit-piece links, sowing discord, advocating for political candidates, policies, and actions beyond one’s jurisdiction.

Someone constantly condemning the ‘meddling’ of our nation within others … yet doing the same on a personal level seems the equivalent of paid political provocateurs having just caused our nation great harm. Don’t think I’m being over sensitive, either..

@Varn You are right in one thing that we should look at ourselves before we start bashing other countries like the U.S. and Iran are doing. The other side is evil, we are not.

@St-Sinner I’d actually skipped his stuff above … feeling I’m witnessing envy as much as frustration. Working from the inside to make it better is what I do, a lot. Watching our nation bashed from the outside is what I’m noticing from the poster above, a lot.

Loved Rep. Adam Schiff’s description of ‘us’ as “The indispensable nation.” Actually thought of the guy above ...and the fact his nation is not speaking German due to ours.. What I get from the nation-bashers, from both inside & out, is the fostering of hopelessness … like who can take down the Koch Brothers..? So ‘maybe I/ we should just give up now?’ Voter Apathy, an acceptance of wrong-doing … all stuff the evil side of our nation promulgates.

As US bashing appears to be ‘this guys’ hobby, and this ‘social media platform’ his playground ..I’m ready to treat him like most do: no response. If anything of substance is presented as a comment to others, perhaps. But look at this thread ... and several others he’s started ...prettymuch just ‘us.’ See ya around