And we all love you exactly the way you are!

Being stubborn / Thick headed is a good thing I always say.

I hear my money in Thailand makes me a king. I've considered it, but I'm a lazy shit-pile of an American that only knows English.

served? how?

@Jolanta USAF

@redhog So, when was that?

@Jolanta got out in 2000

@redhog Ok, so which wars were you in?

@Jolanta missed the Afghan war by a year. Was peacetime non combat.

@redhog So were you in Afghanistan or not?

@Jolanta was peacetime non combat as I said. That would mean I was not in Afghanistan

Fast becoming? Ffs it's been that way & religious nutters from earliest settlement from Europeans.

By the way did you visit Iceland in summer or winter when it's perpetually dark, freezing cold & covered in snow? How far out of Reykjavik did you get?

@FrayedBear I just went, from May 5th to the 16th. It was somewhat cold, but the days were pretty long, around 21 hours. Reykjavik was 50 degrees the day I left, but up north near the Arctic Circle, it was in the 30s, with snow. My friend and I drove all around the whole perimeter of the island.

@Organist1 A beautiful country. I visited the SE 50 years ago during summer. We camped on the volcanic ice cap. Fascinating cooking our breakfast bake bean tins in hot mud pools overnight at 4000 feet. Saw the midnight sun.

& yet you openly support the genocide of the religious around the world
"Is America & its citizens hated or loved by Earth inhabitants around the world?"

@FrayedBear Your comment is based on what? You get more rdiculous on a daily basis.

@Alienbeing If you cannot be bothered reading the report by the former Reagan advisor you prove the irrationality of your question.

Incidentally is a rdiculous related to a ranunculus?

@FrayedBear Learn to read. I didn't ask you what was in the report I CLEARLY asked you how you arrived at the conclusion that I support "the genocide of the religious around the world" as you put it.

@Alienbeing You still think America has the right to bully & commit genocide around the world the way it does.

@FrayedBear I never said that nor do I endorse that. Your comment is totally incorrect. As I suspected, you are merely shouting into the wind.

"Is America & its citizens hated or loved by Earth inhabitants around the world?"

I think I'd rather live in the United States than in Australia. I never thought about it until I joined this group. Australians hate America. Sad but true.

@barjoe America has done sweet fanny Adams for Australia other than help defeat the Japanese in WWII.
They have been allowed to encircle the country with radio stations proselytising 24/365 a year the god bothering claptrap.
The CIA is known to have brought down non sympathetic governments. Undermine free trade dump excess product at the expense of Australian producers, develop destructive mining practices, make Australia a prime target fo nuclear strike through its Pine Gap spy installation. The list goes on and on.
Your observation simply proves the point.
However have you read the Lee Camp article that I have just posted? "Information for those living in the land of the free - a bloody big laugh for the rest of the world?"

@barjoe that must be why many former prime ministers & foreign ministers have brown noses from being up American arses.

@FrayedBear HELPED defeat Japan? Okay. We helped. At least you admit you Australians hate the USA.

@barjoe Not all Australians. As I point out there are numerous brown nosed sycophants.

@FrayedBear so, you are saying Aussies have no sense of humor?

@Canndue lol, have you not watched the Australian Honest Government Adverts?

Try

Or

I even include one in my profile but that may be too hard for you to read.

@barjoe Where did you get that idea from that we hate you? We think you have some crazy ideas about religion, war and that you think you are the best in the world, but no we do not hate you.

@Jolanta Australians in general no. Some of the Aussies on this site, yes. To say United States is worse than the Islamic world is totally wrong. I take offense to that. There is a fascist element in America as there is in Australia. Most people from both countries are not. Muslim countries are generally Islamic terrorist states and most of their people are radicalized supporters of terrorism.

@barjoe How many Islamic countries have you been to? On what scale is the US worse than Islamic world, what are we talking about?

@Jolanta "Even in Islamic countries do they not carry on like they do in the US about religion." I'm quoting you. I hear Anti-American, racist and antisemitic rhetoric from Arab immigrants in my city. Neighbors and people I worked with. I know those thoughts are mainstream among them and I assume it's even worse inside the Mohammedan world.

@barjoe lol Joe. Unless your country is killing them, robbing them or just swamped their tv programming with one of those shows that flaunt American wealth, mansions & extravagance, I suspect that most people living in Islamic countries never talk about you let alone know where you are!

@barjoe so you have no experience of anywhere else but the US then.

@FrayedBear They're fanatical Muslims. People only acquiesce to them out of fear. Like in France. They're savage animals.

@Jolanta What difference does that make? I have 50 states here to see. I have all I need right here.

@barjoe Sounds like you're projecting US behaviour Joe.

@FrayedBear We're not the ones who behead teachers, slaughter editorial staff, run planes into skyscrapers. Who else runs suicide missions believing in 70 virgins in the afterlife? Some of these crazy Muslim are "Americans".

@barjoe Your country's military member's war crimes are legion. Your country's incarceration of citizens exceeds even that of China. Your numbers so called humanely executed probably equals the numbers beheaded in Islamic states. 9/11 - what aeroplanes?
Get with reality Joe! How many Americsns are shot by other Americans? How many American blacks are murdered by American policeman? Policemen who until recently were not even charged let alone convicted?
How do you know that the murder of media people was not false news like the "weapons of mass destruction" claim used to invade Iraq?
What of the crimes against humanity through the use of depleted uranium in shells?

@FrayedBear Hating on America with your Russian propaganda.

@barjoe What Russian propaganda? You have obviously never been anywhere, anywhere at all. Have no experience of any other culture or political system.

@Jolanta It was a joke in response to Fred's comment. He's a fan of Russia. I've never left the Western hemisphere. That's not important. What difference does it make where I have been?

@barjoe travel broadens the mind & enables the observer to get behind the indoctrination they have been subjected to & believe in so they can formulate their own truth & not that of others wanting to control them.

@barjoe Who is Fred?

@FrayedBear Frayed

@FrayedBear Most people just buy souvenirs and sample the local cuisine. Either that or they are pursuing employment. Nobody controls my thought process, I don't support my country blindly but I will defend it against ridiculous claims.

@barjoe produce your evidence to refute the claims then Joe instead of your blind attacks.

@barjoe 2 letters short of "Frayed" - a new take on "2 bob short of a quid" or "10 cents short of a dollar!"

LMAO ROFL

Thanks Joe, a wonderful start to my day & humbling but funny haha identification of my lack of nouse in recognising the typo!

@FrayedBear I refute your claim that Charlie Hebdo might have been "false news". Really? Claiming that planes weren't driven into WTC Twin Towers and the Pentagon. C'mon! America has its flaws but they don't justify Islamic terrorism against western countries. There is zero justification for that.

@barjoe

@barjoe Joe! What about the terrorism perpetrated around the world by America? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!

@FrayedBear What about?

@barjoe point a finger at anywhere on the globe & the probability is that the US has commited crimes against humanity there. The same terrorism that you accuse others of committing.

@FrayedBear Say it. You hate America.

@barjoe Why would I waste my time futilely hating? Can't you understand that I love you Joe by trying to get you to see the reality not the indoctrination that they have fed you?

@FrayedBear No. I can't see it. Thanks for the love.

@barjoe Of course there are fanatical Islamist, just like there are fanatical Republicans who try to storm the DC and kill democrats. Same, same.

The Muslims killed 3,000 on 9/11. The Christians killed a cop, got a girl killed and 3 of their own died of heart attacks on 1/6. Exactly the same. .

@barjoe And how many have America killed in retaliation? Half a million ? One million? 3 million? The total is not known because of the contamination left through radio active dust from shells will continue to cause many deaths for thousands of years.
[breitbart.com]

But here is a good reason for America to be hated Joe -
the murderous sanctions imposed against numerous countries. Non involved countries are enforced into compliance as a result of the American bully's threat of doing the same to any country breaking the embargos -

[original.antiwar.com]

To quote from the report:

"In recent years, the U.S. government has turned starvation into official policy. Determined to force hostile states to bend to its will, Washington increasingly imposes economic sanctions, using America’s financial dominance to penalize foreign individuals, companies, and even governments. "

"Among its prime targets were Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and Venezuela. The objective was to wreak economic destruction – and the policy succeeded in that sense. These nations all suffered increased hardship. Yet the people who suffered the most were at the bottom economically. Regime elites usually lost some access to excess, including foreign bank accounts and the luxuries which depended on those funds."

"Moreover, in not one case did the Trump administration achieve its political ends. Communists, including nominally retired Raul Castro, still run Cuba. Tehran refused to surrender its foreign policy to Washington. North Korea’s Kim Jong-un did not make his nuclear weapons available for transport to the US In Syria Bashar al-Assad refused to yield power. So, too, Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro. Washington 0, Rogue States 5."

"As has become common, Washington applied its rules to everyone else on the planet, effectively cutting Syria off from much of the world economy."

"Jeffrey was refreshingly honest in admitting that sanctions were intended to hurt Russians, not help Syrians: "My job is to make it a quagmire for the Russians." The Syrian people were but a convenient means to an administration policy end. If that meant prolonging their suffering even after the guns had stopped firing, so be it."

"Madeleine Albright is responsible for a string of arrogant and thoughtless comments on foreign policy. Perhaps her most famous gaffe – that is, telling an inconvenient truth – was her response to a question about the death of a half million Iraqi babies due to sanctions: "We think the price is worth it," she said. That extraordinarily callous attitude evidently persists in Washington today regarding Syria."

"Diplomacy should be the main tool with which Washington addresses the world. That might frustrate US officials, since they would lose their ability to play Masters of the Universe. However, America as global dictatress has not delivered the sort of peaceful order that Washington policymakers claim to desire."

"Joe Biden ran for president as an advocate of human rights. Yet he, like Trump, has cruelly sacrificed the interests foreign peoples, such as those in Syria, to score political points. America should do better."

The author of the above is not an RT contributor nor is the article published by that media organisation. The author "Doug Bandow is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. He is a former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan and the author of several books, including Foreign Follies: America’s New Global Empire."

[original.antiwar.com]

What value @Barjoe your: "The Muslims killed 3,000 on 9/11. The Christians killed a cop, got a girl killed and 3 of their own died of heart attacks on 1/6." and "No.I can't see it now"?

@Jolanta "Is America & its citizens hated or loved by Earth inhabitants around the world?"

@FrayedBear Your previous answer speaks for itself. If you go to the US you will find the citizens friendly and helpful until you mention something about religion or the US foreign policy then they become nasty, belligerent and down right violent. That is my experience from visiting there.

@Jolanta lol I've just had @JeffMurray tell me in Oz Sceptics on this issue " I don't think they think they're doing anything wrong, or at least not something they could do differently" to which my response ended with "It is easy for America to do something different - don't be fucking selfish greedy bullying inhumane cunts."

@Jolanta How do you like return to lockdown? I vaguely heard that a removalist has brought the delta variant into Victoria so I can see that we will be going back to lockdown if we haven't already done so whilst I was asleep!

@FrayedBear I actually don’t have any experience of lockdown. When it was on here in Canberra I was on a cruise. I very much doubt that it will happen here. We don’t have any active Covid cases and let us hope we won’t get any. The police is very vigilant and so are the hotels. Quilt a few people have been escorted out of ACT. One woman was put in jail too.

@Jolanta . . . "in jail"? Have been being naughty?

I have a very real problem with your story on dialysis. If the man is rich the cost of home dialysis machine is anywhere between $500 DIY through $3000 secondhand to $45,000 top of the line. Session costs of hiring a nurse about $50 per session.
I suggest that your new found acquaintance is in need of an enema - he's full of shit!

[howmuchisit.org]

@FrayedBear

It is possible that there is something more he did not tell me. The moral is he has medical dependencies for which he does not feel comfortable with living in his town.

@St-Sinner Ie. A selfish stupid person. Is it one of the reasons why you can be allowed into the US for residency?

@FrayedBear

Possibly, But who knows? He maybe playing it smart. There maybe other complications he is worried about. There must be more to the story. I do not know it all but what he said sounded right. My father could not get a simple kidney medication 40 years ago in my town, he died in the next town. My sister died 5 years ago even in Mumbai due to below par care. My friend had a kidney procedure last year in a town very far. My brother in PA and I recently talked and agreed that we both would be dead by now had we not left India.

That's why I often defend the medical care in the US because we don't know how bad it is around the world. US health care is expensive, often exploitative and we can still make it better like in some Nordic countries but the quality we offer with strong malpractice protections is pretty good.

@St-Sinner that is one of the problems of our national medical system - lack of accountability, political decisions designed to garner local votes and disadvantageous nepotism resulting in inferior decisions & practice. In the non city areas parochial disadvantage is frequent.

@FrayedBear
Is anything perfect anywhere?

@St-Sinner Castro tried in Cuba but I suspect that American sanctions since 1962 have been incredibly deleterious.

"Is America & its citizens hated or loved by Earth inhabitants around the world?"

The USA is both hated & loved. Hated for the right reasons & loved for the right reasons. We are diverse & flawed, but the idea of self governance is embraced by most of the world. We must keep working toward that end despite our past crimes, & attempt to mend our ways as history teaches us.

A Caucasian friend of mind did that. Was back in 6 months. Never met more racist folks he said. "If the nail sticks up, pound it down" to paraphrase a Japanese saying. I've traveled to the mid east, Europe, Mexico & I love visiting their delightful cultures. The USA is where the freedoms I value are still more important than my distaste for the failings.

@Mooolah How long ago was that?! "If the nail sticks up, pound it down." Yes, I've heard that expression many times, and according to my friends in Japan, that concept may still be held by older generations but not so much by younger generations. Sadly, we have racists all over the world, and since I usually refrain myself from genralisation and stereotyping, plus, my Japanese friends are not racist, I wouldn't say the Japanese are racist.

@Ryo1 I am relieved to hear that Japan has made much progress in tolerance. It was a long time ago. Now I hope we may do the same in this country where we have an abundance of work to form a "more perfect union". Where I no longer am an activist as I once was, having passed that torch to the posterity, I am now in a position to fund activism as those before me, funded mine. Pay it forward & give back.

@Mooolah Yes, I believe that Japanese society has become more accommodating. For example, they provide pray rooms for Muslims nowadays. The thing is, those spaces are often mistaken as resting rooms by Japanese elderly people. They are often seen having a nap in those rooms. Lol