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Originally Posted by Mutt
and for all its warts it's still the greatest country in the world, the Internet is mostly an American innovation, Microsoft and Apple are American companies, Facebook as well - the rest of the world still revolves around America, even here in porn land, GFY is American.
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Seriously? This is truly the level of your argument? 'America has some big companies' and 'we made the internet'?
You really can't think of any large, successful tech companies from other countries? You've really never heard of Tim Berners-Lee, CERN or Linus Torvalds?
Tell me, how many online sales did you make before the WWW, without which 'the internet' would still be an obscure tool of universities and the military? How many websites run on Microsoft Windows, compared to Linux? GFY doesn't. Facebook doesn't. Hell, even your own sites don't. Some 'patriot' you are, EH.
What's the nationality of Jonathan Ive, whose designs brought Apple back from oblivion? What's the nationality of Dieter Rams, whose half-century old designs Ive was inspired by? Where was your iPhone made? Where are the components produced?
America? Fuck no.
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The founding fathers never said a word that people would or should be equally successful, never promised the poor or the lazy or the stupid anything but freedom and opportunity. From there on make your own way, make whatever you want of yourself.
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Yes, I'm sure their slaves were as impressed at their Massers' cynical, hollow words about 'freedom' and 'opportunity' as the people in the long list of countries we've attacked, invaded and/or overthrown are.
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Liberals decided that America owed everybody everything ............ for nothing.
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That doesn't even make any sense.