Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
Socialliberal, love my country to death, I'm also for the EU. Kinda narrow-minded to assume that every European patriot hates the EU and vice versa, we're not a black and white people you know.
No, it would be large government if it abused army given to it (for purposes of defending the nation) to police the nation instead. Increased administrative costs to not translate directly to increased size of government. In case you're still not grasping it, "size" of government is in reference to the areas in which it exerts power over the lives of its citizens. Not necessarily its budget.
$600 billion in Defense spending isn't large government as long as that money IS used exclusively for the sole purpose of Defense.
That same amount of money DOES become large government in the event its used to detain American citizens without trial, subvert the 4th amendment with warrantless wiretaps and other invasive behaviors such as setting up security cameras in public places "for our safety".
Here's a picture of large government. I'm sure the British must have loved seeing this one had they read 1984.
India is a nightmare for anyone living in it. Have you not been reading the news?Because India itself is an artifice, and given their ethnic and religious diversity they are doing quite well.
American Patriotism is not the cause of our superiority complex "superior firepower is"
Even for all the shortcomings of the modern American culture we can take solace in the fact that no external source can use force to change us into something we are not content with.
Sure we use our firepower to play peacekeeping middleman but make no mistake we do so because our government believes it to be in our best interest (even if we don't always agree with them"
Furthermore should a serious threat arise against us we will fight it head on.
And we will do one hell of a lot better defending our own soil than some nation who screwed up and took firearms away from their civilians.
By UK Law, you are not allowed to be recorded without a notice. This poster and posters on buses are that notice. They are also only done in public sectors. I know for a fact that UK laws are a bit nanny-stateish for their own good, but considering I was once mugged on a bus and they managed to catch the felon via tape is enough for me to know that my public transport is not a huge pile of trash like the American ones
Nationalists are dumbasses. They hate immigrants because of their culture and lifestyle, yet it's always been massive floods of immigrants that has made countries economic superpowers. For example, Sweden had a massive flood of immigrants from southern Europe during the 60s, and Sweden became one of the richest countries in the world because of the cheap workforce we got.