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Re:Germany replaces US as country with best international image by eatplayrove on Saturday November 18, 2017 @01:50PM (#15730129)
This is a crazy form of propaganda instilled by both sides of the political spectrum in the US. Germany's population is 82M+, and much more diverse than you think. You think you have nothing in common with someone in Alabama? At least you speak a common language and share a constitutional tradition. German unification was completed 60 years after Alabama was admitted to the union. A Schwäbisch person has as much in common culturally with an Ossie as you do with an Alabamian.

This 300M+ logic is the perfect strawman for people who don't want to solve problems, because the population of the US is only comparable to few countries in population and they are not in a good position...

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Re:Germany replaces US as country with best international image by libertyEQ on Saturday November 18, 2017 @03:51PM (#15730617)
>This 300M+ logic is the perfect strawman for people who don't want to solve problems

Within the US, people are able to move across states at will very easily. It is not a "straw man" in that I did not present it as argument being made by someone else. I simply do not believe in centralized power and large homogeneous populations.

I have been to Alabama, and I often can not understand what they are saying whether you believe it or not.

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Re:Germany replaces US as country with best international image by JBlue42 on Saturday November 18, 2017 @03:29PM (#15730511)
>This 300M+ logic is the perfect strawman for people who don't want to solve problems, because the population of the US is only comparable to few countries in population and they are not in a good position...

Thank you. I hate when people use this as a former of argument and neglect all the difficult things the country has achieved. It's an excuse for laziness and the status quo.

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Re:Germany replaces US as country with best international image by libertyEQ on Sunday November 19, 2017 @01:58AM (#15732661)
> I hate when people use this as a former of argument and neglect all the difficult things the country has achieved.

My point was it is difficult for 300M people to agree on something, and I don't know what you are talking about otherwise.

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Re:Germany replaces US as country with best international image by JBlue42 on Sunday November 19, 2017 @02:04AM (#15732677)
It's difficult for two people to agree on something.

See: your thread.

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