Sense. This makes none.

Submitted by bush (United States), Mar 18, 2009 at 14:07

You are mixing up standing up for yourself with enslaving other nations. Europeans stand up for themselves diplomatically, like a good civilised people. But you Americans simply blow everything up like a hormonal five-year-old whose parents don't love him stomping a sand castle. You have no idea of what diplomacy is. You only want to see everything in absolutes, and you want to believe you are the "good guys," another American-invented myth. You always need your men to be very manly and your women to be very womanly, you think continents can be quantified by "balls."

Why do you think your country is so hated and we Europeans are so loved in the world? Why do you think there are more than twice as many of us as there are of you? Why is there little poverty and crime in Europe, to the point where we don't need guns to travel the city safely? Why do we not need cars in the city, but have cheap, efficient, and fast public transportation? Because we do stand up for ourselves - by making our country better constructively, not by making other countries into smoking craters. It's called postnationalism, and it started happening aroung WWII when all of us realised what a terrible thing nationalism is (and no, you did not "save" us from the Nazis).

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