NFL protest half of the thread >>> stupid boring argument about PhDs and Schrodinger half of the thread

I have been thinking about this and seems likely. I know me personally would not want to assume my participation is wanted or that it might take something away. I would be down for it but would discuss it with others.

I suspect we will end up with lots of white players kneeling today though.

You misspelled slavery and genocide.

The point was really more about not caring all that much, ie, I suspect you're wrong to suggest that other countries would be swooning to this day if Einstein had chosen to live there.

A fair amount of it was handed to you. Relative geographical isolation, abundant natural resources. Even the fact that vast numbers of natives died of a plague around the time Europeans began settling there played its part. 'Unifying a large country' consisted in no small part of slaughtering those who remained.

Yeah, this is something closer to it. Strength. Power. Dominance. Remove the moral pretension implied by 'great' and we can probably get close to agreement.

Well said. If best is defined solely as powerful military then America is the global leader by a wide margin.

Not really.

Also, Ph.Ds from different universities are not remotely equivalent, so this is a really bad metric.

lol. best post.

Yeah didn't actually buy any, decided against it but thanks for looking all those posts up. I don't know how to solve the gun issue I'm America but I'd love to hear how it can be fixed.

Wait.

Are you taking about the civil war, indigenous genocide, or conquest of Mexico?

A vast undeveloped continent, relative isolation from world wars, a steady flow of immigrants, and some radical for their time social safety programs are what made this country the greatest. Everything else contributed to its deplorability.

Are you taking the stance of denying a scientific and technological fact?

Ingrates and degenerates are code for n word

Called it.

i just felt like posting this because Ali is the ****ing greatest

I don't know how many of you still check trumpkin sites but this is pretty much what trumpkins see and think:

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/...t-whiners.html

This is insanely one sided and the misrepresentation of the whole invitation thingy is crazy.
Here's also some crazy logic from the fanatics:

Basically these players are now equivalent to terrorists and full on traitors.

i.e black people can only jump (and are terrorists).

MADNESS!

Missed slavery, massive discoveries of gold, silver and oil, and incredibly large fertile plains. As far as world wars go it was more than just isolation. Our government and industry and their partnership grew incredibly as a result of the war while the rest of the industrial world was wrecked and/or left in our debt.

Our integration of immigrants and acceptance of other cultures was very helpful and I think somewhat exceptional, but we've certainly lost leadership in that regard.

Just as a matter of fact I was definitely responsible for relaxing the rules against personal attacks. In response to a thread and poll in which the majority of posters expressed their preference for that change. Not that this has much at all to do with why the forum was closed but I guess chez pointed this out in response to microbet saying the forum was badly modded because it allowed too many personal attacks.

Although President Donald Trump's proposed budget plan for the 2018 fiscal year would increase spending across the Department of Veterans Affairs, the proposal would also slash individual unemployment benefits for disabled veterans by more than $40.8 billion over 10 years.

Exactly. A steady flow of immigrants. Since our founding there's never been a time when people don't want to come here. And they can.

lol this guy is trying to subtly brag about how the people he works with all went to Ivy league schools... there are advanced universities all the world that attract students.

The fact that you think America is the greatest country in the world because of its Ivy League schools is really odd. Most of the people who attend them are super rich ****s like Jared Kushner.

That has to be one of the single stupidest measuring sticks I have ever heard of.

Just to clarify I did not say it was badly modded because it allowed personal attacks. Imo zero restrictions on personal attacks would have been better than what there was.

Fair enough micro.

edit: brady standing obv