Rich, slave-owning, white blokes complaining about taxes and a 'tyrannical' king whilst preaching about rights and liberty. Sometimes you just have to laugh at the hypocrisy. You're probably the first American I've seen admit that the Patriots were the minority. From what I've seen on social media and in the American press, blind patriotism is still alive and well across the Atlantic. I'm guessing if you mentioned what you've said on here to some of your fellow Americans, you'd be called 'unpatriotic' and/or a 'traitor'?
It takes quite a bit of education before you can get to the point where you pass the blind nationalistic schooling that one gets in high school here. You really have to get into graduate level history/political classes if you don't randomly take up an interest in it of course so that's 6 years of university schooling. It's not surprising that people only have a basic understanding of the situation. Probably not, people in real life aren't like our politicians saying that nonsense. People are people and in a one conversation it's easy to keep things civil.
Unfortunately no. They're playing at bh in r next weekend, I might pop in that one. My uncle is in hnb btw, though you might know that considering you know my old man. EDIT: Scratch that, it's the weekend after next.
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I think you're downplaying the incredible speech made by the President of the United States, Bill Pullman. Without that, the war would've been lost.
Poor speech by an ineffective president. He couldn't even win the war as the next battle occurs on 7/4/2016. Hopefully we will have a president that gives a proper motivational speech this time that leads to total victory.
Nah there's better. What about the one where JFK says "ich bin ein Berliner". What he thinks will win sympathy with the locals actually means a "jam doughnut" (a Berlin colloquialism) at the height of the cold war.
