History Quotes / EaglelandOsmosis

->''"[[WorldWarII At that time]], the ''Superman'' comics were widely-read, and there were American soldiers all over the place. As American accents only reached us through the films, it was like being a movie to meet them--or wear clothes that from their country. We adored everything about America. We just couldn't get enough of it, from gums, to caps, to shirts with funny figures printed on them. The only drawback was that qualify for the goodies, your mam had to be in heaven, I prayed hard that a bomb would drop on mine as she trudged home from the Sefton Arms."''

->''"The problem is faced directly in the Third World domains that have long been dominated by the West and therefore reflect the guiding values of the masters most clearly...Under [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Reaganite]] enthusiasts for state power, the number of prisoners in the U.S. almost tripled, leaving our main competitors, South Africa and {{Russia}}, well behind -- though Russia has just caught up, now that they are mastering the values of their American tutors."''
-->--'''Noam Chomsky''', "On Humanism and Morality"

->''"Thirty years ago, MargaretThatcher turned Britain into the world’s leading centre of 'thinking the unthinkable'. Today that distinction has passed to {{Sweden}}. The streets of Stockholm are awash with the blood of sacred cows. The think-tanks are brimful of new ideas. The erstwhile champion of the '[[TakeAThirdOption third way]]' is now pursuing a far more interesting brand of politics....Anders Aslund, a Swedish economist who lives in America, hopes that Sweden is pioneering 'a new conservative model'; Brian Palmer, an American anthropologist who lives in Sweden, worries that it is turning into 'the United States of Swedeamerica'...The other Nordic countries have been moving in the same direction, if more slowly."''

->''"I fully expect a wingnut Secretary of State to be caught just straight up editing vote totals in Microsoft Excel... they simply don’t give a fuck about pretense. They want to blow it all up and are hoping that raw money, media ownership, and the still lingering racism of that tiny core of bitter white men is enough to buy them a few more years to rob the last remaining shreds of this country before they retire to Europe to start tearing that continent apart."''
-->--''[[http://www.sadlyno.com/page/23?p759683 Sadly, No!]]''

->''"Where once we were the dragons on the map schisming the known world, now we are the very mouth of the {{Ouroboros}}, clamped down tight upon ourselves. If we are a global superpower and exceptional, it is because we are a cipher, the still blank part of the map that connects one end to the other....When all roads lead somewhere, that place is no longer a place."''
-->--'''[[http://projectnes.blogspot.com/2011/01/elsewhere-there-be-dragons-double.html Phil Sandifer]]'''

->''"[[WorldWarII At that time]], the ''Superman'' comics were widely-read, and there were American soldiers all over the place. As American accents only reached us through the films, it was like being a movie to meet them--or wear clothes that from their country. We adored everything about America. We just couldn't get enough of it, from gums, to caps, to shirts with funny figures printed on them .The only drawback was that qualify for the goodies, your mam had to be n heaven, I prayed hard that a bomb would drop on mine as she trudged home from the Sefton Arms."''

->''"[[WorldWarII At that time]], the ''Superman'' comics were widely-read, and there were American soldiers all over the place. As American accents only reached us through the films, it was like being a movie to meet them--or wear clothes that from their country. We adored everything about America. We jut couldn't get enough of it, from gums, to caps, to shirts with funny figures printed on them .The only drawback was that qualify for the goodies, your mam had to be n heaven, I prayed hard that a bomb would drop on mine as she trudged home from the Sefton Arms."''

->''"What does the rest of the world have to tell ''us'' about how to do things? Build more trains? Have ''people'' elect their leader rather than an elite electoral college? Ride a bike to work like a girl scout or a clown with dietary concerns? No thanks, [[DirtyCommunists Vladmir.]]"''

->''"Europe doesn't fear our military or economic prowess, rather it is Henry Ford who gives them the shivers... By Americanization it means Fordizations--and not only in industry but also in politics, art and even religion."''

->''"We are enjoined today to worship the consequences of ''[David]'' Ricardo's science, despite the fact that the assumptions on which they are based have been reversed: capital is highly mobile, and labor virtually immobile -- libertarian conservatives lead the way in rejecting Adam Smith's principle that 'free circulation of labor' is a cornerstone of free trade, in keeping with their contempt for markets (except for [[TheSocialDarwinist the weak]]) ...The problem is faced directly in the Third World domains that have long been dominated by the West and therefore reflect the guiding values of the masters most clearly...Under [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Reaganite]] enthusiasts for state power, the number of prisoners in the U.S. almost tripled, leaving our main competitors, South Africa and {{Russia}}, well behind -- though Russia has just caught up, now that they are mastering the values of their American tutors."''

->'''"We are enjoined today to worship the consequences of ''[David]'' Ricardo's science, despite the fact that the assumptions on which they are based have been reversed: capital is highly mobile, and labor virtually immobile -- libertarian conservatives lead the way in rejecting Adam Smith's principle that 'free circulation of labor' is a cornerstone of free trade, in keeping with their contempt for markets (except for [[TheSocialDarwinist the weak]]) ...The problem is faced directly in the Third World domains that have long been dominated by the West and therefore reflect the guiding values of the masters most clearly...Under [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Reaganite]] enthusiasts for state power, the number of prisoners in the U.S. almost tripled, leaving our main competitors, South Africa and {{Russia}}, well behind -- though Russia has just caught up, now that they are mastering the values of their American tutors."''

->''"Europe doessn't fear our military or economic prowess, rather it is Henry Ford who gives them the shivers... By Americanization it means Fordizations--and not only in industry but also in politics, art and even religion."''

->''Hollywood infected your brain\\

I'm obsessed with the mess that's America''

->''"Europe doessn't fear our military or economic prowess, rather it is Henry Ford who gives them the shivers... By Americanization it means Fordizations--and not only in industry but also in politics, art and even religion."''
-->--'''Creator/HLMencken'''

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-->--''[[LoadingReadyRun Checkpoint]]'', Episode 52

-->--''{{Pasila}}'', Finnish cop show

-->-- '''Boris and Ignat''', ''[[NightWatch The Night Watch]]''

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