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JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#114951: Mar 8th 2016 at 2:05:45 PM

[up][up] Some article I read a while ago. It wasn't that most soldiers and citizens didn't think their cause was just, but they had seen the army, and thus didn't idolize it's soldiers as the epitome of the American way. And their were certainly war heroes, but the Army wasn't held above all other institutions as it was today, Ike invoked the Military industrial complex and Macarthy hunted amongst it's ranks for commies ,for starters. In fact for most of it's history America wasn't all that sweet on the army, many of the Founding fathers,like Jefferson, hated the idea of a standing Military.

[up] Most Americans never serve. Those who do, especially the officers, tend to come from families with long Military histories, and their is an aspect of "continuing the tradition."

edited 8th Mar '16 2:07:10 PM by JackOLantern1337

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Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#114952: Mar 8th 2016 at 2:08:59 PM

I am just pointing out that the usage of the words "The Warrior Class" is archaic and as descriptive of modern society as "prithee good sir thou dost manglest the queen's good englishe"

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#114953: Mar 8th 2016 at 2:11:58 PM

[up] Back to thy field fithy peasant.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#114954: Mar 8th 2016 at 2:15:46 PM

'e's not a peasant. 'e must be a king; 'e 'asn't got shit on 'im.

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Ekuran Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#114956: Mar 8th 2016 at 2:21:13 PM

Most military families come from the South, which has most of the huge important military places like The Pentagon and USSOCOM.

edited 8th Mar '16 3:13:29 PM by Bat178

Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#114958: Mar 8th 2016 at 3:17:04 PM

West Point is in New York, the Northeast. The Northeast has a lot of military academies, but not as many big important military places as the South, and the South also has a lot of military academies, especially in Maryland, Virginia and Texas.

edited 8th Mar '16 3:18:16 PM by Bat178

optimusjamie Since: Jun, 2010
#114959: Mar 8th 2016 at 3:32:34 PM

I wouldn't describe the Pentagon as being in the South, either.

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Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#114960: Mar 8th 2016 at 3:34:04 PM

But Virginia is a CSA state, so it must be.

"Yup. That tasted purple."
FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#114961: Mar 8th 2016 at 3:38:27 PM

Sorry, meant to say the Citadel. Military feeder school.

KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#114962: Mar 8th 2016 at 3:38:59 PM

Maryland's in the South? News to me.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#114963: Mar 8th 2016 at 3:41:48 PM

Officially it is, anyway. I doubt many people care, though. About that or Maryland in general.

edited 8th Mar '16 3:42:08 PM by LSBK

KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#114964: Mar 8th 2016 at 3:42:32 PM

sad

-has lived in Maryland-

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Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#114965: Mar 8th 2016 at 3:43:50 PM

Delaware is also officially part of the South. Virginia, Maryland and Delaware are closer to the Northeast culturally than the rest of the South, but still have noticeable Southern influences, history and fought for the Confederates in the Civil War (Though Maryland also had Union troops fighting for it too) so are part of the South rather than the Northeast.

edited 8th Mar '16 4:36:45 PM by Bat178

Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#114966: Mar 8th 2016 at 3:52:04 PM

Given the role of the dollar basically underpinning the world economy, the US is still indispensible and will be for some time. The only currencies even in candidacy for world reserve status would be the Yen, Euro, and Pound Sterling, and Japan is desperately fighting currency revaluation, the Eurozone's a mess. The United Kingdom might want it, though, considering their pro-bank Tory leadership might like a superstrong currency and they don't do much exporting.

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Student of Story
#114967: Mar 8th 2016 at 3:52:41 PM

It all depends on where you draw the line, and how you're categorizing. Personally I think the better way to do it instead of just sticking to North vs South is to call the area between them "Midatlantic", which would include states like Delaware, Maryland, or areas like DC, which don't really fit with either the North or south.

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RabidTanker God-Mayor of Sim-Kind Since: May, 2014 Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
God-Mayor of Sim-Kind
#114968: Mar 8th 2016 at 4:07:21 PM

Let's face it: Even with ads like these

it's nigh-impossible to bring Trump down without encouraging people to vote for him.Sure, he pisses people off, but he has an point.

edited 8th Mar '16 4:07:36 PM by RabidTanker

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KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#114969: Mar 8th 2016 at 4:12:37 PM

I don't think the tone's right for that one - the uplifting music, for one thing, doesn't help, nor does the triumphant image of him at the end.

edited 8th Mar '16 4:13:10 PM by KarkatTheDalek

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theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#114970: Mar 8th 2016 at 5:31:52 PM

So Clinton apparently won Mississippi. Hopefully Michigan will be a different story, since that's the real prize and MS is small potatoes.

Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#114971: Mar 8th 2016 at 5:35:48 PM

[up] Surprising. Thought it would be Trump, as Mississippi is racist redneck bumpkin territory.

edited 8th Mar '16 5:36:03 PM by Bat178

CassidyTheDevil Since: Jan, 2013
#114972: Mar 8th 2016 at 5:36:36 PM

Let's face it: Even with ads like these

it's nigh-impossible to bring Trump down without encouraging people to vote for him.Sure, he pisses people off, but he has an point.

Is that his ad, or someone making fun of him? I can't tell.

ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
#114973: Mar 8th 2016 at 5:36:44 PM

Let's face it, Sanders wasn't winning Mississippi if he was running against a sentient trash can that screamed obscenities.

(obvious joke in 3...2...)

pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#114974: Mar 8th 2016 at 5:39:40 PM

[up]Okay, I'll bite...

He's not??

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ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
#114975: Mar 8th 2016 at 5:40:13 PM

Wrong answer. Correct one is "wait for the general".


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