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    Quote Originally Posted by Dutch Uncle View Post
    That's different than blaming the US for everything from slavery to what's happening across the modern world.

    The anti-Americans never take anything into perspective. They certainly never blame the USSR for their part in the Cold War.
    Who do we blame for slavery? We did it. Who do we blame for Jim Crow? Who do we blame for burning down black successful towns? Who do we blame for lynching? Who do we blame for discrimination?
    Who is responsible for overthrowing governments and installing puppet dictators? Who do we blame for assassinations? How about taking over the economies of countries and taking their resources? We waged war in Iraq for oil.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nordberg View Post
    Who do we blame for slavery? We did it. Who do we blame for Jim Crow? Who do we blame for burning down black successful towns? Who do we blame for lynching? Who do we blame for discrimination?

    Who is responsible for overthrowing governments and installing puppet dictators? Who do we blame for assassinations? How about taking over the economies of countries and taking their resources? We waged war in Iraq for oil.
    "We" = Anti-Americans/pro-Russians and/or Chinese.

    Yes, you blame slavery and all the ills of the world on the United States even though it didn't come into existence until less than 250 years ago.
    God bless America and those who defend our Constitution.

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    They were barely functional as a carrier anyway. They stopped using it because they kept having their aircraft drop into the ocean at takeoff. Their "VTOL" fighters sucked, and when I was in didn't even have any radar... They took so much room just getting it barely functioning as a VTOL they couldn't add anything that would make it actually function as a fighter.

    What I found most hilarious is they listed all navy aircraft as "anti-submarine"... you couldn't even look down at the surface from the cockpit, it had no way to detect submarines. The most danger a submarine was in was when they were taking off, as I noted earlier, it is possible that the plane could hit a submarine as it sank....
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    Quote Originally Posted by LurchAddams View Post
    Remember when twump didn't know where one of our carriers was going? It was like his famous "sharpie on the weathermap" goof.

    It's amazing how the MAGAs still genuflect to that dork while calling Biden "senile"
    The alt right/maga crowd just wants to believe so much they are willing to alter absolute facts. It is an absolute fact that the US has an unrivaled number of aircraft carriers.
    Daniel Patrick Moynihan said it best, "You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts."
    Paul Begala, "Politics is show business for ugly people."
    Stephen Colbert, "Reality has a well known liberal bias."

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