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Old 02-17-2005, 04:29 PM   #16
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Freedom means you choose the government you want. Colonialism is when that government is imposed upon you.
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Old 02-17-2005, 04:33 PM   #17
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It's more complicated than that. The vast majority of people in every country didn't get to pick the government of their country.
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Old 02-17-2005, 08:06 PM   #18
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not really a new concept, just a really long hard to spell word

Quote:
Originally Posted by Kitsune
...a new subspecies of liberal guilt arose—over the pleasure liberals took in bad news from Iraq...
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1 definition found for Schadenfreude

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :

Schadenfreude
n : delight in another person's misfortune

It's sad, sad, sad.
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Old 02-17-2005, 10:45 PM   #19
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Sad, and inaccurate bullshit, but yeah, still sad.

No liberal or conservative takes a guilty pleasure in hearing about humanity's violent failure. Anybody who says otherwise is a fucking idiot.
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