Donnachaidh wrote:You're right, I didn't spell it the same as him. I'd argue you're just being pedantic though.
It is not a distinction without a difference. There is very much a different connotation that is well understood but you're choosing to ignore.
TFLYTSNBN wrote:He actually used the word "murikan," which of course is a destinction without a difference.
It's interesting that you equate criticism of the sexist (your rampant slimy comments about women are sexist as are the multiple comments criticizing Hillary Clinton for Bill Clinton's adultery) comments and xenophobic (saying "go fix your own country" to immigrants -and especially to naturalized US citizens- is xenophobic) comments you've made with criticism conservatives.
As far as commenting on other countries, if you want to participate in those discussions, there is nothing stopping you. Considering the amount of influence US politics has on the world (see the Iran nuclear deal for an example), it is entirely reasonable to say that people in other countries have a vested interest in US politics.
TFLYTSNBN wrote:What is on display here is your prejudice and bigotry as well as his, not mine.
For proof go through the Politics board and count all of the threads that start out critical of the US or President Trump that were started by people in other countries then count all of the threads started by myself and other Americans that were critical of other countries. Except for my recent flurry of threads that are so obviously intended to satirize as well as refute the "guns cause crime and murder" mantra, you will not find any.
You do realize that if discussions like this really bothered our host threads would be closed and/or users would be banned?
Also American =/= Conservative.
I am not choosing to ignore the alleged difference in connotation. I presume by your comments that one is more perjorative than the other? Google is uninformative. Obviously it is a foreigner thing.
Thanks to President Trump's ongoing reversion into neoisolationism, America's internal politics will become less of a concern to foreigners. Trump is folding up the nuclear umbrella that you like to bitch about and going home. You will become too busy fending for yourselves to worry about US internal politics.
The situation with Iran is far more complicated than you realize. America will not be a participant in The (Next) Persian Gulf War but it will serve America's interest. Big hint are, "China" and "Harrington Doctrine."
