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@blue eyed girl

I have edited your post and I have edited it for using a word more for the intention in its use than for the word itself. Due to personal circumstances I have travelled to several countries, in some I have felt more connection, a connection that still exists today, like Japan, in others I had very pleasant experiences, like eating fried spiders and in others, like Australia, I have a special affection for it because it is where my sister smiled for the first time after months without doing so. I also know the US, but what you said about me acting as if I have privileges because of the US has no basis in fact. I would have acted the same way if it had been Russia or Ukraine. I found your post interesting, intelligent and well written, just the small mistake of using that word.

 

@blue eyed girl

1) I have talked about travelling to other countries because when you travel to other countries you not only get to know other cultures and ways of feeling life, but it is an opening of mental knowledge that is not reduced to the news of a newspaper or television whose intention is not to communicate the news, but to communicate the news from the perspective that they want.

2) (12) Keeping it Civil

• While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, racist comments, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts or private messages.

3) I am sorry to have to disagree with the definition of insult and opinion. People are in great error when they think they have a wide, complete, absolute and infinite freedom of opinion. This is not true. All freedom of opinion has many limitations, including respect.

Americans who vote for Trump are idiots (Yes insult, no opinion).
It is not correct that Americans vote for Trump (No insult, yes opinion)

4) The problem that has been experienced continuously in this thread is that words are written that are the fuse that then causes an explosion, confrontations and closing of threads. One member insults a country, another member insults another country and it is an escalation of confrontations that always end in insults (not opinions) of a personal nature about the members. We have experienced it many times in this very section. We can continue to do what we have always done and complain about the confrontations in this section or we can choose a new path and change the end of that path, we can choose a new path and express our opinions with respect, relaxation and serenity. We can ask ourselves if we want to be the first word, the first sentence that originated a confrontation or we prefer that all our words show respect.

5) Finally, I would just like to add that I sincerely regret, with great sadness and pain, that my intention to keep this forum on terms of freedom of opinion and respect, is confused with an attitude of dictatorial censorship, as described in "1984". But I will continue with the same attitude, forgetting my religious or political preferences, if I see that a publication can lead to a situation of confrontation, because my only intention is that Ins Dream is a pleasant and friendly place for everyone.

 

The matter is closed. Now if we could get back on topic, before the thread gets closed also.

 

Thank you for saying that.

WW2 was won by the Allies because of the USA's (and Canada's to a lesser extent) manufacturing power. Isolated and out of reach of harm, the factories could not be bombed, and an unbelievable amount of planes, bullets, tanks, whatever kept churning out. It was simply overpowering.

This no longer applies. Our greatest asset, the shop floor, the technology and the skilled people we once had, is gone.
We exported the shop floor to China, so that we could buy a toaster from Walmart for half the price it used to be.

It wasn't just America's own making, we're all equally guilty.

 

It wasn't the assessment that was edited, but the word. All opinions are welcomed, but keep the insults out of the opinion. The change in the word made zero difference in the post. The only change was the word 'Idiot' was replaced with the word 'United'.

 

The "Idiot States of America" was not directed at any specific forum member and was perfectly acceptable on this forum.

It reflects a widely held view of a country from without, and does not even reflect on Americans as such, just the current actions of a particular nation.

Now move on and get back on topic.