# American Imperialism **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 27, 2013, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114 "2013-03-27T17:59:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![llcoolbj77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/eb9ed0/32.png) [@llcoolbj77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llcoolbj77)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/61 "2013-03-28T02:46:54Z")
What are the giraffe boards, btw? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/62 "2013-03-28T03:00:17Z")
A spin-off board populated by degenerates, lowlifes, pimps, panderers, whores, and disgraced Rosicrucians. ---
**Author:** ![llcoolbj77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/eb9ed0/32.png) [@llcoolbj77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llcoolbj77)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/63 "2013-03-28T03:03:31Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > A spin-off board populated by degenerates, lowlifes, pimps, panderers, whores, and disgraced Rosicrucians. Sounds delightful. As a fugly slut myself, I guess I shall be off to make some new friends. Or some socks of old friends. Or something. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/64 "2013-03-28T03:05:12Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > A spin-off board populated by degenerates, lowlifes, pimps, panderers, whores, and disgraced Rosicrucians. ,and Methodists!!! ---
**Author:** ![Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pine_Fresh_Scent)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/65 "2013-03-28T03:08:28Z")
Do they allow the Irish? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/66 "2013-03-28T03:22:08Z")
Well, they do have _some_ standards. Will you bring beer? ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/67 "2013-03-28T03:24:21Z")
> [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](#): > > Do they allow the Irish? No, and the colored folk are restricted to only post during certain hours. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/68 "2013-03-28T03:32:33Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > No, and the colored folk are restricted to only post during certain hours. 14.4 hours total, to be precise. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/69 "2013-03-28T03:36:19Z")
> [@llcoolbj77](#): > > What are the giraffe boards, btw? > [@silenus](#): > > A spin-off board populated by degenerates, lowlifes, pimps, panderers, whores, and disgraced Rosicrucians. > [@llcoolbj77](#): > > Sounds delightful. As a fugly slut myself, I guess I shall be off to make some new friends. Or some socks of old friends. Or something. Well, over there we still do have Diogenes the Cynic and a famous Lounsbury Cheesemaker that were disgraced over here, but they still make some good stuff over there from time to time. > [@runner pat](#): > > ,and Methodists!!! > [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](#): > > Do they allow the Irish? Please, we do have standards, šŸ™‚ but I agree with \*\*Giraffe \*\*over there, this Cosmored was permaboxed at the Giraffe Boards and his tread was moved to the box too, so the OP will be poked around by others. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/70 "2013-03-28T03:38:08Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > [Here.](http://www.giraffeboards.com/) This made me laugh so hard I almost pissed myself. Bravo! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/71 "2013-03-28T03:56:06Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Iā€™m confused. Is this thread supposed to be for or against American imperialism? Iā€™m totally for it myself. You say that. But youā€™ll be complaining when they put the crown on Emperor Barack I. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/72 "2013-03-28T03:56:23Z")
Incidentally: I, maybe more than most dopers, do have a beef with what the USA did in places like Central America as Iā€™m from El Salvador and had to leave the country because of the civil war made worse by the criminal military aid Reagan and others gave to the dictator thugs back in the 80ā€™s. (I learned later that many Americans did not agree with those actions so I concentrate on taking on the ones that want to continue to play the ignorant card) but I have to tell the OP that even if there are some good cites in that vomit of an OP, most are lost in the middle of very stupid sources and old dead ones. So, when people that would had been a supporting audience are telling Cosmored that he is just like an idiot (and the Moon Hoax thread only confirms that) he should stop and learn first that he has to explain his point properly and not just post \*\*old \*\*Google vomits. ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/73 "2013-03-28T10:07:36Z")
> [@Cosmored](#): > > I learned > [@cochrane](#): > > I laughed. I came. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/74 "2013-03-28T11:11:46Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > A spin-off board populated by degenerates, lowlifes, pimps, panderers, whores, and disgraced Rosicrucians. I usually go with ā€œA wretched hive of scum and villanyā€ but Bored of the Rings references work as well. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/75 "2013-03-28T12:24:48Z")
> [@Anonymous User](#): > > This spammer hasnā€™t been banned yet? This board needs more nutcases and fewer prissy schoolmarms-in-training; thatā€™s what I say. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/76 "2013-03-28T12:59:35Z")
> [@](#): > > So, when people that would had been a supporting audience are telling Cosmored that he is just like an idiot (and the Moon Hoax thread only confirms that) he should stop and learn first that he has to explain his point properly and not just post old Google vomits. IOW stop making people against American Imperialism look bad! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/77 "2013-03-28T13:05:50Z")
> [@Anonymous User](#): > > This spammer hasnā€™t been banned yet? Fortunately I think the threshold for getting banned is pretty high and besides, he/she is amusing thus far. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/78 "2013-03-28T13:29:24Z")
If the OP is new, but links to 2004, does it count as a zombie? ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/79 "2013-03-28T13:53:52Z")
> [@Cosmored](#): > > I learned about American imperialism by living abroad and talking to people. You did? Really? Gee, I lived abroad and talked to people as well. And not a single one of them said one fucking thing about American imperialism, most likely because there is no such thing. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/80 "2013-03-28T14:03:18Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > [Here.](http://www.giraffeboards.com/) Hilarious. I do think this board should steal language from that site, and consider renaming our own ā€œGreat Debatesā€ section > [@](#): > > Politics, Philosophy and Religion > Explain to strangers why their most deeply held beliefs are stupid and wrong. šŸ˜ƒ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114.md?page=5)