# "Americans - the most brainwashed people of the World" **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 25, 2010, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-the-most-brainwashed-people-of-the-world/540685 "2010-05-25T09:37:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-the-most-brainwashed-people-of-the-world/540685/81 "2010-05-26T15:24:19Z")
> [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](#): > > Who’s attacking the US? No one. and we plan to keep it that way. ---
**Author:** ![No\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@No\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/No_Man)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-the-most-brainwashed-people-of-the-world/540685/82 "2010-05-27T08:39:57Z")
This is lame, so I just stop writing here. Maybe I had a too narrow approach and I was left empty-handed. Only couple of words. The best way of making profit today is closing down business. Players in the stock market close factories to get more money. Anarchism means that you consider government undesirable. It doesn’ have to lead to killing people. But if you get rid of the 1% in charge and you’ll become twice as rich yourself. If money means something, but this thread was not because of money. Now there is Obama in D.C. and you see light at the end of the tunnel. But something bad is bound to happen. This the way American history is written. It’s a man-made history. If you cannot see it, YOU ARE THE NIGGER OF THE WORLD! coitus int - that is something like “early withdrawal” in latin. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-the-most-brainwashed-people-of-the-world/540685/83 "2010-05-27T09:24:42Z")
> [@No\_Man](#): > > This is lame, so I just stop writing here. Oh, if only you had. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-the-most-brainwashed-people-of-the-world/540685/84 "2010-05-27T12:11:49Z")
> [@No\_Man](#): > > The best way of making profit today is closing down business. > Players in the stock market close factories to get more money. All businesses do that when they have to. It’s usually a way of losing less money, not making money. > [@](#): > > If you cannot see it, YOU ARE THE NIGGER OF THE WORLD! John Lennon could get away with this, but you’re not John Lennon. If you want to make a coherent argument, I suggest you try that. Seriously, you’ll make more progress if you slow down and elaborate on your thoughtf instead of jumping from one idea to another and expecting your readers to play connect the dots. ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-the-most-brainwashed-people-of-the-world/540685/85 "2010-05-27T12:17:12Z")
> [@No\_Man](#): > > It means that you think that you are thinking, but actually aren’t. And someone else is. _What would you do if they let you go home And the plastic’s all melted and so is the chrome? Who are the brain police?_ – **Frank Zappa** ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-the-most-brainwashed-people-of-the-world/540685/86 "2010-05-27T12:20:08Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > If you think you’re thinking, or even if you _think_ that you think you’re thinking, then wonder no more - you _are_ thinking! About thinking! But beware, now that that question has been settled and you aren’t thinking about it anymore, you may not be thinking after all. _I don’t ask questions, I just have fun._ – **Bugs Bunny** ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-the-most-brainwashed-people-of-the-world/540685/87 "2010-05-27T12:42:33Z")
> [@LonesomePolecat](#): > > _I don’t ask questions, I just have fun._ – **Bugs Bunny** De wabbit wins de tred 😃 ---
**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:** [May 28, 2010, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-the-most-brainwashed-people-of-the-world/540685/88 "2010-05-28T13:17:05Z")
> [@Perciful](#): > > Jesus said, “My thoughts are not your thoughts”. I liked Spock’s version better. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-the-most-brainwashed-people-of-the-world/540685/89 "2010-05-28T17:02:26Z")
> [@No\_Man](#): > > We want oil (War on terror), we get oil (Gulf of Mexico). But if you put that 1,5 million personnel in a factory, you get a whole lot of new cars. And less bodies. Tell me this isn’t a suggestion for the government to make cars. Bad idea. Or is your ‘you’ in that statement above a nebulous entity based on the idea that anyone with any authority or resources is an interchangable part of The Man? ---
**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:** [May 28, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-the-most-brainwashed-people-of-the-world/540685/90 "2010-05-28T17:31:01Z")
I think it’s based on the idea that if you build it, they will come, and our automotivve industry needs more manufacturing capacity for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![toofs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@toofs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toofs)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-the-most-brainwashed-people-of-the-world/540685/91 "2010-05-29T07:18:43Z")
> [@No\_Man](#): > > Correct me if I’m wrong, but sounds like **Chinese Democracy** to me. You have an appetite for destruction, **No Man**. ---
**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:** [May 29, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-the-most-brainwashed-people-of-the-world/540685/92 "2010-05-29T14:48:49Z")
Why can’t all you brainwashed Americans see that the government is telling you _Lies_? ---
**Author:** ![lekatt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lekatt/32/7269_2.png) [@lekatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lekatt)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-the-most-brainwashed-people-of-the-world/540685/93 "2010-05-29T15:08:22Z")
> [@Perciful](#): > > I’d have to say as a whole Americans are brainwashed, fat and happy. I see what is happening because I look at everything from all angles and I’m a deep thinker. I question everything and always have but it doesn’t do me any good because I am just another bozo on the bus. I am just a speck of dust in the wind like everyone else. > > Jesus said, “My thoughts are not your thoughts”. He had a higher vision that mortals can not fathom. It isn’t our fault that we are fed crap food, and watch crap tv and live insulated lives so far from the truth that when we encounter truth it we recoil. Socialism looks like a good thing when all your needs are met and Apathy sets in. > > This is the culling time so enjoy it. The calm before the storm. I’m going to work in the garden today and get down and dirty with dirt. I came from it and will return to it. > > I am powerless to change the world but I see everything as it is in reality. There are a few of us left that have not been swallowed up. Sometimes I wish I didn’t have to see everything but I know God has a plan for me and that is what keeps me going. > > Btw- “No Man Is An Island”, is an awesome book! I think I am liking your post. Go back to your garden, and I will go back to my computer. Good post! ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-the-most-brainwashed-people-of-the-world/540685/94 "2010-05-29T17:08:42Z")
> [@toofs](#): > > You have an appetite for destruction, **No Man**. Well, he certainly seems to be using his illusions. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-the-most-brainwashed-people-of-the-world/540685.md?page=4)