Good grief - man, the language has changed. Help me out here?
We invented the intrawebs, which gives you the ability to make an ass of yourself to a bunch of people much superior to you who do not take you at all seriously, and who are mocking you.
We win.
(USA! USA! USA!)
Heh, I just put “I pity your style of government” word-by-word through an Old English translator. Probably means gibberish, but looks cool. 
I did once hear a reading of Old English poetry - it sounded awesome, but was, of course, totally incomprehensible. 
The Perfect Master says: “I say we just call him Duckbreath. It’s short, it’s easy to spell, and Lord knows it satisfies the soul.”
You forgot (12) Kicking Commie ass.
BTW, Commissar, I’m still curious: What happened when the Hungarians and the Czechs decided they wanted to modify your glorious form of government?
Commissar,why not head back. I hear Chernobyl’s lovely this time of the year.
What is this rest of us to which you refer?
Please tell me when gay marriage was legalized in Russia.
Please tell me when homosexuality was decriminalized in Russia? In what year was Article 121 repealed?
But we weren’t speaking globally, were we?
That’s not accurate, at all.
http://russiatrek.org/blog/tag/russian-road/
And especially this one: Russian Roads 4 - English Russia
Not really. I was speaking only to our conventional forces. Superior Navy, superior Air Force, superior Army. You act like we go around nuking everyone in sight.
:rolleyes:
Yeah, its all mindless entertainment. Hollywood has never produced good movies that are thought-provoking, heart-wrenching or in any innumerable way relevant to the human experience. Oh, and I forgot, sports! We kick your ass in sports!
It does not depend in its entirety on illegal labor. Point taken on illegals vis a vis our internal debate over what to do with them. Every civilized nation has issues with illegal immigrants, refugees and the like. I’d say we’re actually pretty nice to them. Many other nations would just shoot them.
The Civil War was bad, yes, but comparing 700,000 deaths in an actual war to the 23 million that died not being at war under Stalin’s regime alone (not counting before or after, the gulags, etc) and suddenly that casualty figure for the American Civil War seems pretty paltry by comparison, doesn’t it?
That’s because we’re badasses when we want to be, Mr I Condone Murderous Regimes.
If you can use the Civil War as an example of our savagery against our own people, then its fine for me to bring up Stalin (and the two situations aren’t really comparable at all as I stated above), but he wasn’t the only murderer amongst the ranks of Soviet rulers.
Our Constitution, as it was the first of its kind in human history. No nation in the world was governed prior to that with separated and divided powers providing checks and balances on the exercise of authority by those who were governed.
We have more of all of these things than Russia, especially food and shelter.
What in the world? We don’t get the same benefit of the doubt for our own mistakes? The civil rights movement never happened? There’s no equality in America? What filth and backwardness do you speak of? Every country has idiot citizens.
I agree, vodka is very good. And LOL at the “slaughtering other people for a change” as if we’re the only nation on Earth that’s ever done that. I agree it doesn’t make it right but there you go. Russia has been historically and even recently just as guilty. Or as if we had no right to go into Afghanistan to hunt down the group of people that attacked us on 9/11. Iraq I’ll grant you…stupid war the second time around. Ditto Vietnam.
What ad hominem crap? I have pretty high standards for myself. I do a good job as a worker, citizen, husband and father. And pray tell, what does this ridiculously diverse collection of people known as Americans act like? So we are all the same?
Mr. Commisar, we’ve hired a new complaint manager to address all of your concerns.
His name?
BWHAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHAHAH…pounds fists on desk, sheds tears of laughter
Oh, you’re good. You’re really good. Have you considered doing stand up?
BTW, a lot of those historical events you listed happened BEFORE the Soviet Union was created. Dumbass.
(On the other hand, they DID give us Evgeni Malkin. So that’s something at least.)
I don’t remember the character’s name, but there was the Dark Jedi in Timothy Hahn’s trilogy (which most consider to be episodes 7-9) who sat in a tower, mind controlling everyone on the planet and at the same time cloaking the planet from radar, all with the Force.
I probably got some of that wrong, and I’m sure someone will come along and correct me. It’s been quite a few years since I read those books.
My father once had a tape in the car of something from around Chaucer’s time, though I don’t believe it was one of Chaucer’s works. Read in the original, of course. Made for a rather annoying drive, as I couldn’t catch much of it while he understood the whole thing and then tried to translate on the fly.
Nothing terrible, if that’s what you’re implying. They made a mistake, we showed them the error of their ways, and they became better off for a while. Then they made the mistake again, and we let them do it this time.
But, point taken. For what it’s worth, I am in favor of spreading Communism to receptive nations, but opposed to forcing it onto a populace from abroad. When forced onto people, it’s a waste of everyone’s time and resources. They’ll all come around eventually, anyway. Our victory is a foregone conclusion.
Wow. Somebody’s all butthurt and unhappy and jealous of us.
By “showed them the error of their ways,” I assume you meant “sent in the tanks” - because that is, in fact, what happened. I understand that you aren’t saying you approve of such things - but let’s not gloss over it. What happened was, indeed, pretty damned awful.
I haven’t read the novels, so I’ll take your word for it - but I would submit that the Death Star is still more impressive. It can’t effect direct mind control - but I guarantee you that with a Death Star in orbit, everyone will be doing precisely what the nice Grand Moff says. Plus. you can still just blow up the planet - the Dark Jedi can’t do that.
Pretty much all of the Georgian cognacs I’ve had were absolutely awesome. The last one I had was absolutely delicious: Kolhida, a Georgian cognac bottled in Belarus:
Damned if I know where you can find it in the US, though…
But remember, I consider myself a Soviet, and they were a Soviet republic. Hence, I see them as being just as much my own people as my fellow Bellorussians.
Thanks for the memories. I haven’t thought of Cowboy Bill Watts and Skandor Akbar for 30 years. I guess I know what I’ll be Youtubing for the rest of the day.
Yeah, you guys are really kicking ass. I can see why you’d be so confident.