Germany is the 'Most Popular Country in the World'

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  1. Blackrook

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    http://www.cnbc.com/id/100761312
    What a difference 68 years make!!! Most of the people who remember the horrors of World War II are dead and in the ground. And since 1945, Germany has done nothing but make money, allowing the United States to do all the heavy lifting in the world to contain Communism and radical Islam.

    I have just read "Maus" which is a graphic novel about the Holocaust, so I'm not so quick to forgive the Germans. I find it odd that an entire country of normal people could go so crazy and then say afterwards they were only "following orders."
     
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    Merkel is a life-long commie.
     
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    It was the media. The newspapers told them what was right and wrong, what reality was. Few questioned it. The nazis even had propaganda stage plays that subtly fed the public social values and shaped their opinions about political issues. Today it is televised news and TV entertainment. We can clearly see this with the issue of abortion, for example, it has become normalized, almost perfectly acceptable.
     
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    It's also scary to see people being so negative toward Iran. A little negative press goes a long way.
     
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    Yes, control of the media is important. In our country, the media is controlled by a very small clique of New York and California liberals. It's very difficult for any other viewpoint to get out there.
     
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    Exactly. While the US slaughtered hundred thousands of people and supported the killing of millions, including the Pol Pot regime, Germany rather focussed on making money.

    I doubt that there is anything for you to forgive and certainly I dont give a (*)(*)(*)(*) if you do so.
     
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    WTF..... how many more women and children must we demolish and people must we torture before we can be the most popular?
     
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    And how did hitler manage to get all those people on board with his nefarious agenda? By framing it as a national security issue and using fear-mongering. Saying that Germany would die if they didn't do all these wars and kill people and (the commies were used by hitler as a grave threat as well) and so all the people thought their security depended on it.

    It's the same tactic which the USA use today, saying they need to destabilize this country or that country, or bombard this country or that country, or torture this guy or that guy, or invade here or there etc... And suddenly, you get millions of people waving their mini flags and clapping their hands for torture, war crimes etc... barbaric atrocities but the people love them because they are brainwashed into thinking it is keeping them safe and that's why they are doing it.

    Did you know that the majority of Americans support the drone strikes? Of course, concealing information and feeding the people only cherrypicked bits is important. They probably don't know about the "signature" drone strikes or the "double tap" drone strikes which prove that the targets aren't necessarily previously determined "known" terrorists and which prove a terrorist intent.
     
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    i may state death to liars.

    iran aint at war with israel

    If they were israel would not exist.

    like calling mel gibson anti semitic

    from movies to dreams; the bigots burn

    the emp is one of the reasns of the original treaty.

    could you imagine all them idiots dropping like flies with pacer makers.

    drums, bass, accoustic.......................... we'll be on the beach watching the firewirks show
    that little man has bigger balls than the whole of the US Media
     
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    Title is wrong. Correct one is: "BBC says, that Germany is the most popular country from the list of 16 countries by the opinion of people from 25 countries". Even if you think that BBC is reliable, 26 000 out of 7 000 000 000 will give you a huge statistical mistake.
     
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    Well all you need to do is look a your own country, hundreds of thousands dead in Iraq and Afghanistan all because a media controlled population allowed a retarded president to lead them into unecessary and unjustifiable wars,for what!? so that oil and weapons companies could make more (blood)money.
     
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    It's a tried and true tactic - scare a population with dire threats from some other land, and they'll be ready to see that land obliterated. Whether you're talking about the Nazis' excuses for starting WWII or the USA's and Great Britain's excuses for invading Middle Eastern countries, the same basic manipulation exists. You don't even have to lie to people per se - just tell them the "right" things, and do it loudly and constantly, and you'll be all set.
     
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    And how many of us would not do the same had we lived in that time and place? Most of the people I know would be the first to cry crucify Him, crucify Him if they felt it was 'politically correct'. :juggle:
     
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    And what if Saddam was to take control of the Saudi, Kuwaiti and Qatar oil, then what? Wouldn't it hold the rest of the world ransom, and wouldn't it threaten to destroy the world's economy? And if that economy was destroyed who would be the first to starve, wouldn't it be the billions in third world nations?

    You know everything is not as simple as you want to believe. What we really should blame is the world economic system which makes everyone and everything dependant on everything else. :steamed:
     
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    Why would it? If Saddam wanted to invade the whole Middle East, he would need resources. Thus, he'd have to sell the oil!
     
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    Meh. Saddam wasn't about to do anything so stupid.
     
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    That's like saying state-sanctioned genocide is better than a messy genocidal Ruwanda-style civil war.
     
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    If you'd like to pay much more for orphanages and welfare, be my guest.
     
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    Why? Can't we just abort them? :roll: Just abort anyone who places a burden on our society, while we are at it.
     
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    I'd be more sympathetic to the pro-life side if they actually were willing to make the necessary spending, but they don't appear to be in most cases.
     
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    So just because I am not willing to pay the money to save someone else's life, means it is okay for you to steal someone else's life? That's what this is about; rights and STEALING.

    That being said, your assertion is just absurd because we already do provide free medical care to low-income children.

    Even the USA provides free medical treatment to non-citizen low income children in their emergency departments, despite the fact they are illegally residing in the country.


    (of course, everything we have in life was given to us by god)
     
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    ...and the costs get passed to the rest of us. I'd like to minimize that.

    It's not about "stealing" anything. It's about not getting involved in someone's personal choice.

    If someone has an abortion using their own money, that's on them, not me.

    If you want to badger a woman for having an abortion, be my guest, but you'll just come off as a jerk.
     
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    Pro-Life? Only the suicidal are not pro-life. A stupid and disengenuous moniker if ever there was one.
     
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    The fetus cannot consent to its abortion at the time of the procedure. Abortion DENIES personal choice. Abortion ensures the fetus will never be able to exercise any choice.
     
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    Do you believe life (in a legal sense) begins at conception?
     

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