Originally Posted by
Carygrant
Constant anti American insults indeed .
I think you will find that one persons anti American insults are the rest of the world's healthy observation and advice .
But , if like your compatriots , you bleat and whine the moment you are " brought up short " , I suppose you can find some solace that at least you can claim to be no worse than your victim brothers -- and a few sisters .
Insults at a simple level --- as they are here --- consist of name calling within a maximum three sentence post which is when so many of you run out of words and thoughts , are getting tired and suffer from attention deficit .
My so called insults are rarely of this type because my observations and remarks reflect consensus outside opinion . Thus , calling me stupid would be an insult because I am patently not , whereas the same name to a moron would not be an insult but a statement of fact , albeit a very insensitive one . And by the same token and talking broadly , saying it to an American is invariably self evidently true . It is not a real world insult .It just dents many American's arrogant and nonsensical view of how the real world is and where they fit in --- nowhere outside of their own country .Which is why your mightiness has created a zero Empire . Think of it . The mightiest nation ever in military and ego terms has not managed to successfully colonise anywhere on the planet . Texas and Hawaii being possible exceptions
But the audience here , with the exception of one demented Canadian , is almost exclusively American . Whom should I usefully criticise ?
In other circumstances I would home in on the Russian Federation and some of the ex Soviet satellite countries but we can't expect many Americans to have ventured that far .Let's face it , unless they are involved in a war or dying to join in one , American's interest of world matters for the vast majority is close to zero .
My guess is that the so called Arab Spring led to an enormous increase in the sale of Atlases but a further and sudden upsurge in conflicts in the far east and north east could have devastating effects on the mental health of middle class America . Sarah Palin syndrome etc
The rest of your post is mumbo jumbo , presumably based on two terms of picking up psychology jargon in a primer course .
You must learn to distinguish between those that do seem aggressive for reasons of compensation et al , and those who simply express their strong opinions sharply and often with acerbic wit .
But , nil desperandum . A jolly decent effort .