mdiehl
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Unless your real name is Neil Armstrong, you, my friend, did as much as I did to put a "flag on the moon" and that is - jack sh1t. Not exactly. Sven, being an American who was alive at the time, can legitimately lay claim to the "we" in "we put a man on the moon" because he was part of the American public that agreed that such a goal was a good one, that supported said goal, and (possibly, depending on his age, and some other intangibles) directly provided money to achieve that goal. Certainly I don't have a problem with his use of "we" in this context. When Kennedy said "We choose to go to the moon" he wasn't using "we" in the "royal We" sense, nor was he speaking of a committee. He was speaking of, and for, all Americans inclusively. I agree with you that you, however, can lay no claim to the "we" in that event. quote:
Your line of thinking whereby simply belonging to some large and heterogeneous group of people makes one eligible for anything and everything anyone belonging to that group ever did, while simoultaneously bashing some other individual for anything you might imagine "they" did, is basically communistic - as in: anti-individual - in nature. Errm, that argument does not work. It might make Sven "nationalistic" but having a shared sense of national identity does not make a person a communist-- else you'd have to argue for example that many classical Romans, Greeks, Dynastic Chinese, and even Joan of Arc were "commies." quote:
Unless you did something *yourself* - as in fought and directly risked your life - against Jihadists and Commies keep your mouth shut. Well, if that is your point of view why do you even offer opinions about WW2? It is not as though YOU, PERSONALLY, led the way on Omaha beach, or defended the Chemist's Shop in Stalingrad, or flew an ME-262, or.... quote:
You made many factual mistakes in your post + at least one remark that can be listed as purely racist "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
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Show me a fellow who rejects statistical analysis a priori and I'll show you a fellow who has no knowledge of statistics. Didn't we have this conversation already?
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