I second the motion to invoke Godwin's Law for closure...
Isaac Send a noteboard - 16/08/2010 10:11:22 PM
Also citing 'Impending thread hijack via mass WWII historical references and debate' for support 
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At what point does it become ok to take over a country?
- 16/08/2010 04:25:09 PM
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why would we want to make Mexico our problem? *NM*
- 16/08/2010 04:30:48 PM
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Yeah that's why i don't want us to take over. I think the US is already too big as is *NM*
- 16/08/2010 04:37:41 PM
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One might argue it already is. The other way around too, though. *NM*
- 16/08/2010 04:44:19 PM
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I'm fairly sure that yes, the majority of them have national pride.
- 16/08/2010 04:51:38 PM
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Re: I'm fairly sure that yes, the majority of them have national pride.
- 16/08/2010 05:11:49 PM
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Actually, make that number 120 to 150. *NM*
- 16/08/2010 05:14:15 PM
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We don't invade countries we can't locate on the map...
- 16/08/2010 06:01:43 PM
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So that means there are only five or so countries you can invade, one of them yourself? 
- 16/08/2010 06:11:43 PM
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- 16/08/2010 06:11:43 PM
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Re: So that means there are only five or so countries you can invade, one of them yourself?
- 16/08/2010 06:30:56 PM
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- 16/08/2010 06:30:56 PM
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When they get on your nerves or have something you want, preferably both
- 16/08/2010 05:04:10 PM
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I agree we should attack Canada instead
- 16/08/2010 05:19:48 PM
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Yeah, but they don't gouge us for the oil, cost the same as anyone else *NM*
- 16/08/2010 05:49:38 PM
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I would legalize drugs ten times over before I would annex Mexico.
- 16/08/2010 05:36:37 PM
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"I would stop doing a bad thing 10 times over before I did a worse thing"? WTF? *NM*
- 16/08/2010 06:04:48 PM
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Read the original post. He proposes annexing Mexico due to the drug problem.
- 16/08/2010 06:28:54 PM
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He's just nitpicking on your phrasing in the subject line. I think. *NM*
- 16/08/2010 06:37:17 PM
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that sounds like a much better immigration solution idea than "let's build a GIGANTIC FENCE!!!" *NM*
- 16/08/2010 06:33:46 PM
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Work Visas might help, but...
- 16/08/2010 06:51:11 PM
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Oh i know it's not a complete solution and i have no problem with a fence
- 16/08/2010 07:43:26 PM
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Just so long as we're both on the 'multi-front solution' page
- 16/08/2010 08:35:06 PM
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- 16/08/2010 08:35:06 PM
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it's also worth noting that no one is proposing throwing out the Cubans
- 16/08/2010 08:54:46 PM
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- 16/08/2010 08:54:46 PM
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When the US says so. We are the bosses of the World, are we not? *NM*
- 16/08/2010 08:06:08 PM
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Not even Hitler's Germany? (if he never went to war but just stayed put) Reply to Yuna *NM*
- 16/08/2010 09:24:41 PM
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If he had never gone to war, that would also have meant no Holocaust... *NM*
- 16/08/2010 09:28:16 PM
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Really? Why is that? I'm not too terribly familiar with Hitler's reasons for mass genocide *NM*
- 16/08/2010 09:30:48 PM
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Dachau opened in '33, Nuremburg Laws were '35
- 16/08/2010 09:36:59 PM
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Ok that's what I was thinking
- 16/08/2010 09:45:51 PM
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Uh, yeah, see, there's a difference between "blaming" and "exterminating".
- 16/08/2010 09:52:37 PM
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Re: Uh, yeah, see, there's a difference between "blaming" and "exterminating".
- 16/08/2010 09:54:29 PM
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I don't know if there's really anything to specifically compare it to...
- 16/08/2010 10:00:59 PM
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Also, perhaps someone should just invoke the (variation of the) Godwin Law and stop this whole thing
- 16/08/2010 10:02:23 PM
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Ah,
- 16/08/2010 10:04:39 PM
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Nah, more like, I know I shouldn't have done this, but I couldn't resist. *NM*
- 16/08/2010 10:07:35 PM
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I second the motion to invoke Godwin's Law for closure...
- 16/08/2010 10:11:22 PM
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Well, you'll note I didn't make that causal relation you attribute to me.
- 16/08/2010 09:55:39 PM
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The Dachau follow up was bookkeeping
- 16/08/2010 10:05:35 PM
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I'm confused, but I'll take that as something I don't have to argue.
- 16/08/2010 10:09:16 PM
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Re: I'm confused, but I'll take that as something I don't have to argue.
- 16/08/2010 10:19:19 PM
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The US already took half of Mexico, so why not the other half?
- 16/08/2010 09:57:56 PM
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"Took" is an unfriendly word, we purchased it *NM*
- 16/08/2010 10:21:58 PM
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yes after a messy political and physical "conflict"
- 16/08/2010 10:53:22 PM
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There was also the Gasdsen Purchase
- 17/08/2010 12:30:21 AM
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The Gadsden Purchase was a pittance and an afterthought, as I'm sure you're aware.
- 18/08/2010 12:36:24 PM
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and why did it belong to Mexico to begin with? *NM*
- 17/08/2010 01:28:28 AM
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same way it seems to be the way most people who own the Americas came to own it.
- 17/08/2010 01:46:49 AM
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it seems to be the way most people who own the Americas came to own it.
- 17/08/2010 01:46:49 AM
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my best friend is an illegal and is going back to mexico in a few months
- 16/08/2010 11:28:11 PM
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every issue is simpler when you don't have faces to represent it for you. *NM*
- 16/08/2010 11:29:38 PM
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We should seal our border and peform drone strikes on cartels.
- 17/08/2010 12:58:37 AM
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Re: We should seal our border and peform drone strikes on cartels.
- 17/08/2010 02:39:11 AM
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Re: We should seal our border and peform drone strikes on cartels.
- 17/08/2010 03:34:59 AM
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I think maybe we've had enough of nation building for a while *NM*
- 17/08/2010 02:45:22 AM
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