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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-11-06 08:50 AM
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8. Here's what convinced me how "backward" we are
Edited on Wed Jan-11-06 08:51 AM by Atman
I couple of years ago -- maybe it was just last year, I can't recall exactly -- I heard of the terrible train crash in Turkey. Bummer, lots of people died when one of their bullet-trains derailed.

Then I got to thinking...TURKEY.

Our government is always telling us these are jerkwater, backward countries full of backward people, so we shouldn't care much about them. They aren't as good as us Yew Essers.

Turkey.

FUCKING TURKEY HAS A BULLET TRAIN? WTF! I can't hop the metro to NY and count on it running on time, but the "backward" nation of Turkey has bullet trains!

That's when it hit me...we are like I remember the Soviet Union in the sixties...spoon fed happy pablum about ourselves, taught to fear everyone else. Soon we'll all by lining up in the town square to read USA TODAY off a giant bulletin board. We are SO backward. Hell, compared to Australia, even our dirty bathwater circle the drain the wrong way!
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