(Part 2) Best products from r/ShitAmericansSay

I read it awhile ago in a book about the region. I'm pretty sure it was either City of Gold or Inside The Kingdom

You should read this http://www.amazon.com/Hell-Barbados-Ethnic-Cleansing-Ireland/dp/0863222870

It's a great account of what happened.

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That one was funny! How do you housetrain a large kaiju like that?

> Rich people aren't being represented obviously!

This book, outlined in this article and summarized in this video says otherwise. It is an inevitability of liberal democracy.

^^I'm ^^agreeing ^^with ^^you, ^^btw.

So stay in the country that constantly talks about "freedom" while locking up a higher percentage of its citizens than any other.

"enforced by thugs with guns…"

Well quite; I'm sure America doesn't have any problems like that.

Christian here!

The basic principle of our faith is that Christ is God and became man to (somehow) defeat sin and death through his execution and resurrection. Ethics are secondary to that.

Some varieties of Christians don't think ethics should have any role in the faith (as they'd be "law" and not "grace"), so will mostly pick up their ethics from secular sources. The teachings of Christ are interpreted as unachievable goals that are genuinely good, but are intended to make you see that you can't free yourself from the effects of sin by your own efforts. This was a mostly unintended side effect of the more hardcore parts of the Reformation.

Other varieties think that's all mostly wrong. It's one of those "Eh I can see what they're saying, but no" types of things. However, they still generally will take a prudent approach to the teachings of Christ, which often demand a sort of vague perfection. It's not the teachings that are confusing, it's how to reliably translate them into reality. Even in the Bible, St Paul gave different advice to different churches. And how do you translate Jesus's apparent pacifism when it's the Army general who becomes a Christian? How do you navigate real life situations where both options result in bad outcomes? Do you violate the Ten Commandments and lie to Nazis if it saves Jews? That sort of thing.

Roman Catholics have (mostly) adopted a mashup of Jesus's teachings, the Ten Commandments, and Aristotle's classical virtue ethics in their attempt at it. They still have a several hundred page document (the Catechism) that goes over the basics.

And but so, there's never been a Christian ethic that all Christians have adopted. Charity to the poor and oppressed approaches that, though, being probably the oldest Christian ethic. Most Christians today still think that's very important, if not primary.

Conservative American Christians still think they're being good to the poor. They do give a lot to charities, and they really do believe that laissez-faire capitalism really is the best shot the poor have to improve their lives in the long term.

ETA: Oxford's Very Short Introductions series, which I love, has a great volume on Christian Ethics. Like most of the VSIs, it's rather dense and doesn't shy away from using technical terms after introducing them once, but it's a great overview of what exactly might constitute "Christian ethics". It's written partly in response to claims by Sam Harris that Christianity is inherently unethical.

>Once routine settles in, people become lazy, and laziness leads to accidents…

Exactly. This happens pretty much everywhere. Hospitals, airplanes, etc etc.

There is an interesting book regarding this called "The checklist manifesto"

My family deep fried a turkey one year for thanksgiving and it was actually really good. Not greasy at all if done properly (or not as nearly as greasy as I thought it would be).

It's done using one of these:

https://www.amazon.ca/King-Kooker-1265BF3-Portable-Aluminum/dp/B00B4BN9PM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479154166&sr=8-1&keywords=turkey+fryer

Because that's how they got the country in the first place. And because that type of person who takes and "defends" "his" land by force has been glorified since the very beginning. I recommend this book, especially if the claim that the second amendment and gun culture today stems from the trauma of British rule always seemed somewhat fishy to you as well (or maybe especially if it didn't).

Funny you should ask that way-

https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Matter-Kansas-Conservatives-America-ebook/dp/B003J4VEM2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1494708066&sr=8-1&keywords=what%27s+the+matter+with+kansas

I'm often told I'm not a "real American" both by other Americans and by Kazakhs back home and by Asians in general. I think it's clear that while American society claims to be tolerant and progressive and multicultural, that the default ethnic group are white Americans of European descent. And all of these "white ethnicites" that Americans claim to be (American Irish, eye-Talian-American, Greek-American, Norweigan-American, etc.) were long ago assimilated into whiteness. I studied anthropology at my university and I cited this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Irish-Became-White-Routledge-Classics/dp/0415963095

Basically all of these ethnic groups lost their distinctiveness 60 years ago or so.

If they are flipping out like that over the real U.S. flag, I wonder what they would do if it was a cunty confederate one.

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/branding-union-jack-of-all-trades-7640689.html%3famp

https://m.shopbop.com/union-jack-bikini-top-red/vp/v=1/845524441889130.htm

😮 Trump and Boris hate this one

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QXZ7CWC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_IW2yDbJ8MJE5M

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I think we need an SaS book club. We could start with the one above, this one and this one. I'd recommend stopping after that to retain any sanity you may have.

Can't be all the corn sugar they put in literally everything. Here, you can buy it straight from the source. Or if you prefer liquids.

Blacks in Europe were free before and after the start of the slave trade and it is only the boom of the slave trade which enslaved people with black skin into slavery forever. As the slave trade was in it zenith, there is documentation of free slaves arriving from the Americas to settle in European cities and took up trades. Some became musicians, writers, painters, scholars.

While some worked in houses and the like, they weren't slaves in the way one would think of slaves in the Americas. They were servants, seen as people, although inferior/subservient, and not slaves/farm equipment/beasts.

If you want to read more on this, you can start with this book and work your way from there.

Or you can go here, I just found this and am editing in the link:
http://afroeurope.blogspot.com/2010/08/history-of-black-people-in-europe.html

Most regulations in the USA vary by state. However, they typically focus on keeping them out of the hands of children, or preventing them from being carried in public. There are rarely restrictions on purchases by adults.

In most cases, you can go to a specialty store or online and buy all sorts of crazy knives. As long as you keep them at home or in sealed containers when transporting them.

For example, Amazon has tons of things just like this.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DS0E24Y/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_pSpnDb31KPD7M

Relevant.