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14/11/2018 21:05:30
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
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Politics
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Miscellaneous
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01663273
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>>No. You clearly do not understand what this means here in America -- and I just told you so that you would know.
>>No - I'm explaining something too you that you do not like. That does not mean I invented it -- this is very VERY common knowledge here in the USA.

Is Boston in the US? If so, how come the Boston Herald doesn't seem to follow your "explanation" of what things mean in America? http://www.bostonherald.com/opinion/op_ed/2018/10/trump_as_nationalist_believes_in_exceptionalism_of_america

How about the WSJ? Just today, they agree with me, not you.

Sheesh, even CNN doesn't seem to accept your "explanation": https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/23/politics/nationalism-explainer-trnd/index.html

All three of them see fit to mention the dictionary definition! Imagine that.

Could it be that there can be more than one viewpoint, and that if somebody disagrees with you, that doesn't automatically mean there's something wrong with them?

Could it be that if somebody is following the dictionary definition, that doesn't make them a liar or ignorant? Perhaps the opposite is true, in either sense.

>>Look you are not from here and do not understand. I explained it to you. You do not like it. That does not make me wrong. It does not change what the word means to Americans or Trump's decades of words and behavior.

Against your unsubstantiated "explanations" I prefer well-written versions quoting constitutional and policy experts.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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