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Istanbul, 15/July/2015.

I don't owe those people who came before me anything . They did what they did of their own volition, I had zero say in the matter. My mother could easily have been in Russia, Crete…

You’ve reminded me of that xray spex song, “I live off you”.

She just gave you an icy look of doom.

Nope. Nada. None. Zilch. But enjoy singing some bad national anthem and crying while waving a flag or maybe killing someone who disrespects your flag, or whatever it is the patriot…

I’m guessing you have never volunteered at a refugee camp? Would you like to? I ask in all seriousness. The UN has several programs which are basically refugee tourism. Like missio…

> Obama invaded Syria "in the name of Christ and oil profits"? That justification was a myth, even when the Trotskyites-cum-Conservatives asserted it as truth 15 years ago. Citatio…

Hmm. So it is OK for me to say make all of my money in San Francisco then go buy property in much poorer Detroit? Now what if about 1/3 of that income came from my wife who is from…

Damn. Maybe I should tell the IRS that I’m an oil company instead of an expat.

I just realized, I never mentioned Bush, you did. See, I didn't even have to mention Bush, just his legacy, and you instantly knew what I was referencing.

My life experiences have made me incapable of empathizing with this view. My fellow citizens have never had my back, and I disagree with most everything they hold dear, as they dis…

> Please don't take this personnaly as I'm not targeting you specifically with my comment: but I don't know how I feel about wealthy foreigners coming to a place, buy property and …

Sure by these measures I'm rich, but I don't feel that way. Our current income isn't really indicative of the whole picture. Since I was diagnosed as Bi-Polar 20 years ago, I have …

Summers really are lovely there. Now that I'm finally vaccinated I'm hoping to go spend 3-4 weeks hopping back and forth between Fano/Esbjerg and Copenhagen. My treat to myself aft…

Yes Bush isn't president, but the failures and hatreds of the entire Bush family are still incredibly relevant today. If you don't believe that, look at the 10s of thousands of Afg…

This argument also gets me icy cold stares of death. It also reminds me of how mind-blowing it is that a country whose land-area is 1/5 of California managed to conquer almost 1/2 …

Yeah that kind of pissed me off too. Luckily most countries treated everybody the same and we got out jabs with our age groups without a fuss.

Not really. I dont think I fully got over the us vs them mentality with dev organizations until ‘07 or ‘08.

Oh no. I understand that america’s military exists mosty to force christianity on the world and to maintain high oil prices, not to protect little old me. I just expected them to, …

Patriotism? What exactly is that word to you? To me it is merey loyalty to mud.

Yes, I love it there. My two closest friends moved there to study marine archaeology and within 3 years another 7 had moved there. We were married in Fanø. I’m old, I like the quie…

The Spanish golden visa will require a €550k housing investment, then the normal amount of accrued in-country time for citizenship. Maybe we’re sort of upper midde-class then. We g…

Re: Nato, fair point. There is still a difference between being bullied into submission to American hegemony and being part of the us empire. I really, really detest cold weather a…

I wish! Greece was my secone choice (I used to study Lyra in Crete, and Rembetiko Bouzouki (Rembetiko style) in Thessaloniki and Athens. We almost bought a flat in the Exarchia nei…