Re: This FOSS Thang :-)

On 3/12/2024 10:43 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 22:02:02 -0500, Physfitfreak wrote:
 

Quality issues were a luxury that came later. We got by with whatever we
had, and none were abusive. The abuse began much later as Americans
turned more and more into Sheep.

 Americans always have had some ovine DNA. Or maybe it's German DNA.
Germans like a nice, orderly world without anyone rocking the boat. In
this country they've had a synergistic relationship with the Irish who
enjoy politics.

It could be so, but I didn't catch that by myself. You know how I am, perhaps, by now. I have to dig it myself to believe it. I got here in 1978, and really cannot relate to anything before that, directly. And there's only so much one can understand indirectly.
In Iran, it was strange, I can say, and I remember it well, that Americans were going to the other side of the globe to fight peasants in Vietnam. And doing so for years and years. It didn't make sense to any of us back then. It was like you were sending robots there.
Many of them could be seen in streets of Tehran also. First hand. And they were like they were all hatched in the same incubator. If not like robots, then like some sort of Church related cult members. Wearing almost exactly the same civilian dresses!.. Hehe :) You go across Iran and you find each major town and area having a large variety of their own traditional dresses, and same just about everywhere around the world; but across the whole USA, and seeping into Tehran and Saigon and wherever else, Americans were all dressing alike.
And later, when I read about the Pacific War, it was strange to me that American troops chest-deep in water, gears held above their heads, were walking for 20 minutes straight towards the shore, over a very slowly raising ground underneath their boots, where tens of heavy machine guns and canons firmly stationed on the shore were all firing at them, slaughtering them, just because they were ordered to do so, now that some Bozo had fucked up the tides calculations and troops couldn't use secure amphibian vehicles to get there... Tide was too low.
Why wouldn't they wait a few hours for tide to rise again? I think about 700 of the troops got shot and killed in that water, just because nobody complained to their superiors why they wouldn't wait a few hours instead.
This is what I'm talking about. The troops call themselves "brave" to justify that, but I'm even being polite calling them Sheep, cause sheep are just sheep, there's nothing wrong with them. But humans acting like sheep? That's not a human behavior. Humans would put a gun under the chin of that son of a bitch who ordered them to walk in the water to the shore, and would tell him, "Wait a few hours or you get your brains blown out, and _then_ wait."
But the commander _knew_ something about his troops when he ordered them to walk.
It must've been the same thing that right now allows your government to do any damn thing they want with you. They know something about you when they do that to you.
And about Germans and the Irish, those two people are just the ones that are hard for an Iranian to study, because they've shared same enemy with Iran for a long time (the Brits). So it's not clear what their inner motives would have been if they didn't share an enemy with Iranians. There isn't much first-hand encounter to study. Even the French are easier to study, cause they've been in the same camp with the Brits for a long time now.
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