Yeah, the food thing was complete bullshit. Putin doesn't believe that.

Yeah, the food thing was complete bullshit. Putin doesn't believe that.

Eastern European food is very good if you like meat and starches. There is a lot of French influence in the upper class dishes

I love it but I don't tell those who do not to leave it. In fact, leaving it for a week or two every year is a good thing, so as not to be deluded that Moscow in February is a great either to visit or reside.

The notion that critics of the U.S. don't "love" it is laughably absurd. You seem to be stealing quite a bit from the Joe McCarthy playbook today.

The notion that critics of the U.S. don't "love" it is laughably absurd. You seem to be stealing quite a bit from the Joe McCarthy playbook today.

I'm guessing there is some truth to it. It's like going to a 5 star resort in the Dominican Republic and then coming back and saying "The Dominican Republic has better food than anywhere in America". I doubt Tucker was going on the Russia version of Yelp to find a local Italian restaurant after he met with Putin. I'm guessing he had a Russian tour guide with an unlimited food budget.

I don't think you can say that all critics don't "love" America but there is also a significant amount of critics who don't really "love" America.

Let's say I have a car. I complain about it all the time. I think it is slow and ugly and it requires repair constantly and even then those repairs don't actually fix much of anything. Would you say I "love" the car?

I think it's a better argument to make that no one should be expected to "love" America. It's our right to hate the country we live in and it doesn't mean you should leave.

I've mentioned neither that critics should leave nor that criticism cannot be done out of love.

I've mentioned neither that critics should leave nor that criticism cannot be done out of love.

I don't accept the comparison between a country and a car as valid for what should be obvious reasons. Try again.

Why don't you accept it?

I'll try it a different way. Let's say there is Something X. Person Y complains about Something X 90% of the time. He begrudgingly says positive things about Something X 10% of the time. Is it fair to think that Person Y doesn't "love" Something X?

Something X could be a job, a possession, a house, a city or state, or just about anything else.

It's never just basic criticism. We have to have the worst or dumbest everything. These "arguments" are generally said with conviction and presented as absolute fact.

You may love the way your wife or mother make a particular dish. You may love the authenticity of something from another country. After 7 meals, to suggest it is better than America is ridiculous.

Is Person Y a biological woman? Just asking a question.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-15/putin-says-predictable-biden-better-for-russia-than-trump

You haven't? What were you implying in the first sentence of your prior post? Who did you mean by "those who do not [love it]? Certainly not your fellow "centrists", I'd wager.

When did you become the arbiter of "appropriate" political rhetoric?

You claim to disapprove of critics of the U.S., but it's really attacks on the Biden administration that motivate your vitriol.

We need look no further than your bilious campaign against the Trump administration for confirmation of this fact.

Your newly found "patriotism" amounts to nothing more than the work of a partisan automaton masquerading in the universality of nationalist devotion.

But yours is a convenient and contingent devotion--if not an entirely disingenuous one--to say the least.

I've personally heard young people talk about retiring, given a choice, to a different country. That's was unheard of a couple decades ago, unless you're rich. I sure hope not that 25 years from that instead of fleeing the city, they are fleeing the country.

Spoiler Alert: They'll retire to Arizona or Florida or the Carolinas like everyone else.

I don't think anyone on this board has ever said anything even close to "America is the worst."

I don't think anyone on this board has ever said anything even close to "America is the worst."

Joey the Red, covering his tracks

America not worse but biker who backstab Uber driver is definitely worse u piece of shit. U dont want this smoke you huffy riding jackass. Death to bike lanes in major citys!