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And to paraphrase the Dixie Chicks singer, I'm ashamed to share the same planet with some of them.

At least America hasn't pissed away a world-wide empire. Yet.

We are well under way of becomming a third world country. Both parties in Washington are seeing to this.

I've recently been tasked with coming up with some of the visualizations loved by managers, bar charts, pie charts, doughnut charts, the works. Shiny! Unless you're color blind of course.

The US doesn't have an empire. It does have a huge cultural influence, but nobody forces anyone, at gunpoint, to eat fried chicken or wear jeans and cowboy hats.

That's ok. Some of them are ashamed to share the same planet with you.

The guns are implied, often in the form of economic sanctions.

I'm sure many countries would be happier if they were forced to wear cowboy hats rather than accepting the LGBQ$ mandates that goes against their religious and cultural heritage.

Agreed. It's a big planet though and maybe it's time to go our separate ways. At one time marital divorces were almost unthinkable; make it's time to reexamine national divorces. Just because Lincoln killed a few hundred thousand people the last time the subject came up doesn't make it right.

"a presidential memorandum is largely symbolic." Cuba and Iran can trade with the rest of the world. An "economic sanction" is not a blockade. And Joe is just pandering anyhow.

Hawaiians voted to become a state. Puerto Ricans can vote to be a state, or to be totally independent, but prefer to be what they are.

Guam can be independent if the people want it.

What country is being forced by the USA to do any of that?

I give you my permission to stay far away.

Is this still uk.d-i-y?

Why pay Kraft a fortune for what you can get elsewhere for a fraction of the price? The stuff I buy is made by "Creamfields".

You lazy thing, you use your son as a slave for muscle power?

Why are they called springform when there's no springs involved? If there were, you'd end up with pie on the ceiling.

American cheese might get dyed, that makes it fake. In the UK, if I buy orange instead of light yellow cheddar, it's guaranteed to have a stronger taste.

The French don't make proper cheese, their stuff is f****ng weird and tastes like sewage.

Or the big expansion that was Manifest Destiny.

Ok. Where do we draw the line? I'd like to stay in Blue America, but the people living in red areas of Michigan might disagree. I'd be willing to buy a few bus tickets to Montana for some of them.

There are far worse things than to be e.g. an overseas colony of a major power. I would be happy that Hawaii was a US state.

Or that Gibraltar is UK. If I lived there.

Far worse to be a vassal state of the EU, or the Russian federation.