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by johansch 3088 days ago
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Ah, well, Jingoism is an american word. I guess I just thougt the crowd here could agree that it's retarded to not have a political policy against fake VOIP numbers.

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"Retarded" seems to be a considered a derogatory slur in these times, which could explain your downvotes.

https://www.google.com/search?q=retarded+slur

Thanks, but I somehow get the feeling that it's more about not wanting outsiders telling them how to solve problems they know they should have solved a long time ago by themselves.
I suspect that your feeling is incorrect - your word choice has significantly fallen out of favor for use in civilized discourse, at least in the United States. Beyond that it added very little to the discussion, which is often a reason for a down vote around these parts.
"Jingoism is an american word."

And fascism is a European one.

The level of overarching government control popular in Europe leads to people being killed by millions, rather than in ones and twos.

"not wanting outsiders telling them how to solve problems they know they should have solved a long time ago by themselves."

Perhaps we don't believe that people who were still running fascist slave states until the 1970s and communist slave states until the 1990s are in any kind of moral position to be lecturing us on our "problems".

Somehow, having a well-recorded connection between identity and phone line didn't lead to "fascism" in your past though.