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The OC was being sarcastic. The USA is the most entitled country! USA citizens even call the country America or ‘Merica’ as if they aren’t part of one of two continents called America (if you’re in the USA then the two continents are North and South). Which means every person trying to cross the USA border is AMERICAN!!!

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Why the down votes? Which statement is false?

Downvoting anonymously without justification seems cowardly.

I’ve got five the majority are from the USA.

I'm not from the USA, I've just been using this site for over 10 years and I'm familiar with the guidelines and norms that ask us not to engage in nationalistic battle ("flamewar topics"), or use all-caps for emphasis, or to complain about downvotes (which seems particularly apt when the likely reason for those downvotes is that multiple guidelines have been broken).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Fair enough. I’m sorry. I’ve been pretty upset about the situation in the USA, and my last few post were definitely based on emotion rather than having a serious discussion. This isn’t a justification for the actions just an explanation of the flaws I have that led to them. I fell prey to the wizard’s third rule... passion rules reason.

Cheers for the comment, and good on you for the self-reflection.

I sympathise with the propensity to get angry over all the things that seem wrong in the world. Is't something I've been working to contain in myself for a long time.

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