Psychotic said:
Johnw1104 said:
I think, then, that this is a misappropriation of the term "nationalist". We've not had nationalistic tendencies since we were fighting for our independence, and even then it was in pursuit of political rights that had been denied. The USA has long been a messy country that is, essentially, inventing itself on the fly. Our politics, demographics, and economy is in a constant state of flux, though politically we've largely seen more stability than most nations since the end of the Civil War. There is no real unified and readily accepted concept of what "America" is here quite like there often is for older nations whose population has hardly changed over the centuries.
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Hahahaha! Oh wait, you're serious? Let me laugh even more! You must've skipped this little thing called "The 20th Century". You might wanna look it up in a history book.
Seriously now, do you not know what America acted during the Cold War? Are you not aware that you make children so small they can barely even speak recite words they can't understand yet about how great America is every day? Your "nationalist" reputation seems pretty deserved from where I'm standing 
Johnw1104 said:
Consider, for instance, how costly and time consuming it would be to replace all the signs of the world's longest (by far) network of roads with metric measurements, and then retrofit all the dashboards with km/hr to avoid confusion in a nation with more cars per person than any other spare the micro states of Monaco, San Marino, and Lichtenstein.
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Slightly less that it will cost tomorrow. You are aware it is going to happen eventually anyway, right?
Also... would it be less than the Mars Climate Orbiter?
Johnw1104 said:
...that we often place greater significance in what the constitution says than an international body...
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I can't laugh anymore, please stop  Significance of what the constitution says... ROFL
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Lol. If you actually think the U.S. is switching to metric any time soon, you've got another thing coming. That's the nicest way I can put it without being banned.
