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Hai Ellen, I spoke to the grid owner and they have advised that we don't have any terms to get on the sim. Unfortunately I have no idea why it is happening especially considering that you have visited before :(
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If you read it again Ellen, you'll see that it's nuanced. It may not be obvious, but it's also a little tongue in cheek, as well as being pretty factual in that for decades anti-socialist propaganda has been something mainstream in US society, stemming from the McCarthyism of the 1950s and attempts to conflate the awful regimes of the Soviet empire as being indicative of socialism as an idea.
As far as I can see, there is nothing there that I can see as 'anti-American' and there is certainly no intention on my part to make it such. Indeed, my comment is more influenced by the thinking of people like Bernie Sanders and Michael Moore than any others, who, whatever one may think about them, see themselves as very proud Americans who are very aware of what ordinary working people in the United States have lost in the past half century, who are yet critical of current policies for the very reasons I laid out in my comment.
They are not alone, of course, as the ordinary working people of the UK have experienced similar losses, and to perhaps a lesser extent, ordinary working people in the rest of the developed world also.
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As far as I can see, there is nothing there that I can see as 'anti-American' and there is certainly no intention on my part to make it such. Indeed, my comment is more influenced by the thinking of people like Bernie Sanders and Michael Moore than any others, who, whatever one may think about them, see themselves as very proud Americans who are very aware of what ordinary working people in the United States have lost in the past half century, who are yet critical of current policies for the very reasons I laid out in my comment.
They are not alone, of course, as the ordinary working people of the UK have experienced similar losses, and to perhaps a lesser extent, ordinary working people in the rest of the developed world also.
Just where is the anti-American comment I made? If it’s about the USA being the only developed economy withour a socialised healthcare system, it’s a fact, not necessarily a judgement. If it’s about my comment about the views of the over 40s towards socialism, again it’s a fact, not a judgement: https://news.gallup.com/poll/268766/socialism-popular-capi...
We can both see insults and slurs where we want, and I agree that it’s easy to make broad-brushed unsubstantiated attacks on whole peoples, and apart from the occasional unintended slip-up I do not do this. And I haven’t here. I have no fear of, and in fact welcome people from elsewhere making informed but crtitical comments about my country or society, as who knows, they might actually be highlighting serious shortcomings that we ourselves are too close to see?
If my intial comment was anti anything, it was anti-Captialist and not anti-American.
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We can both see insults and slurs where we want, and I agree that it’s easy to make broad-brushed unsubstantiated attacks on whole peoples, and apart from the occasional unintended slip-up I do not do this. And I haven’t here. I have no fear of, and in fact welcome people from elsewhere making informed but crtitical comments about my country or society, as who knows, they might actually be highlighting serious shortcomings that we ourselves are too close to see?
If my intial comment was anti anything, it was anti-Captialist and not anti-American.
Isn't there a fair amount of truth in my somewhat tongue-in-cheek comment? As such not anti-American and not intended to be.
One could make a comment in a similar vein about a significant number of British (and Welsh) people being xenophobic towards 'foreigners' particularly the French, and whilst it doesn't characterise all British people, it does reflect a truth and is not anti-British (and I am avowedly anti-British about many, if not most things).
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One could make a comment in a similar vein about a significant number of British (and Welsh) people being xenophobic towards 'foreigners' particularly the French, and whilst it doesn't characterise all British people, it does reflect a truth and is not anti-British (and I am avowedly anti-British about many, if not most things).
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The server did not restart as it should have. When the problem was discovered, it was quickly fixed.
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