Dave
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Oooh!
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America or the US
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GasBandit
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I'm not expecting a response.Oooh!
Not really, the majority of the population lives very close to large bodies of water, needed both for travel and consumption. I do worry about how much fresh water is being diverted into areas of the Mid West (is that Arizona?) and how that affects the environment.[DOUBLEPOST=1395363503,1395363438][/DOUBLEPOST]
FTFY.
Also, the picture parade continues :
BS, cottage country is not Northern Ontario.
GasBandit
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Let me guess:
"You say it is me who is close-minded, but it is actually you who is the close-minded one."
It's like a bad anime dub from the late 80s/early 90s.
Darling Naiwen,
You are right. These bastards are all just mindless slaves to the American propaganda machine and think their shit don't stink. Even the Canadians! Come, come away, my love and we shall fly into the night to declare the virtues and perfections of communism and (more importantly) China! Long live China's inherent lack of racism, poverty, crime, corruption, oppression, and tyrannical white men!
All of these white men, handsome and attractive though they might be, are full of democracy, narcissism, and horrible disregard for human life other than their own. Fuck the racist white bastards! They're sexist too! Screw America! Bomb America!
Let's move back to China where things are equal and better and fair and loving and honest! Let's state our opinions as loudly as we want at the top of our lungs in China, even if it makes the Maoists angry JUST TO SEE HOW THEY'LL REACT. Let's go do it! COme oN, NaiwEN.
Let's start some shit in China and prove how much better we'd have it off there where the government oppresses NO ONE. Make out with me in the streets, darling. In front of the world. Let's show America who's boss.
You are right. These bastards are all just mindless slaves to the American propaganda machine and think their shit don't stink. Even the Canadians! Come, come away, my love and we shall fly into the night to declare the virtues and perfections of communism and (more importantly) China! Long live China's inherent lack of racism, poverty, crime, corruption, oppression, and tyrannical white men!
All of these white men, handsome and attractive though they might be, are full of democracy, narcissism, and horrible disregard for human life other than their own. Fuck the racist white bastards! They're sexist too! Screw America! Bomb America!
Let's move back to China where things are equal and better and fair and loving and honest! Let's state our opinions as loudly as we want at the top of our lungs in China, even if it makes the Maoists angry JUST TO SEE HOW THEY'LL REACT. Let's go do it! COme oN, NaiwEN.
Let's start some shit in China and prove how much better we'd have it off there where the government oppresses NO ONE. Make out with me in the streets, darling. In front of the world. Let's show America who's boss.
What he said. The Mid-West is basically everything between the Rocky and Appalachian mountain ranges, north of Arizona and Oklahoma, but excluding Missouri and Kentucky. Those last two are considered part of the South for cultural reasons.
We need a 'strangely aroused' rating...
GasBandit
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It'd be difficult to make one of those small icons for "I have the wierdest boner right now," but heck, if I could do the brofist one, I might could try this.[DOUBLEPOST=1395364556,1395364456][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, more fun pictures for this waste of a thread.
doesn't mean "strangely aroused"?It'd be difficult to make one of those small icons for "I have the wierdest boner right now," but heck, if I could do the brofist one, I might could try this.[DOUBLEPOST=1395364556,1395364456][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, more fun pictures for this waste of a thread.
But, perhaps their beliefs are not fragile; you seem to be saying that your opinion about America is correct and unchangeable - the people who think differently about America probably believe their opinion is correct. To say your opinion is unchangeable seems to me to be fairly closed-minded: isn't an open mind about considering and respecting other opinions, alert that new information might change your mind, not that your mind MUST be changed?
You don't seem to be arguing with people who don't share your opinions, though: you're stating that you do not like America because of various reasons, but do not respond to the questions asked about those reasons, you simply laugh it off, as though no one knows that America has its share of blame in the world. No one here has called America a saint or holier-than, but you presume that people here feel that way. We all know it isn't; that doesn't give the right to other nations to behave however they want, does it?
Again, many people have tried to engage you, only to be laughed at. Do you mean that after being told your opinion, we don't agree? That isn't closed-mindedness. I agree that America has it share of wrongdoing and atrocities in its history. I disagree that it is an international bully.
You wrote that you don't need to respect opinions that disagree with yours: to me that is confusing. I respect your opinion about America, though I disagree; in fact, in asking questions, and challenging your words, I plan on learning more. In lieu of insight, you tend to respond with, "Well, like America hasn't done that!" But that's never the question asked; no one wants to know why America is bad, what we're curious about is why other nations don't have to be held responsible for bad actions, just because America has also done bad things.
If one child behaves badly, and a second behaves less badly, or behaves badly less often, are not both children still responsible? I am confused by your reasoning, and trying to understand.
Because more often than not, America criticizes other countries and acts like it never did anyone wrong and that's what I do not like about America. And it acts like it's the only one in the right and all others are wrong.
Because America is right.
Who gave anyone else that right?
And just because America says it's wrong, it doesn't mean it's wrong then, because it doesn't have the right to decide for others.
GasBandit
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You just mad cuz you wrong all the time.
We did. America gave itself the right.
Why do you ask questions to which you already know the answer?
Dave
Staff member
You know he was fucking with you, right? We've all pretty much stated that our country isn't perfect, but that wasn't enough. And since you're not going to get outright condemnation of America, you're not satisfied.
So now it's devolved inot poking at you with verbal sticks. With the exception of maybe Chad, who seems to have a Quixote complex. (Which is perfectly fine, I've tilted a windmill or two myself.)
That doesn't answer the question though. Who should have the right? If no one has the right, then no one has the right to say that America is wrong, either.
Remember when America went to Germany and oppressed the Nazis?
Good times.
Good times.
GasBandit
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I've just been waiting for the right moment to bust out with "So if America is so bad, and China is so good, why did your family move to Diet America?"
Would a teenaged chinese expatriate anglophobe anglophile know a Man of La Mancha reference, I wonder?
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Is it just me, or does it seem like Naiwen is Charlie dressing up his White Knighting for various causes in Yellow face, or something similar? Or Gilgamesh parodying Charlie? Heheh, who knows?
Oh gods no, I could never write comedy like Charliwen.
I thought this was another "It's not America, it's the United States" argument. Four pages later and...why did I read this?