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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| bucheon bum wrote: |
| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
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| Pligganease wrote: |
| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| Why did you even bother to post this? |
Because OH hates the US and somehow thought that this would make the US look like less and Canada look like more. |
Yes. He likes to fit the stereotype of the "ugly canadian" apparently. |
Canada's economy is hopelessly messed up by huge government and unbelieveable government waste, and even so the US might not be able to outpace it. If I were an American I'd find that quite disappointing. But I'd be much more alarmed that for yet another year America's deficit will likely be greater than its GDP growth. But then reality doesn't play very heavily into the average American voter's decisions. |
like to join bandwagons do you? |
When I was living in America during the invasion of Iraq I was in the *beep* of the anti-Bush bandwagon, helping to organise protests, discussion groups, etc. I thought, these people really don't want to be doing this. Now I don't give a *beep*. The majority of Americans are getting exactly what their ignorance deserves. |
Canadians, on the other hand, are so generally enlightened, virtuous, and rational in their voting behavior, it's just impossible for the U.S. to compete with people such as this...no one in the U.S. lives in the real world, yet everyone in Canada does, and that's how they know they're different.
This bitterness is little different from the Chilean editorial I read in The Clinic after the first American civilian was decapitated. The writer remarked that Americans were only reaping what they have sown. Then he went on, of course, to clarify, as usual, that he didn't really have issues with "the American people," just the govt, as, once again, Yu Bum Suk's post also clarifies. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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Isn't this, like, highly highly illegal? Like "Go to jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200"? |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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| helping to organise protests, discussion groups |
Isn't this, like, highly highly illegal? Like "Go to jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200"? |
I guess the FBI failed to infiltrate our bake sale group.
Actually I was even able to help bring Robert Fisk to our university. It was interesting to see the reaction of so many of my students - rich kids with an overwealming liberal bias - no sense of reality but their hearts in the right places. In my seminars (as a history TA) I often had to play devil's advocate because Bushies were afraid to speak up. My neighbourhood had far more anti-war signs than yellow ribbons, but it was largely black and / or Jewish. It's a shame that they have to put up with all that shit. On the other hand, when the best the majority of anti-Bush Americans can come up with is John Kerry, it's hard to feel too sorry for them. As one of the most unpatriotic people there is, it just blew my mind how people can limit national debate so quickly.
Interestingly, I wrote a letter to an English Saudi newspaper that got published, explaining how a lot young Americans wish them no ill whatsoever, and got an email from an angry American who had sniffed me out by googling the net for info about me. He was irate that a Canadian like me would be teaching young Americans, and he'd be contacting my university to complain. I happily gave him my supervisor's contact info, as my supervisor was head of the university anti-war committee. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm not joking. Isn't getting involved in political activity in foreign countries illegal? |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| I'm not joking. Isn't getting involved in political activity in foreign countries illegal? |
Political activity, yes, technically, but not political action. I slipped a Howard Dean supporter a twenty to donate to his campaign - that was illegal. Handing out flyers for a protest or taking my students out for beers afterwards isn't. Oh wait, I guess it was if some of them were only 19 or 20 years old. What a bloody ridiculous country. If there's a country I miss even less than Canada that would have to be it. |
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...
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| Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| If there's a country I miss even less than Canada that would have to be it. |
Good. Don't go there. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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Current events discussion group + a current event article = discussion
Geez i can't think of why i would post the article. But i know why most of you responded, damn that persecution complex! |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| If there's a country I miss even less than Canada that would have to be it. |
Good. Don't go there. |
The other day I was helping to explain the difference between opportunity and need to Korean. "I haven't had the opportunity to go to Thailand. I haven't had a need to go to Texas". |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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Actually it's a green one? Does that mean it's legal as long as they're not buying? |
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...
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| Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 1:31 am Post subject: |
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| Octavius Hite wrote: |
Current events discussion group + a current event article = discussion
Geez i can't think of why i would post the article. But i know why most of you responded, damn that persecution complex! |
Wrong 
The correct answers are:
a) I believe everything my media tells me, and I then condemn Americans for doing the very thing that I do.
b) I don't know enough about economics to realize that the article I posted shows a bleak future for my own country's economy and I thought that the article, in fact, showed more promise than it actually did.
c) Because I hate the US and somehow thought that this would make the US look like less and Canada look like more.
d) I Googled "America Sucks! Canada is great!" and this was the most intelligently written article that I could find.
Anyone of these would be correct, so take your choice. |
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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea
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| Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 4:02 am Post subject: |
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Sheesh-- Octavius just posted an article for interest, and it's meant to promote discussion.
While the Canadian figures are pretty good, I think two things are troubling-- first, that Canada's performance during a slight economic boom is only slightly better than the US during slight recession, and even then only predicted for a short-term time period. The situation could be very different in two years if there's another minority or Liberal government, and a change in Washington. And second, this is likely only on the back of strong economic growth in western Canada. These are both ominous signs, especially when the prairies are steadily becoming more American in culture, business, and politics.
Ken:> |
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