Swiss Mercenary on 3/6/2007 at 17:10
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Will it make any money? Will it "pay its own way?" What can I gain from this activity? These are the kinds of questions that Americans are likely to ask in their practical pursuit, not such questions as: Is it aesthetically pleasing? Will it be enjoyable?, or Will it advance the cause of knowledge?
Then why the fuck did 51% of them vote to crawl waist-deep into debt and a quagmire?
Because those sure as hell aren't questions they are asking Dubya.
Oh, right, that's because the answer would be "Lol terrism."
Jason Moyer on 3/6/2007 at 17:30
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Then why the fuck did 51% of them vote to crawl waist-deep into debt and a quagmire?
Actually, it was more like 30%, if you consider the number of eligible voters who felt that either choice was worth a fucking shit.
Aerothorn on 3/6/2007 at 17:56
Swiss: Politics are generally different. This is looking at things from a more "personal" level, I think.
Also, note that this was written pre-Bush. No one can explain Dubya.
That said, I don't get #2 - it's my experience that most people fear change.
And while it's certainly true that Americans are more time-focused, everyone I know is always fashionably late.
*Zaccheus* on 3/6/2007 at 21:34
I think the article expresses how americans would like to think of themselves, rather than how the actually are.
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No one can explain Dubya.
Someone on another forum suggested that when the parties choose their candidates, maybe there are republicans voting for the weakest democrat presidential candidate and there are democrats voting for the weakest republican presidential candidate and that's why you always end up with such weak choices. :D
(perhaps that's what happens in the UK too)
Renzatic on 3/6/2007 at 21:56
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That said, I don't get #2 - it's my experience that most people fear change.
Depends upon whats being changed and how drastic a change it is. If its something positive, yet something that isn't completely life altering, people will look forward to it. But take something that'll disrupt everyday routine and happenings, and you'll find alot of people not wanting it.
fett on 3/6/2007 at 22:13
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Because those sure as hell aren't questions they are asking Dubya.
Oh, right, that's because the answer would be "Lol terrism."
Don't be a twat. If you think Dubya's re-election was simply a matter of "LOLterism" you haven't the slightest grasp on anything related to America.
# whatever: Americans are repeatedly pissed off by dumbfuck Europeans who think the idiots on Jay Leno and Montel Williams are actually a fair representation of America. :rolleyes:
Pyrian on 4/6/2007 at 18:33
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If you think Dubya's re-election was simply a matter of "LOLterism" you haven't the slightest grasp on anything related to America.
Hmm. While of course brief and poorly spelled, I think "LOLterism" does a reasonable job of summing up the opinions of many of those I know who voted for Bush. If you include "LOLkeryfliperph1ops" that would succeed in summing up most of the rest. I understand there is also a large contigent of "LOLgawdsw/bush" but I don't know any of them.
Aside from the hopelessly corrupt, a vote for Bush was not a vote of informed intelligence.
Louis Cypher on 4/6/2007 at 19:10
Ah yes, and you can TOTALLY generalize to an entire country of 50 admittedly different subunits based on your own personal experience of a subsection of a group.
....Wait. No. No you can't.
Pyrian on 4/6/2007 at 20:43
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Ah yes, and you can TOTALLY generalize to an entire country of 50 admittedly different subunits based on your own personal experience of a subsection of a group.
....Wait. No. No you can't.
When the standard of measurement is "the slightest grasp on anything related", then yes, I can. That being said, polling data supports my assertion; by and large, those who voted for Bush also believe in one or more
empirically false statements, such as the Earth being just a few thousand years old, or Saddam Hussein being involved in the 9/11 plot.
fett on 4/6/2007 at 20:58
Ok, now I get it. You think that everyone who voted for Bush is a radical right wing, conspiracy nut, christian type; based of course, on the idiots you know who voted for him.
As I said, the generalization betrays an extreme ignorance of the complicated reasons that people voted for Bush, or against Kerry. Or why they vote for anyone for that matter. You actually believe that 51% of the population believe *literally* in Genesis 1 or that 9/11 was Hussein's fault? Over half? Funny - I live in bumfuck Arkansas where I can't fart without hitting a church and I don't know A SINGLE PERSON who voted for Bush based on either example you've given.
