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papasmerf

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Why do you think it is that most political threads on a Canadian board are about Americans?????? ;)
 

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papasmerf said:
Why do you think it is that most political threads on a Canadian board are about Americans?????? ;)
writing about Paul Martin and the boys and girls is like trying to find something interesting to describe at an Accountant's Convention...

American politics is in your face and hits us all where we live...it would be nice in this country to get some more European/British news coverage for a different perspective.





(with apologies to Accountant's....)
 

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papasmerf: good question!

US and Middle East too. Always repeated opinions, ideas, 'sources and facts' about US and ME: anyone notice in the past ~month alot of linked articles. This forum has become disappointing.

Political forum on other different genre board people start ROW (rest of world) threads but they quickly die off to same US and ME bickering.
 

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papasmerf said:
Why do you think it is that most political threads on a Canadian board are about Americans?????? ;)
Ummm...That'd be because so many Canadians are angry at the US because of their murderous foreign policy. Most Canadians think the US is responsible for a great deal of needless suffering and death in Iraq. And in Viet Nam before that. So the US ranks very high on our list of things to complain about. If you'd stayed isolationist since Viet Nam, you would probably not be asking this question because we'd be complaining about something else.
 

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antaeus said:
US and Middle East too. Always repeated opinions, ideas, 'sources and facts' about US and ME: anyone notice in the past ~month alot of linked articles. This forum has become disappointing.

Political forum on other different genre board people start ROW (rest of world) threads but they quickly die off to same US and ME bickering.
I suggest you start a new thread and let's see what happens. Anyone hijacking it to a ME or US thread will be ignored...let's go.
 

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slowpoke said:
Ummm...That'd be because so many Canadians are angry at the US because of their murderous foreign policy. Most Canadians think the US is responsible for a great deal of needless suffering and death in Iraq. And in Viet Nam before that. So the US ranks very high on our list of things to complain about. If you'd stayed isolationist since Viet Nam, you would probably not be asking this question because we'd be complaining about something else.

Fine but what the hell does that have to do with Canada?
 

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papasmerf said:
Fine but what the hell does that have to do with Canada?
Well....It's a Canadian board, populated by quite a few Canadians who tend to express their Canadian opinions about "Politics & International Affairs". Is this a trick question or something?
 

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It is a interest in a power that is more powerful, more willing to act, and therefore easier to take shots at. Canada fears US cultural domination and it is easy to generalize and dislike those you fear. Unfortuneately, in my view sometimes the Canadian reaction is reflexive rather than considered.
 

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Because the biggest issues in Canada are who gets more state welfare (transfer payments) and who did something stupid. In other words they're lucky.

OTB
 

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And be glad that this can be discussed on a Canadian board.

Having these kinds of Anti American discussions on an American board will probably bring Bush's goons to your door.

It should be called Homeland Insecurity.
 
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And be glad that this can be discussed on a Canadian board.

Having these kinds of Anti American discussions on an American board will probably bring Bush's goons to your door.

It should be called Homeland Insecurity.
Just imagine all the stuff they write about us on those U.S. boards! I mean, they're probably doing nothing but slagging Paul Martin for his stand on softwood lumber, quoting endless stream of statistics about transfer payments and pondering the future of Air Canada. And, you just know, that there's one guy on a board down there who calls us KKKanada.
 

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papasmerf said:
Why do you think it is that most political threads on a Canadian board are about Americans?????? ;)
Usually it's Americans who start them, as far as I can make out to provoke criticism they can label as anti-Americanism. It's much easier, I'm sure, than actually dealing with the botch America continues to make both of world politics, and ensuring the safety, welfare and prosperity of its citizens at home.
But I was wrong once before; shall we make it a practice that thread starters be quizzed on their citizenship? What's yours papa? Betcha most US-centric threads are started by US citzens, who must find some perverse pleasure in airing their nation's politics in ours.
 

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I always think of the US as part of Canada anyways, or at least as part of the GTA
 

onthebottom

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Canadians define themselves by their relationship with the US - they're so quiet we sometimes forget they're up there. Again, they're lucky - boring but lucky.

OTB
 

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onthebottom said:
Canadians define themselves by their relationship with the US - they're so quiet we sometimes forget they're up there. Again, they're lucky - boring but lucky.
We all can't be as exciting as you OTB. Oh yay do show us the way.
 
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