foriegners here and the U.S. election...

[Fishu]

Originally posted by Goth
and if you get that upset over being called silly...OMG...that's just...silly .

Umm.. I'm not french.

[Otto]

Originally posted by Nash
:

LOL LOL BUSH IN A LANDSLIDE!

Well...., he's going to win,    but I doubt it will be a LANDSIDE.

[Nash]

Thing is, my friend, Otto...

Bush isn't going to win.

You guys seem to have become almost comfortable with being wrong all the time. Pretty soon y'all will be bragging about it.

[texace]

Got some magical crystal ball you're drooling over, Nash?

I don't like Bush as much as you do, but you're prading around like you're better than us and you seem to feed off of everyone saying anything good about Bush. You seem to think that you're already right and the rest of the BBS is wrong. What gives? And why does it matter who is elected? Your life won't be any worse for wear.

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Thrawn
What are you laughing at, your own ignorance?  Go google the term.



 

Yep.

Well at least your consistant LMAO

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by texace
Got some magical crystal ball you're drooling over, Nash?

I don't like Bush as much as you do, but you're prading around like you're better than us and you seem to feed off of everyone saying anything good about Bush. You seem to think that you're already right and the rest of the BBS is wrong. What gives? And why does it matter who is elected? Your life won't be any worse for wear.

Im starting to think its because he IS Kerry.
Cant you tell by the block head? LOL

[Excel1]

Originally posted by NUKE
Im laughing at the term "war of agression"

what war is not a war of agression?

In a war of choice the aggressor is the one who provokes the war.

Not that saddam didn't deserve it... he did. But there's more than one way to skin a cat.

[AKcurly]

Originally posted by lazs2
actually... I am not a fan of Bush in any way.   I think he is way too liberal and owes too much to the religious right.   I fear organized religion but not as much as I fear socialism and "proggressives"  

I will be happy to see Bush win because he will appoint conservatrive supreme court justices.

lazs

You can't trust conservative supreme court justices, Lazs.  Remember the conservative (and I mean *REALLY* conservative) governor of California who became the chief justice?  Earl Warren?  

I think we would be better served Lazs by balance in the court.

curly

[beet1e]

Originally posted by Nash
Lazs actually travelled to England once. I know about it because I know that he felt nekkid without his gun there. I don't wanna knock too seriously at Lazs, cuz the guy is kind of endearing in an odd way, but I have a feeling that he was one of those tourists that complain that they "don't understand the money".

Very good, Nash! I think you're pretty close to the mark, not that I ever saw Lazs in England. But the highlight of last year's WC minicon trip to CA was going to Lazs's house the day after it ended. It was a higly entertaining day, what with shooting his guns off.  Then we had some lunch, and then went back to Chez Lazs for coffee and entertainment - Lazs airing his views about this and that. My girlie and I had planned to be heading south by 3pm ready for the next day's trip to Santa Barbara, but we were enjoying Lazs so much that we stayed till about 6!

Lazs may come over as a tough guy, but never a bad guy, and I cannot imagine him ever hurting anyone.

[Heater]

Originally posted by lazs2
Ok... watching the posts from the guys on this BB from other countries I am sometimes awed by their hate for Bush.... I mean they act like it is the most important thing in their lives or that... more accurately.... they have information that is being with held from us poor Americans.

I realize it is a very small sampling of the world here but with the exception of say curval and beetle (who are money guys) the rest of the posters seem violently anti Bush.

now... it it because they are flamingly socialist and liberal or.... is it because all the media that they are bombarded with on a daily basis is really that one sided?

my guess is that the media in their countries is strongly anti American and anti Bush.   I believe this because these posters seem so.....

gulible and clueless... they seem to be secure in their thinking that if they just get the facts out that "everyone" knows about how evil Bush is then.... the Americans on this board will suddenly be enlightened and the election will swing the logical way.  This kind of thinking can only be because of a HUGE support group in the media and "common knowledge".

It appears that ,barring something really dramatic.... Bush will win with a pretty handy electorial advantage.   I think that the Americans here will take a victory by either candidate in (more or less) stride but... I think the foriegn posters will feel.... betrayed and it will simply increase their hate for the U.S.

that is my take on it.

lazs

OK,

I normally do not get in to threads like this but this time I will.....

As an American living in Europe, here is my take on it.

Most Europeans see Americans as arrogant people, and most of them are, I do not mean this in a bad sense, but after living in the Japan, Iceland, & Netherlands. it's been the same every where I have went, Most Americans come across with "we are better than you" or we have the same thing but better," In the USA we do it this way" or "In America I can do this" etc...the biggest problem is no respect for way of life or other culture. it's our way or you are wrong. I will admit when I first got to the Netherlands I was the same way, until I acutely got out and lived with the Dutch in their"world" and then you begin to notice the little things that do make the difference. I am willing to bet that more than 90% of the people that post on this board that live in the US have never been outside of the US at all or for any length of time and have no clue to what are cultures are all about.

[StarOfAfrica2]

Originally posted by Rolex
Others are no more "violently anti-Bush" than you are violently anti-Kerry. You're just scarier because you're a gun fanatic. Your inflammatory style could actually be contributing to people hoping (and acting) toward a Kerry victory.

Think about it, lazs. A normal human being reading your posts - not knowing that you are actually just kidding - might think that you were a member of some sort of radical, extremist, well-armed, fringe, militia group bent on overthrowing the U.S. government and replacing it with a wilderness anarchy.
[/B]

That cant be right.........everyone knows the gun "fanatics" all live in Montana, not California.   Well, except for my family, most of them are still peekin out the windows at night in the midwest waitin for the injuns to attack the farm and carry off the women.

Proud gun-owners and defenders of Democracy (and occasionally marryin a cousin ifluff'n she's cute enough) for 200 years!  Yeehaw!

P.S.  We're all Democrats too, and even we cant stand Kerry.  Wanted Dean, but he had to go and get all emotional!  Havent decided if we dislike Bush more than Kerry (almost blasphemy).  Or more realistically, havent decided yet how much damage control we'd have to do if we elect Kerry.  

[Saintaw]

Heater, why should they care? (following the drift here...)

[lazs2]

interesting... seems that only thje Americans here are offering answers.    

Rolex is especially erudite and contained within his wall of words is.... it is both... and it is economics... the world media is angry at us so biased and... those who are on this BB are basicly ameristalkers anyway since they are playing an American game and on an American BB.  I would say that those of foreign origin on this board are from wealthy families or young... so.. that would explain a lot of the idealism and liberal socialism.  It apears that rolex believes both of my premis's but disliles me for bringing them up and is trying to justify them.   I don't care if they are justified or not.   I wasn't asking that.

ravs etc...I haven't travelled much outside the states...  lots in the states.   I have been to england and Scotland and canada and mexico.   the money is funny but I manage.   Allways something to see or someone to talk to.

I travel in other countries the same way I travel in the U.S.  I try to get a car and drive around and I try to hook up with people who live there and visit with them.   Don't know if that method meets with the arrogant world travlers here.   I know that people can visit the states and never learn anything about the people who live here.  probly true everywhere.  most people seem to travel by hitting every big city and attraction... that would be fun I guess and I try to hit some myself but.... a lifetime of that kind of travel is probly equal to one world tour.

guns.... I am more interested in Hot Rods than guns but all the world travellers and foreighners here are not interested in Hot Rods... they do seem vitroholicly bitter about guns... I think it is more of the same of my original post.... their media.... their liberalism and.... their sour grapes.... if they can't have em...   One reason I think it is the liberalism and weak genes of the foriegnrs that post here is because.... I know there must be som aussies and brits who are furious at having their rights taken away but  all we get here is the liberal "nanny knows best" sheep.

lazs

lazs

[lazs2]

and... rolex... your comment about "a normal human being" as it pertains to people understanding me is arrogant on your part in the extreme.    I believe that it is the quintesential liberal attitude that onlyu you, the elite, can understand and that everyone else needs your help in understanding or... whatever.

I think "normal people" understand me just fine.  

"Think about it, lazs. A normal human being reading your posts - not knowing that you are actually just kidding - might think that you were a member of some sort of radical, extremist, well-armed, fringe, militia group bent on overthrowing the U.S. government and replacing it with a wilderness anarchy.  "

tell ya what.... why don't you "think about it" and how you sound?


lazs

[Monk]

I think it's a select few, most people I meet here in europe could care less.