In memoriam, I present:
The Top ten amazing things I learnt from the O Club
1. That Taiwan was a bastion of freedom for over 50 years after 1949 despite spending most of that time under martial law with no elections and no political parties allowed.
2. That Europe has a single homogenous culture with no real ethnic or racial tensions, despite the war that AH simulates or the one right before that suggesting otherwise.
3. That pollution produced by a country has no correlation to the number of people that country has, and it would just be arguing semantics to think so.
4. That there are American servicemen prepared to fight and die to keep communist China safe from her enemies.
5. That Iraq's WMDs all got moved to Syria, a country with such close ties to Iraq that they had severed all diplomatic relations since 1982.
6. That it was Saddam's mismanagement of the Iraqi infrastructure that he built that caused the problems: the bombing of most of Iraq's infrastructure and sanctions preventing the sale of replacement parts had no effect on it at all.
7. That it was Hong Kong's democracy under British colonial rule that lead to its economic success. A truly revolutionary type of democracy, too: one unfettered with all that tedious mucking about with political parties or having to vote.
8. That John Meredith, CEO of HPH is in fact a nefarious agent of the PLA, despite his British, caucasian and outrageously capitalist exterior, and that he had captured the Panama Canal for them to further communism. [When I asked their PR officer about this and gave him the link, I knew he was hiding something by the way he laughed hysterically.]
9. That there really are people who will go out of their way to argue that they are totally unevolved life forms.
10. Many if not most right-wing pro-war pro-establishment Americans worship and try to emulate a pinko socialist liberal peacenik anti-establishment hippy. I suspect that this may be the chief reason they seem to be so angry about things.
I shall miss finding out stuff like this.
