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Ahahaha that is hilarious.
I don't think they should have apologized. It was nothing more than a clever little joke.
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Also this seems like one of those cultural things we don't always realise divide the UK and the US. Many Americans apparently find making light of the time the White House got burnt down to be in bad taste, but over here we have a party every year celebrating the time this guy tried to blow up our central government buildings, and crack jokes about him being the last person to go in there with honest intentions.
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That stated, I think your media cares about this a whole heck of a lot more than our populace does. ^^; Some context:
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War of 1812, if I am remembering my history right, resulted in "let's just pretend this never happened" - territories were given back, everything was rebuilt, and allegiances/ties were re-established.
So it's not surprising that nobody remembers it. That was the plan from the get go.
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Americans in general doesn't take well to anything perceived as irreverence toward the austere aspects of the culture. I know the British are more inclined to make fun of themselves or their own culture than the US, which is wholly intolerant to it. Flag burning in particular - which I would surmise, given how the flag isn't a holy object to most countries - should strike members of those other countries as odd in itself, and the reaction provoke from it even odder.
I was reading a quote from Alan Moore and he basically insinuated Americans are too chicken to set any kind of satire in the United States itself, and would prefer to use "other empires" like Britain or Rome for fear of inviting backlash.
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Well in this case, we're not talking Americans. We're talking the kinds of Americans who a.) go on Twitter and b.) feel strongly enough to complain about things.
That joke was not in poor taste. It was simple, small, and harmless. The kind of person who complains about that also complains that the power scooters at Wal-Mart don't go fast enough and demands one with a stronger motor. You can't read too much into complaints. The best way to treat a complaint about something "offensive" in America is either to respond with an apology (if it is offensive) or to completely ignore it (if they're just being crazy). And believe me. There can be some real crazy on twitter.
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Stealthy's Quick And Easy Rule For US History in the 1800s: everything has to do with how we were fucking over the Natives or we were fucking over the blacks.
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I mean this purely in a general, international perception level, not slamming each and every individual American/citizen of any other major world power.
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NO YOU MUST NOT CRITICIZE US IN ANY WAY
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AMERICA IS A TERRIBLE COUNTRY YOU'RE ALL DICKS
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WELL AT LEAST WE SPELL OUR WORDS CORRECTLY
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That's just adorable.
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That is amazing. If a little racist.
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Britain was pretty smart staying away from that bus stop. Voltorb gonna boom.
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That's Polan. Polan stronk. Polan can into space.
For some reason the Poland ball is always upside down.
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This is an accurate description of most Polandballs, as was this particular comic, actually.
Also, this was glorious. "Tell me Ireland...don't you miss the good old days?" "No." I should say though, that if Russia gets to be a major global power than the big 4 of western Europe are all major global powers too.
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Well it depends on how you count but I suppose Britian, France, Germany and Italy are the big four in the geo political sense?
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Italy surpassing Russia as a superpower, what a joke ...
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But, but...Italy has pasta!
So I'm not sure if we've discussed this here yet but what do we think of the possibility of air strikes in Syria?
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Oh man I loved that comic
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In geopolitical terms Italy is more relevant than Russia in some areas, mostly where it used to be the colonial power, but its sphere of influence is not huge comparatively.
Air strikes in Syria seem likely to me. The yanks are the clear likely culprits, I don't think we'll get involved. I don't really know the French political consensus on the issue but they may look for a distracting war. |
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Oh boy. So, I hadn't heard about the August 5 shooting of a 22-year old Ohioan in Wal-Mart until someone was blogging about this video which shows the Wal-Mart's surveillance camera footage. Apparently a grand jury was convened; and they just issued their verdict that the police were well within their rights to behave as they did, as reported by this Cincinnati news station.
The family claims that the victim had his back turned to the police when he was killed, that he was given no adequate warnings (or time to respond to said warnings), and that the victim was murdered. The defense for the police claims that the officers gave adequate warning, that the victim was charging the officers (not when initially fired upon, but between then and the second time they fire at him), and that he was brandishing a rifle when charging them. Watch the video and draw your own conclusions. Me personally, I don't know what sort of person the victim was, but at least as far as the surveillance footage is concerned ...
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