Comments | dreality: Leave it to the US

dreality

Leave it to the US

Jul 07, 2005 23:05

to make everything about us. The older I get, the more I understand why a good portion of the world awaits with bated breath for us to sink into the ocean with the weight of our own importance. That, and they laugh a lot ( Read more... )

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loveralone July 9 2005, 00:53:39 UTC

This is totally not relevant to this post except for the key mashing...

But ZOMG Harreh Potter...HAWT MAN.

saturdayshoes July 9 2005, 13:04:36 UTC

I will convert you to the Potter. I made Chelle watch it. I can exert my evil wiles over you.

Ah miss yew.

dreality July 9 2005, 18:47:02 UTC

Ah miss yew 2!

Word.

And I will NEVER be converted to Potter. Well, okay. I won't say that. Because that's like saying "bring it on!" and then I'll turn into a fangirl. I dunno, it's just never interested me. It just seems like too much of a kids book for me, I guess.

HOWEVER. It is your fault, however indirectly, that I wrote my very firstest Lost fic last night. How, you ask? Because rather than do the normal shipper thing, I wrote Charlie/Liam. Charlie and Liam, incidentally, are brothers. >.< I hate you. You've corrupted me. THANKS.

saturdayshoes July 10 2005, 17:59:56 UTC

We be tight, yo.

Ok, I see what you're saying here, but there really is a level on which they're very adult books, especially as the series go on. Like the first two, mostly for kids. And then they progress, and the story isn't just about the current generation of kids, but also about their parents and the whole history of the good side vs. the bad side. Some of it is definitely NOT for kids.

Plus come on. That Tom Felton is a fine piece of ass.

And that is not my fault. EVERYONE SHOULD SLASH SIBLINGS.

Ahem.

jign_jake July 12 2005, 17:14:54 UTC

Of course America is going to get involved. We are , unfortunatley, the country that gets involved but you pretty much have to since we are the Superpower of the world!

And to the point that the British survived the blitz, I think its cool to say that they would never of fully survived the blitz if America didn't get involved.

Jake

dreality July 12 2005, 20:19:02 UTC

Of course America is going to get involved. We are , unfortunatley, the country that gets involved but you pretty much have to since we are the Superpower of the world!

No. Just because you're the biggest bully on the block (whoo, check out that alliteration!) doesn't mean that you have to (or you have the right to) poke around in everyone else's business. While I agree to an extent that, yes, as supposedly the most powerful country we have an obligation to check in on others from time to time, that doesn't give us the right to tell other countries how they're to be run, that their culture is wrong, that their government is wrong, that their theocracy is eeeevil! wrong.

It IS our responsibility, as the "most powerful" and by extension the wealthiest country, to see to it that other countries WILLINGLY accept help. Imposing our will on them does nothing but breed resentment. And yet we're more concerned with securing oil refineries than seeing to it that third world countries have something to fucking eat besides dirt.

And to the ( ... )

jign_jake July 13 2005, 03:19:58 UTC

I agree with you on some points: but what if the country in question doesn't want help? I.e. Zimbabwe in Africa. More or less dictatorship, which millions of Africans are having their human rights violated. Look at the fuckin Rwanda incident. Mass genocide and the American public didn’t even now it! It toke a fuckin movie, almost 10 years after the fact to bring attention to it. What does the American public do after that? The said awe! That sucks. Let’s give the movie some academy award nominations. Pass the Fuckin Popcorn for the next movie so I can feel good about myself and glorify the god damned celebrities ( ... )

dreality July 13 2005, 18:05:52 UTC

(Sorry about my little bitchfest yesterday, I was feeling terrible and you, uh, kinda got the brunt of it. :) )

I agree with you on some points: but what if the country in question doesn't want help?

But that's where it gets tricky -- do you listen solely to that country's government or to its people? In theory it would be best to listen to the citizens, but as we've seen time and time and time again that hardly ever happens.

Look at the fuckin Rwanda incident. Mass genocide and the American public didn’t even now it! It toke a fuckin movie, almost 10 years after the fact to bring attention to it.Good point. And then there's the mess in Kosovo (sp?). Americans are traditionally, I think, happily oblivious to everything that doesn't directly involve us individually, and even then it's a very selective kind of acknowledgment. Can we say slavery, anyone? Japanese internment camps? The needless cross-country Indian exterminations ( ... )