Oi.. it's going to be one of THOSE days...

[thewerewolf]

I plug my backup drive's power supply into the unregulated powerbar on my UPS and the UPS dies

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[foeclan]

We have fragile egos. Also, if everything on that list is not checked, Fox News will jump all over it and say he hates America.

[thewerewolf]

I dunno - most of the Americans I've met aren't so fragile... maybe I've been mostly lucky. :) I wish more Americans would be insulted at such banal pandering.

But yeah, I see the Fox News thing...

[footpad]

While I may markedly disagree with them, I find all of those statements reasonably palatable except for the 'wanting to be American'.

It's not that it's wrong, it's not that it's outdated; it's just that it's so pathetically wilful in its ignorance of the changing currents of the opinions of the world.

[thewerewolf]

Look up 'pandering' to see why it bugs me. :)

It's ironic because if it actually works (and I prefer to believe it doesn't) then it's very scary... and if it doesn't, then it's really very insulting.

[geddcoon]

It works and it is necessary. Be afraid.

[thewerewolf]

Yikes. This would explain the evolution/creationism thing. And the global warming "debate".

Up here, politicians who try that tactic get laughed at, for the most part. Canadians are conditioned to be quietly patriotic unless provoked.

Usually by Americans. :)

[dakhun]

Define "world"? Their "world" is shrinking again.

[thewerewolf]

Heh, it's not at all clear from now it's used, tbh.