If I think those kids are knobheads for trashing small businesses does that make me far right too?
Are they the people who are going to clean up after?
Who ever went to a 'youth club' when they were kids, or thought that was a cool thing to do? I don't really believe that those kids rioting right now are doing so because they don't have access to public trampolines. I don't really understand it- but I'm inclined to agree with Intrepid here if kids on the dole in that part of the world are anything like the kids on the dole in mine.
Fair enough.. if it makes you feel any better, I've never done heroin, and I've never supported it. It's one drug that actually scares the crap out of me. I've also seen my share of destroyed lives but I've also seen people pull themselves together and raise families, to my eternal delight. Some of my greatest sadness has come from watching friends suffering under the grip of a heroin addiction. You feel powerless to help, it's a terrible feeling. I'm sure it's nothing compared to what they're going through.
Yeah. Heroin sucks...
Yeah. Heroin sucks...
Pfirter - Audiometria (Lucy Remix)
What would you rather support? Locking someone up because they smoked a spliff on the weekend?
I get your general point and I agree.
Sorry, but that has to be the the funniest reason against drugs I've yet heard.
Don't do drugs. You might catch the flu.
I (think I) know what you mean. My own pet peeve is the way in which the expression 'tackling climate change' has became so ingrained in Australian media. 'Tackling' isn't even all that hyperbolic, it's just the way those two things became fused together... it's grating. I can't really put my finger on why though.
Familiarity breeds contempt?
Silver Apples - Seagreen Serenade
"If I'm way off base and it actually is common for a young white guy to get a job at a falafel shop..."
Mmmm... Falafel.
"rise to the challenge of integrating with the citizens of a host country. And it is a challenge, no doubt about that."
There's a difference between integration and being invisible. Multiculturalism is what it says on the tin... multiple cultures. How much that ends up being just a homogenised soup or how much of the differences are retained between cultures I think is a very local thing, dependent on numerous factors. I see you arguing two things here Mike. One is the fact that you're against a single homogenised culture, whilst simultaneously crying out against a lack of integration. It's already been pointed out that America was never truly a purely European culture, but the sum of all previous cultures that had gathered there. So you're already arguing for a kind of multiculture, just a particular manifestation of it. Those parts have bumped up against each other, fought and forged new relationships over time. Together they have created 'America'. It's a bumpy history and it's still happening. It's inevitable really as I see it, because a serviceable definition of culture is that it's just the product of the ideas rattling around in peoples heads at any given time. It's super chaotic. People move around. They influence each other and they differentiate themselves from each other. They bring new things to the table. I mean, how are you going to stop that? Arguing against it is flight from reality as far as I'm concerned.
Mmmm... Falafel.
"rise to the challenge of integrating with the citizens of a host country. And it is a challenge, no doubt about that."
There's a difference between integration and being invisible. Multiculturalism is what it says on the tin... multiple cultures. How much that ends up being just a homogenised soup or how much of the differences are retained between cultures I think is a very local thing, dependent on numerous factors. I see you arguing two things here Mike. One is the fact that you're against a single homogenised culture, whilst simultaneously crying out against a lack of integration. It's already been pointed out that America was never truly a purely European culture, but the sum of all previous cultures that had gathered there. So you're already arguing for a kind of multiculture, just a particular manifestation of it. Those parts have bumped up against each other, fought and forged new relationships over time. Together they have created 'America'. It's a bumpy history and it's still happening. It's inevitable really as I see it, because a serviceable definition of culture is that it's just the product of the ideas rattling around in peoples heads at any given time. It's super chaotic. People move around. They influence each other and they differentiate themselves from each other. They bring new things to the table. I mean, how are you going to stop that? Arguing against it is flight from reality as far as I'm concerned.
Real Time Sound Visuals Majigger
Couple questions there I wish there was an 'I don't know' button.. but anyway
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Sonic Youth - Or
RacerX
"He wasn't opinionated, and "never came across as some kind of religious fanatic or anything." In fact, he had no defined ideology."
He felt strongly enough about something to then commit the worst human massacre in recent history. Whatever his writings were, they pale in comparison to what he's done.
flymike91
On a rational level, DWB's history of events is unarguable. It's pretty clear that America as you refer to it, there never was a time when multiculturalism wasn't part of the mix. What you seem to be arguing for is something both impossible, and reasonably unimaginable. You have a nostalgia for something that never was. What would a purely 'European' America look like? Neither of us have any idea. It never happened, and probably never will happen. You grew up in a multicultural society- you don't 'know' any other way.
"He wasn't opinionated, and "never came across as some kind of religious fanatic or anything." In fact, he had no defined ideology."
He felt strongly enough about something to then commit the worst human massacre in recent history. Whatever his writings were, they pale in comparison to what he's done.
flymike91
On a rational level, DWB's history of events is unarguable. It's pretty clear that America as you refer to it, there never was a time when multiculturalism wasn't part of the mix. What you seem to be arguing for is something both impossible, and reasonably unimaginable. You have a nostalgia for something that never was. What would a purely 'European' America look like? Neither of us have any idea. It never happened, and probably never will happen. You grew up in a multicultural society- you don't 'know' any other way.
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Heh. In a thread talking about a white guy who shot a bunch of white guys...
Foetus - Finely Honed Machine
Why not improve yourself even more by visiting and maybe even living in another country for 10-20 years? While it's still allowed and all.
I agree with the first part, but it's not really an insult. More like an extreme homage. That was the only real enjoyment of the film acually, seeing just how many Spielberg movies were being referenced. Sometimes it was just a camera angle, other times it was something more explicit. Strange movie... I don't think I can remember watching another that does nostalgia and director worship to this level. The kids movie in the credits was fun..
Thinking Plague - Warheads
Off to see Super 8 tonight. I heard it's a bit like Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind. Sold.
"We've got a skinjob acting up. Someone call Harrison Ford." - youtuber
Glenn Branca - Les Honneurs du Pied (part II)
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