Sorry

[Mang0]

I thought people might like to lend their support.

http://www.sorryeverybody.com/

This site was plugged by BBC radio in an attempt to stem the anti-American sentiment flooding into their phone in shows.

[Mang0]

A Couple of examples,

[Mang0]

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[Mang0]

It's a small cowering afraid world.

[terris]

as much as i like this site and everything, and i appreciate the gesture keep in mind that the problem isn't just bush, if kerry had have won the election would everything really have been hunky fucking dorry

i some how doubt it


but to the americans on this board keep up the good work and if shit get's anyworse you can come crash with either me or nick

[CptPlanet]

At least Kerry wouldn't have started any new assaults on the Constitution, or created any new threats to the security of the world. Plus, now that it's over, I've got four more years of reading news for hours every day just trying to keep up with all the horrible shit Bush is doing. Maybe that's his strategy: Just inundate us with so much horrible shit and so many bad ideas that eventually we just give up and say "Fuck it dude. Do what you're gonna do. I have to worry about making money and getting laid and pulling my GPA out of the shitter. Here's the Bill of Rights and a Zippo. Have at it. "

But now that it's all over, I can say that Kerry would have made a shitty president, and there is something kind of liberating about that. Not in any meaningful way, because we're completely up shit creek, but it's nice to be able to say it publicly without having to worry about making that one crucial undecided voter swing towards Bush. Just trying to find a silver lining. Like in my silver lining thread where I said exactly the same thing.

[agent_PUNT]

On a side note, driving through the States this weekend, everyone had these yellow ribbon stickers that said "Support Our Troops".

This is ofcourse an empty, meaningless gesture that allows people to feel they have been included in the decision to go to war.

Ofcourse people want the troops to be safe, but what the hell does a sticker that says "support our troops" mean?

I hope the money is going to the families of dead soldiers. Then I understand.

But if it is just a blanket statement, then it is basically just saying "don't question the war"

[Mang0]

Maybe it's an appeal for some kind of mass cupping as they return?

[agent_PUNT]

Originally posted by Mang0
Maybe it's an appeal for some kind of mass cupping as they return?

can you de-britify that sentence.

is cupping anything like hugging?

If I came back from a war and I just saw all my friends getting shot up around me, I would probably think "wow, you people have no FUCKING clue what the hell I just went through, and your little stickers are a constant reminder of how distant you people are from the realities that stared me in the face for the 21 hours a day that I was awake, stressed and waiting to be shot at."

Then I'd try to get pussy from some girl with a sticker that said "support our troops".

[tjamick]

that gave me a great idea. i'm gonna go around town in an army costume and tell all of the women that i have a 3 day leave, and that i caught my girlfriend cheating.

[Mang0]

Cupping- 'to cradle a mans balls in ones hands in a gentle and caring way'

[agent_PUNT]

Originally posted by Mang0
Cupping- 'to cradle a mans balls in ones hands in a gentle and caring way'

so it is exactly like hugging.

[Mang0]

:D

[5InchTaint]

I don't understand the 'Support Our Troops' ribbons either. Wouldn't the best way to support them be to bring them home?

[agent_PUNT]

That would help.

The truth is that the long, big answer is complicated and complex. And people don't want to be bothered to understand the failures of American foreign policy. So instead, they slap on a big sticker.

Any soldier who dies in this Iraq war is NOT dying for their country, they are dying for their government.

Wow, now I've simplified the opposing view of the foreign policy.

Bring them home. Start figuring out what to do to make sure we never have to send them out again.

[CptPlanet]

Unfortunately, bringing them home isn't going to do us any favors either, because we've created an extremely fertile breeding ground for terrorism and anti-American sentiment.

The only sensible thing we could have done was not send them there in the first place. There is no man or woman capable of extricating us from this mess without a huge black eye.

Of course, I guess since we know that it's going to be a war of attrition like Vietnam and we're never going to win anyway, we might as well just cut our losses and bail out early, but it'll take a couple thousand more dead Americans before people realize that.