How does the World view America these days?

  On 10/24/2017 at 4:23 AM, Bob Dobalina said:

 

  On 10/24/2017 at 12:57 AM, cwmbrancity said:

in the US summat went drastically wrong, its not just legal oxy & illicit smack, its xanax & *insert prescriptions here* that seems to have escalated beyond anything you might expect from such a nation

Well for starters, in an early slippery (slippy) step into the capitalist shitopia we inhabit in today (don't remember exactly but presume Reagan-era), our lawmakers and courts decided it was a-o-kay for pharma to directly advertise prescription drugs to the public, tv, newspapers, magazines, everywhere; thence bringing us such hits as "Ask your doctor if <drug> is right for you," "Side effects may include... <effect>, <effect>, and diarrhea," boner pills, and the latest hit single, opioid epidemics. And the best part is all the cunts are making mad bank off it too!

 

Genuinely curious, do other countries / cultures tolerate this shit?

In Finland Moomins are used to market pharmaceuticals wherever possible

  On 11/3/2017 at 6:43 AM, usagi said:

the English colonised India.

chuckle vision

  On 11/3/2017 at 3:37 PM, Kingdom of Heaven said:

lots of indian men here that play cricket, providing the parks with use they otherwise wouldn't get. i enjoy watching it.

saaaaafe, its a mint game, plus cricket is on the rise in the US, a bit like rugby, 2 games the US could really challenge the rest of world at in the not too distant future

cricket test matches over 5 days are one of sport's temporal glitches that somehow work, imagine following a game for 5 whole days.......bliss

  On 11/3/2017 at 5:17 PM, cwmbrancity said:

 

  On 11/3/2017 at 6:43 AM, usagi said:

the English colonised India.

 

chuckle vision

 

  On 11/3/2017 at 3:37 PM, Kingdom of Heaven said:

lots of indian men here that play cricket, providing the parks with use they otherwise wouldn't get. i enjoy watching it.

 

 

saaaaafe, its a mint game, plus cricket is on the rise in the US, a bit like rugby, 2 games the US could really challenge the rest of world at in the not too distant future

 

cricket test matches over 5 days are one of sport's temporal glitches that somehow work, imagine following a game for 5 whole days.......bliss

 

 

Personally, I'd like to see native Peruvians play American Football.

i actually played cricket back when i was a worm. fun sport. never really got into it. what i really wanted to get into were the very attractive indian girls cheering us on. i'm sorry fellows, but indian dames have my attention- at full attention

aren't the pro cricket players all depressed because the games take 4 days to play and they're super intense about it? 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/apr/22/sport.ameliahill

to quote Boris, "cripes", the Ashes & the urn involved take on a whole new meaning

the game's been thru every marketing gimmick available, daft colours, pink balls, day/night, ultra short slog matches, India's massive money domestic league, but 5 day Test matches are proper fun & the forthcoming Australia v Inglan series will light up winter

if you fancy an outstanding documentary on the sociological focus of the game globally & the infamous West Indies teams that put the fear of christ into every team they played (where else could you get a fast bowler nicknamed Whispering Death?), this is well worth a watch

fuck

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/texas-church-scene-shooting-report-192705171--abc-news-topstories.html

Again

  On 11/5/2017 at 10:05 PM, doublename said:

Again

Thoughts and prayers, indeed...that has worked out so well before.

Aren't these kind of mass shootings happening often enough for shit to get done on gun control or has the country accepted that these kind of massacres are the norm and allows them to love their guns. Kinda like we accept a certain amount of traffic deaths to keep stuff running.

  On 11/6/2017 at 12:30 AM, azatoth said:

Thoughts and prayers, indeed...that has worked out so well before.

 

Aren't these kind of mass shootings happening often enough for shit to get done on gun control or has the country accepted that these kind of massacres are the norm and allows them to love their guns. Kinda like we accept a certain amount of traffic deaths to keep stuff running.

but... but... but... this shooting wouldn't have happened if everyone in the church had a gun? 

ffs. 

yessir

Why is a white man gunning down groups of unarmed civilians with an AR-15 not being called an act of terrorism in mainstream news?

"A mentally ill lone wolf" my ass. Call it for what it is.

Needs more extreme vetting and good guys with guns

The right wing fruitcakes called the vegas shooter a radicalised leftist, or something along those lines. So this one might be called similarly as well, i'm guessing. It shouldnt take too long before the terrorism term will be used as well.

  On 11/6/2017 at 3:56 AM, ambermonk said:

Why is a white man gunning down groups of unarmed civilians with an AR-15 not being called an act of terrorism in mainstream news?

 

"A mentally ill lone wolf" my ass. Call it for what it is.

I guess cos there isn't a clear political motive for this guy yet. but I take your point, the word is often used in connection with the perpetrator's skin colour or background.

the first thing they teach you in terrorism studies is that the definition of terrorism is ill-defined and it's often used as a weapon to delegitimise political opponents.

As it has been said before, if nothing happened after Sandy Hook, then it will never happen. An incident in which 20 six and seven year olds were massacred. I guess they were in the wrong place at the wrong time, standing in between Americans and the second amendment.

white man kills innocent people, Trump - "it's a horrific tragedy"

person of color kills innocent people, Trump - "we need to ban the immigration lottery and build more walls"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCgm8MVoB9I 

Welp, judging by election results, Tramp was right - repubs are getting sick of winning, so they're losing instead.

One year til midterms!

it still amazes me that we have arrived at a point where such a thing as "President Donald Trump" exists.