What are you going to do if McCain wins?

autumn almanac u should probably do a little bit a reading before you trust the word of some dude on the internet that the reason mccain will win is because americans are racist

― Barack HUSSEIN Obama (max), Monday, 29 September 2008 07:41 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The vast amount of US political news that is shoved down our throats in utter disproportion to literally every other foreign country in the world makes me eminently qualified to discuss the racist motives of your current and potential Republican shitheads leaders.

a curious mix of self-loathing and ultra-defensive

yay elections :)

The vast amount of US political news that is shoved down our throats in utter disproportion to literally every other foreign country in the world makes me eminently qualified to discuss the racist motives of your current and potential Republican shitheads leaders.

are you the Manchurian candidate?

dog u were on a thread the other day ASKING SOMEONE WHEN THE ELECTION WAS so i think youre eminently qualified to stfu

At what point do we bring Murdoch into this, if at all? xpost

have you ever been to america, AA?

dinglol ate my baby

dog u were on a thread the other day ASKING SOMEONE WHEN THE ELECTION WAS so i think youre eminently qualified to stfu

― Barack HUSSEIN Obama (max), Monday, 29 September 2008 07:52 (20 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Curiously the one piece of US election news that we're not getting is the date of the election.

actually idk if i really wanna go down this road, cuz most of america is at least kinda racist (including myself rofl). my point is just - i've heard a lot of horror stories from australians and from foreigners visiting australia, about the appalling level of racism down there. but i don't actually think i have any kind of real perspective on what it's really like there as far as the racialist climate. since u clearly learned about america from watching LOST, mb u could reserve judgement just a lil too~

cankles, what you've heard about is probably (a) the public support for a subhuman asylum-seeker policy and (b) treatment of indigenous people, which is mostly isolated to rural pockets. It's the middle-class passive armchair racism (against the Middle East and Asia, mainly) that kept our conservative wankpocket in power for 12 years.

btw I don't watch Lost because nothing happens.

good grief, AA

if mccain wins i will shrug my shoulders, be disappointed about it for a while, and then return to doing the same things i did every day before the election

also, in general people, plz to stop equating mccain votes with votes for racism, that shit is just stupid.

ugh @ racism in australia only happens in the rural parts
u sound like a nyer

cankles, what you've heard about is probably (a) the public support for a subhuman asylum-seeker policy and (b) treatment of indigenous people, which is mostly isolated to rural pockets. It's the middle-class passive armchair racism (against the Middle East and Asia, mainly) that kept our conservative wankpocket in power for 12 years.

― You should be an artist, in in your shower. (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, September 28, 2008 6:03 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark

or this lol http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Violence_at_Cronulla_Beach_as_5000_people_gather

http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/1436/PreviewComp/SuperStock_1436R-07139.jpg

Great thread

I didn't say that level of racism doesn't exist here. I mean, god, we only just kicked out the most racist PM we've had in a very long time, after impossibly being voted in four times. Cronulla was a freak occurrence, though; events of that scale are very rare here, and we hate what it does to our image internationally.

Aaaaaaaanyway, to clear things up, I don't assert that McCain suporters are necessarily racist, if only because we can't actually quantify his actions as a US president unless he gets to be one. The wording of 1-2 of my posts upthread could be interpreted otherwise (I just went back and looked), and I apologise for that. However, I stand by the argument that supporting a racist is a racist act.

Good post

Megadittoes, buddy

Events are rare, fair enough, but when the hell has something like that happened in the US? 1962*?
*inter-minority rioting does not count (hasids v. black dudes, hasids v. other different jewishy beardos, ricans v. muslims, etc.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Racism_in_Australia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_gang_rapes <-- dannng

I am failing to see what relevance 14 rapists in 2000 have to do with any part of this thread.

btw anyone who's prepared to sift through last year's Aus general elections thread(s) will see first-hand my disgust at this country.

tempting...

after last week I'm thinking he's gonna lose

:)

If McCain wins, I'm gonna be drunk. If Obama wins, I'm gonna be drunk. I can't lose.

and yeah, whatever Elvis Telecom said about mac and cheese...I'm down with that big time.

There needs to be some kind of party with alcohol. Yeah.

also, in general people, plz to stop equating mccain votes with votes for racism, that shit is just stupid.

I equate McCain votes with mental deficiency.

mccain is one of the least "racist" republicans I can think of. dude isn't strom thurmond or some shit.

That's one of the most conditional sentences I've ever read. While not a name-caller or the most egregious 'blamer' in his party, McCain was anti-MLK Day.

http://whitehouser.com/elections/revisiting-john-mccains-hatred-towards-gooks/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7641441.stm

Now there's a vote for a racist. Europe, you've outdone our crazy yet again.

No wait, Europeans are incapable of racism because they are the purest, cleanest good on earth. All hail our rightful European masters!

shut up

Nah

ladies and gentlemen, burt stanton...

one smart cookie

lol mccain is the least racist in the obvious republicans-hate-black-people sense but he is probably (definitely) the most racist in the veterans-hate-basically-all-people-of-asian-descent sense

i forgot about the gooks and mlk day thing, admittedly.

the same things I'll do if Obama wins, as will 98% of you

people who threaten to leave the country are annoying

just go already

I lived abroad for the summer of 1991 and it was awesome; I'd totally do it again as long as my wife could get singing gigs.

hey, dr. morbius otm, what do you know

If McCain wins I will sigh, unsurprised.

Dude McCain calls his captors gooks... He can call them whatever he wants.

Anyway the Racist Republicans meme is that they'll vote for McCain because Obama is black, not because McCain is racist. Gotta keep your ridiculous leaps in logic straight.

There's probably a good defense for McCain calling his CAPTORS whatever he wants, but not everyone who hails from the same quarter of the globe as his captors. Which I think is the essence, the most basic shape of racism, though maybe I'm being naive.

I swear I started this thread last week, not yesterday. Am I demented or is something wrong with the ILX time code?

Late Saturday, possibly?