What are you going to do if McCain wins?

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?

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

And people can be offended by what he chooses to call them. GUESS WHAT FREEDOMS WORK BOTH WAYS OMG

if mccain had been downed in somalia black hawk down style would you be cool with him saying "i will hate the niggers as long as i live"?

duh of course he would

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.

He doesn't do this. wtf???

And people can be offended by what he chooses to call them.

Really? No kidding? Of course they can... doesn't make him racist, and it doesn't have anything to do with "If Obama loses it's because America's racist" bullshit.

i'm gonna knife a hobo

I am moving to the US shortly before the inauguration so can you guys quit worrying and make sure you get the right result.

xp I thought in Somalia they're "Skinnies"...

He doesn't do this. wtf???

That is the point you are not getting; he is attempting to redefine a derogatory blanket term to describe a specific group of individuals and the other people who get called that blanket term (as well as other people who get called blanket terms) are not particularly cool with that.

i completely understand being annoyed at people who emptily threaten expatriatism based on whether another asshole (in a long, long line of assholes) gets elected POTUS. But hey, if you have the means and ways and it was something you'd seriously consider doing anyway, then I'd imagine a McCain victory is as good a time/ incentive as any.

i mean fuck four more years of this asshattery. life's too short.

I had planned to move in 2004 but neither my wife or I could find a job that would take us out of the country.

(also there's a large amount of cowardice in running away from the country considering that enough votes can swing the pendulum back in your direction AND the people on the other side are so other-averse that they will never, ever leave regardless of who's in charge)

fwiw it is pretty hard to leave the US. no one wants us.

(unless you're independently wealthy)