Originally posted by: Deudalus
Originally posted by: eskimospy
So your answer is no. You are trying to tell someone who very recently visited a country what the people there are like because at some point in the nebulous past you studied 'communist regimes'. Do you know how stupid that sounds?
Not only that, but you're totally jumping to conclusions again. I never said that you should vote based on what people in Thailand or anywhere else thought. The entire OP was just someone's observation that Europeans hate Bush, and so I mentioned that Southeast Asians hate him too. Nobody asked you to vote one way or the other based on what they said, I certainly didn't. I couldn't care less how you vote.
No, but the whole point of the thread was because a liberal wanted to point out how other people think and why we should care.
I personally do not base any of my opinions on how others think, do you?
The tie to people living under communist rule is very simple because they are not allowed to think. They think how their party thinks, they vote how their party votes. Why do you think that in Vietnam they basically have a one party system in which all but a dozen or so of the 500 elected representatives are members of the state run communist party.
You really think we should care what they think about our government?
Your attempt to discount their positions is based on the incredibly ignorant assumption that because of a repressive regime that people in the country are incapable of having an informed opinion. This is simply not true in Vietnam, particularly in the cities where access to outside information is widely available. If anything you are simply showing that having free access to information also does not guarantee an informed opinion.
You are simply ignorant. I don't buy your professions of independence, and your arguments in this thread have been off topic, incoherent, and flat out wrong. You are embarrassing yourself.
Now you are getting it, you don't believe what I am telling you and you don't care what I think.
I'm happy you are starting to catch on. Now if only that streak of non-conformism would transfer to the Vietnamese, Cambodians, and such maybe you could really be a free thinker.
The ironic thing is that so many liberals are so worried about what others think of us and what we do. The only people that I have met (and it totally sucked btw) that are so caught up in what others think is hardcore southern christians.
They are obsessed with what other people think of them. That's why they dress their best to go to church, drive their fanciest car, hell my 85 year old grandma with a metal knee spends 3 hours getting ready to go to church.
Ironic that you guys are so different yet have sooooo much in common.