Originally posted by: eskimospy
Originally posted by: Deudalus
I have a very real idea of what communist regimes are like. I studied them quite a lot in college and have an interest in them in general.
Do you not?
Let me put it to you another way, I know jack shit about physics much less astro-physics.
We sit around and discuss politics like scientists sit around discuss physics. What if some physicist came to New Orleans and asked me if I thought quarks, black holes, dark matter, and all these other fun things existed and I "smiled and said yes" and that was an answer he agreed with....
What do you think the odds are of him propping up any of his theories in his scientists circles based on my dumb assed opinion?
My whole point Eskimoguy is that for you to come to the thread and say "OMG LOL the peeps in Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia think Bush too!" isn't going to win over too many people which is a very simple fact that the DNC and liberals in general can't seem to get through their heads.
Independents like myself aren't going to vote for (or against) someone, something, or feel a certain way because Europe, The Dixie Chicks, Michael Stipe, The Boss, Mellencamp, Hollywood, Green Day, or even random villagers in Thailand, Cambodia, or Vietnam think that we should.
Do you not realize that when you tell the average person "Look even this worthless random person think this way why don't you?" that you are more apt to have them loathe you and what you stand for rather than join your cause?
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.
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.