Thursday, March 01, 2007
Support the troops ... for $1.93.
Via e-mail, MWW brings our attention to ...
It would be funny if it weren't so depressingly accurate.
IN ALL FAIRNESS, we should observe that troop-supporting, conservative Canadians don't do anything as vacuous as sticking magnetic ribbons on their SUVs. No, those people understand the value of a genuinely meaningful show of support.
The great thing is, if you already own something that's red, you don't even have to spend the $1.93. By God, I love patriotism.
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"accurate"
Hey, you misspelled "stupid."
Wow. That was great! I guess your first commenter there doesn't like his "wear red" idiocy shown for what it really is.
Tell me, paladiea, how is that any different from you liberals wearing pink ribbons to "support" breast cancer research? Why aren't you out actually doing the research yourselves? Because you're a bunch of hypocrites, that's why.
Wow. What a completely inept comparison. Only liberals wear ribbons to support breast cancer?
My real worry has always been that war/military action are very complicated, dangerous things. Yet, the people who are most supportive of them seem to all be cretinous (like the mouth-breathing dsmwhatever).
I weep.
Tell me, paladiea, how is that any different from you liberals wearing pink ribbons to "support" breast cancer research? Why aren't you out actually doing the research yourselves?
The difference is that anyone, and I mean anyone can sign up and go to Afghanistan, while you know you have to be smart and stuff to become a researcher and dedicate years and years of time and study to even begin to be competent enough to think about becoming a researcher.
Secondly, the ribbons are handed out by local charities and so all the money goes to breast cancer research anyway. While slapping a red t-shirt you bought at Wal-Mart on doesn't do anything of that sort.
Is there anything else I can help you with?
I'd say you overlooked the support the troop ribbon campaign we have in this country as well: your comparison would lend more weight if it were based in fact and not jackassery.
Wearing red is a show of solidarity. Ask a soldier how they feel about it and shut up.
I'd say you overlooked the support the troop ribbon campaign we have in this country as well: your comparison would lend more weight if it were based in fact and not jackassery.
Ok, and where exactly does the money go in the "support the troops" ribbon campaign? Does it go to the troops? I suspect that it doesn't.
Wearing red is a show of solidarity. Ask a soldier how they feel about it and shut up.
Go right ahead and ask one. No one's stopping you.
Wow. What a completely inept comparison. Only liberals wear ribbons to support breast cancer?
No, they don't and I never said anything of the sort. Neither do only war-supporting conservatives wear "support the troops" ribbons or put them on their vehicles.
Wake up and smell your idiotic hypocrisy.
The difference is that anyone, and I mean anyone can sign up and go to Afghanistan,
Sorry, but your arguments don't hold water. Not just anyone can sign up. Many conditions can and do disqualify people from military service.
while you know you have to be smart and stuff to become a researcher and dedicate years and years of time and study to even begin to be competent enough to think about becoming a researcher.
Which people can do even with conditions that would disqualify them from military service. Heck, even blind people or people with conditions like ALS (e.g. Stephen Hawking) can and do become scientists/researchers.
While slapping a red t-shirt you bought at Wal-Mart on doesn't do anything of that sort.
But this video isn't about the red clothes.
Sorry, but your arguments don't hold water. Not just anyone can sign up. Many conditions can and do disqualify people from military service.
Oh I'm sorry, I guess you must have missed my point. It's way easier to become a soldier than a researcher. And many of the people who wear red or buy a yellow ribbon can indeed become soldiers. Whereas, not everyone has the time or the resources to dedicate ten or twenty years of their lives to becoming a researcher.
But this video isn't about the red clothes.
Oh so we wern't talking about the red clothes. I get it... consider the goalposts moved. Here, let's simplify things for you and say that both phenomenon (the ribbons and the red shirts) are examples of the same type of stupidity. Now we can talk about the red shirts and the ribbons interchangably!
So anyhow, what about the part where I said that the money from the ribbons doesn't go towards the soldiers? Did you miss that?
I think you did.
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