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You are correct. It was me who decided to stand up for america against a person who was making snide remarks towards america. I understand americans commenting on american issues but I don't appreciate it when (in this case) a canadian starts up with a holier than thou attitude and sticking his nose and continue to make snide comments and insulting us. I do not understand why you would let someone continually insult americans in general, this is an american problem and while other countries can comment on the issue I don't feel it is right when non american starts telling americans to start looking at themselves in the mirror and continually insult us.
I worked for a canadian company and worked along side many canadiens over a decade ago. I found all to be cordial and respectful about other countries. Many understood what is going on in america and the issues americans face and while they may shake their heads they understand that america has to make their own decisions and suffer the consequences. they were respectful of what was going on. unfortunately pearlguy was disrespectful, confinually insulting america, making snide remarks and making comments about the current issue and acting with a holier than thou attitude about his southern neighbors.
Just look at the posts lately, you mention civility and all I see is nonsense and noncivility. I number of these threads IMHO should be shut down as they are worthless and meaningless and should be sent to other sites where these discussions and bantering should occur. This is a vegas free for all board, unfortunately most of the postings here are all non vegas related. I don't even know why they call it a vegas free for all anymore since the majority of posts are all non vegas related. On many other boards LVA has been discussed about how out of hand it has gotten and what a joke of a board it is turning out to be. You want to talk about civility, how about keeping the board on track with vegas issues, getting rid of the POL threads and either warn or get rid of the trouble makers that keep bantering with worthless nonsense that are only meant to cause trouble. A number of meaningful threads have been hijacked and rendered useless.
I don't even know why you allow POL threads, that means that you have to spend time checking all threads to make sure they remain civil. I liked the zero tolerance attitude the board had previously, it kept the POL issues out and the board was much more civil and focused.
Just some remarks from an "outside point of view":
1. Americans (at least the goverment) comment on almost every non-American issue. That seems to be the standard. Why is it so hard to accept when people from out of the country do the same?
2. Americans (at least your government) have done a lot to insult other countries during the last 10 to 15 years but somehow that's no reason to ask you to look in the mirror once in a while. Brazil isn't too happy with you at the moment, your proof about Syria was shaky at least, Irak was completely wrong, and there's more
3. An American economical issue is never just an American economical issue. The world is affected big time. And you're not the only ones suffering a big economic crisis.
4. People from around the world travel to the USA and spend a lot of money to come see some of the most amazing National and State parks. They travel around the world to end up in front of closed doors. That might not mean a lot to Americans and I can understand that. But it does mean a lot for those people who travelled around the world and saved up for years to be able to make a trip like that.
5. Look at American tv-shows, movies and live entertainment and insults about the French, Germans, Italians, Iranians, Russian can be found pretty easily.
5. I completely agree with your 3rd paragraph.
So the discussion goes both ways. I still love your country and have many friends there. I support American foreign policy most of the times but when I don't the American response should not be "you're either with us or against us". We should be able to agree to disagree.
For the record, this is the only post I'll leave that even touches anything political. I know for a fact nothing good will come from it.
