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Rainbow Flag Will Fly Over Montreal City Hall During Olympics

Carjosse said:
Have you ever heard of black loyalists, also the 1967 flag represents freedom more than the American flag ever will. Sorry about us not being too happy with the whole invading us thing and we were scared you would invade us again.
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You mean slaves owned by loyalists, who were brought to Canada by their owners?
 

The gap in scores between the U.S. and Russia speaks for itself, Putin is elected through fraud is that enough proof and just common knowledge.
 
apdst said:
You mean slaves owned by loyalists, who were brought to Canada by their owners?
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No black loyalists were the slaves that were given land and freedom if they would take up arms against the Americans and many took them up on that offer, they fought to the death to defend their freedom during The American revolution and the War of 1812. We didn't have the economy for slaves in Canada.
 

****ing traitors, you mean?
 
Carjosse said:
The gap in scores between the U.S. and Russia speaks for itself, Putin is elected through fraud is that enough proof and just common knowledge.
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I don't doubt that there may be more corruption in Russia than the US. But don't kid yourself, there's plenty of election fraud in the US and we suffered a terrible decade of senseless war and growth to government unprecedented because of it. But to the op. the Olympics aren't about that. And if we need a corrupt free country to hold them in, then we won't be having them, because even by your inadequate graph, no such country exists. If we have the Olympics in the US, do all the participating countries support the death penalty? Is the largest per capita group of corrupt people in the world residing in the US, or do we just have the largest prison population because our justice system is corrupt? I mean to say, do you want to hold the Olympics, or do you want to criticize Russia??
 

Well we held them last time. You seem to just be whining now.
 
Montecresto said:
Lol. Couldn't refute any of that could you?
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Well you are kind of making irrelevant points now, and you are whining about the party you like not winning elections.
 
From what I'm hearing out of Vancouver, residents are still upset about Canada even hosting the Olympics, with all that money spent and such .
Carjosse said:
Well we held them last time. You seem to just be whining now.
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NIMBY said:
From what I'm hearing out of Vancouver, residents are still upset about Canada even hosting the Olympics, with all that money spent and such .
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Everyone seems happy that we did, we even won gold in hockey. It never had a negative affect on Vancouver if anything it increased tourism and therefore the economy.
 
Carjosse said:
Well you are kind of making irrelevant points now, and you are whining about the party you like not winning elections.
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No. I'm non partisan, neither party suits me. The point was there's plenty of corruption in America. We don't need to be kicking Russia around, at least not at game time for Pete's sake.
 
Well said.
Not aimed at you, but I can't believe how many of the threads on here have disintegrated in the last half hour .
Carjosse said:
Everyone seems happy that we did, we even won gold in hockey. It never had a negative affect on Vancouver if anything it increased tourism and therefore the economy.
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If you would do something more than frantically google for some means to undermine the index, you would find out that the only accessible source is a discussion about the merits and fault of the index and hardly defines it as worthless. They also highlight the problem with measurements is largely centered around small poor states, which russia could hardly be described as. Not to mention, the measure of Russia would seemingly correlate with the data that is available publicly and which you tried to already dismiss
 

I am unaware of any study indicating that election fraud was a significant issue in the US. Not to mention, what ever conspiracy you may dig up, would be compared to a autocrat who's developed a reputation for intimidating, repressing, and even killing his political opposition.
 

What's your point, Russia is corrupt?? I hope you didn't just learn that Doc. My problem with Car and others is that we are somehow legitimizing the things about Russia we don't like because we're going to the Olympics there, or that athletes should be boycotting them on that basis. IT'S NOT THE TIME DUDE! It's the ****ing Olympics. Athletes are vested, deeply, and they don't have a say in where they are played. I think people need to just leave that out of it. When countries participate in the Olympics when they are held in the US, are they supporting the death penalty??
 
APACHERAT said:
This confirms what I've been afraid of, he LGBT activist have politicized sex.
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and the people who loose their **** over homosexuality haven't?
 

so ignore the bigotry and attacks on free speech made under a false pretenses that telling people about homosexuality and asking them to not be abusive over it = trying to convert people into being gay

cause other places are worse

wait that's stupid and evil
 

im not gay I want them to be equal when that happens every where things will be nice and quite regarding this subject
 

if their in jail for just showing the kind of affection hetero sexuals show in public with out any worry or for just talking about being gay or waving a flag around

its outrageous and wrong and other outrageous and wrong acts in Russia dont make that any less true
 

It depends on what one considers significant. Let the republicans tell it and we are rife with voter fraud. But that is the mythical part of the electoral fraud. Annually it's a dozen or so Americans convicted of it, the real problem lies with local, state and federal governments.

Electorate manipulation
Manipulation of demography
Disenfranchisement
Intimidation
Vote buying
Misinformation
Misleading/confusing ballot papers
Ballot stuffing
Mis recording of votes
Misuse of proxy votes
Destruction of ballots
Tampering with electronic voting machines

All are ways that the electoral process in America is compromised. But if the virtue is, hey we're not as bad as Russia, then indeed, we're in good shape.
 
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tech30528 said:
Because it's not my issue. I'm more concerned with things like Constitutional rights and trying to stay ahead of an anti business administration.
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So why don't you just offer the same protections others have and be done with it.
 

omg no their going for full justice
 

Don't worry dude, we can be far from a model democracy, but as long as we're better than those we point at, we're in good shape.
 
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