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by Akash » Mon Feb 25, 2008 2:50 pm
Oh thank goodness, I thought I was alone!
If I had won that Oscar, I seriously would have made a speech about how I'd have prefered to have my Oscar "handed" to me by a cartoon bee.
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by Damien » Mon Feb 25, 2008 2:47 pm
Akash wrote: Oh good grief.
That doesn't even begin to express it.
God, I hate the sentimentalizing of the military, as if we were all living in a 1942 20th Century-Fox movie.
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by Akash » Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:50 am
Oh well, since you have no interest.
They don't enlist to kill another human being, Akash. They enlist to serve and die for their country.
Ah yes, I forgot that soldiers die in war without anyone trying to kill them.
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by anonymous1980 » Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:49 am
Akash wrote: Oh good grief.
Yeah, I thought I'd throw in a little controversy. :p
I have no interest in debating you, really.
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by Akash » Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:44 am
Oh good grief.
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by anonymous1980 » Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:44 am
Akash wrote: I don't sign on to America's idea that we should always salute/respect soldiers. I'm sorry but I don't respect anyone who enlists in any way to kill another human being.
They don't enlist to kill another human being, Akash. They enlist to serve and die for their country. Some enlist because they have few other options in their life and the military is the best they can do. Believe it or not, a lot of soldiers do good work.
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by Akash » Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:03 am
The first two presenters were clearly "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" guys.
Plus, the queer soldiers are the ones who would rather be spending down time watching movies than raping Iraqi girls.
I have even less repect for gay soldiers, who enlist not only in a murderous institution, but an actively homophobic one as well.
Sorry to be such a downer.
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by Damien » Mon Feb 25, 2008 1:23 am
Sonic Youth wrote: It's an election year.
Plus, I'm not so sure they weren't gay soldiers.
The first two presenters were clearly "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" guys.
Plus, the queer soldiers are the ones who would rather be spending down time watching movies than raping Iraqi girls.
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by Sonic Youth » Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:24 am
It's an election year.
Plus, I'm not so sure they weren't gay soldiers.
"What the hell? "
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by Akash » Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:23 pm
I don't sign on to America's idea that we should always salute/respect soldiers. I'm sorry but I don't respect anyone who enlists in any way to kill another human being.
But your point is a good one Penelope.
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by Penelope » Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:21 pm
Akash wrote: I think I'd rather have my Oscar presented to me by a fake bug than by a group of soldiers.
Not me, especially with the irony of a homophobic institution "presenting" an Oscar to a film about homophobia.
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by rolotomasi99 » Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:15 pm
i am so happy. i have not seen the film, but the preview alone had me in tears. kick ass!
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by Akash » Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:14 pm
I think I'd rather have my Oscar presented to me by a fake bug than by a group of soldiers.
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by OscarGuy » Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:14 pm
The whole reason I didn't think this would win because it's about a lesbian couple...
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by OscarGuy » Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:13 pm
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