Watch out Alladin!

[dafluff]

In a survey by PPP, apparently 30% of GOP primary voters, and 19% of Democrats, support the bombing of Agrabah.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ters-bomb-agrabah-disney-aladdin-donald-trump

Dear American friends, please remember this whenever you are criticizing Indonesian voters for....any reason really.

 

[fastpitch17]

Just goes to show how loud mouths can easily contribute to the dumbing down of Americans. It's not a new thing there. Voters have been spoon fed soundbites to make many decisions for a long long time. Now it's even hitting those that never seen an inside of a poling place before.

 

[HappyMan]

In a survey by PPP, apparently 30% of GOP primary voters, and 19% of Democrats, support the bombing of Agrabah.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ters-bomb-agrabah-disney-aladdin-donald-trump

Dear American friends, please remember this whenever you are criticizing Indonesian voters for....any reason really.

It makes sense. Agrabah is a dangerous place, full of thieves and mumbo-jumbo spouting mystics who seek to take over the world and install parrot dictatorships. Their monarchy is in danger of being overthrown by a real snake of a prime minister who wears women's clothes, for god's sake. We should go in, bomb the hell out of any restaurant that doesn't serve Coca-cola, make some princess porn and then leave.

Just my two cents, as an American voter.

 

[jstar]

In the Caribbean we saw a young couple from New Hampshire who were getting married in Puerto Rico. Bernie Sanders voters with college degrees so that made some interesting discussions at the breakfast table (there were also some more senior Americans, bit of Fastpitch types).

The shocking thing was not the youngsters thought Bali was a country (I heard that many times before), but that they had no idea that islands as St. Thomas also belong to the USA as unincorporated districts. So if the backyard is hardly known, what about the rest...

 

[atlantis]

The shocking thing was not the youngsters thought Bali was a country (I heard that many times before), but that they had no idea that islands as St. Thomas also belong to the USA as unincorporated districts. So if the backyard is hardly known, what about the rest...

I would cut them some slack for it to be honest. I don't think it is specifically American.

Ask for example to any french you meet if they have heard of Saint Pierre et Miquelon and ask them to situate it on a map and you may well have a few surprise.

I am ready to bet big that only a small percentage would tell you that it is a french overseas collectivity and that it is close to Canada. The rare who would know that it is a french overseas collectivity may fail the "situate it on a map" bit, very certainly situating it in the French West Indies or off the South Eastern African Coast.

 

[Anglian]

Some Brits don't know where London is, just saying

 

[waarmstrong]

In a survey by PPP, apparently 30% of GOP primary voters, and 19% of Democrats, support the bombing of Agrabah.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ters-bomb-agrabah-disney-aladdin-donald-trump

Dear American friends, please remember this whenever you are criticizing Indonesian voters for....any reason really.

It's not the Indonesian voters that are viewed by Americans as worthy of criticism. Beyond that, it's not news to anyone that more than a few Americans are geographically challenged, and xenophobic, as well as ethnically, religiously, and racially biased -- especially Republicans. I don't need a half-assed, smug, attention whore of a polster to tell me that.

 

[godmachine12]

In the Caribbean we saw a young couple from New Hampshire who were getting married in Puerto Rico. Bernie Sanders voters with college degrees so that made some interesting discussions at the breakfast table (there were also some more senior Americans, bit of Fastpitch types).

The shocking thing was not the youngsters thought Bali was a country (I heard that many times before), but that they had no idea that islands as St. Thomas also belong to the USA as unincorporated districts. So if the backyard is hardly known, what about the rest...

Peurto Rico is a state too. :-D :-D :-D

 

[dafluff]

It's not the Indonesian voters that are viewed by Americans as worthy of criticism. Beyond that, it's not news to anyone that more than a few Americans are geographically challenged, and xenophobic, as well as ethnically, religiously, and racially biased -- especially Republicans. I don't need a half-assed, smug, attention whore of a polster to tell me that.

Ah, but now you have a concrete data point if you ever ponder the question "What percentage of American voters would want to bomb a place they know nothing about other than that the place sounds "Muslimy"...

 

[fastpitch17]

Ah, but now you have a concrete data point if you ever ponder the question "What percentage of American voters would want to bomb a place they know nothing about other than that the place sounds "Muslimy"...

You are trying to single out one nation. How about a comparison with Germans, French, or the Japanese? While at it, better ask the British and Australians. Probably not much difference.

 

[dafluff]

You are trying to single out one nation. How about a comparison with Germans, French, or the Japanese? While at it, better ask the British and Australians. Probably not much difference.

I'm sure if a survey is done in those countries, you will likely be proven correct. Well, maybe not Japan...

 

[macvert]

Australians ???? .... nah mate, there's no igorant Australians

lol .... I always remember a mate of mine call his brother igorant .... never forget it

 

[waarmstrong]

Ah, but now you have a concrete data point if you ever ponder the question "What percentage of American voters would want to bomb a place they know nothing about other than that the place sounds "Muslimy"...

If Trump gets elected, the question could well cease to be a hypothetical. Is democracy wonderful or what?

 

[Supir Angkot]

^ It maybe time to move to Canada

 

[waarmstrong]

^ It maybe time to move to Canada

I had some thoughts of that way back when I was in college, but then that crazy Asia war began to wind down. These days, I can just move back to Jakarta to avoid a barking mad administration.

The first big debate is tomorrow, Monday evening (Tuesday morning in Indonesia); once the dust settles, we all should have a better idea of what's likely ahead.

 

[fastpitch17]

I had some thoughts of that way back when I was in college, but then that crazy Asia war began to wind down. These days, I can just move back to Jakarta to avoid a barking mad administration.

The first big debate is tomorrow, Monday evening (Tuesday morning in Indonesia); once the dust settles, we all should have a better idea of what's likely ahead.

I don't think debates have any impacts on elections. After they are over just the debaters and media proclaiming what they were wrong on. Sure, they always say someone wins or loses the debate but in the end, doesn't mean anything.

Trump seems to setting everyone up on how unfair it will be towards him before it ever starts.

 

[No way]

I think it's unfair to label the American public as overly bellicose, trigger-happy.
In 2013 a majority of the US public, polls indicated 60%, rallied to oppose a US attack on the Damascus Government which was being supported by the mass of their media.
In numbers, they targeted their grave concern at congressmen who eventually wilted and withdrew their support for Obama's and - the supposedly less bellicose alternative to George Bush -John Kerry's initiative to again bypass a UN Security resolution and destroy the only remaining Arab secular government.

 

[Puspawarna]

I think it's unfair to label the American public as overly bellicose, trigger-happy.

The entire nation, sure. But there is definitely a sizable group who can be whipped into a belligerent frenzy by someone like Trump.

 

[waarmstrong]

I don't think debates have any impacts on elections. After they are over just the debaters and media proclaiming what they were wrong on. Sure, they always say someone wins or loses the debate but in the end, doesn't mean anything.

Trump seems to setting everyone up on how unfair it will be towards him before it ever starts.

Well maybe, but this debate was watched by almost half of the nation and even the Republican shills are distressed at Trump's poor performance. The debate may not have been a defining moment, but Trump's numbers seem to be leveling off short of a majority. There are two more debates and many days before election day -- anything can happen.

 

[atlantis]

The entire nation, sure. But there is definitely a sizable group who can be whipped into a belligerent frenzy by someone like Trump.

I think that this statement is true for most nation. Reading the comments of some of my fellow in various french news site give me the goose bumps if they don't make me feel like I want to puke. We also have our Trump, without the fancy toupee though, but under it the brain is about the same size.