Downtown Vancouver - A Literal War Zone

i dont understand why people riot when a team wins or loses a game.

i mean i understand when the riots in los angeles happened after the rodney king verdicts, groups of intellectuals wanted to show their disappointment of the decision by going into liquor stores and grabbing every bottle in sight, not out of greed, but in a way to show the system we are trying to make the world a better place, so everyone can live happily ever after, not being an intellectual i dont understand how this makes the world a better place, but they are smarter than me.

but a game is kind of like a race, you prepare well. you train hard, and if you win great, if you lose, you congratulate the winner and work harder.

Brits, French and Canadians burnt the white house down:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812

Canada is not 16 trillion dollars in debt, obesity rates are much lower than the US and US citizens pretender they're Canadian while traveling to avoid scrutiny.

You may think the US owns Canada, but it's not the US that owns Canada, it's China. How does the US afford the Canadian Hockey teams, Oil and relocation of Mexicans? Loans from the Chinese. If your going to make fun of Canada for being owned by US maybe some Chinese people could get on here and point out who owns you.

Also, Canada Troops have been in Afghanistan since 2006!!!!!!!!! Allowing the US to move in Iraq to get a hold of the 'Weapons of Mass Destruction'.

Maybe a Thank You is in order for holding down Afghanistan while you went and grabbed some cheap petrol. Disrespectful pricks, no wonder everyone else in the world thinks your overweight spoiled brats. I mean look at the size of your 10,000m record holder, that guys BMI must be 30.

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Keith Stone wrote:

I don't know why, but the thought of rampaging Canadians just makes me bust out laughing.

Just imagine the horror if all the Tim Horton's were shuttered.

The reality of the situation is that the United States of America for the last 65 years has been the greatest force for good in the history of the world.

In terms of lives saved and increase in quality of life there has never been an organization of any sort that can compare what the US and its citizens have done for this planet. Combine all lives vaccines, cures, treatments, technogical advancements, and all other scientific discoveries of all other civilizations in history and they dont add up to the advancements that have been made in the US in the last 65 years.

You can nit pick all you want about troubled spots in our history, buts lets be honest. Your just a jealous little c*nt from a country known for cold winters and a sport that is played by <.01% people on this planet.

Not jealous far from it, technically I'm American but I don't live in the states and never will. My response was really a rebuttal to the statement Canada is owned by the US and that Canada is not involved in the Afghanistan mission.Why would I ever be jealous of overweight, arrogant people who think they are the centre of the Universe?

Keith Stone wrote:

Anderson Cooper Reporting wrote:

after the Stanley Cup Loss. Many parts of the downtown area are completely unrecognizable after the violence and destruction.

I don't know why, but the thought of rampaging Canadians just makes me bust out laughing.

Yes, it's kind of getting mauled by puppies.

Yean I know the fire fighters jacked booze at 9-11/WTC too and rifled through cars looking for computers and DVD players. Vancouver fire fighters groped young boys and girls. In a riot the worst comes out of the Euro primitives. WTC/911 and Vancouver are like reading books of the French Revolution.

Keith Stone wrote:

You know it's Canadian riots when there's people making out in the middle of them.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2011/06/16/137221886/yes-those-people-are-literally-kissing-on-the-ground-in-the-street-amid-a-riot?sc=fb&cc=fp

Looks like he's got a clitoral war zone on his hands.

markeroon wrote:

Are you kidding me? Making a more productive society and taking care of one another, last night excluded apparently. Wake up, your country is deeply corrupt.

And Sprint Geezer, I had to translate as we are on an American forum.

You Canadians are stupid as shit.[/quote]

Are you guys forgetting every other time that a US city wins a championship (example: the Pittsburgh steelers last superbowl)?

You don't think there weren't people trying to do the same thing after the Bruins' win? These senseless acts are not exclusive to one country or city.

THERE ARE STUPID PEOPLE EVERYWHERE!!!!

If you disagree, then go into any big-box store (i.e. Wal-Mart, etc.) late at night, and you will see that suddenly you could be anywhere in the US or Canada.

ghdfghdfg wrote:

The reality of the situation is that the United States of America for the last 65 years has been the greatest force for good in the history of the world.

In terms of lives saved and increase in quality of life there has never been an organization of any sort that can compare what the US and its citizens have done for this planet. Combine all lives vaccines, cures, treatments, technogical advancements, and all other scientific discoveries of all other civilizations in history and they dont add up to the advancements that have been made in the US in the last 65 years.

You can nit pick all you want about troubled spots in our history, buts lets be honest. Your just a jealous little c*nt from a country known for cold winters and a sport that is played by <.01% people on this planet.

What about the British Empire?

Seriously, your post made me almost choke on my morning coffee. You should read "Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein, if you think that the US has been a great benefit to most countries in the developing World. Since the Cold War era, and continuing today with Iraq, the American government has been crusading against any socialistic policies that might infringe on the ability of American multi-national corporations to make profits abroad. To do this, they've orchestrated coups of democratically elected governments, trained military regimes in the use of torture against those who resist, imported "intellectuals" who specialize in Friedmanism to run the country, strongly manipulated these countries' policy decisions through the IMF and World Bank, resulting in massive unemployment and a huge drop in the standard of living for the majority of citizens.......

There is a reason that much of the World hates the US, and it isn't because of our freedoms, it's because they don't feel like they have any say in their country's direction, due to American interference. Why do you think that Americans wear Canadian flags on their backpacks when they travel abroad?

Vaccines? Good one. Most people in the Third World can't even afford most vaccines because their distributors don't care about saving lives, they care about profits. The average life expectancy in many African countries is less than 40. That's the same as Europe before the industrial revolution. The patenting on seeds and crop varieties has also had a huge negative impact on the quality of life of people in the Third World and has caused many farmers to lose their land and often commit suicide, so that companies like Monsanto can make more money. Imagine if the tables were turned and countries that developed crop varieties over centuries demanded that we pay them every time we use ginger, sugar, bananas... etc. I don't think that would fly too well.

Undoubtedly Americans have done some good as well, but to credit them with being "the greatest force for good in the history of the world" is a bit much.

I hope that you were trolling.

Who cares about a bunch of fans letting off a bit of steam?

We Canadians owe you USA folks thanks.

Thank for saving the NHL with your (sorry, I mean Chinese) money. Expansion into the USA saved hockey, now that the Chinese are calling your loans and you're getting behind with mortgages we'll happily have our teams back Thank-you Atlanta and Phoenix.

While we're at it; thank you for letting us buy those foreclosed properties in the southern states for a fraction of what you paid for them.

Thank-you for supporting REAL banks like TD.

Thank-you for employing so many REAL Hockey Players born in Canada.

Thank-you for NAFTA.

Thank-you for electing a government who won't insist that we buy more of your military equipment.

Thank-you for showing us that having the higest incarceration rate per capita and making sure a majority of those incarcerated are visible minorities is a bad idea.

Thank-you for letting guys like Steve Nash be heroes of the NBA.

Thank-you for letting all those private insurance companies pay us divdends for investing in your health care.

Not to sound greedy, but if you don't want Lebron, Toronto will take him.

Love, a sincere Canadian.

Texas Ranger wrote:

[quote]markeroon wrote:

In case you missed it, separatism is nearly dead in Canada thanks to the last federal election. Of course, such sentiment is alive and well in Texas.

/quote]

Now you're just making shit up.

Perhaps I've overstated it, but it always seemed like a pretty popular movement to me.

????? wrote:

you can't compare all of Canada to the actions of Vancouver fans.

But you can compare the actions of one black man to all black men.

Sports are the new opiate of the Masses. Too many people are atheists these days, so the New World Order can 't rely on Religion anymore to keep everyone blind zombie worker slaves.

Now people care more about Sports, than wars, or any other world problems, who cares about the debt, I got a game to watch!

you're right, they are scum, but nobody died as compared to when your chimps riot.

The Savages wrote:

White Chimp Savages. It's bad enough when the white trailer park trash steal and rape each other. But when the white police and white fire depts steal liquor and loot homes and stores in Vancouver, Joplin, New Orleans, Los Angeles, New York City, that's really disgusting.

awesome always wrote:

you're right, they are scum, but nobody died as compared to when your chimps riot

Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina much? Euro soccer much? Thought so.

Facism SUKS !

Israel just murdered 500 unarmed Palestinians in the Golan Heights for exercising their right of free movement within their ancient homeland.

Syria just murdered 1,000s of demonstrators for exercising their right of free speech.

Facism SUKS !

1) Your reading comprehension is awful. I said greatest force for good. Obviously there are horrible atrocities committed by the US over last 65 years. Just like every other nation on Earth and certainly every other internatinoal power in history. Listing 5 or 10 or twenty of these and believing that they prove your point is nonsense. Tell me did the British empire ever do anything wrong in your judgement?

2)You are saying that US policy has resulted in massive unemployment and a huge drop in standard of living as a general rule? Nonsense. The standard of living worldwide has skyrocketed like no other time in history at a time when the US is as economically and fiscally influential as any other world power in history. Of course policy has probably not favored a few countries but as a general rule US influence is proportionally and positively related to growth of economies around the world. As an example, 3 economies destroyed by war and with massive US military prescence and influence in last 60 years. Germany, South Korea, Japan. Compare this to former soviet states and North Korea.

3)what percentage of Americans wear Canadian flags on their backpacks when traveling abroad? Ive honestly never heard of this before and not sure how it proves anything. also if they do it says more about the people who they are visiting who would judge them and mistreat them based on their nationality.

4) People who hate the US hate us because we are the Yankees we are top dog. This is the way the human psyche works. Tons of people love the US. Please watch video of Irish fawning all over Barack Obama or his first speech in Germany when 100,000's attended and cheered wildly.

5)Bill Gates donates more money to pay for vaccines in third world countries than any country on the planet!

"Bill and Melinda Gates announced today that their foundation will commit $10 billion over the next 10 years to help research, develop and deliver vaccines for the world’s poorest countries." Their website also reports that rates of vaccination in third world countries has never been higher in Human history.

Pretty sure he is an American and pretty sure most of the vaccines were discovered and are produced in the United States.

6)US = greatest force for direct good in human history when we look at lives saved and increase in living standards.