Also, please review your initial post and tell me whether or not it smells of a condescending anti-American tone?
Not the daftest conspiracy theory, add to it the American agitation (including a US sponsored coup) over Chavez in Venzuela - he's already threatened to move to the Euro.
That's not condescending.
Are you sure you know what the word means? (THAT'S condescending).
I think you'll find it's an additional comment to the theory that the US will move to protect their economy using gunship diplomacy if too many oil producers propose adopting the Euro instead of the dollar.
Getting a grip on what has been said instead of ranting on attacking people for what you THINK they said may mean you make more sense.
If you want to continue this you'd better cite your acceptable sources (Fox News & the White House?). No point in it until you do as the BBC/CNN & The EEC are not acceptable references (altogether infinitely more than you have so far managed).
OK I see you have little interest in an informed debate. You have not and will not address any specific point I make. You accuse me of being insulting and then just babble on about your astounding proof. Did you even read your own links? WTF do they prove or disprove? WTF kind of evidence are they supposed to be?
Also, as for ranting/attacking, THAT IS CONDESCENDING BS. You put up several
clearly anti-American one sentence statements and then give me the "oh no! Oh shock! he's overreacting!" routine when you know damn well what the overall tone and connotation of your message is. If you don't, then oops, my bad, for you giving you a certain intelectual credit (THERE! THAT"S AN EFFN INSULT).
Just because this site/forum exists in a UK centric vacumn does not mean it's acceptable to often deride an entire group and not realize that it is wrong and bordering on bigoted just because very few from that group will see the remarks. Would you find it acceptable if a group of entirely white people started chattin it up about how all the black/Asian/Oriental/Hispanic/e.t.c were all X, Y, Z with X, Y, and Z expressed in the most condescending and ridiculing way? Probably not! Well guess what? It's not acceptable to refer to Americans in the same way.
Oh! And before 16 posters tell me I'm being oversensitive or overreacting, there is a vast difference from the occasional Yank joke, to the type of thinly veiled anti-American vitriol which always surfaces in any politcal thread on this forum. (Usually in the form of some wild arsed conspiracy theory with with at least several backup posters chiming in with "Oh Yeah! Another reason those Yanks are evil" type responses)
In Summary, I am fully capable of conducting a reasoned, logical, and NONrant debate. But a "debate" requires an exchange of positions and ideas. What's the debate with you? You put forth a bizarro theory that USA/Venezuela "gunship" policy is a major player in $ exchange rates. I reply to your "evidence" which proves or disproves nothing, and you try and redirect the debate to nothingness.
My impression of this exchange has been
RodParadise: Let's throw a random anti-yank conspiracy theory onto the fire in one sentence
Madyank: Yo Beeeetchs (3 named not just you) chill TF out with the random anti-yankness!
Other 2 posters: Joke semi recognition of my request
RodParadise: I have the "Ark of The Covenant smoking Gun EVidence" right here in the form of 4 links to boring barely related stuff
MadYank: DOOOOOD This Not Be Evidence and instead of slagging Yanks why not for once give a constuctive alternative to what you dislike.
Others: Humor with some points
RodParadise: You insult me (HAHA while I'm going to insult you HAHA aren't I clever?)
MadYank: DOOOOD makes some EFFFN sense and actually answer a question!
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