About boycotts. And foreplay. All in the same post wtf? [nekare]

Damn, I forgot about the boycott against America yesterday (Yes, for the immigrants. No one can tell us we’re not cooperative). This had been such a talked about thing for the last few weels, and it just got blown off my mind. *sigh* Oh well, I didn’t even left home at all, so I didn’t buy anything without knowing and that’s a GOOD thing. Read a bit of the newspaper I found today at school, and Karina and I both laughed at the idea of those poor Wal-Mart manages screaming ‘WHY MEEEEE? WHY MY WAL-MART???’ since people actually did human chains around the place XD

I’ve asked my mom, and she did respect the boycott. That’s good to know. :)

Did LJ crash for a little bit? I couldn't get in to post this...

I've been looking for a halfway decent translation of Foreplay to spanish for an original fic, but all I find is juegos preliminares which sounds too much like sports to my liking. (It is so sad. I know ALL this sexual terms in English and I hardly do in Spanish. I blame fic, since I usually don't read smut in real books, and most translated books are in Spanish Spanish anyway and I always burst out laughing at 'polla' or something.) Anyone have a good term?

AAAAAnd:

moonix you are the sweetest thing ever. Your postcard just got home and it is lovely and wonderful!! ♥ ♥ ♥

EDIT: Oooooh, watch the new She Wants Revenge video: These Things. It's got Shirley Manson in it and it's WONDERFUL! *dies*

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I couldn't forget about the boycott, my dad has been talking about it for days. Yet, he went and bought Starbucks coffee, which was just weird.

About foreplay, what about "caricias estimulantes", does that sound a bit odd?

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*shakes head* tsk, tsk, you should've talked him out of it! :)

Um, that's a bit forecoming, (and well, I already finished the drabble XD) but I'll keep it in mind for later.

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Ugh. I wish people would quit hating us.

It's not the country. It's the corporations. Wal-Mart is the incarnation of all evil, I swear to God.

The trouble is, (and I just learned this in British History today, actually) economic things NEVER go over well. They turn out being pointless and useless, because if they have no effect, well, they have no effect, and if they do have an effect, it's only the opposite of what the boycotters want. (ie, when they put Germany into debt after WWI? Yeah. BIG mistake.)

Um, sorry. But I do kinda hate your government. (And the fact that it tries to rule the entire bloody planet.) Nothing personal, though, m' dear Terra.

We were discussion something of this in my last writing class, since one of the guys started raving of how good for nothing it all was. (Which was, uh, odd.) Thing is, it has less of an impact in here than in, say, LA; so it's more of a symbolic gesture, like 'We're here, don't you dare forget.' *shrug*

Yeah, I get that. It makes sense. I just wish people would look at the bigger picture, rather than the micro effects that don't solve anything.

IE, people like to recycle the phrase that we're trying to run the world, but we're not. The world PUT us in charge in WWII, and if it wasn't us, it'd be another country (it was the UK, before the Germans nearly destroyed them in WWI). It just happened that, during the twentieth century, there was no central power strong enough to act as a police force and the US got shoved into that position by countries left and right pleading for help or for intervention or for aid. For every bad move the US has made, there is a solid and logical reason behind it, and it's not just "for the protection of democracy and freedom!" It's usually diplomatic -- we usually get ourselves into things from having to accept policies with other countries. It's all really, really complicated and would take more than a comment to explain. Seriously: I once spent about three hours trying to explain it to my friend, Yasemin, who was visiting from Germany.

Suffice it to say, it's not just us. Hell, do you know what the French mandate after WWI was? "LA REVENGE." The French wanted to murder every single living German once WWI was over.

I'm not saying the US is this great, wonderful place that everyone should love. It's not, not everyone values it. But there are much, much worse alternatives. It's just how things have happened to fall in recent decades. Don't get me wrong, Ale -- I love learning about other countries and other cultures, and I wish we could be more diverse and I wish we could make everyone happy.

The fact of the matter is... my best friend's girlfriend's mother died in the WTC. They haven't even found a trace of her DNA yet. She had two daughters: the girl I knew, who was 20 at the time, and a 13-year-old. Bush came to my town during the 2004 elections, and Ashley (the 13-year-old) was at the parade. Someone yelled, "THIS GIRL'S MOTHER DIED ON 9/11!" and the first thing Bush did, without thinking, was grab Ashley by the shoulder and hug her for dear life. And Ashley actually cried.

I'm not one for arguing. And I don't want to you think I support everything Bush says or does. But he is a human, and that's one thing no recent president has been in a very long time.

(not to mention that the reason Bush is dealing with so much crap is because Clinton set up a bunch of really bad policies that fell apart as soon as he left office and Bush has had to rebuild from scratch).

Okay. I'll leave you alone, now. :) ♥ I love you hon. Despite borders and whatnot. Okay?

Love you too, hon, and let's not discuss politics, shall we? It's bad enough with me trying to decide who to vote for, and international politics make my head ache.

I'm really sorry for your friend, that must have been awful :( Let's hope they'll be all right.

Agreed! This is why I don't like discussing politics :( It angers me, it upsets me, it frustrates me, it makes me want to kick things :( No government is run the way it should be; alas. It's the way of the world.

I'm sure they'll be fine; it's been five years since then, after all. The thing that really bothers me about that whole situation is that the government gave them $200,000 as part of a "Victim's Fund," and do you know what these girls' dad did with the money? He bought a Hummer and 6 acres in the Bahamas! Even though the mother, who died, had a whole foreign-aid scheme she had been operating in her freetime to send schoolbooks and teddy bears and things to children in, like, Colombia and Brazil and the Philippines. And he didn't spend an ounce of "his" money on trying to continue that -- no, he wanted to be selfish. UGH. I like the girls, but I hate their dad :(

*hugs* I wish you could be here for our Cinco de Mayo party! We'd totally bring the house down, you and me :-D

Yeah, I usually hate it too. My dad tells me to get more interested in that but I just can't!

Guh, that's really a quite rotten thing to do. That kinda makes it a bit more tragic.

We would!! We'd talk drunkenly of hot guys and I'd fall in and out of English since my already-short attention span would totally fail XDD (There's this chance that I'll be going to a gay club this weekend. I so want to go!)

Yeah. I think the older generation doesn't quite realize that we're already worn out from politics. I mean, seriously? The very idea of trying to debate politics tires me. THe previous generation had very black-and-white concepts. We're much more of a gray area, and it makes politics more difficult for us :(

Yeah. Tell me about it. *sigh*

lol! You should go! It'd be so much fun!

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