Bitter US drama as salt is rubbed into open world cup wounds (np.reddit.com)
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93 comments submitted at 01:34:51 on Jun 23, 2014 by TheRulingRing
Bitter US drama as salt is rubbed into open world cup wounds (np.reddit.com)
SubredditDrama
72 ups - 0 downs = 72 votes
93 comments submitted at 01:34:51 on Jun 23, 2014 by TheRulingRing
> I dunno man, it seems like in every thread the vast majority of people complaining about the US team's performance have England flairs. I don't know if that's because of an abundance of England supporters, but I've lost track of how many times I've scanned over a comment complaining about the US team and then flicked up my eyes to see yet another England flag.
Thats pretty much untrue, go to any USA game thread and sort by controversial. Barely any England flairs, no where near an 'abundance' like you claim.
In fact go sort the OP thread by controversial, you have this comment made by an English flair, another comment by an English flair saying he was happy in the last 20 seconds, I guess if you want you could take that as being 'anti-american' so ok, next English flair is a dude saying that the US deserved to win and is sitting at 61+.(which people got hammered by downvotes for, when they said this about Ghana in their game) with pretty much no other English Flairs to be seen.
On the contrary, go to the England games and sort by controversial. Awful lot of American flairs there calling England shit or 'Salty'.
A comment by OP in any other game thread between 2 other teams would not be sitting at the score it does now.
Also, nice editing of his comment there. Why don't you post the whole thing? This bit came before:
>Knew this thread would make an appearance after reading the Group G thread. I am of the opinion that Americans do get a bit too much of a hard time on here. Don't get me wrong its easy to find people that painfully live up to the stereotypes but to generalise half of the subs user base on that is totally unfair.
http://www.reddit.com/r/ThreeLions/comments/28nrik/americanfansareroyalcnts/
This is just one thread. English people on reddit tend to shit on Americans in general. How about you dazzle us with a handegg joke?
Oh and who can forget this.
http://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1f2vq2/whoelseherefeelscompletelybaffledby_the/ca6g3pm
Holy shit those are top-shelf shitposts right there.
And at those upvotes? Damn.
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> So you find one thread in a casual joke sub and find a completely unrelated post on a completely unrelated topic.
Want me to link the match thread too? And then you can see the comments.
>British people affected by those bombs were happy that after 9/11
See the connection is tenuous at best and none of those people were affected.
>Sad coming from a dude who literally seems to do nothing but go around on reddit and bitch about 'teh anti-american circlejerk'. Wahhh wahhhh mommy somone said something bad about the US, wahhh waaah mommy somone said something good about another country.
>Seriously you need to get over yourself and go off reddit and take a breather. You're clearly a very sensitive person who collapses under the strain of Reddit comments.
Perhaps you should take your own advice here mate.
>Lets look at one of your 'great' posts: HURR DURR DAE BRITISH WOMEN UGLY HURRRR.
>Want me to link the match thread too? And then you can see the comments.
I was in the match thread, in facts its one of my major points if you even bothered to read the posts, which you clearly didn't. You just saw America in the post and then flew off the handle crying 'ANTI AMEIRCNA CIRLCJEKR AMTIO AMERICAN CIRLCJERK'
>See the connection is tenuous at best and none of those people were affected.
None of those people were affected? You realise that the IRA bombing campaign took place for decades all over Britain? Thats like saying people in NY during 9/11 'weren't affected by the bombing'.
I can guarantee you that if tons of British people were funding Al-queda during and after 9/11 then praising it as boost for independence and putting more funding into them Americans would have seen 7/7 as some form of retribution.
> None of those people were affected? You realise that the IRA bombing campaign took place for decades all over Britain?
Yes and it had very little to do with America. There is an urban legend in the UK where everyone knows someone who was in a bar in Boston where they were collecting for the IRA. But we both know it's just that, an urban legend. No one can seem to recall the date, time or place.
And most people in the USA even in Boston think the IRA is a retirement plan. You know who really supplied the IRA through the 60's 70's and 80's. Libya.
So in short, you are happy that a bunch of innocent people died because of some nationalist urban legend.
This is typical of the British attitude, always needing a scapegoat because your nationalism is no ingrained.
Nearly every comment you have ever made is a highly upvoted attack on Americans.
Really? If its such a myth then why did our PM have to ask Ronald Reagan to step in and stop the flow of funding?
What about US representative Peter King, who was an active supporter of the IRA and traveled to Ireland to meet with IRA members? He called the IRA the 'legitimate voice of Ireland'
What about NORAID? An American organisation set up to raise funds for the IRA in America.
Peter King on IRA bombings:
"If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the IRA for it."
This guy is an elected representative and is still in office today. Don't talk shit about how its a 'myth'.
>So in short, you are happy that a bunch of innocent people died because of some nationalist urban legend. This is typical of the British attitude, always needing a scapegoat because your nationalism is no ingrained.
Nice twisting of my posts there.
>Nearly every comment you have ever made is a highly upvoted attack on Americans.
Simply laughable. Your persecution complex is incredible. My top comments for reference, no mention of America at all
By contrast heres yours, one comment insulting people from Liverpool calling them Animals and another whining about Norwegians, the others are whining about the 'anti-american circlejerk
What about a couple of meaningless things that in no way back your original comment?
Simply laughable.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ira/inside/weapons.html
>Other gun-running attempts were made in the USA, but many ended in failure. As the table shows, the US federal agencies, especially the FBI, have become increasingly proficient at disrupting IRA arms procurement activities in the USA.
>It is believed that the bulk of the material presently in IRA arsenals was shipped from Libya in the mid-1980s with the aid of a skipper, Adrian Hopkins, hired for the purpose by the IRA. However, in the early 1990s Libya's Colonel Ghadaffi decided to give no further aid to the IRA and has informed the UK authorities as to what material was shipped to the Provos. The UK authorities have, in turn, passed this information on to the Irish authorities, according to intelligence sources in the Republic.
So in the end, you feel it's fitting that children were killed in 2013 because a small group of Americans sent some guns to the IRA decades ago. Lets not even get into why the IRA exists or your funding of paramilitary groups.
First paragraph of your source:
>The two main sources of weaponry for the IRA have been the USA and Libya. The main gun-running network in the USA was controlled by a veteran Irish Republican called George Harrison. He supplied arms not only for the 'Border Campaign' (aka 'Fifties Campaign') of the IRA, which was conducted for a number of years up to 1962, but also for the campaign that started in 1969. His network was finally broken up in the early 1980s by the FBI but it is believed that weapons supplied by him are still in use.
It dropped off after the British put pressure on the US to stop the funding.
Table from your source showing IRA weapons and their origin.
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And these were only the ones that were stopped.
>So in the end, you feel it's fitting that children were killed in 2013 because a small group of Americans sent some guns to the IRA decades ago.
No go read my posts, I said that there are idiots on both sides who support the deaths of civilians. You're the one who was marginalising IRA crimes and bombing campaigns in the UK and saying that 'people weren't affected by it'.
Yes his gun running operation, note, not bombs, was broken up over 30 years ago and had been failing for over a decade before. All of this controlled by a handful of people. Soak that in, then think.
> said that there are idiots on both sides who support the deaths of civilians.
Yeah and you're one of them.
> 'people weren't affected by it'.
The people posting in that thread weren't old enough to be affected.
But they sure were happy that Americans were killed based on some urban legend their nationalist parents told them.
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