Comments on: Progressive Canadian Compassion

By: Canadian Cynic: 08/01/2005 - 09/01/2005

Canadian Cynic: 08/01/2005 - 09/01/2005 — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:11:18 +0000

[...] Pete, how’s this for your vaunted right-wing compassion? No, no, don’t apologize — it might make your [...]

By: Peter Rempel

Peter Rempel — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 08:04:23 +0000

Cut the shit, Mark. CC’s comments have hardly been restricted to the opinion that we should not “help the US”. There’s an element of glee in his writings that are almost mind-numbing, especially considering the death toll we are now hearing about.

“So IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢m just not wasting any more sympathy. If the Americans want help, let them pray for it.”

This is what you’re sticking up for? I agree that he “needs to apply some compassion,” but wouldn’t say so because I don’t enjoy looking like a banal twit.

By: Mark [Section 15]

Mark [Section 15] — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 04:07:11 +0000

I enjoy satire, but you just can’t make shit like this up:

“Envy of the U.S. has become so extreme on the part of Canadian progressives that they now rejoice in the suffering of Americans at the hands of a natural disaster.”

I’d be offended, but you’re just a wingnut.

Shorter Canadian Cynic:

1. Pat Robertson is a wingnut
2. Why should be help the US re: Katrina? The American government keeps telling us that we aren’t needed in other affairs, and ignores our agreements with them.

Shorter Section 15:

1. Pat Robertson is a wingnut
2. Canadian Cynic is right to beef, but needs to apply some compassion

But, hey, Peter, you’ve never been one to worry about accuracy.

I liked Rempelia’s design better. I miss the Sauron’s eye graphic.

By: George Freeman

George Freeman — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:16:14 +0000

Well put, with more of an eye to the practical consequences.

By: Peter Rempel

Peter Rempel — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:21:30 +0000

“But really, why should we care that they rant and rave?”

Because the federal cabinet is full of twits like this, albeit ones that are more subtle then Carolyn Parrish and these silly bloggers about their anti-American views.

By: George Freeman

George Freeman — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:40:30 +0000

Well said. I am amused by how progressives just rattle off a list of grievances they automatically assume to be manifestly evil, never explaining why. They have yet to offer a substantive critique of what the Americans are trying to do in Iraq, beyond decrying no WMD or the interests of big oil. They cannot answer for themselves when it is pointed out that Hussein was very much an enemy of peace, and one of the major barriers to drawing the Middle East out of chaos. They have no sympathy for the strategic interests of the United States, Canadians being the primary beneficiaries, and never see fit to explain why the US government is the great Satan they say it is. Above all they never bother to explain what privileges their perspective, or moral authority, over all else. But really, why should we care that they rant and rave?

Progressives are miserable human beings, always missing what is good in life because they need the constant reassurance of a future where all will be known and controlled—nothing left to chance ever again. They truly are damned because they cannot live by faith, or faith in something greater than themselves and their own ideas.