If this is in Florida, around Tampa, I might have chatted with this person at one point a long time ago. Or another like him.
I’m from Québec and more than 20 years ago I was on IRC meeting people from other countries. At some point this guy from Florida started to chat in English with our group of people in our mainly French speaking channel. I continued to exchange in private messages because most people on the channel didn’t speak English and found it annoying. I learned where he was from, but mostly that he was circumcised against his will when he was a baby, and that he was vehemently anti circumcision. To the point where he was pushing me and some other people from my channel to become militant ourselves in our province. He was saying that we should write to our representatives to ban circumcision and also have a constitution like they have in the US.
Circumcision was also sometimes practiced in Québec but it was (and still is AFAIK) much less frequent. So even if I was also circumcised when I was a baby, none of my friends were. I’m the exception. Nobody, even me, saw any reason to become militant about this. I tried to explain the differences between our systems, that our political system does not work the same way, and how I would personally not fancy any type of system like they have in the US anyway.
He was also very pro-gun. Another point on which we very much disagreed. He said that we should arm ourselves in case we needed to defend ourselves against the government. Again, I tried to explain the differences in our systems and how we do things differently but to no avail.
The weirdest part was that he knew about global warming/climate change, as his parents owned a house on an island in Tampa. He tried to convince his parents about this. And this was were we connected a bit more. He was very conservative, but aware of climate change.
But in the end, after chatting with him for multiple years, he ended up saying that I was anti-American when I tried to explain again why no, I would not promote US style “democracy” in Canada, and he stopped coming on our channel.
A lot of Americans are unfortunately like this, I included.
I’m against circumcision. I support LGBTQIA. I think America should scale the fuck back and stop being world police, and instead be world supporters. I hate school shootings and police over reach, and I support guns ownership to protect people of color/minorities from harm.
My paragraph right there will have a bunch of Americans going, “Yeah I agree with half of that” and the halves will change.
And often, a guy like him is who we need on specific issues.
Am I going to let him near my kids or hang out at a bar? Absolutely not. Will I support him in his protest against cutting little baby dicks? Absolutely.
If this is in Florida, around Tampa, I might have chatted with this person at one point a long time ago. Or another like him.
I’m from Québec and more than 20 years ago I was on IRC meeting people from other countries. At some point this guy from Florida started to chat in English with our group of people in our mainly French speaking channel. I continued to exchange in private messages because most people on the channel didn’t speak English and found it annoying. I learned where he was from, but mostly that he was circumcised against his will when he was a baby, and that he was vehemently anti circumcision. To the point where he was pushing me and some other people from my channel to become militant ourselves in our province. He was saying that we should write to our representatives to ban circumcision and also have a constitution like they have in the US.
Circumcision was also sometimes practiced in Québec but it was (and still is AFAIK) much less frequent. So even if I was also circumcised when I was a baby, none of my friends were. I’m the exception. Nobody, even me, saw any reason to become militant about this. I tried to explain the differences between our systems, that our political system does not work the same way, and how I would personally not fancy any type of system like they have in the US anyway.
He was also very pro-gun. Another point on which we very much disagreed. He said that we should arm ourselves in case we needed to defend ourselves against the government. Again, I tried to explain the differences in our systems and how we do things differently but to no avail.
The weirdest part was that he knew about global warming/climate change, as his parents owned a house on an island in Tampa. He tried to convince his parents about this. And this was were we connected a bit more. He was very conservative, but aware of climate change.
But in the end, after chatting with him for multiple years, he ended up saying that I was anti-American when I tried to explain again why no, I would not promote US style “democracy” in Canada, and he stopped coming on our channel.
A lot of Americans are unfortunately like this, I included.
I’m against circumcision. I support LGBTQIA. I think America should scale the fuck back and stop being world police, and instead be world supporters. I hate school shootings and police over reach, and I support guns ownership to protect people of color/minorities from harm.
My paragraph right there will have a bunch of Americans going, “Yeah I agree with half of that” and the halves will change.
And often, a guy like him is who we need on specific issues.
Am I going to let him near my kids or hang out at a bar? Absolutely not. Will I support him in his protest against cutting little baby dicks? Absolutely.
Came for the memes, stayed for the story.
To be honest it’s probably borderline against the rules. I don’t always read them before commenting.
I’m describing the political stance of someone I once talked to but I would understand why some might see this as political.