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Originally Posted by Ferich
You can't expect everyone, especially the pool of unintelligent morons on the internet, to be interested in everything you think they should be or want them to be. And that fact applies in real life too.
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Good point. Not to mention the fact that I've been following this thread since it started and downloaded 3 or 4 of the videos. It doesn't mean I'm not interested or don't have an opinion. I just don't post very much, I've always been that way.
I'll give you my thoughts as to why there have been very few posts in this thread:
Primarily, not many people frequent the Politics & History forum. Its still fairly new and I think it used to be hidden to only registered users.
Next, this thread is a powder keg. It's a thread filled with videos that have many negative connotations about America... started and kept alive by Canadians. Whether or not the videos have merit is not the question; rather their content and who's posting them. Regardless of affiliation (liberal conservative... whatever) when a foreigner somehow portrays your country negatively, even if indirectly, that person will likely take offense on some level. There have been several shining examples of this. In the OTBS forum, we've had far to many knee-jerking, flame-throwing, poop-slinging Canada vs. America threads. Each "side" has their own hypercritical disparaging nitpicker; my guess is that no one wants to turn this into another pointless battle.
Finally, those videos are friggin huge if you didn't notice. Some take upwards of an hour to download and another hour or so to watch. If I had more time I may spend it here keeping up on this stuff, but my life and responsibilities demand much more time than I'd like.