>
>as far as your domestic issues go; i'd like it if women had
>the right to choose, i'd like it if gays were allowed
>same-sex unions, i'd like it if gun control was tighter, i'd
>like it if healthcare was run by the state, etc etc.
>

- what you like and what you want for america is irrelevant. you are a kiwi, who can't even be happy in your own country, so you've migrated to the UK, now you aren't even happy there, so you are trying to infiltrate america. it's sad really.


>the same compassion that makes us bleeding heart hippies
>feel sorry for homeless people in Sudan, Palestine, Iraq,
>etc, also extends to the downtrodden in the States.
>

-there are downtrodden in New Zealand, go back and help them.

>not only that; after having your culture forcefed to me
>since i was born (via TV, music, movies, books, news,
>politics), well, i'm actually kind of miffed that i don't
>get a vote.
>

-that's apparent. and excuse me, but how was OUR culture FORCEd upon you? If i'm correct, you are espousing your anti-American pop culture rhetoric on an American artists website, consisting predominately of americans. Tell me who is forcing you to write on OUR site? Please, i'll take the sick fuck out myself, because nothing would please me more than to eradicate your anti-american sentiments from these boards.

>because the messages that come from behind your castle walls
>are screamed out amongst the rest of the world population,
>and even if they aren't affected directly by it, it still
>becomes part of our lives.

-so buy an elton john album and shut the fuck up. no one tells you to love our culture, you do it on your own. so decide what the hell you can do for your own country and leave ours well enough alone KIWI.