Well, it's really REALLY REALLY stupid to think that I was implying that your Honda has a link to Pearl Harbor. I wasn't.Quote:
Originally posted by Andrew
It's really REALLY stupid to think that the bombing of Pearl Harbor has any link besides national manufacturer to my 2001 Honda Civic. It really is idiotic.
It's Mitsubishi that manufactured the bulk of the planes ( as well as Yamaha and a few others ) that attacked the US on December 7, 1941, not Honda.
Please explain to me how I was being "anti-American"?Quote:
Originally posted by Andrew Nothing more than an anti-American pushing his views in to a subject which has no basis for them.
Your comparisons might actually work if A: Chrysler had manufactured the internment camps and B: There were thousands of Chryslers tooling around Japan with "God Bless Japan" and Japanese flag stickers on them, which there aren't. But Mitsubishi and other Japanese companies did infact enslave 20,000 US GI's, putting them to work in coal mines, not to mention physicaly abusing and killing some of them. (http://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/...25_slaves.html) I know Chrysler made tanks for the allies in WWII, but unless they made the planes that bombed Hiroshima it's apples and oranges. I'm not anti-Japanese or anti-American, I'm anti-ignorance and anti-hypocrisy. Yes, I understand it's water under the bridge, we've done the same type of things, etc, etc. But how is driving a Japanese, Korean, or whatever import make of car helping the US economy? If you love America so goddamn much, never mind plastering your foreign car with stickers displaying your "pride" - put your money where your mouth is. The Japanese do, they take pride in what they build and they first and foremost support thier own economy by buying Japanese products as much as possible. Whereas in the United States, many Americans insist that they have to buy a foreign car or it'll be a POS ( there has to be some justification for not buying American ), even when the car sometimes IS technically foreign, but has an American nameplate! And then on top of that, they're going to cover the thing with messages of how "proud" they are to be American. There's nothing even SLIGHTLY hypocritical about that? That is my point, period.Quote:
Originally posted by diffusionx
Well, Andrew, you can always counter by saying: put your "You're a Sap, Mr. Jap" stickers on your Ford, Chrysler (put productive Japanese-American citizens innocent of any crimes in internment camps just because of their race lately?), Chevrolet, Dodge (drop atomic bombs on major cities full of innocent civilians recently?), Pontiac, and, of course, Hummer.
But wait a minute, I thought Toyota's ( thats what your "Chevy" was ) had a more reliable track record than even Honda's? Now remember that when it comes time to buy another car, you owned a Toyota that didn't last for you so they all must be junk....... right?Quote:
Originally posted by Xeno Gigas
Up untill now I thought I was spoiled over my first car. My parents bought me a '87 Chevy Nova (hatchback bieotch!) for around $2000 when I turned 16. It lasted about 3 years and I put in at least $1000 of work on it to keep it that long. Now I'm driving a '97 Civic that I finished paying off over a year ago. It should last for a long fucking time and that's all I was looking for.
