Butthurt guy whines about Canada's warship names

[Neil]

It's best not to bother reading grumbler's posts that don't pertain to naval warfare.  He's just trying to troll folks.

[Razgovory]

It's best not to bother reading grumbler's posts that don't pertain to naval warfare.  He's just trying to troll folks.

But I owe him that.  He'd do the same for me!

[Eddie Teach]

I can no longer tell if Grumbler is arguing with people or just insulting people who agree with him.  There seems to be a lot of overlap.

Well to be fair, Viper did tell him he was wrong then largely agree with him.

[grumbler]

It's best not to bother reading grumbler's posts that don't pertain to naval warfare.  He's just trying to troll folks.

hey, pot, are you seriously arguing that your obvious trolling is more worth reading than an intellectual discussion of the sources of Canadian identity? If so, then I agree with you that you should not only stop commenting in threads with intellectual disagreements, but not even read them once you realize what they are.  Being all publicly butthurt because someone is engaging in a controversy doesn't do you, or the forum, any good.

[crazy canuck]

He'll agree claiming it's what he said all along.

Lol, and that is exactly what he did.

[Valmy]

Massachusetts still had a state church at this time. Nothing to stop Quebec from making Catholicism the state religion.

I think Maryland's state religion was Catholicism.

Heh no.  They had a hard enough time just having Catholicism tolerated, there were anti-Catholic Protestant revolts that took control of the Colony for periods.  If they had actually made Catholicism the official religion I doubt the colony would have made it.  Simply not persecuting Catholics was controversial enough.

[grumbler]

He'll agree claiming it's what he said all along.

Lol, and that is exactly what he did.

LOL. Of course: he's my cite, after all.

I predict that one of you, or viper, (or both) will claim that he doesn't agree with me.

[crazy canuck]

 

The really entertaining thing about you Grumbler is that the rabbit hole is never far away.

[Berkut]

He'll agree claiming it's what he said all along.

Lol, and that is exactly what he did.

Are you really pleased that you were able to accurately predict that grumbler would say that is what he was saying all along, when in fact YOU repeated his own argument back to him?

I mean, come one - it doesn't take Nostradamus to predict that if you set out to repeat what someone else says, then in fact they will respond by saying that is in fact what they were said...

[grumbler]

The really entertaining thing about you Grumbler is that the rabbit hole is never far away.

  Damn.  I didn't remember to predict the ad hom, even though I knew you were going to use one instead of responding intellectually to an intellectual argument. 

[viper37]

He'll agree claiming it's what he said all along.

Lol, and that is exactly what he did.

Are you really pleased that you were able to accurately predict that grumbler would say that is what he was saying all along, when in fact YOU repeated his own argument back to him?

I mean, come one - it doesn't take Nostradamus to predict that if you set out to repeat what someone else says, then in fact they will respond by saying that is in fact what they were said...

Grumbler said that Canada formed itself because the colonists felt they were different than the people of Great Britain.  That's not true at all.  He said he took his argument from a book, wich was quoted to say what everyone was saying: namely, Canada formed itself out of fear of the US, not because they were unhappy with the British Empire.

And then he comes, and says he was saying that all along, that Canada formed itself out of fear of US expansionism.

That's total bullshit.  If I was the only one misunderstanding him, I could blame my english comprehension, but it seems Malthus and CC understood the same.

[Malthus]

On a suggestion upthread, I'm now reading Jon Latimer's 1812: War With America. I'll let you guys know what I think of it when I'm done, which may take awhile.

Fliping to the conclusions, the author states as follows on the last page:

Canadian nationalism had also been strengthened by the War of 1812, and the move towards Confederation was accelerated by Anglo-American tensions created during the American Civil War and the ill-fated Fenian incursions in 1866 by US-based Irish nationalists. These tensions and its own increasing self-reliance helped bring into existence the Dominion of Canada ...

In short, one of the pime factors, but not the sole factor, in creating confederation was a history of animocity directed northwards from the US, of which the War of 1812 was only a part.

[Capetan Mihali]

Berkutthurt.

[Sophie Scholl]

On a suggestion upthread, I'm now reading Jon Latimer's 1812: War With America. I'll let you guys know what I think of it when I'm done, which may take awhile.

  Let me know what you think.  I quite enjoyed it.

[Neil]

It's best not to bother reading grumbler's posts that don't pertain to naval warfare.  He's just trying to troll folks.

hey, pot, are you seriously arguing that your obvious trolling is more worth reading than an intellectual discussion of the sources of Canadian identity? If so, then I agree with you that you should not only stop commenting in threads with intellectual disagreements, but not even read them once you realize what they are.  Being all publicly butthurt because someone is engaging in a controversy doesn't do you, or the forum, any good.

You don't have intellectual discussions.  You pick a side (occasionally at random) and then fling poo and adhoms until people get tired of arguing with you.  You're just a sophisticated version of Raz.