Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Campaigns!
With the inauguration now out of the way, who ya got in 2016?
Give me your Republican and Democratic nominees, along with your eventual winner. We’ll revisit these in a few years and see how you did.
Skeletor (R-Greyskull) v. Cobra Commander (D-CLASSIFIED)
It’s depressing how many honest/serious answers there are in the notes to this. so much pointless sadness. For the record I said earlier I would vote for Zod because I truly respect his political platform.
Why I Won’t Vote - W. E. B. DuBois
On October 20, 1956, W. E. B. Du Bois delivered this eloquent indictment of US politics while explaining to Nation readers why he won’t vote in the upcoming Presidential election. Du Bois condemned both Democrats and Republicans for their indifferent positions on the influence of corporate wealth, racial inequality, arms proliferation… [x]
(Source: mehreenkasana)
“Holy Blood, Holy Fail” - Who Is IOZ?
“Well, how about unprincipled abstention? How about the value of not giving a shit? What about indifference? What if the prerequisite to killing the gods isn’t casting down the idols, but simply ceasing to pray?”
If you would have peace, plan for war. If you would have a home, burn down your neighbor’s house. Freedom? I dunno, maybe try Slavery?
I’m sick of the old “if at first you don’t succeed” approach to legislating the internets. We managed to stop SOPA in the States and C-38 here, only have to them just reappear.
I recently watched The Terminator which got me thinking about quotes from The Terminator and ideas from The Terminator and… well… there are certain moments where you can think of the the Terminator and the quotes referring to it as our good ol’ representational-democratic states. This one stands out:
Kyle Reese: Listen, and understand. That terminator is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
So yknow, that’s the government in a nutshell. It isn’t about votes and petitions and what you think is democracy and the will of the people. It’s about all those horrible things like the State itself and its efforts at self-preservation (including whatever mode of Capitalism it is in). When it comes to these internet laws (really when it comes to anything the State truly wants or feels that it needs) there will be no reasoning or bargaining. There is nothing even approaching remorse or fear on the part of the State. And it will not stop, ever, until you (or it) are dead.
Like the Terminator, “it’s just being systematic”
Democracy In (Explosive) Action
Terror Tuesday
the day each week that Obama shuffles his deck
and decides who lives and who dies
Tuesday being also the day that America votes (when it has one)
As society degrades, a broader segment of it will choose drugs, moving images, dormancy. Yet this subset will cling, surprisingly, to a single public duty: that of electing a ruling class.
”Concession,” Downer Magazine No. 3
It was Scahill calling Obama a murderer on Chris Hayes’ cable chat show that riled the president’s fans. According to them, kill lists, drone warfare, and targeting American citizens are traditional liberal values.
I agree. Mainstream liberalism sits atop numerous mass graves, creating many more. Why pretend otherwise? Especially in America?
The Obama campaign sure isn’t, confident that its brazen endorsement of state terror will win votes. Again, no argument. When your chief demographic is fully in line, you don’t need to be clever. It’s one area of American politics where honesty works.
“Ride My See-Saw” - Dennis Perrin
click through to read in case you thought that this was a pro-Romney thing (it isn’t)… or you could see why the “b-b-b-but Romney” stuff is horribly harmful horseshit in Obama’s own words…..
