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Aarrrrrgggghhh!

MountainsMountains Veteran
edited October 2010 in General Banter
I know I really shouldn't let political things get under my skin, but I can't help it. The selfishness, hypocrisy, and general idiocy of it really irks me. I saw the following as an email signature:

A short spelling lesson:
The last four letters in American..........I Can
The last four letters in Republican........I Can
The last four letters in Democrats.........Rats

End of lesson. Test to follow in November, 2010.


My immediate reaction was, "Yes, Republican does end in 'I can'. And to a Republican, as long as he can, to hell with anyone who can't because they're too poor, or too sick, or too uneducated, or down on their luck. As long as you get yours, that's all that matters."

There, now I feel better... :)

Comments

  • ZaylZayl Veteran
    edited October 2010
    This is why I avoid politics utterly.
  • MountainsMountains Veteran
    edited October 2010
    I find that impossible to do. If everyone did that, we'd really be in a mess (hard to believe it could be any bigger, but it could). I'm politically active, and I vote *always*. It's gotten so fractured in America it's disheartening. And none of it makes any kind of sense if you analyse it. It's just politics by rumor and sound bite.
  • ShiftPlusOneShiftPlusOne Veteran
    edited October 2010
    Why does it matter? The whole political system is based on a false dichotomy... I don't know where my 'political views' would fit, but I know I wouldn't brand any political label on myself.
  • LincLinc Site owner Detroit Moderator
    edited October 2010
    The whole political system is based on a false dichotomy
    Well, no, the US political system is based on a 1 majority vote per-district system which has had the unfortunate consequence of encouraging a 2-party system. Ironically, it was meant to emphasize the individual over the party. I don't believe the irony was lost on the founding fathers who lived to see the first several presidential elections either, but by then it was all set in motion.
    Mountains wrote: »
    The selfishness, hypocrisy, and general idiocy of it really irks me.
    It helps if you remember it's always been that way. :)
    Mountains wrote: »
    It's gotten so fractured in America it's disheartening.
    I would say it's gotten re-fractured. I generally regard the 1940-2000 era as an anomaly brought on by the Cold War and 1-way mass-communication. This mud-slinging, oh-no-you-didn't muckity muck? That's business as usual in America. :crazy:
    I wouldn't brand any political label on myself.
    You have much company in that, which is why the "independent" vote historically decides US elections.
  • seeker242seeker242 Zen Florida, USA Veteran
    edited October 2010
    Does dependent origination explain all the idiocy that goes on in politics?
  • ShiftPlusOneShiftPlusOne Veteran
    edited October 2010
    Yeah, I am willing to admit that US elections confuse me.

    What I meant was that I come across many people who pigeon hole themselves into left/right, socialist/conservative paradigm and go from there. Everything is dismissed or accepted based on how it fits in the left/right paradigm. I don't know if that's the majority of just a vocal minority.
  • edited October 2010
    Yeah, I am willing to admit that US elections confuse me.

    What I meant was that I come across many people who pigeon hole themselves into left/right, socialist/conservative paradigm and go from there. Everything is dismissed or accepted based on how it fits in the left/right paradigm. I don't know if that's the majority of just a vocal minority.

    Vocal minority. Most of us are fed up with both parties and think the entire system has become useless.

    What the American citizens need to do is hire a lobby group to represent them. Right now it is just corporations and well funded special interest groups with a voice. The people need to wake up and hire a lobby group to represent them.
  • ChrysalidChrysalid Veteran
    edited October 2010
    Mountains wrote: »
    A short spelling lesson:
    The last four letters in American..........I Can
    The last four letters in Republican........I Can
    The last four letters in Democrats.........Rats

    End of lesson. Test to follow in November, 2010.
    Pffft, if they wanna play spelling games, let them beat this.

    Republican. An anagram of Pelican Rub, and also of Crab Lineup. Pelicans and Crabs are both animals of the sea, one a bird and one a crustacean. Who's part bird and part crustacean? Why, Great Lord Cthulhu of course, something which goes well beyond coincidence.

    The Bush's are one of the richest families in America, father and son have both been Republican presidents. Yet George W. is clearly the result of the mating between a human and some kind of fish-chimp. And where did they get all that money from? People say oil, but if you look carefully in the background of pictures taken of the Bush family, there is always odd white gold and images of a nautical nature.
    Clearly the Bush family, and the entire Republican party are in league with the Deep Ones, and worship Cthulhu in the guise of "the One True American God". George W. Bush is a human/deep one hybrid. And the recent oil disaster was caused by Cthulhu and the deep ones in revenge for losing the election to the Democrats.

    The facts are all there, plain to see.
  • ShiftPlusOneShiftPlusOne Veteran
    edited October 2010
    To be fair, the guy also used the plural form for the latter two. If you take that into account, it's "cans" and "rats" or "ican" and "crat". I didn't know that the last four letters of a word and meant to describe the nature of the word anyway. By that logic Buddhism is nothing more than a Handbook of Information Security Management.
  • edited October 2010
    I saw a button that said:
    Voting is just like driving:

    Select "D" to go forward

    Select "R" to go backward
  • ShiftPlusOneShiftPlusOne Veteran
    edited October 2010
    Engyo wrote: »
    I saw a button that said:

    Good thing I ride a motorcycle. I can't go backward and don't have to select D to go forward.
  • LincLinc Site owner Detroit Moderator
    edited October 2010
    username_5 wrote: »
    What the American citizens need to do is hire a lobby group to represent them.
    Been reading The Onion? :D
  • edited October 2010
    Lincoln wrote: »

    Yes! I see another Onion reader in the crowd ;)
  • HondenHonden Dallas, TX Veteran
    edited October 2010
    Chrysalid wrote: »
    Who's part bird and part crustacean? Why, Great Lord Cthulhu of course, something which goes well beyond coincidence.

    Oh wow, I laughed so hard at this... I could never see the connection, but now I do and it's as plain as day. :lol::lol::lol:
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