"I Wear Black on the Outside..."
Today, am I wearing black because:
A: i'm in mourning for our once great country
B: "...I feel black on the inside."
C: i'm an architect?
Discuss.
Sometimes life is just so confusing. and upsetting. and depressing.
oh and speaking of the sublime, check out this picture.
i hate it.
but i kind of like it, too.
A: i'm in mourning for our once great country
B: "...I feel black on the inside."
C: i'm an architect?
Discuss.
Sometimes life is just so confusing. and upsetting. and depressing.oh and speaking of the sublime, check out this picture.
i hate it.
but i kind of like it, too.
4 Comments:
I guess there's hope...
"Kerry concedes."
Four more years of a nation led by criminals. I was making coffee with one eye on CNN when the news broke, and I called my dad, a man who's spent many years fighting for good things, sometimes at great personal cost. "Get over it," he said, "The way you feel now is exactly how I felt when Nixon won a second term -- crushed. I couldn't believe America was that stupid. But remember what happened to Nixon that term."
-originally from boingboing.net
well jimbo...
what can i say i am not even a citizen yet, but it is truly a sad and depressing event. we should all wear black to remind ourselves of the current tragedy, which, i am sorry but i have to say this, shows how brainwashed the rest of the country is and how terrible the impact of media can be. is it necessary to have a college degree to differentiate between good and evil? i didn't think so.
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Just to depress people more- this, from an article on Salon.com:
"...Brought along with Bush is a gallery of grotesques in the Senate -- more than one of the new senators advocating capital punishment for abortion, another urging that all gay teachers be fired, yet another revealed as suffering from obvious symptoms of Alzheimer's.
The new majority is more theocratic than Republican, as Republican was previously understood; the defeat of the old moderate Republican Party is far more decisive than the loss by the Democrats. And there are no checks and balances. The terminal illness of Chief Justice William Rehnquist signals new appointments to the Supreme Court that will alter law for more than a generation. Conservative promises to dismantle constitutional law established since the New Deal will be acted upon. Roe vs. Wade will be overturned and abortion outlawed.
Now, without constraints, Bush can pursue the dreams he campaigned for -- the use of U.S. military might to bring God's gift of freedom to the world, with no more "global tests," and at home the enactment of the imperatives of "the right God." The international system of collective security forged in World War II and tempered in the Cold War is a thing of the past. The Democratic Party, despite its best efforts, has failed to rein in the radicalism sweeping the country. The world is in a state of emergency but also irrelevant. The New World, with all its power and might, stepping forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old? Goodbye to all that."
So...who wants to move to Vancouver?
I really did beleive that the whole Bush era was a scam - some kind of interlude brought about by a combination of laziness on the part of Democrats in 2000, Nader on the ballot (even though I thought about voting for him), and strategic planning giving Bush just enough edge in the Supreme Court to overcome Gore's popular vote by using the momentum created by having his brother as governor of Florida. I really beleived that the American people would completely wash him out this time, no matter what the polls said. OK, so I was wrong - really wrong - and, this night has opened my eyes - I now have no excuse, no choice but to see that the US has really become something I can no longer recognize - yes, there are exceptions, but the thing that freaked me out was not that Bush won the electoral college - HE WON THE POPULAR VOTE BY THE LARGEST MARGIN IN HISTORY!! Not even FDR got that many more votes than Hoover! WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE??? And, to make matters worse, when the newspapers showed the celebrations of Republicans or the crowds at the victory speech, it wasn't a bunch of pink-faced middle-aged child molestors (average Republican) - it was the fucking Hitler youth!!! That means that: the combination of this result with Bush's abaility to pack courts and agencies, and control Congress will totally wipe away every last vestige of democracy in America and solidify the Republican power base.
OK - so how did this happen? Well, in the words of another famous war criminal:
"Nazi leader Hermann Goering, interviewed by Gustave Gilbert during
the Easter recess of the Nuremberg trials, 1946 April 18, quoted in
Gilbert's book 'Nuremberg Diary.'
Goering: Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the
bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them
they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of
patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in
any country."
Wow - that sounds familiar.....looks like the RNC has been reading up on their history OR MAYBE NOT!!
As for moving out of the country - most have been sympathetic to me because they know how I feel, but the undeniable sentiment is that almost all Europeans “don’t necessarily hate Americans, just their president. However, if the American people were to reelect him, it would leave them no choice but to hate Americans as well.”
They are literally watching a fascist be returned to power by screaming masses who not only "prefer" him but who literally follow him blindly from one war to the next - sick, but true. I, for one, can no longer blame them. If there are future terror attacks or an increase in desparate violence in countries occupied by the American empire, I am Jack's complete lack of surprise - how could there not be???? Now that this election has conclusively demonstrated that democratic means will not rid the world of this criminal, how can we blame some people for conlcuding that it will take other means?
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