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Are you trying to tell me that after more than a year of round-the-clock, high-intensity, cross-country travel in order to report on a the most expensive ever primary season with the highest ever voter turn out and tireless invective-spewing morons trying to tell us whose presidency will rain fire on our heads the fastest and fieriest, this likely underpaid beat writer is feeling a wittle despondent about the state of American politics?
Fascinating.
More along people...nothing to see here. Please get back in your SUV's and head to Costco...
Matt Taibbi is a cynical little fucker enthralled by his own smug bullshit. His story is always, "I am Matt Taibbi, and I'm better than everyone!" Fuck him.
Luckily, I'm still able to ditch America and go live in Canada should the need arise - and/or we actually have to pay the piper for all the hundreds of trillions we borrowed for these past eight years of hell.
Every four years, we're fed the same stuff by partisans, if not the candidates - if the other guys wins, the world is doomed. This is the most important election since who-knows-when.
So one of two things is happening: (1) we magically manage to elect the correct non-disaster candidate every four years or (2) we keep getting fed overheated, hyperbolic bullshit by people like Matt Taibbi.
I vote (2)
@5: You don't feel the situation we're in is appreciably worse than in other recent election years?
The system isn't going to change for you so you should learn to adapt to it. Embrace the system and survive or fight it and be destroyed. It's the same story any student of history has seen repeated many times.
As impassioned and forceful as your language is, it isn't even in the ball park of where it needs to be to enact any real change. You're just whining about observations you've made. You have no plan of action, no leadership with teeth, and therefore, you are irrelevant.
Join the yuppy trash that infests Northern Virginia and get your slice of the pie. Manufacturing and other low-skilled trades are all but dead. If you want to survive in neo-imperial America you need to be a member of the technocracy or bureaucracy that greases its wheels.
Economic forces destroyed the agricultural base in America, forcing the population to congregate in its metropolitan centers and toil away in the factories. In the past few decades the nuclear family has been destroyed, giving rise to the isolated, narcissistic, hedonistic American life style prevalent on the coasts. Now, we are seeing another cultural and societal shift brought upon by economic (and technological, thanks to the internet and related technology) forces.
Adapt or die. From the perspective of the people that own you, a cold, methodical perspective, there is no reason for you to have disposable income. What do you do with it? Waste it on things you can't afford and dig yourself into a lifetime of debt based indentured servitude. Better for the owner class to have your money and do something useful with it than for it to sit in a jar buried under your house.
That is how they see you, mindless, consuming, animalistic, undisciplined. That is why you are micromanaged at work, that is why you only have 10 days of vacation per year, that is why you are forced to adapt to the 9-to-5 work day via behavioral manipulation in the schools from the time you are 5 years old.
Embrace your slavery or be trampled and irrelevant, you have no other choice.
I will impede all dooms.
Wait, @8: Which one is the blue pill and which one is the red pill?
Just take both, Paul.
Eat two whole pills? That's too much work! Do they make purple?
Impeding doom would be a good thing, wouldn't it?
RonK,
Typo masquerading as wit, or wit masquerading as a typo? I'll never tell.
Matt Taibbi is HOT!
JG -- Either way, "The Impedance of Doom" suggests itself as a pulp nerd-fi title ... details left to the aspiring writer.
** second of a trilogy, between The Reluctance of Chaos and The Coils of Telos
p.s. - in re the Coils of Telos, this remarkable research brief provides invaluable background (with schematics!), as well as the intriguing observation
It is of interest that in some cases, UFO's have left an oily film on the surroundings where the craft have been observed to land and the oily film contained ferromagnetic particles in abundance.
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