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wolven7Yeah. You heard me. I've been pretty fucking quiet about the whole political spectrum, because I like to try to recognise that each candidate is deeply and disgustingly flawed, in some area or another, but this latest quote from Sen. Clinton has fucking Torn it, for me:
'On Sunday, when asked if any economists supported her plan for a gas-tax holiday, she said, "Well, I'll tell you what, I'm not going to put my lot in with economists."'
Nine Inch Nails - [1,000,000]--- I know that there is this idea that the Smarter you get, the more out of touch with real-word you become, and, honestly, having a Master's Degree in Philosophy, I can't say that that Idea is completely without merit. However. If we want real-world, every-day solutions to real-world, every-day problems, should we not find the people whose job it is to deal with that kind of problem, and ask them to deal with it? If, for example, I have a sewage management problem, and I require assistance, should I not go to someone who has years and years of experience dealing with the management of sewage? Should I not find the person whose fucking job that is?! I think I should.
Nine Inch Nails - [Letting You]--- If I have a problem with my taxes, should I not see an accountant and/or an IRS operative?
If I have a problem with my fucking soft serve ice cream machine, should I not walk into a motherfucking Dairy Queen, and ask the man or woman behind the counter how They might handle this issue? I think you get my fucking point.
Because here's my point: When I have a problem with those things, I don't go randomly out into the street and yell "Hey! Who out here knows how to fix a soft-serve machine?!" and then take the first five people who answer "Well I Ate a DQ Blizzard, once..."
Nine Inch Nails - [Echoplex]--- Because that's not their motherfucking Job. They don't have the tools to fix that shit. They don't have the damned training. And you know what? Even if they're really fukcing smart people, it's going to take more than a Time-Life series, WikiPedia, a little Gumption, and some fucking Elbow Grease™ to fix the fucking problem.
I am all about the idea that the 'common man' can and should be able to handle any fucking problem. But do you know what's Not going to get that problem solved? Uninformed Public Opinion.
I don't care if you're an economist, an auto mechanic, a soft serve ice cream salesperson, a computer technician or a damn bank teller. I don't have the training to tell you how to do your fucking job. You know more about it than I do. (Nine Inch Nails - [Head Down]). I can learn to do your job, eventually, yes, but I'm not going to be instantly good at it, no matter how pissed that makes me. I am not an elitist for saying so. I am a Realist.
With the right opportunities, training, and time, I believe that anyone can learn to do damn near anything, but fixing gas prices is not going to come from a 3-month tax break. You will save, at most, 2 cents per tank, if that shit goes through. Woo fucking Hoo. If you want to fix an economic problem, perhaps you should find some people who know what it's like to have to deal with them, on all ends, meaning Economists and "Regular Joes and Janes," put them in a room, and work shit out. Talk and explain.
And while I'm on this subject, let me say how fucking incredibly insulting it ought to be to people to hear Hilary Clinton talk about "regular folks," as opposed to "elitists." (Nine Inch Nails - [Lights in the Sky]). Now, as Jon Stewart said "elite" means "good," but "elitist" does mean something else. The idea that only people of a certain Kind of learning are good enough to do things is not what anyone in this campaign is advocating, and to place "regular folks" at the other end of that spectrum is as much to call people fucking hillbillies. Hilary Clinton is calling everyone hillbillies.
Oh. I'm sorry. Did I misrepresent your position? (Nine Inch Nails - [Corona Radiata]). Does your pandering, playing-it-up-to-the-audience, say-anything-to-get-a-fucking-vote platform not really think of everyone as hillbillies? Because it sure sounds like you might as well have called them "good people. Salt o' the earth."
Smart is not bad.
Smart is not bad.
SMART IS NOT BAD.
DO YOU FUCKING UNDERSTAND ME?!
I don't care who you are or what you do: the more you know, the better off you are, the more opportunities you will have, the better you can provide for your family, yourself, your fucking dog, the more you can effectively, permanently change this world for the gods-damned better, when you need to, and leave this place less of a shit hole than it was when you found it.
Fuck you and your "I'll Take One Marshmallow Now" bullshit. Work for your long tem benefit, and stop buying lotto tickets, rims, gun racks, gold chains, and bottles of Thunderbird. Get a fucking education, and get a fucking job. Do something with yourself. I don't care what colour you are. I don't care where you grew up.
Demand a better education. Demand to be informed. Demand to be given the means by which to learn anything you want to know.
Know everything. Know as much of the public store of knowledge as you possibly can.
Nine Inch Nails - [The Four of Us are Dying]--- For fuck's sake Learn, or shut the fuck up, and get the fuck out of my way.
And that means you, Hilary Fucking Clinton.
'On Sunday, when asked if any economists supported her plan for a gas-tax holiday, she said, "Well, I'll tell you what, I'm not going to put my lot in with economists."'
Nine Inch Nails - [1,000,000]--- I know that there is this idea that the Smarter you get, the more out of touch with real-word you become, and, honestly, having a Master's Degree in Philosophy, I can't say that that Idea is completely without merit. However. If we want real-world, every-day solutions to real-world, every-day problems, should we not find the people whose job it is to deal with that kind of problem, and ask them to deal with it? If, for example, I have a sewage management problem, and I require assistance, should I not go to someone who has years and years of experience dealing with the management of sewage? Should I not find the person whose fucking job that is?! I think I should.
Nine Inch Nails - [Letting You]--- If I have a problem with my taxes, should I not see an accountant and/or an IRS operative?
If I have a problem with my fucking soft serve ice cream machine, should I not walk into a motherfucking Dairy Queen, and ask the man or woman behind the counter how They might handle this issue? I think you get my fucking point.
Because here's my point: When I have a problem with those things, I don't go randomly out into the street and yell "Hey! Who out here knows how to fix a soft-serve machine?!" and then take the first five people who answer "Well I Ate a DQ Blizzard, once..."
Nine Inch Nails - [Echoplex]--- Because that's not their motherfucking Job. They don't have the tools to fix that shit. They don't have the damned training. And you know what? Even if they're really fukcing smart people, it's going to take more than a Time-Life series, WikiPedia, a little Gumption, and some fucking Elbow Grease™ to fix the fucking problem.
I am all about the idea that the 'common man' can and should be able to handle any fucking problem. But do you know what's Not going to get that problem solved? Uninformed Public Opinion.
I don't care if you're an economist, an auto mechanic, a soft serve ice cream salesperson, a computer technician or a damn bank teller. I don't have the training to tell you how to do your fucking job. You know more about it than I do. (Nine Inch Nails - [Head Down]). I can learn to do your job, eventually, yes, but I'm not going to be instantly good at it, no matter how pissed that makes me. I am not an elitist for saying so. I am a Realist.
With the right opportunities, training, and time, I believe that anyone can learn to do damn near anything, but fixing gas prices is not going to come from a 3-month tax break. You will save, at most, 2 cents per tank, if that shit goes through. Woo fucking Hoo. If you want to fix an economic problem, perhaps you should find some people who know what it's like to have to deal with them, on all ends, meaning Economists and "Regular Joes and Janes," put them in a room, and work shit out. Talk and explain.
And while I'm on this subject, let me say how fucking incredibly insulting it ought to be to people to hear Hilary Clinton talk about "regular folks," as opposed to "elitists." (Nine Inch Nails - [Lights in the Sky]). Now, as Jon Stewart said "elite" means "good," but "elitist" does mean something else. The idea that only people of a certain Kind of learning are good enough to do things is not what anyone in this campaign is advocating, and to place "regular folks" at the other end of that spectrum is as much to call people fucking hillbillies. Hilary Clinton is calling everyone hillbillies.
Oh. I'm sorry. Did I misrepresent your position? (Nine Inch Nails - [Corona Radiata]). Does your pandering, playing-it-up-to-the-audience, say-anything-to-get-a-fucking-vote platform not really think of everyone as hillbillies? Because it sure sounds like you might as well have called them "good people. Salt o' the earth."
Smart is not bad.
Smart is not bad.
SMART IS NOT BAD.
DO YOU FUCKING UNDERSTAND ME?!
I don't care who you are or what you do: the more you know, the better off you are, the more opportunities you will have, the better you can provide for your family, yourself, your fucking dog, the more you can effectively, permanently change this world for the gods-damned better, when you need to, and leave this place less of a shit hole than it was when you found it.
Fuck you and your "I'll Take One Marshmallow Now" bullshit. Work for your long tem benefit, and stop buying lotto tickets, rims, gun racks, gold chains, and bottles of Thunderbird. Get a fucking education, and get a fucking job. Do something with yourself. I don't care what colour you are. I don't care where you grew up.
Demand a better education. Demand to be informed. Demand to be given the means by which to learn anything you want to know.
Know everything. Know as much of the public store of knowledge as you possibly can.
Nine Inch Nails - [The Four of Us are Dying]--- For fuck's sake Learn, or shut the fuck up, and get the fuck out of my way.
And that means you, Hilary Fucking Clinton.
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Date: 2008-05-05 10:38 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-05-05 11:02 pm (UTC)If not that, then I'm afraid I don't see the misogyny.
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Date: 2008-05-05 11:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-05 11:10 pm (UTC)So I take that as a yes.
And ..yeah.
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Date: 2008-05-05 11:23 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-05-07 06:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-05 11:21 pm (UTC)I need to listen to this album again, to get all the lyrics.
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Date: 2008-05-06 12:04 am (UTC)I never listen to the speeches, precisely for this reason. ALL politicians will say whatever they can to get elected - it's just what they do. Look over their voting record to see what they'll actually accomplish once they get in office.
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Date: 2008-05-06 12:12 am (UTC)It just makes me so mad when it's this Blatant. It's like "No New Taxes" all over again...
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Date: 2008-05-06 12:46 am (UTC)I've heard one theory that she knows she can't win and is just trying to make Obama look so bad that he loses the general and she can run again in 2012. I have no idea about the truth of that, but sometimes it sure seems like it.
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Date: 2008-05-06 02:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-06 01:53 am (UTC)I say no more.
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Date: 2008-05-06 02:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-06 02:12 am (UTC)true that.
I have more but I think I am going to make a post about it
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Date: 2008-05-06 02:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-06 02:11 pm (UTC)What if someone had asked her about her healthcare plans? Would she have said, "I'm not going to put my lot in with doctors"? Or if someone asked her about environmental policy? "I'm not going to put my lot in with scientists"?
Is she suggesting that she knows the economy better than individuals who have spent their entire careers studying it? Because that's what I'd call elitist!
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Date: 2008-05-07 06:12 pm (UTC)