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08-14-09, 07:55 PM
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| | 250+ Club
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| Bye-bye, everyone...
...thanks for the memories.
I have decided to commit political suicide. I'm done talking about politics. I'm done hearing about politics. I'm done thinking about politics.
I've been a politics junkie for most of my life. I watched the Iran Contra hearings when I was a kid, and the course was set. Hunter Thompson later uncovered a perspective on politics that I had no idea existed. Politics was interesting. Fun, even.
No more. There are no objective facts with which to argue, just spin camps and doctored numbers, volleyed from within. The game is so dominated by seasoned professionals, at this point, that monitoring senate hearings or legislation is merely watching the boardroom antics of a handful of policy companies, all vying for a bigger slice of the policy industry. These are merely middle management and executive officers arguing semantics over the scraps of our country. Might as well be Eisner or Wozniak or Jobs, whose words we wait upon with bated breath. Hell, at least we know who the titans of global corporate business really work for.
If I can view politicians as merely different kind of businessmen, what would that make a politics junkie like me? A different kind of consumer, one of the policy industry. We argue one brand over another, one company's wares and services over another. Republicans or Democrats, Skippy or Jif, T-Mobile or Verizon. It's all processed for most folks' tastes, and it's all bullshit. We are mass consumers of bullshit, nothing more. We are no smarter or better off than the fellow that paints his body and goes to the game to scream and yell for "his" team, a team owned by a corporation and coldly distributed as a product meant for market-tested mass consumption. He gets roughly the same results as a politics junkie, a vague sense of belonging, a little less shame, and no matter which side wins, a lighter wallet.
So, enjoy the game, gentlemen. I'm changing the channel.
Tchk-tchk....Bang!!!
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08-14-09, 08:06 PM
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| | I m m o d e r a t o r
Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: If ya don't know, I ain't tellin'
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| Shahramlock, you will be back. Count on it. 
But yeah, I feel the pain. A while back I made the analogy to Major League Baseball--a lot of noise about competing, and fan loyalty, etc., but really, it's all about making money for the man.
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08-14-09, 08:07 PM
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| | smile!
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|  (to the politics, not Shahram's suicide)
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Originally Posted by woody  dude, I can't ban yooper....he's got friggin lazers on his head  | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Mars whoop! |
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08-14-09, 08:08 PM
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| | N = N* fp ne fl fi fc fL
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| I believe your tainted view of politics makes you a perfect candidate for a public office.
You're headed the wrong way.
Turn around.
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08-14-09, 08:10 PM
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| holy fuck
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Originally Posted by woody dude, I can't ban yooper....he's got friggin lazers on his head | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Mars whoop! | | |
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08-14-09, 08:17 PM
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| | super mo'tarded.
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| so, what do you want to yak about then? best strains of weed and what makes them the best?
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08-14-09, 08:20 PM
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| | The Anti-Tech
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Originally Posted by Chang-kuao-lo so, what do you want to yak about then? best strains of weed and what makes them the best? | 
Wait, what? 
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08-14-09, 08:24 PM
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Wait, what? | 
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08-14-09, 08:32 PM
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| | super mo'tarded.
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Tannhauser Gate
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| shall we discuss the merits of skunk-afghani?
__________________ Now, in the future, the past has occurred. be water...
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08-14-09, 08:38 PM
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Originally Posted by 3jvj I believe your tainted view of politics makes you a perfect candidate for a public office.
You're headed the wrong way.
Turn around. | Yeah, perfect for public office...luckily I have no skeletons in my closet. Had to move them to the garage to make room for the grow op, dude! Quote:
Originally Posted by Chang-kuao-lo so, what do you want to yak about then? best strains of weed and what makes them the best? | Oh God, there's nothing worse than a marijuannoisseur. Indica Shmindica...whatever, dude, just put it in a baggy, take my money, and I'll see you next week.
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08-14-09, 08:48 PM
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| | Forum Lifer
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| R.I.P. Shahram & HST
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08-14-09, 08:51 PM
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| | super mo'tarded.
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| sativa shmativa... oh well, it can't be worse than politics.
__________________ Now, in the future, the past has occurred. be water...
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1984 YAM. XT600
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08-14-09, 09:06 PM
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| | N = N* fp ne fl fi fc fL
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| Mark 10:35-45
Pay up.
Run for office.
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08-14-09, 10:26 PM
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| Posted at 7:55pm
The countdown till meltdown clock has been initiated. | |
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08-14-09, 10:32 PM
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| | no bueno
Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: КАГІҒОЯИІА
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Originally Posted by Shahram Indica Shmindica...whatever, dude, just put it in a baggy, take my money, and I'll see you next week. | lol...
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08-14-09, 11:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Chang-kuao-lo so, what do you want to yak about then? best strains of weed and what makes them the best? | Green does the job.
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08-14-09, 11:27 PM
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| the sooner you can say they all suck and they are all a bunch of crooks you won't take a political side. i have looked at both sides and they equally suck and equally lie.
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08-15-09, 05:39 AM
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| | Back in The U.P.
Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Upper Michigan
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| you are better than a policy consumer! you should have "Y.E.S." Card!
{ You Earn, you Save } got one in my consumer wallet mah damnself.. | |
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08-16-09, 01:20 PM
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| | Forum Lifer
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| oh to hell with shahram who likes that asshat anyway? | |
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08-16-09, 01:44 PM
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| | 250+ Club
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| Hopefully you will still chime in on some non political threads. I've always enjoyed your take on things and "no holds barred" writing style.
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