Politics
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- TheBlueOne0
I guess what I'm saying is that JazX and I might have some fundamentally differing viewpoints on some things. I know TommyO and I probably do. Me and DocBombay might as well on other things. And hell, it's fun to play politics and hurl the talking points and the little gotchas around. It's politics as sports, and Americans are good at that and we respond to that framing.
But come on, really, like sports - how much of what the talking heads on TV spout and what gets considered "newsworthy", what gets glitzed up and marketed to sell soda really reflect anything approaching the reality of actually playing sports? If you've played sports with any commitment you know the hours, the lonleyness, the pain, the locker room, the whores of defeat and victory...that has nothign to do with what the media sells.
Poltics is exactly the same in the US. And it's ok, as long as you know the distinction is there and that it's very real. Sometime we need a bit of the myth and the story to motivate us to do all that hard crappy work for a bit of fleeting glory and maybe the greater good.
I just get pissed when the the talking points and crap become the thing in itself which is just smoke and mirrors. That's where game-playing becomes self-delusion. Look you want to call Obama a "socialist"? I get it within the context of playing the game of politics. You want to call Bush "Hitler", same deal...but when it comes to really dealing with the problems that face a country that I love deeply, these freeze-dried media memes they sell cut rate on Fox and MSNBC become useless at best, harmful at worst by becoming the defining parameters of the debate.
Alright, I'm done being a didactic prick today...
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- didactic prick...DrBombay
- Haha! I had an intern once and she said to me "Bri, I learned a lot, but you can really be a didactic prick sometimes.."TheBlueOne
- ...so I try to tone it down. Can't help it. Maybe, cause I'm a Leo?TheBlueOne
- ba ha ha, hey you can preach if you want to, there's no way we'll all agree.********
- I'm an A-type, Taurus born in the year of Chinese Bull. How f*cking crazy am I?********
- I actually disagree with everything you say TBO, even when you say words like 'the' and 'if.' You're an inflammatorytommyo
- didactic prick and I think your opinions are nutty to say the least, if not un-American and terrorist pandering. :Ptommyo
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