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Snoop Dogg Gets Out the Vote
Moe Napoli writes "Using footage from the PC game True Crime: Streets of LA, a small collective of artists created a 'Vote or Don't Bitch' Machinima PSA with True Crime star Snoop Dogg as the center of the minute long spot. Premiering last evening at the start of New York Law School's State of Play II conference, the PSA is highly critical of the Bush Administration and even has Snoop run-over by a Bush-Cheney van at the end. While everyone may not agree with its message, I feel it's another clever use of machinima for creative expression."
Vote or die, bitch!
Giant Douche or Turd Sandwich
"Sometimes a woman is a kind of religion, she can save your soul & set you free from all your sins" - Bad Examples
With a single comma, you can get a much more apathetic motto:
"Vote or don't, bitch!"
Sadly, that's the attitude of a lot young ones today.
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I always thought that that dilemma was unconvincing. If I don't vote, I can still bitch about everyone else screwing the country up. Hell, in some cases I'd have more of a right to bitch than someone who did vote.
Rob (Apologies to George Carlin)
I mean there's some stringing together of scenes, but it's not as expansive as, say, Red vs. Blue. It's a little bit more like Warthog jump, where it's just scenes from a game used to convey a different message. That's not to say I didn't like it, I just expected it to be a lot different.
OK, ok, a bonus Snoop Dogg joke.
Q. What does Snoop Dogg use to keep his clothes bright and white?
A. Bleeoch!!
*Ahem.*
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
I'd pay five bucks to see that. Hell, even seeing Bush with attitude crossed arms and his posse behind would be cool. Not that I'm going to be voting or anything.
It's not just "highly critical", it's just a minute long blame-Bush screed.
A better title would have been "Vote out Bush or Don't Bitch".
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Wasn't he convicted of a felony? This whole "get out the vote" campaign he's on seems a little odd. He looks to me like the poster boy for the "to indifferent to vote" crew or the "to stupid to edumacate myself about nothin'" at least. This is sadly all to common nowadays.
If you want a nice ad, try this one... it's a "get out the vote ad" too, it's a PSA that's highly critical of Kerry.
http://www.clubforgrowth.net/
I'm amused that this got an FPP, but Eminem's Mosh didn't. MTV wasn't going to play it, but counterterrorists flooded the request page and forced them to play it.
Same site also has a pretty good analysis of the video.
If you haven't seen the video, then please watch it. Regardless of what you think of Eminem (in fact, the video probably assumes you know who he is and have already formed your preconceptions), the climax is pretty damn amazing.
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..Snoop Dogg Gets Out the Vizzote?
Fo' shizzle!
I hear 'vote or don't bitch' and similar a lot. But I voted already (absentee) and need to know something. I plan on bitching even though I voted, no matter which way the election goes. Is that okay?
I'm not american, but be sure not to face the same situation france did, that is everyone voting for "little candidates", then having the choice only between the two worst scenerios on second turn. (Well for left wing people at least). You had the choice between lepen (extrem rightish neo nazi crap) or chirac (clearly right wing) so... It happened because the extrem right persons are really determined, and were the only who didn't split their votes between little candidates.
Having to vote chirac even if you were a communist sucked, believe me...
Besides, i don't understand how you can possibly don't know for who to vote. Both candidates clearly have opposite views on a lot of issues, you should know easily which one fits your ideas the most (that is, the less worst one..)
And if you wonder, yeah, it seems US elections have now as much coverage as our country local elections, if not more...
Jesus Christ you mean the party in power in France right now is right-wing. I'd hate to see what your left-wing parties are like.
Quotes from here.
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Lyrics:
Puff Daddy "Vote Or Die!"
Vote Or Die, mutha F***, mutha f***, Vote Or Die!
Rock the vote or else
I'm gonna stick a knife through your eye
Democracy is founded on one simple rule
Get out there and vote or I'm a mutha f****** kill you (yeah)
I like it when you vote bitch
shake them t**** when you vote bitch
I'll shove a jimmy through your mouth root
Now get your big ass in the valet booth
I said vote bitch,
or I'ma gonna mutha f****** kill you
Vote or Die, mutha f***, mutha f***, Vote Or Die
Can't run from a
let your opinion be heard,
you gotta make a choice
Cuz after I slit your throat,
you won't have a f****** voice
Vote Or Die, Vote Or Die!
--
Puff Daddy: Haven't you heard of my campaign 'Vote or Die'?
Stan: What does that mean, anyway?
[Puff Daddy and his posse pull their guns on Stan]
Puff Daddy: What you think it means!
--
Stan: So my vote didn't matter after all?
Randy: Of course not Stan.
Mr. Garrison: Hey everyone! All the PETA members are dead!
Clyde: Now we can go back to being the Cows!
[everyone cheers]
Randy (to Stan): Okay, now your vote doesn't matter
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
They carry little red books around and call everybody comrade ;) hum no we have those but they're considered on the really extrem left wing hehe
;)
BTW the fact that this party is right-wing is only noticeable in the inside politic imho (especially, much more liberal economically than the left-wing would be). I think they mostly behave the same way when it comes to exterior politics...
But what's interesting is that most europeans consider there is no left wing in the US, only right and even more right
Am I the only one who sees voting in state or national elections utterly pointless? Am I the only one not buying into the hype that my vote can make a difference? Thanks to the electoral college, one vote hardly matters, since all a candidate has to do is to get a majority of votes in a state to get the electoral votes, and after that the individual breakdown of the state doesn't matter. If the race within the state does happen to be close where the winner could be decided by a dozen votes, it's just going to be decided by the courts anyway, so one vote will never ever matter. Case in point, I live in massachussets, a state where Kerry will without a doubt win the electorate, but given the bible thumping heartland this country currently has, Bush will win overall. So if I were to vote for the president, here's all the possible outcomes.
I vote for Kerry - Kerry wins Mass - Bush wins the election.
I vote for Bush - Kerry wins Mass - Bush wins the election
I vote for Nader - Kerry Wins Mass - Bush wins the election
I don't vote - Kerry Wins Mass - Bush wins the election.
Why is it that third world nations have it where one person gets one vote and whoever has the most number of votes wins, whereas the US has the most perverted system out there? I don't see anyone suggesting a system in Iraq where you tell people "You can vote, but since you live in western Iraq, your votes don't count as much as the votes cast by people in the more populated eastern provinces". So I'm not voting, but I still plan on bitching, because there nothing I can do about it. I'm a Yankees fan, so I didn't like the outcome of the ALCS this year. I didn't play in the game, I didn't attend the games, and I didn't even watch games 4 and 5 on TV, but I couldn't do anything about the outcome, so I'm going to complain about it. I'll end my ranting by recalling the scene from "The Matrix - Reloaded" where Neo is talking to the Architect about the Matrix. The Architect said how people would only accept the system if they believed they had a choice. It didn't matter what it was, but as long as people felt that they were being given a choice about their own matters, they would willingly accept their situation rather than fight against it. That's what the elections are, the government is giving us a token choice to make over who we believe should be president, even though the system is set up so that it doesn't matter what choice we make since the outcome will be the same either way, but as long as we believe that our choice affected the outcome, we will be satiated with the outcome.
(Note : I do not care for either candidate. As far as I'm concerned, whoever wins the election, it will be America who loses. It is a sad state of affairs where a president must be "chosen" not on the basis of who is a better leader, but who is a lesser idiot.)
In my life, I never remember seeing such a divide and force to vote. Rappers in and making vote videos? Debate viewer count sky high? I am happy to see America, and the world, getting so involved, but there must be some reason this election seems so important. I'm scared. In my life there was scandal, cold war, war, blow job, and lastly terrorism/war/unemployment. I pine for the days where a blow job was the big news.
First of all, I'm not American, but I'd still like to ask you to vote! No, not for any of the main two wankers, but for a third party candidate. It's up to you which one, but my personal suggestion is Michael Badnarik. You can safely vote for him because he is not an idiot.
... But that makes me actually respect Eminmem...
... Wow, that hurts just to type...
...Also, I didn't know Buggalo could fly.
So help a third party out with your vote instead. I live in MA too, and I'm going to vote for David Cobb of the Green Party. Ya, he won't win (that's not my intention anyways), but if he gets enough votes it'll keep the Green Party on the ballot for the next election. They may not win any near-future election, but given enough time the party will gain enough power to do so. And if you don't like the Green Party, vote Libertarian instead. Or pick another third party that better fits your opinions. When these parties are finally as powerful as the Big Two, we'll finally be able to have a real democratic election in this country.
I'm going to chime in for third parties as well. They don't have any chance of making it in, they might not even have much of a chance within my lifetime. But every percentage of voters who cast for them brings them just a bit closer to the point where the general public will start taking them seriously as a canidate. Or, at least that's the theory.
Everything will be taken away from you.