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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!
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"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 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.
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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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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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?
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.)