its' time for the usa, and especially new york state, to stop granting ibm special favors. all ibm has done for new york is slowly kill the hudson valley technology employment sector, including entire cities. ibm has betrayed its birthplace
fuck ibm, treat it like a foreign entity with questionable and dubious agendas. because ibm most certainly treats the usa like that, while the usa still coddles and mollifies it, like a deluded lover. ibm's betrayal of the usa and especially the hudson valley is longstanding and obvious, and now it is just passive aggressive, like a cheating spouse who has gotten away with countless crimes and is now embarrassed at how thoroughly he has duped their spouse
its a charade. fuck ibm, ibm only deserves scorn and hostility, unless you're in bangalore
it seems like a giant ego bonfire, it seems like a massive waste of time to tweak minor pointless trivia about your social life. just the very thought of it fills me with tedium and exhaustion. it seems to reinforce the worst aspects of people's personalities: their vanity, their shallowness, and their mediocrity. i mean who really fucking cares, including yourself, about this running narrative about the pointless banalities of your life?
and now i find the someone, in fact, does care: the demons of id theft and invasion of privacy and spam marketing... as invited into your life, by your own vanity
do the best thing you can ever do for yourself: lose facebook. don't go to another social networking site, just simply drop completely off the radar of this fad whose only value is to reinforce and amplify the worst parts of your personality, and to turn you into fodder to be harvested by search spiders and marketing algorithms
you've offered your life up to harvesting by a depersonalizing machine. grow some character by becoming real, and lose the ridiculous mask called facebook. if the lunch meat called spam became the catchword for depersonalized email message, i'd like to offer that social networking be known as soylent green: it's people! social networking sites like facebook are everyday people, ground up, processed and extruded into depersonalized marketing diarrhea: soylent green
why would you do that to yourself? teenagers: you are exempt, its a useful tool for social exploration. anyone older than 24: you're pathetic
yes, the law says distributors and artists have "rights," but the technology proves the consumers have actual control
the technology trumps the law
this court case is pure absurdity. it could have ruled just as easily that pink floyd has the right to pink corsets or emi has the right to eat concrete: same real world effect
intellectual property law is simply defunct. arguments made in a courtroom over what should happen on the internet simply have no meaning, because there is no control possible. at least without radically warping the internet in ways countries with strong protections for individual freedoms would never stomach, even with the all the media industry paid-for government whores
oh sure, they can sue the occasional soccer mom whose kids' friends alter her computer or occasional grandmother with unsecured wifi. and? that's what they call control?
the odds are stacked against me, even if i share a belief with the majority of my fellow americans that, for example, politicians should not receive donations from corporations. the system is allayed against me, chance of success is slim to change those rules
however, if i give up and accept this ugliness as reality, chance of failure is 100%
in other words, slim chance of success, no matter how slim, is always better than certain chance of failure. you try, and lose, or you simply choose to lose. i see no superiority or pragmatic value in that. and, if it try, i may actually succeed. and in fact, it is in such thinking that every historical event of any value in this world ever took place
so it is actually cold logic, pure pragmatism, to fight against tall odds, no romantic idealism about it
to not care, to give up on my society, is to limit my own horizons as well, to recalibrate my relationship with reality such that if someone robs me, i will simply accept it. and corporate donors and their governmental whores are most definitely robbing me, in the abstract and the concrete
the psychological result of learned helplessness, of accepting injustice and cruelty and voluntarily subjecting yourself to that, is depression and unhappiness
so i'm not going to give up my happiness by choosing to accept the dim cynical parameters that others have chosen to define the poor reasoning by which they accept slavery as their natural state. i am not slave, no matter how many slaves, like you, say that i am. this is not a romantic statement, this is a statement of a pragmatic effort to maintain my happiness in the face of the injustices of my era, like corporate dollars influencing elections. i have made the pragmatic judgment that my happiness is important to me, and therefore, to always fight for freedom. to accept artificial limitations, meanwhile, is to accept unhappiness. thats not a pragmatic choice. if you don't have happiness, which you only get by vowing to fight for your freedom, your quality of life is quite poor, by any pragmatic measure
and so i will decide the fate of the world. or someone else who cares deeply. because the future of this world is owned by those who care about it, and is not decided by those who don't care about it
for example: palin supporters are a typically low iq ignorant lot. but they actually believe they can effect change, and so they will, ONLY IF those who oppose them freely choose, on their own, not to matter, and therefore to not fight them
do you want palin supporters to own the future of this country? no? then fight for your own beliefs, or you freely choose, on your own, to hand the fate of this country to them. of course you will have all sorts of self-reinforcing rationalizations for doing nothing, most of it based on empty low iq cynicism about the inevitability of undecdied things, or the truth of untruthful things, like all american's thoughts are driven by propaganda, or the democrats and the repulbicans are the same
so this is a coldly logical rational and pragmatic, utilitarian analysis of the reasons why you should care, and why you should act. nothing romantic about it all. you fight, simply because you wish to remain happy. ic ouldn't live with myself accepting the slavehood you have accepted, out of a pragamtic measure of the best way to maximize the quality of my life
in which you loudly and with great feeling say "i don't care!"
so all i really hear from you now is "i am full of fail!" by not understanding your own self-defeat, even when assiduously and repeatedly detailed for you
and btw, yes: as a typical rightist, you see the concept of freedom only in being the one with more money, screw the poor. "let them eat cake" does in fact work for the rich, for a while anyway. then something strange happens. i leave it to your boundless imagination as to what happens in societies when the rich take care of only themselves. enjoy el salvador!
the issue here is choosing to detach from your society and not fight for it
many here think they are being noble by, for example, becoming expats or not voting (rather than what they are: whiny pouty toddlers who won't play if they don't get to make the rules)
but the irony in your case is that in brazil, voting is compulsory. you are forced to vote. what do you think of that idea, "noble" freeloading americans who won't fight for their convictions?
so here you are, talking about your right not to be forced to fight for anything... by choosing to join a society where you are forced to fight for brazil, to do exactly what i am telling people they need to do. so, in the end, by choosing to move to brazil, you simply support my assertion: that participation in your society should be mandatory. you may SAY you don't believe in compulsory voting, but you've voted for the concept with your feet by moving to brazil. your actions speak louder than words. even so, it would then be doubly ironic if it were your intention to fight and oppose compulsory voting in brazil... to stand your ground rather than run, and fight for your convictions!
LOL
as a side note, i actually used to be a big fan of brazilian compulsory enforced voting. i used to think it was a great idea, and the usa should do that
until i realized all the basement losers forced to stop watching cartoon network and actually go out and do that horrible thing you need to do to maintain your beliefs in a democratic country: vote, they would actually just joke vote and vote for "obi wan kenobi" or "emperor palpatine", or worse, "ron paul";-P
so you really can't compel someone to care
but you certainly can berate them for being useless freeloading slugs, if only for my own cathartic reasons. then they at least serve SOME purpose
but loudly insisting on a subject matter connotes interest in that subject matter
so your choices are:
1. you will not respond to this comment, nor any other of this subject matter, thus finally proving you don't have any interests here 2. or you will continue to comment, yet this time finally admit that the fate of the society you are currently in has some meaning to you
but your current status quo is logically contradcitory. you currently have only the selfish self-serving "logic" of someone who expects to receive benefits for doing nothing: i will be a part of this society as long as i benefit. when benefit ceases to come, i will not work to reestablish those benefits, i will go somewhere else and parasitically leach off of them instead, and let them fight for me as some have fought for me here
good luck, canada: know the nature of those who cherish your values from afar. rather than attempting to replicate your superior banking system or health care here, they'd rather just enjoy the fruits of your labor, contributing none of their own. i can say this, because they continually and loudly insist on contributing no labor to fight for good values here, they quite openly remark on this. make a note of their true character before they cross the border
one would hope you could extend what is good you see about canada south of the border. why does that task trouble you so? i'll tell you why: because you have no true convictions. you're a small shallow empty person
can be the fault of the speaker, or the fault of the listener. and you're trying to tell me the inability to understand the idea of fighting for your rights, in any other way than violence, is failure on my part
chance of becoming immensely rich as a musician in the pre-internet era: 1 million to 1
chance of becoming immensely rich as a musician in the internet era: 1 million to 1
there's no difference
additionally, you fail to mention that signing a record contract is incredibly rare. and once you do so, your chances of failure are still high. if you are moderate hit, your income will be pathetic. additionally, even if you do succeed, the record company takes the lion share of the income. only the extremely extremely rare artist, a u2 or a rolling stones, one who delivers hits over time, is able to change the rules and make a great living. but the chance of being such an artist: 1, getting the record contract, 2, succeeding continuously, is insanely difficult
additionally, plenty of good bands, even those with a good fan base, are simply dropped by record companies because of whatever fickle reason the dumb suit thinks. now all of their songs are locked up and controlled by a bunch of assholes who don't want to do anything with you. you're not only doomed, you can't even own your own songs
meanwhile, on the internet, you have whats called the long tail:
meaning, yes: if you distribute over the internet, your chances of becoming prince or jay-z are probably zero. however, your chances of making a MODERATELY GOOD INCOME are radically increased. the chances of making a moderately good income, with a record contract (which is extremely difficult to get), is a hell of a lot less
finally, if you self-distribute, you can always sell your soul to the devil later and sign a contract if you want (flawed and dying model such as it is). in fact, you probably have a better chance of that, because of all the free exposure your getting. meanwhile, getting no exposure in the vain hope of getting a contract is a lot harder, and if you do sign that contract, its impossible to switch back later to self-distribution of songs the record company now owns (unless you start all over)
you are under existential threat, i support your right to run
if you are an american citizen, i do not support you running away, instead of simply VOTING. you are under no existential threat, unless you are a complete drama queen, certainly nothing like the fate of an afghan christian or a 1600s european puritan or 1800s european jew
it includes those who don't vote and then whine about the outcomes, and how nothing matters because the democrats are the same as republicans (as if gore would have invaded iraq), and other such empty low iq cynicism
i'm asking you to fight for what you believe in, i'm not asking you to fight for something SOMEONE ELSE believes in. see the difference?
the democrats are the same as republicans: gore would have invaded iraq. obama is the same as bush. pffffft
or: i won't vote unless someone is on the ballot that is such a clone of my exact beliefs that i have an orgasm. but if the guy on the ballot has something slightly different than what i believe, i'll go into drama queen mode and call him out as exactly the same as the obviously worse guy (and i'll thereby help ensure the obviously worse guy wins)
in a democracy, both candidates ALWAYS track to the middle and seem vaguely similar, in order to win the most votes. additionally, in a democracy, the major candidates who actually have a chance of winning will ALWAYS be a distant cousin of your ideology, never a carbon copy. and a society of many parties would still be dominated by two: slightly to the left, and slightly to the right, with a few fringe flavors tha tnever have a chance, ever. because the middle is where most people are, and this is a STRENGTH of democracy: tis government tries to resemble the beliefs of the middle of the ideological spectrum of its people. whoever does that the best, wins, and SHOULD win, in the name of legitimacy, integrity, and stability
so to you hold your vote hostage because you are too stupid to know the basics of politics 101. i guess suiciding your vote is nothing more than ensuring the stupid don't vote, after all. because if you don't vote, you truly are stupid, if you don't realize that you can only, and forever more, only vote STRATEGICALLY in a democracy, not ideologically, to EVER matter
democracy is about compromising with others. if you have no spirit of compromise, you are not noble and ideologically advanced, you are simply a pouty little whiny child holding a tantrum because other people won't play by your rules. if you don't get your way, you won't play. ok then, moron. go sit in your corner, and don't fucking matter, by your own choice. i'm supposed to respect this? i laugh at you for choosing your own failure
who came here were threatened with pogroms, burning at the stake, charges of withcraft, genocide, and outright ostracization and banishment from their societies as it is, regardless of the existence of another continent
but the losers and whiners in the usa of today are face with the horrible prospect of waking up on an early day in november and pulling a lever. what threatens them is the terrible prospect of the knowledge that some of their fellow citizens, such as palin supporters, suck. merely the existence of the low iq and ignorant sends them fleeing in panic, the weight of the influence of palin supporters too horrible for them to bear the thought of. they concocting the usual lists of empty cynical reasons why palin supporters control their country completely already, how any resistance is pointless. the weight of a feather is as lead. pathetic useless drama queens
in other words, what troubles whiners today to leaves the country (or merely threaten to, they won't really leave: remember, they have no convictions) is nothing remotely like the reasons that drove the early settlers to new england colonies
whose finest feature is that effective change is realized by participatory voting, not bloody revolution
of course, plenty will laugh at that, and tally off the usual list of empty cynical reasons about why the usa isn't really a democracy, or why i don't matter. except that these same people usually don't vote, for the very reasons they cite. so what they believe becomes their destiny: they really don't matter. self-fulfilling destiny. i, on the other hand, know that i matter, and that change is real. and that is MY self-fulfilling destiny. go ahead and laugh at that. society is owned by beliefs such as mine, people who fight for a conviction, any conviction, no matter how absurd you think it is: net societal change is always in the direction of whatever the most people are passionate about, even in nondemocracies
misery loves company, i know. but sorry losers: how you describe your society only defines the parameters of your own personal failure, not the failure of society at large. unless there are enough of you, such that your useless inertia does in fact warp society
so hmmm... maybe i should in fact be for some of you truly hopeless types leaving. sorry canada! could you take some of your useless turds? thanks. you can listen to them whine about how much they don't matter, you don't matter, nothing matters. they're great at parties!
societies composed of human beings are self-realizing: what you believe is what happens. above i see a prescription for failure, empty cynicism, and certainly not intelligence. so society fails, in the way you describe, only to the degree with which other people think like you
the words you speak above tell me volumes about your own psychology, your own self-defeat, your own learned helplessness. but what you don't understand is the way you view your fellow citizens with such negativity and hopelessness only limits you, it doesn't limit them. so you are only defining your own life on those terms of failure and loserhood. but more importantly, MOST importantly, your empty lowest common denominator cynicism does not define my life, or the life of my society... i would say OUR society, but all you care about is leaving, so hurry on up, because we certainly don't need your style of thinking or want your style of thinking
but until you leave, please shut up, since you can prove you have no faith in our society and that you don't care by actually not caring (which implies quiet, not the whining written above)
for emphatically declaring your deepest conviction: to not matter
but one would think that someone so hellbent on passionately insisting on standing for nothing would learn that the most direct way to do that is to shut up
we get it dude: meaninglessness is awesome. your hopelessness and and your lacking of ability to change anything in your life is unmuteable. so shut up, and thereby fulfill your destiny of truly meaning nothing
i don't understand the point of someone looking at a fight and declaring "I'M NOT GOING TO FIGHT, I'M GOING TO STAND ON THE SIDELINES". we understand. so go away. why are you still talking when your only message is "i don't care"? prove you don't care: go the fuck away and stop commenting on that which you enthusiastically choose not to fight for
those who actually believe in something and actually fight for it create their own meaning, create the future of the society they care about: its self-fulfilling destiny. meanwhile, those who have only learned helplessness have a self-fulfilling destiny as well: "i don't matter and i can't change anything" becomes their reality. that you believe that, defines your reality. thank fucking god your empty cynicism and helplessness to change your world doesn't define my reality, or reality at all
you forfeit the right to talk about a subject matter when the only thing you have to say on the subject matter is that you don't care about the subject matter
so adios, loser. you've defined the parameters of your own loserhood by stating your inability to change anything. that defines your useless life, it doesn't define my life, or my society. i would say OUR society, but your only conviction is to leave it, apparently
it shows the mentality of people who appreciate their freedoms, but not enough to actually sacrifice for them. freeloaders
in many ways, they are worse than those who challenge our freedoms, because that enemy actually believes in something. however warped and cruel their beliefs, they are to be respected, because they will fight for their (flawed) beliefs. meanwhile, there is no respecting those who flee, or even just threaten to flee. fair-weather friends who scoot away at the slightest sign of trouble, or even just threaten to, are worse than useless: they undermine the preservation of our freedoms by taking up space and demanding the fruits of the labor to preserve our freedoms... but they won't actually ever pay their dues by standing their ground and opposing the ignorant and the venomous in our society
you stand your ground, or you are far worse for this country than a palin supporter. at least the palin supporter believes in something enough to actually fight for something. you however, you just believe in running away, even when so much is at stake. so you really have no beliefs, and you have no convictions, and you do not really value your freedoms: you won't fight for them. actions speak louder than words. paying lip service to what you hold dear, but not actually fighting for what you hold dear, means you don't really hold anything dear. you take up space, that's all you do. you are worse for our ideals and freedoms than those who oppose them
"boo hoo! if palin wins in 2012 i'm going to canada! boo hoo!"
if this is your reaction to threats to your freedom, you don't deserve your freedom, because you won't fight for it
palin fails to become president in 2012... by you staying here and fighting her sleaze
palin is ensured greater election results in 2012... when those who would defy her instead decide to flee, out of spineless lack of resolve about their own convictions. then you ideologically freeload off the poor canadians, and they have to listen to your proven-to-be-useless whining about what you say you care about, but your actions speak otherwise
you fight for your convictions, or you really don't have any convictions. a "conviction" by definition is that which you will fight for. so why is something so dear and near to you, that you whine about it, pout about it, and promise to disrupt your life and run away to a far off land because of it... but you won't stand your ground and fight for it?
frankly, you're not just as much as what is wrong with this country as palin and her supporters: you're worse. palin and her ilk are immortal: they will reborn anew in every generation, all that is required is low iq and ignorance to create a palin supporter. palin and her kind must be repulsed, time and again, forever. they are a dime a dozen. they only win when those who would repulse her kind, instead run away. this is an act of betrayal far worse than average run-of-the-mill low iq palin and bush's ignorance and dumb venom to the ideals of freedom
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it's an indian company
its' time for the usa, and especially new york state, to stop granting ibm special favors. all ibm has done for new york is slowly kill the hudson valley technology employment sector, including entire cities. ibm has betrayed its birthplace
fuck ibm, treat it like a foreign entity with questionable and dubious agendas. because ibm most certainly treats the usa like that, while the usa still coddles and mollifies it, like a deluded lover. ibm's betrayal of the usa and especially the hudson valley is longstanding and obvious, and now it is just passive aggressive, like a cheating spouse who has gotten away with countless crimes and is now embarrassed at how thoroughly he has duped their spouse
its a charade. fuck ibm, ibm only deserves scorn and hostility, unless you're in bangalore
brilliant
mod parent +7
it seems like a giant ego bonfire, it seems like a massive waste of time to tweak minor pointless trivia about your social life. just the very thought of it fills me with tedium and exhaustion. it seems to reinforce the worst aspects of people's personalities: their vanity, their shallowness, and their mediocrity. i mean who really fucking cares, including yourself, about this running narrative about the pointless banalities of your life?
and now i find the someone, in fact, does care: the demons of id theft and invasion of privacy and spam marketing... as invited into your life, by your own vanity
do the best thing you can ever do for yourself: lose facebook. don't go to another social networking site, just simply drop completely off the radar of this fad whose only value is to reinforce and amplify the worst parts of your personality, and to turn you into fodder to be harvested by search spiders and marketing algorithms
you've offered your life up to harvesting by a depersonalizing machine. grow some character by becoming real, and lose the ridiculous mask called facebook. if the lunch meat called spam became the catchword for depersonalized email message, i'd like to offer that social networking be known as soylent green: it's people! social networking sites like facebook are everyday people, ground up, processed and extruded into depersonalized marketing diarrhea: soylent green
why would you do that to yourself? teenagers: you are exempt, its a useful tool for social exploration. anyone older than 24: you're pathetic
why do you guys pick on mike?
penny for your thoughts?
your turn, post your own bad puns
i think this story is referring to where peter jackson is from
you know, middle earth
fuck artist's rights
consumer's have the power here
yes, the law says distributors and artists have "rights," but the technology proves the consumers have actual control
the technology trumps the law
this court case is pure absurdity. it could have ruled just as easily that pink floyd has the right to pink corsets or emi has the right to eat concrete: same real world effect
intellectual property law is simply defunct. arguments made in a courtroom over what should happen on the internet simply have no meaning, because there is no control possible. at least without radically warping the internet in ways countries with strong protections for individual freedoms would never stomach, even with the all the media industry paid-for government whores
oh sure, they can sue the occasional soccer mom whose kids' friends alter her computer or occasional grandmother with unsecured wifi. and? that's what they call control?
the odds are stacked against me, even if i share a belief with the majority of my fellow americans that, for example, politicians should not receive donations from corporations. the system is allayed against me, chance of success is slim to change those rules
however, if i give up and accept this ugliness as reality, chance of failure is 100%
in other words, slim chance of success, no matter how slim, is always better than certain chance of failure. you try, and lose, or you simply choose to lose. i see no superiority or pragmatic value in that. and, if it try, i may actually succeed. and in fact, it is in such thinking that every historical event of any value in this world ever took place
so it is actually cold logic, pure pragmatism, to fight against tall odds, no romantic idealism about it
to not care, to give up on my society, is to limit my own horizons as well, to recalibrate my relationship with reality such that if someone robs me, i will simply accept it. and corporate donors and their governmental whores are most definitely robbing me, in the abstract and the concrete
the psychological result of learned helplessness, of accepting injustice and cruelty and voluntarily subjecting yourself to that, is depression and unhappiness
so i'm not going to give up my happiness by choosing to accept the dim cynical parameters that others have chosen to define the poor reasoning by which they accept slavery as their natural state. i am not slave, no matter how many slaves, like you, say that i am. this is not a romantic statement, this is a statement of a pragmatic effort to maintain my happiness in the face of the injustices of my era, like corporate dollars influencing elections. i have made the pragmatic judgment that my happiness is important to me, and therefore, to always fight for freedom. to accept artificial limitations, meanwhile, is to accept unhappiness. thats not a pragmatic choice. if you don't have happiness, which you only get by vowing to fight for your freedom, your quality of life is quite poor, by any pragmatic measure
and so i will decide the fate of the world. or someone else who cares deeply. because the future of this world is owned by those who care about it, and is not decided by those who don't care about it
for example: palin supporters are a typically low iq ignorant lot. but they actually believe they can effect change, and so they will, ONLY IF those who oppose them freely choose, on their own, not to matter, and therefore to not fight them
do you want palin supporters to own the future of this country? no? then fight for your own beliefs, or you freely choose, on your own, to hand the fate of this country to them. of course you will have all sorts of self-reinforcing rationalizations for doing nothing, most of it based on empty low iq cynicism about the inevitability of undecdied things, or the truth of untruthful things, like all american's thoughts are driven by propaganda, or the democrats and the repulbicans are the same
so this is a coldly logical rational and pragmatic, utilitarian analysis of the reasons why you should care, and why you should act. nothing romantic about it all. you fight, simply because you wish to remain happy. ic ouldn't live with myself accepting the slavehood you have accepted, out of a pragamtic measure of the best way to maximize the quality of my life
something with italian roots, but connoting the digital
hmmm
how about the digati?
in which you loudly and with great feeling say "i don't care!"
so all i really hear from you now is "i am full of fail!" by not understanding your own self-defeat, even when assiduously and repeatedly detailed for you
and btw, yes: as a typical rightist, you see the concept of freedom only in being the one with more money, screw the poor. "let them eat cake" does in fact work for the rich, for a while anyway. then something strange happens. i leave it to your boundless imagination as to what happens in societies when the rich take care of only themselves. enjoy el salvador!
talk about ironic
the issue here is choosing to detach from your society and not fight for it
many here think they are being noble by, for example, becoming expats or not voting (rather than what they are: whiny pouty toddlers who won't play if they don't get to make the rules)
but the irony in your case is that in brazil, voting is compulsory. you are forced to vote. what do you think of that idea, "noble" freeloading americans who won't fight for their convictions?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_voting#By_countries
so here you are, talking about your right not to be forced to fight for anything... by choosing to join a society where you are forced to fight for brazil, to do exactly what i am telling people they need to do. so, in the end, by choosing to move to brazil, you simply support my assertion: that participation in your society should be mandatory. you may SAY you don't believe in compulsory voting, but you've voted for the concept with your feet by moving to brazil. your actions speak louder than words. even so, it would then be doubly ironic if it were your intention to fight and oppose compulsory voting in brazil... to stand your ground rather than run, and fight for your convictions!
LOL
as a side note, i actually used to be a big fan of brazilian compulsory enforced voting. i used to think it was a great idea, and the usa should do that
until i realized all the basement losers forced to stop watching cartoon network and actually go out and do that horrible thing you need to do to maintain your beliefs in a democratic country: vote, they would actually just joke vote and vote for "obi wan kenobi" or "emperor palpatine", or worse, "ron paul" ;-P
so you really can't compel someone to care
but you certainly can berate them for being useless freeloading slugs, if only for my own cathartic reasons. then they at least serve SOME purpose
and thus my words here
so enjoy brazil! nice country, i like it
you don't have any interest in the fight
but loudly insisting on a subject matter connotes interest in that subject matter
so your choices are:
1. you will not respond to this comment, nor any other of this subject matter, thus finally proving you don't have any interests here
2. or you will continue to comment, yet this time finally admit that the fate of the society you are currently in has some meaning to you
but your current status quo is logically contradcitory. you currently have only the selfish self-serving "logic" of someone who expects to receive benefits for doing nothing: i will be a part of this society as long as i benefit. when benefit ceases to come, i will not work to reestablish those benefits, i will go somewhere else and parasitically leach off of them instead, and let them fight for me as some have fought for me here
good luck, canada: know the nature of those who cherish your values from afar. rather than attempting to replicate your superior banking system or health care here, they'd rather just enjoy the fruits of your labor, contributing none of their own. i can say this, because they continually and loudly insist on contributing no labor to fight for good values here, they quite openly remark on this. make a note of their true character before they cross the border
one would hope you could extend what is good you see about canada south of the border. why does that task trouble you so? i'll tell you why: because you have no true convictions. you're a small shallow empty person
can be the fault of the speaker, or the fault of the listener. and you're trying to tell me the inability to understand the idea of fighting for your rights, in any other way than violence, is failure on my part
(smacks forehead)
chance of becoming immensely rich as a musician in the pre-internet era: 1 million to 1
chance of becoming immensely rich as a musician in the internet era: 1 million to 1
there's no difference
additionally, you fail to mention that signing a record contract is incredibly rare. and once you do so, your chances of failure are still high. if you are moderate hit, your income will be pathetic. additionally, even if you do succeed, the record company takes the lion share of the income. only the extremely extremely rare artist, a u2 or a rolling stones, one who delivers hits over time, is able to change the rules and make a great living. but the chance of being such an artist: 1, getting the record contract, 2, succeeding continuously, is insanely difficult
additionally, plenty of good bands, even those with a good fan base, are simply dropped by record companies because of whatever fickle reason the dumb suit thinks. now all of their songs are locked up and controlled by a bunch of assholes who don't want to do anything with you. you're not only doomed, you can't even own your own songs
meanwhile, on the internet, you have whats called the long tail:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Tail
meaning, yes: if you distribute over the internet, your chances of becoming prince or jay-z are probably zero. however, your chances of making a MODERATELY GOOD INCOME are radically increased. the chances of making a moderately good income, with a record contract (which is extremely difficult to get), is a hell of a lot less
finally, if you self-distribute, you can always sell your soul to the devil later and sign a contract if you want (flawed and dying model such as it is). in fact, you probably have a better chance of that, because of all the free exposure your getting. meanwhile, getting no exposure in the vain hope of getting a contract is a lot harder, and if you do sign that contract, its impossible to switch back later to self-distribution of songs the record company now owns (unless you start all over)
now, with those facts before you, you decide
just as long as we catch the fake lead PHARMACEUTICALS
you are under existential threat, i support your right to run
if you are an american citizen, i do not support you running away, instead of simply VOTING. you are under no existential threat, unless you are a complete drama queen, certainly nothing like the fate of an afghan christian or a 1600s european puritan or 1800s european jew
completely uncomparable situations
i'm just talking about voting
i'm not swinging a batleth
the glory of democracy is effective change can be realized with no blood
jesus, what the hell is wrong with people that they can't see the obvious points of a comment?
morons: i'm talking about voting, why the fuck do you think i'm talking about swinging swords?
it includes those who don't vote and then whine about the outcomes, and how nothing matters because the democrats are the same as republicans (as if gore would have invaded iraq), and other such empty low iq cynicism
i'm asking you to fight for what you believe in, i'm not asking you to fight for something SOMEONE ELSE believes in. see the difference?
the democrats are the same as republicans: gore would have invaded iraq. obama is the same as bush. pffffft
or: i won't vote unless someone is on the ballot that is such a clone of my exact beliefs that i have an orgasm. but if the guy on the ballot has something slightly different than what i believe, i'll go into drama queen mode and call him out as exactly the same as the obviously worse guy (and i'll thereby help ensure the obviously worse guy wins)
in a democracy, both candidates ALWAYS track to the middle and seem vaguely similar, in order to win the most votes. additionally, in a democracy, the major candidates who actually have a chance of winning will ALWAYS be a distant cousin of your ideology, never a carbon copy. and a society of many parties would still be dominated by two: slightly to the left, and slightly to the right, with a few fringe flavors tha tnever have a chance, ever. because the middle is where most people are, and this is a STRENGTH of democracy: tis government tries to resemble the beliefs of the middle of the ideological spectrum of its people. whoever does that the best, wins, and SHOULD win, in the name of legitimacy, integrity, and stability
so to you hold your vote hostage because you are too stupid to know the basics of politics 101. i guess suiciding your vote is nothing more than ensuring the stupid don't vote, after all. because if you don't vote, you truly are stupid, if you don't realize that you can only, and forever more, only vote STRATEGICALLY in a democracy, not ideologically, to EVER matter
democracy is about compromising with others. if you have no spirit of compromise, you are not noble and ideologically advanced, you are simply a pouty little whiny child holding a tantrum because other people won't play by your rules. if you don't get your way, you won't play. ok then, moron. go sit in your corner, and don't fucking matter, by your own choice. i'm supposed to respect this? i laugh at you for choosing your own failure
who came here were threatened with pogroms, burning at the stake, charges of withcraft, genocide, and outright ostracization and banishment from their societies as it is, regardless of the existence of another continent
but the losers and whiners in the usa of today are face with the horrible prospect of waking up on an early day in november and pulling a lever. what threatens them is the terrible prospect of the knowledge that some of their fellow citizens, such as palin supporters, suck. merely the existence of the low iq and ignorant sends them fleeing in panic, the weight of the influence of palin supporters too horrible for them to bear the thought of. they concocting the usual lists of empty cynical reasons why palin supporters control their country completely already, how any resistance is pointless. the weight of a feather is as lead. pathetic useless drama queens
in other words, what troubles whiners today to leaves the country (or merely threaten to, they won't really leave: remember, they have no convictions) is nothing remotely like the reasons that drove the early settlers to new england colonies
whose finest feature is that effective change is realized by participatory voting, not bloody revolution
of course, plenty will laugh at that, and tally off the usual list of empty cynical reasons about why the usa isn't really a democracy, or why i don't matter. except that these same people usually don't vote, for the very reasons they cite. so what they believe becomes their destiny: they really don't matter. self-fulfilling destiny. i, on the other hand, know that i matter, and that change is real. and that is MY self-fulfilling destiny. go ahead and laugh at that. society is owned by beliefs such as mine, people who fight for a conviction, any conviction, no matter how absurd you think it is: net societal change is always in the direction of whatever the most people are passionate about, even in nondemocracies
misery loves company, i know. but sorry losers: how you describe your society only defines the parameters of your own personal failure, not the failure of society at large. unless there are enough of you, such that your useless inertia does in fact warp society
so hmmm... maybe i should in fact be for some of you truly hopeless types leaving. sorry canada! could you take some of your useless turds? thanks. you can listen to them whine about how much they don't matter, you don't matter, nothing matters. they're great at parties!
societies composed of human beings are self-realizing: what you believe is what happens. above i see a prescription for failure, empty cynicism, and certainly not intelligence. so society fails, in the way you describe, only to the degree with which other people think like you
the words you speak above tell me volumes about your own psychology, your own self-defeat, your own learned helplessness. but what you don't understand is the way you view your fellow citizens with such negativity and hopelessness only limits you, it doesn't limit them. so you are only defining your own life on those terms of failure and loserhood. but more importantly, MOST importantly, your empty lowest common denominator cynicism does not define my life, or the life of my society... i would say OUR society, but all you care about is leaving, so hurry on up, because we certainly don't need your style of thinking or want your style of thinking
but until you leave, please shut up, since you can prove you have no faith in our society and that you don't care by actually not caring (which implies quiet, not the whining written above)
for emphatically declaring your deepest conviction: to not matter
but one would think that someone so hellbent on passionately insisting on standing for nothing would learn that the most direct way to do that is to shut up
we get it dude: meaninglessness is awesome. your hopelessness and and your lacking of ability to change anything in your life is unmuteable. so shut up, and thereby fulfill your destiny of truly meaning nothing
i don't understand the point of someone looking at a fight and declaring "I'M NOT GOING TO FIGHT, I'M GOING TO STAND ON THE SIDELINES". we understand. so go away. why are you still talking when your only message is "i don't care"? prove you don't care: go the fuck away and stop commenting on that which you enthusiastically choose not to fight for
those who actually believe in something and actually fight for it create their own meaning, create the future of the society they care about: its self-fulfilling destiny. meanwhile, those who have only learned helplessness have a self-fulfilling destiny as well: "i don't matter and i can't change anything" becomes their reality. that you believe that, defines your reality. thank fucking god your empty cynicism and helplessness to change your world doesn't define my reality, or reality at all
you forfeit the right to talk about a subject matter when the only thing you have to say on the subject matter is that you don't care about the subject matter
so adios, loser. you've defined the parameters of your own loserhood by stating your inability to change anything. that defines your useless life, it doesn't define my life, or my society. i would say OUR society, but your only conviction is to leave it, apparently
it shows the mentality of people who appreciate their freedoms, but not enough to actually sacrifice for them. freeloaders
in many ways, they are worse than those who challenge our freedoms, because that enemy actually believes in something. however warped and cruel their beliefs, they are to be respected, because they will fight for their (flawed) beliefs. meanwhile, there is no respecting those who flee, or even just threaten to flee. fair-weather friends who scoot away at the slightest sign of trouble, or even just threaten to, are worse than useless: they undermine the preservation of our freedoms by taking up space and demanding the fruits of the labor to preserve our freedoms... but they won't actually ever pay their dues by standing their ground and opposing the ignorant and the venomous in our society
you stand your ground, or you are far worse for this country than a palin supporter. at least the palin supporter believes in something enough to actually fight for something. you however, you just believe in running away, even when so much is at stake. so you really have no beliefs, and you have no convictions, and you do not really value your freedoms: you won't fight for them. actions speak louder than words. paying lip service to what you hold dear, but not actually fighting for what you hold dear, means you don't really hold anything dear. you take up space, that's all you do. you are worse for our ideals and freedoms than those who oppose them
"boo hoo! if palin wins in 2012 i'm going to canada! boo hoo!"
if this is your reaction to threats to your freedom, you don't deserve your freedom, because you won't fight for it
palin fails to become president in 2012... by you staying here and fighting her sleaze
palin is ensured greater election results in 2012... when those who would defy her instead decide to flee, out of spineless lack of resolve about their own convictions. then you ideologically freeload off the poor canadians, and they have to listen to your proven-to-be-useless whining about what you say you care about, but your actions speak otherwise
you fight for your convictions, or you really don't have any convictions. a "conviction" by definition is that which you will fight for. so why is something so dear and near to you, that you whine about it, pout about it, and promise to disrupt your life and run away to a far off land because of it... but you won't stand your ground and fight for it?
frankly, you're not just as much as what is wrong with this country as palin and her supporters: you're worse. palin and her ilk are immortal: they will reborn anew in every generation, all that is required is low iq and ignorance to create a palin supporter. palin and her kind must be repulsed, time and again, forever. they are a dime a dozen. they only win when those who would repulse her kind, instead run away. this is an act of betrayal far worse than average run-of-the-mill low iq palin and bush's ignorance and dumb venom to the ideals of freedom