A Note to my Fellow Sucky Americans

Post by **Sloth** » Wed Nov 29, 2000 5:15 pm

Hey Pax Acidus Readers,

I really hate bringing politics into this website but here is an editorial I did for pulpfiction.com that got a lot of good comments so I thought I'd doule post it... peace- ooh

A Note to my Fellow Americans

I know the world is wondering out there, "Who did Ooh vote for in 2000?"

For all you armchair philosophers out there, this is the dilemma of the year.

You only get one vote, right? So you have to use it. That much is obvious.

I wanted to but I couldn't vote for Harry Browne, even though I'm a Libertarian. Harry said on national television that if he were elected President, he would spend his time watching TV. Publicly advocating watching TV makes my conscience take a quick detour. I do watch a lot of TV nowadays, but it is not something I like to brag about. Sorry Harry, you had your chance in 1996 and failed. Next.

And I couldn't vote for Gore. I just couldn't. I never really considered it. I mean, I thought, he could win! People say he is the lesser of two evils. I remind them more than two candidates were running. He is really just the second worse candidate running. He is the lesser all right. Lesser than Nader and Browne! Why should we pick Gore to lead us? He is not even a leader personality type. He's a great Senator. Okay but he's a yes man.

George Bush Jr. is really scary. A figurehead. It almost proves it doesn't really matter who is President. Or Vice President.

I voted for Nader. The Jesus Christ of American politics. The only man with the credentials and the track record to be President. Nader actually stood up to the corporations that make us sick and he made them sick for a change. Gee, wouldn't he make a good President? A person who would stand up for the "citizen" instead of the "corporation". I mean, it may seem hard to believe that Nader is capable of being President, but just for four years, please? I mean. Dude. Four years. What he could he fuck up that badly in four years?

Trust me, I would prefer to be in Paris, cigarette in hand, walking through the Jardin de Luxembourg than sitting here in Seattle typing away about the American Predidential election. But you losers picked the wrong two guys and you suck and it makes me mad. If you had voted in your best self-interest, the country would have gone Nader. Oh well.

Have a nice President!

[This message has been edited by ooh (edited 11-29-2000).]

Jack Chiefton · Post by **Jack Chiefton** » Thu Nov 30, 2000 8:41 am

sloth, all i can do is laugh.
if you hate america so much, get the hell outta here. mexico isn't too far and either is canada. just hop on a plane and go join the sophisticated "arteests" in paris. it'll do you good. I hate to say it, but whoever really is going to be our next president (bush, gore) you'll hardly see any difference in the way you lead your materialistic life. Jack is out, for good.

Post by **Sloth** » Thu Nov 30, 2000 5:23 pm

I never said I hated America (USA), I said it was full of losers. There is a subtle difference.

Sorry to hear you're leaving us Jack. Well okay, have a nice life and remember to travel the world like us so you can voice an educated opinion when you defend the USA.

mmenabi · Post by **mmenabi** » Fri Dec 01, 2000 3:04 am

i agree, this place is full of morons. case in point: the protesters rallying on the one year anniversary of the riots concerning the wto last year. people will protest any damn thing around here. its not as though i disagree with their cause. i just can't take these people seriously. they are the same people who just last friday stood in the same place (westlake square) picketting the fact that people are shopping on the busiest shopping day of the year. the one person i talked to who tried to spread this propoganda to me had nothing worth saying about it. the extent of her argument was that the lines are going to be long and unpleasurable. buy-nothing day, the signs proclaimed. were they joking? whether they were or not, they still seem pretty pathetic to me. bored and attention starved is how i see them. i agree with mitch hedburg when he says, "i'm against picketting but i don't know how to show it." cheers~nabi

mmenabi · Post by **mmenabi** » Fri Dec 01, 2000 7:54 pm

okay, so there is a real message behind buy nothing day, i found out, but still. i hardly buy consumer goods ever, and i'm slowly ridding myself of my frivolous belongings. i resent the fact that there are groups of people telling me that i buy too much shit and to just lay off it for a day that THEY picked. what about the other hundreds of days in the year that i, for whatever reason, decide not to buy shit? i don't try to get others to join me in not shopping on those days. cheers~grace

Post by **Sloth** » Sat Dec 02, 2000 6:38 pm

I am glad you found that out, Nabi. Buy Nothing Day is an attempt by some creative people at adbusters.org (one of my favorite Web sites) to educate consumers of their dependence on shopping. check out the link below, its fucking good!
http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd/

Post by **mccutcheon** » Sat Dec 02, 2000 7:40 pm

I LOVE TO BUY!!!!

I LOVE TO BUY MUSIC, MAGAZINES, COMFORTABLE SHOES, DISCO BALLS, COFFEE & BEER!!

Jack Chiefton · Post by **Jack Chiefton** » Sun Dec 03, 2000 3:15 am

"I am going to back to america, back to hell," now if this means you don't hate something with that description, I would hate to hear a metaphor about things you truly hate. Sorry Ooh, you just happen to be one person i'm using as a target. Otherwise I enjoyed your story, I truly did, sounds like my regime here in "shit ass america"

Post by **Sloth** » Sun Dec 03, 2000 5:02 am

True, in Allez/Retour I make it very clear I hate America. But in my post about the election I don't think I did say that. And that was my point.

Anyway, thanks for not leaving on account of my lack of patriotism. This is after all the Bulletin Board of Bad Behavior. Please believe me when I say I am not just talking shit. I have lived over 4 years abroad and will leave permanently as soon as I sell my Web startup. But any way, let's talk about something cooler like the Sonics winning streak or something.

sarah · Post by **sarah** » Thu Dec 14, 2000 4:46 am

About "shit ass America"
here's one of my favorite lines taken, out of context, from one of my least favorite writers: "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n"

Jack Chiefton · Post by **Jack Chiefton** » Thu Dec 14, 2000 7:22 pm

yo baby, i'll be your playmate!

Post by **mccutcheon** » Fri Dec 15, 2000 9:17 pm

wow you are a great writer, and I didn't even read your whole post.

cold blooded old times. the type of memories that turn your bones to glass. a little squirle. your body. clarity. a cold blooded clarity.

yes i am listening to SMOG and am drunk at 9.43 am. ABBA Super trouper is the best album ever!!!!

you ever stare hard at the word 'Blooded'? it looks weird. then again I'm drinking PILSNER URQUELL at 9.47 am.

I don't recomend this at home kids.

any girls out there want to come over? shit I better go to bed. of course i won't.

ARAGORN · Post by **ARAGORN** » Sat Dec 16, 2000 8:39 am

why is it that concious human nature leads us to look through the truth, like a piece of celophane in front of your eyes, past the understanding positive goodness we all are, and make the hell we are expieriencing a reality. I displace myself of it, for it's effects are not of my own, only the collected negativity of the un-understanding whole. You all struggle with the control you do not have, for the sake of being something you are not, trying to escape from that which eats away at the back of your mind. being one is very difficult for those blinded by their egos, thinking that any one place is better than any one other, when in truth, they are all as one with each other, and the differences between them are the beauty of their collectivness. The world as well as the universe is in constant flux, and the cycles of which are very rapidly drawing us to a time of great changes, you should all take note of our election debacle as the sign that it is, being waved in your faces, like the colorful rags unfurled that "seperate" our cultures, the time is nigh upon us to, realize that we are all one and the same & that their is a greater purpose served of our existance than the "everyday" notions of "time & "money" that society has created over thousands of years. It is time to awaken & remember who and what we truly are!

myxilplyc · Post by **myxilplyc** » Sat Dec 30, 2000 9:40 am

Incidentally, I don't hate America, I hate what it has become. The United States of America was founded as a place where oppressed people could live their lives without fear of intervention, so long as they did nothing to interfere with the lives of others. This principle in itself is fantastic... and apparently unrealistic. The U.S. is only a shadow of what it was intended to be.

myxilplyc · Post by **myxilplyc** » Sat Dec 30, 2000 9:40 am

Incidentally, I don't hate America, I hate what it has become. The United States of America was founded as a place where oppressed people could live their lives without fear of intervention, so long as they did nothing to interfere with the lives of others. This principle in itself is fantastic... and apparently unrealistic. The U.S. is only a shadow of what it was intended to be.