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perceptions of america

_POSTED_BY bjorn

Sunday, 02 November 2008

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Hannah

|2008-11-03 05:34:22

i want to get a tattoo of the redstarfist, exactly the way it's portrayed in
this picture

biblebiker

|2008-11-03 06:58:54

I'm still treading water in the shoreless sea waiting for that little guy to
hand out the paddles.

Are you considering an ankle tattoo?

Thatch - return of the labour hacks

|2008-11-03 14:16:29

Would this tattoo represent some kind of symbolic reality? You commies are all
the same. So don't say that the raised red fist symbolizes autonomy. The red
star of conformity overshadows your powerless little red fist of delusional
independence.

Norman Brown - life against death

|2008-11-03 14:48:34

you guys are the most hopeless (and ridiculously farcical) combination of
idealism and realism that I've ever come across.

not very much fun running
round in all those circles of isms, is it?

Zlevel

|2008-11-03 15:28:45

So whats your ideal symbolism Thatch, the bloody red tooth and claw of the
miltary industrial complex fucking eviscerating foreigners as you obesely chow
down on another burger atop a wave of corporate greed ?

OuttaMyRange - love of death

|2008-11-03 15:25:21

Hey dont forget irony Norman or the fetish of the ' Bomb Them from 33,000 Feet
and post the movie on YouTube ' age, necrophilism.

Anonymous

|2008-11-03 16:01:01

I think the redstarfist is a more original tattoo, something for the gym rats to
gasp at, i went into a convenience store the other day with my chairman mao
messenger bag, and the clerk was really funny, he just jokingly blurts out,
"i can't sell cigarettes to someone that has a purse from communist
china." And we just laughed and laughed, and everyone in line gave us dirty
looks.

oskar

|2008-11-03 16:54:36

I remember that Che CD cover getting banned in Wal-Mart because it offended the
Cubans and for all the talk of the Latino vote going Obama's way there are
still a lot of rightleaning bumper stickers in the barrio

Devon - the far left merges with the far right- uh oh!

|2008-11-04 01:55:41

Zlevel and Thatch made a few good points, they belong up in the ring, but
some of the other comments just come across as cheesy and lame,
but what I really can't believe is that someone came on this board and
said that Bob Barr should be president! How do you attract these people? What kind of meta tags are you using????????

Jody	\|2008-11-04 07:01:42

' feral voices' and ' suffering' are the killer meta tags . Maybe we should add ' sex'and ' lame'.

Don - chattering chimps

|2008-11-04 13:17:05

It's the humour that attracts me to this site as well and I strongly suspect the authors are a couple of middle aged liberal
humanists who were too principled or dumb to make successes of
their lives and who now feel so embittered about their strained
circumstances and loser status that they now project their realistically
hopeless outlook on to the rest of us. You cant help but laugh, it is
hilarious!.

autotelic

|2008-11-04 14:14:20

I just found out saint karen ringtones are available online.

who would have
guessed?

And about the bitterness, we're aware of it, and we're dealing with
it.

Success is a relative term.

mckinley

|2008-11-04 16:15:36

ripping off music for ringtones ?... jesus, its gone way beyond relative -
success on the net is now infinitesimal!

Team_McCain - Safe Pair of Hands

|2008-11-04 21:43:56

You arrogant commie morons are going to look pretty stupid when McCain clinches
the deal.

Anonymous - who clinches pennsylvania

|2008-11-05 01:09:02

"And we're living here in Allentown!"

Anonymous - symbolic reality

|2008-11-05 01:50:14

I hope Obama wins Iowa. He worked the state twice as hard as McCain, had twice
the amount of campaign offices, and he reached out to the rural poor in a way
that McCain just isn't capable of. If Obama wins Iowa, I think it will feel
very special to him too.

Anonymous

|2008-11-05 02:06:25

Obama gets Iowa!
It speaks volumes!

Obama has intuition, that's all I
have to say...

D	\|2008-11-05 11:26:38

Iowa ,Watts , Allentown , Ridgecrest and Nob hill ..to the furtherst distant
places on the planet...long time coming, feel the Change.

SheilaB - incapacitated by Non-Change

|2008-11-05 12:54:56

It's going to be really difficult for some of you to process this but in
Schenectady ,NY I somehow managed to wake up for work again this morning deeply
depressed as usual and feeling totally underwhelmed by Change. Could this be
because I work as a supervisor for a large inpatient mental health service
provider?

StraightBayGuy

|2008-11-05 12:53:22

Whinging red sickos you've voted for a Marxist nightmare but at least Cali
said No to Gay marriage to prevent the virtual fucking Homo-isation of
the state.Down but not out, manifest destiny, God Bless the Real America

Anonymous

|2008-11-05 13:34:08

most people have never had a black boss, let alone a black president, this
desire for change is just too strong, as soon as it was announced that obama
won, I opened my front door to hear the distant sound of fireworks, horns
honking, screams, and the sound of drums.

There is a paradigm shift here, and
now we all have a chance to become more conscious.

TK	\|2008-11-05 13:49:58

The perception of America people have right now is of a people willing on great
Change and the above comment on the Race aspect of Obama's victory is spot on.
This is a paradigm shift and we're all invited to Change.

St Bernard

|2008-11-05 14:10:05

In 2 months and 17 days
President Bush will step
down.
I hope.

Junor

|2008-11-05 15:21:04

Anyone need a couple of spare tickets for a Billy Ray Cyrus Freedom Concert in
Montana tonight? No charge.

Anonymous

|2008-11-05 15:21:42

to our associates on the right: you can call us red sickos, but please, don't ever call us hippies!

admin #2 - Bobos Not

|2008-11-05 15:31:32

I hear what you're saying anonymous, who doesn't like the song 'aquarius', but I
don't want people to think that we're a bunch of nostalgic hippies that are
trying to recapture that other era.

We're not quite middle aged yet.

WillyNelsonLookalike - ....continued

|2008-11-05 16:19:13

Change!!!

and another thing, I been blasting out Dylan's
The-Times-They-Are-A-Changing all day as this situation we have here is
like the Labour Union Movement, the Anti-War Movement and the Civil
Rights Movements finally coming together. This is like 68 , the Summer of
Love, its maybe the Greatest Happening Ever.

Hey I wore a flower in
my hair back then and I am real proud to sport a Change! bumper sticker
right now. People are connecting , man. This morning I had neighbours
from right across the street who never spoke to me before shaking my hand
and hugging me as I was hosing down the car.

JillHoffmann - quit discriminating!

|2008-11-05 16:09:44

@anonymous

You're being very exclusive as I have personally found
this site link:http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/hippies forObama
very helpful
in clarifying the issues over the last few months.

Anonymous - the vicarious trustafarians

|2008-11-06 02:31:55

God I hate to sound like an asshole, but the trouble with a lot of middle class liberals is that they wouldn't
survive one day if they were forced to experience true
proletarian consciousness.......that's why they call it liberal guilt,
sure am glad that they voted for obama though!

sarah - once upon a time in vermont

|2008-11-06 03:04:37

you know that's actually a really good point, the college I went to was filled
with these so called radical left wing types, comfortable middle class
"hippies", and yes, some of them had really neurotic problems with
guilt, they tried too hard to try and understand the working class curse, and
they would go dumpster diving, shop at thrift stores, and still collect checks
from mommy and daddy every week. They would talk about Marx every chance they
got, in theory, so much fucking theory. They were kind of like weekend
warriors. They could talk about the suffering masses, but they didn't actually
feel it or know anything about it. I suspect some of them were recently on the
campaign trail with barbra streisand, cause you know, it makes for good karma.

vinny

|2008-11-06 03:28:25

well, we are a nation of proletariats...and that's exactly why some of the
"luckier liberals" struggle with guilt. It's easy for someone from a
working class background to see this, but the leftafarians run around in circles
asking, "why do I feel so guilty all the time"? They'd much rather
obsess over the question instead of taking a long hard look at what the answer
is. I don't know why it's so difficult for them to just say, "I've been
really fortunate." It sounded really awkward when Mrs. Clinton admitted how
lucky she's been, when she was still campaigning, but she finally had to admit
that she was fighting for the working class people, even though she herself
isn't even remotely working class, in terms of her roots.

Anonymous - "we've got nothing to be guilty of"

|2008-11-06 03:53:24

Mrs. H Clinton doesn't have anything in common with all those Brooklyn girls on
the downtown train.

But why should that matter? She has a following with
middle aged actresses and entertainers.

jillian - the hand that feeds

|2008-11-06 05:35:51

it's probably not such a good idea to start knocking some of the more fortunate
leftists, since these are the people that are probably going to help create more
opportunities for blue collar workers......it will be the new way of serving the
country, and perhaps also a way for liberal guilt to be expressed in a
productive manner, there was no money for social programs under the Bush regime,
and I hope that's all about to change.

And as Bill Maher said
today,
"congratulations socialists!"

jillian

|2008-11-06 05:40:30

I'm already excited thinking about the team that Obama is going to put together
over the next few months.

Thatch

|2008-11-06 05:53:17

Mia farrow as press secretary?

Those of us that didn't vote for nobama are
just as curious (and paranoid as fuck) about who his team players are going to
be.

SheilaB

|2008-11-06 12:06:03

Still no Change in this part of Schenectady and I'm about to power down my
system because the pc screen has just become a mirror of despair and I cant
think what depresses me more - desperately clinging to hope I dont believe in
or simply being incapable of making the most basic of human connections. I sure
hope Barack Obama doesnt feel as anti-climatic about Change as I do right now. I
had no idea life would be like this.No one ever talks about this Change.

SteveGilroy - class consciousness - the first wave

|2008-11-06 12:11:46

We're already seeing a growing awareness from politicians internationally that
they need to do more to reach out to ordinary people as Obama did. UK
Communities Secretary Hazel Blears has criticised career politicians who live
their entire lives on ' planet politics ' and said the UK needs a new
generation of ' working class ' politicians.

Talking at a conference on
political disengagement Blears said the political class should not be drawn from
a "narrowing social base" and more MPs were needed who knew "what it
is to worry about the rent collector's knock, or the fear of lay-off, so that
the decisions we take reflect the realities people face."

The Obama
campaign benefitted massively from its ability to reach out to people and into
communities and also tapped into 0 milion from a staggering 2.5 million
individuals much of it in small and regular amounts. This set a record in '
grassroots giving'.

Anonymous - nationalised proletarian consciousness

|2008-11-06 14:03:24

obama talked a lot about absentee fathers while he was campaigning, and how
this has left many people pretty disadvantaged, there may be a new
awareness on how living in such a dysfunctional country has had a
direct impact on the developmental challenges that so many have faced in
this nation........

i may be projecting my own stuff, but perhaps
the wounded and forgotten will now be given the chance to develop
their talents....with the help of the more fortunate guilty liberals

(don't react, I'm just making a joke)

phil	\|2008-11-06 15:22:34

I think i liked this website a hell of a lot more when you guys were still
actively thinking about offing yourselves in a suicide pact

paul - Anonymous - nationalised proletarian consciousne

|2008-11-06 16:53:26

ROFL @anon - maybe the Obama administration will ban the G Word

BigObamaFan

|2008-11-06 17:08:28

That would be something if the wounded and forgotten got a look in. Maybe.
I almost bought a book on attachment, child mistreatment and developmental issues in Borders today
but I felt uncomfortable and ducked out of the queue for the till at
the last minute convincing myself I'd order it from Amazon. I know I
wont. I picked up ' The Happiness Trap' instead as I've been smiling so much lately it
hurts.

bjorn

|2008-11-06 20:42:00

Just suppressing the urges phil, just suppressing the urges

Purist - way to go phil !

|2008-11-06 20:48:19

Yeah bring back sex, death and an update on where we are with the fembots as
I've had it with the bright new future already!

SheilaB - maybe...

|2008-11-06 21:13:22

Purist,

Do you live anywhere near Schenectady?

autotelic

|2008-11-07 03:34:30

hey phil, yeah I remember that we took the site down for a few weeks, that was a
very scary time for us, we came so close to ending our lives. And I think the
blow by blow documentation was actually what prevented us from extinguishing
ourselves (sorry!) Because of the documentation, we were able to re-evaluate
our situation, and that's why an irrational, compulsive, spontaneous suicide(s)
didn't take place......so here we are!

Look, anyone that takes a long hard
look at the human condition rarely walks away smiling.

And at this point, a
possible socialist agenda is really a bit of fresh air for me. With Obama, we
might start to see more social justice, so in terms of timing, now would not be
an appropriate time to check out.

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