An introduction to perl programming in the context of the election

[usernamenumber]

Lesson 1:

perl -e 'print "No!" x 8000 . "You morons!!!\n"'

Repeat until you realize how fucked we are.

I've seen some people posting that pledge to not complain about the election results, not making comparisons to Big Brother, etc etc. Hell no. Forget about 1984 and all that, I'm not even going there. How about the fact that I am genuinely and with good cause more worried about an imminent terrorist attack in 2005 than I was in 2002? How about the fact that I now have to worry about who we're going to invade *next*? How about how many lives the imminent offensive in Falluja will claim? Or the fact that with no re-election bid to worry about Bush will be more conservative, more anti-gay and and even less "compassionate" than he's been to date. Is none of this worth complaining about to you people? If there really is that much red on the map then the blues need to stand up and fucking scream.

Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, we're responsible for this shit. We've condoned it.

Afghanistan, Iraq, the administration's constant doubletalk and, yes, flipflopping; As we speak the voice of America is being heard around the world and it's saying: "This is what we want".

Fuck not being upset about the results. How about being terrified of them?

Comments

[m-shell.livejournal.com]

...amen to that.

*seethes*

[hallucinosis.livejournal.com]

You make a good point; he probably will be meaner and dumber now that he doesn't have to worry about reelection. With the senate results, things are looking pretty bad.

The outrage will probably grow between now and the next election. Hopefully this election has made a lot of people more interested in politics--we need more people aware of what's going on around them. If things get worse, and they probably will, maybe more people will become charged to make change. The voter turnout was great this year.

I'm not hoping for small change, as we would have gotten if Kerry won, but for people to actually start voting for people they can agree with more than 50% of the time. The definition of what the republicans or democrats stand for is so complicated and vague these days that it seems almost absurd to even have political parties. I can pinpoint many issues that define these parties, but what do they stand for at the core? Being opposed to the other party? Winning elections?

Are people just going to fall back into apathy now that this election is over? I truly hope not.

[usernamenumber.livejournal.com]

The outrage will probably grow between now and the next election. Hopefully this election has made a lot of people more interested in politics--we need more people aware of what's going on around them. If things get worse, and they probably will, maybe more people will become charged to make change.

That's what I thought about the last four years and this election. I'm finding it really hard to believe in anything right now.