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This little diddy comes to us from Live Leak and a poster named Iranian Candy which just draws a little smirk out of the corner of my mouth. Living here in a major metropolitan city, on the West Coast, in a predominatly blue state, with a real understanding about how the mainstream media and mainstream politicians attempt to brainwash us into believing their rhetoric makes me very aware of what this video is showing us. However, there are millions of people in this country who don't have a better understanding of the manipulation that goes on - which is not their fault - they just haven't been to the concept that could be mindblowing to them - and that is that we are constantly being pushed and pulled around at the whim of those who are in the position to keep us informed.
Or you could not think that deeply about it all and just laugh at what utter buffoons everyone looks like in this video saying the same words over and over and over again.
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Thank you so much for this Sloane! It really isn't their fault is it? Sometimes I wish I wasn't as aware as I am living here on the West Coast and all, but I just can't help it! How am I going to sit back and be manipulated just like that? Sometimes I wish I could go to those people in like Iowa or whatever and just shake them real good and say "WAKE UP! CAN'T YOU SEE THE WRITING ON THE WALL!!". But alas, even that wouldn't help, they just don't have a real understanding of things like you and I do. Sometimes at night I dream. In these dreams a gentleman with a golden frock approaches me and offers me the chance to rid myself of my knowledge of what's really going on, a return to innocence if you will... And you know what, in my dream, it's pretty tempting. I think about how nice it would be to be able to watch the news and not know exactly what's going on, it would be nice to join the commoners in a game of Scrabble without thinking "These poor sheep, how mindlessly and joyfully they chew their cud while corporate shepherds lead them to the cliffs of despair with their crooks made of the bone of fallen warriors" before I get another triple word score. But then at the same time I realize that I've been given this gift for a reason. To ignore it for moments of ignorant bliss would be irresponsible and immoral, I'd be not better than our omnipresent overlords. In the dream I tell the gentleman in the golden frock "No, I shan't return to innocence, my awareness is my strength, of with ye!" and at that moment his face melts away revealing likeness of Bush and Cheney melted together in one hideous Neo-con facial cocktail and both their mouths open revealing forked tongues that hurl acid towards me. Little do they know that my West Coast awareness makes their acidic lies powerless against me, as I can see everything, and thus in slow motion bullet time I dodge the venomous lies and with a swift roundhouse of I destroy the Bush/Cheney monster.
Then I awake. My sense of mission renewed.
Sometimes I actually feel as if those of us on the West Coast are like the guys in the Matrix who swallowed the Red Pill... the scant few who have the chance to save the world from our mechanized overlords simply because we had the balls, the foresight, and the genius to face the truth which is so mindcockingly obvious.
Flyover states - don't worry about a thing. We will save you whether you understand that or not.
If someone wasted their time putting together a video of all the times you've said some variation of, "I have to go color my hair," you'd look like a buffoon too. Wait, maybe you don't need a video for that -- lifestyle editor.
Is that all you guys do at the LAist; just pat each other on the back on what clever videos you found while surfing the web all day?
The smirk out of the corner of your mouth is the smug, self-congratulatory condescension overcoming you and all the liberals who love ghettoizing yourselves into blue vs. red states so that you can all wink and nod at each other guilt-free on Robertson while the world is becoming a more dangerous place.. and tell yourself, "my liberal blogger friend with no fact-checking skills whatsoever told me terrorists are just luck-dependents idiots and this is all fear mongering."
Sometimes I'm so aware that I miss things until 3 years later.
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FastEddie - you're right we're all shallow hipsters running around mocking everyone else and giving each other high fives in our renovated lofts.
No, we're citizen journalists who get to do one of the coolest things I ever heard of - share things with a large audience without being largely edited. We get to be interested and engaged about whatever we want and share it.
And so if I want to be smug or snarky, then Tony Pierce stands up and shakes his booty because he's excited that we're telling a story like we see it and not just being boring and predictable, like your comments and generalizations about our lives, and in particular, my life come off.
i saw this video like 4 years ago. thatta way to keep with the times sloane. in fact, maybe tony should start editing some of this stuff. LAist at one point seemed to report some cool shitz (still does) but now alot is old ass peepz well behind on shitz.
Well, Tyke, it's true we may be old ass peepz, but at least we're aware that "a lot" is two different words.
That may not mean much to you now (or should I say, it may not mean a LOT to you now), but I firmly believe that when The Rapture occurs, citizens of this earth will be separated not by good and evil, but by those who can spell "a lot" and those who cannot. Your choice: the Eternal Fires of Damnation or floating around on a fluffy cloud in the sky while topless virgins serve you ambrosia and manna.
And by peepz, you do mean those tiny little marshmellow Easter candies, right? I want to be the purple bunny peep! YAY MARSHMELLOWS!
Sloane, how is your post not boring and predictable? Do you think you're the first "blue stater" to claim that "BushCo" is manipulating the public and fear mongering by invoking 9/11 and Saddam Hussein? The point is that everything you've said is boring and predictable and it's this unedited quality that lets the drivel keep coming through when there should be a filter.
How come there's no YouTube clip posted of John Edwards trying to collude with Hillary to close the debates to other voices? Is that what you Blue Staters are looking for in a Presidential candidate?
What I'm pointing out is how ridiculous it is that you're smug about something that you deem "citizen journalism"... Journalism, whether by citizen or not, is finding original news and stories and reporting it in a balanced fashion letting people draw their own judgments. What you're doing is nothing more than somewhat-informed at best and ill-informed at worst column writing. Moreover, finding anonymous edited video clips doesn't constitute journalism.
Isn't Tony supposed to be an editor? Why doesn't he edit? Is his job just to say, "Who's going to write the predictable Bush is evil column today while I check PollStar to see who's playing the clubs tonight?"
cuz sp3lng mattrz evn 4t 4LL. lolz. gewd 1 kerry. old ind33d. + peepz r da werst.
The point is that Sloane outright said that she's better, smarter, and more aware than "millions of people". And that, my friends, is ripe for mockery.
Even if it were actually true (maybe it is, I don't know how these things are measured, maybe you citizen journalists can find out for me), such a bold declaration is the sign of an ego left unchecked. Can't a genius at least offer some humility to us, the envious braindead masses?
(Fred yeah sorry about that!)
Fast Eddie - Politics just riles people up. And that's fine. But their is a difference between a real debate about the issues and attacking people personally and I know that given a chance to do one over the either, this is just one more area that we would disagree on.
(Fred yeah sorry about that!)
Fast Eddie - Politics just riles people up. And that's fine. But their is a difference between a real debate about the issues and attacking people personally and I know that given a chance to do one over the either, this is just one more area that we would disagree on.
I hate the term fly-over states.
Bragging about percieved intellectual superiority - no matter who does it - is destructive. The fact is, that the millions of people who live in those states you dismiss wholesale are citizens of this country too. We all have to figure out how to live in this country together without insulting each other at every turn.