[X] My Assistant

This is directed at everyone: Y'ever go back, read your first post and just remember how big a faggot you were?

Every day. I had it printed and hung it on the wall.

I enjoy when Dlaglacz lets loose and gets sassy.

It's a rare sight, but I do, as well.

This is directed at everyone: Y'ever go back, read your first post and just remember how big a faggot you were?

I'm not really much different from then.

Not really.

I look back and wonder why I became such a cynical and bitter fuck but it's alright cause I don't mind being a cynical and bitter fuck.

At least you're in good company not awful.

So? My goal is not personal gain.

In my view, a politician has to have popular support, ie. large number of people, usually in big associations/societies/grouped homehow, who support his election to office. Else he doesn't get elected. To get that popular support, he has to make all those people think that him being elected will make the world better for them. However, these people have wildly varying viewpoints and each of them aims for a different world. He can't please them all, or even major fraction of them by speaking his mind, because every voter will find something in the politician that's not fitting, and politician's opposition will do a good job of highlighting those differences to the public. So, to become elected, politician has to maintain public image, carefully engineered to entice the greatest number of people and repel the least. He has to be a master in this activity, and he has to keep it up all the time while he's staying in the office, usually for decades. As a result, most successful politicians have no time to know anything else about society and fixing the government, no particular talent in that direction, and often their own convictions with which they werre starting the career have been eroded to nothing.
I think that it's those talented specialists in economy and other fields which are employed in service of the government who really make the world livable, knowing how it all works, advising president after president and staying on their positions after new president's reelection. If you want to change the world, in my opiion you'd do better to aim at becoming such specialist, in economy or army, lower in hierarchy, invisible to the crowds. The news names are just a shiny on top. By the way, those specialists aren't elected in democratic process, they're chosen by their superiors after performing well on their previous post. That works.

This post has been edited by Dlaglacz: Jan 12 2011, 13:43

Public opinion on a politician varies greatly just on location. I moved so that I could be in a more favorable area for points of view I typically hold. The congressman in my district is a progressive. He voted against the Iraq war, supports gay rights, doesn't hate immigrants, supported health care reform etc. In Florida, my congressman pandered to the people that elected him, that is to say, southern Baptists.

In some cases, speaking your mind and making known your beliefs can be enough to get you elected if a larger majority share those same beliefs, and again, that can change dramatically just based on your location (especially in regards to American politics). Do I honestly ever expect to be president? No, unless there is a huge shift in the way people think within the next 30 years, I wouldn't even catch a look. But local politics, congress or senate? There's always hope with that since all you have to do is speak to the people around you and hope that you're in a city/district/state that agrees with you most of the time.

Public opinion on a politician varies greatly just on location. I moved so that I could be in a more favorable area for points of view I typically hold. The congressman in my district is a progressive. He voted against the Iraq war, supports gay rights, doesn't hate immigrants, supported health care reform etc. In Florida, my congressman pandered to the people that elected him, that is to say, southern Baptists.

In some cases, speaking your mind and making known your beliefs can be enough to get you elected if a larger majority share those same beliefs, and again, that can change dramatically just based on your location (especially in regards to American politics). Do I honestly ever expect to be president? No, unless there is a huge shift in the way people think within the next 30 years, I wouldn't even catch a look. But local politics, congress or senate? There's always hope with that since all you have to do is speak to the people around you and hope that you're in a city/district/state that agrees with you most of the time.

Kleenex for prez.

Oooooh, the 13th is shaping up to be a glorious day.

Well, is it?

Heading far south to see Patton Oswalt perform. Leaving at around 3pm CST.

ADDENDUM: Also, my new guitar and amp are coming in, today.

This post has been edited by radixius: Jan 13 2011, 20:54

Does he act alone? Hah. Nobody will get that joke.

Sounds sexy. Wanna do some internet-jamming? I actually don't mean cybersex, by the way. And I made that word up right now, too, I think.

Sounds sexy. Wanna do some internet-jamming?

I'll keep in touch when I get my robe and wizard hat.

Oh, please do touch.

How many posts does it take to get the EXP bonus? Serious question. i don't wanna carpet the spamhaus board 50 times when i don't really need to.

A: Nobody who frequents FSZ enough gives a shit to find out.

A: Nobody who frequents FSZ enough gives a shit to find out.

Truth.

Hey, everyone. *waves*

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Tell me you took that picture.

I wish. If I did, there would probably be penis in it.

Someday you'll make us all happy, cmal. I know it.

A: Nobody who frequents FSZ enough gives a shit to find out.

10 Then? Oh ok. Thanks rob!

Fucking fuckity fuck fuck fuck.