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lykomancerI don't usually write about news, or current events, or really anything outside of my daily life.
But I'm pretty damned pissed off at just about everything.
Sarah Palin is an unfunny date-rape joke. She's ignorant, unlearned, arrogant, and belligerent. She's white trash and proud. She thinks that killing animals and destroying land is fun and profitable; she's incredibly misogynistic; she's a moral hypocrite.
The economy doesn't need a boost in the form of rich white sell-outs receiving more money. They had money, and they lost it, and I don't want to be paying for this bail-out for the next ten years. I don't even make enough money to pay for my own mistakes, much less someone else's.
The Arctic ocean is a jacuzzi of methane gas leaking up through chimneys on the ocean floor, which had been capped with permafrost until recently. The permafrost melted due to global warming, and now all that methane-- which is about 20 times more potent a greenhouse gas than CO2-- is being released into the atmosphere.
Gas should be ten dollars a gallon. Public transit should be expanded. Hybrid and biofuel buses already exist. Build upon existing technology. We can build the fucking Large Hadron Collider but we can't make low-emissions, high-milage vehicles? Bullshit.
I don't know what to do. I want to scream but I don't know how. I'm surrounded by people who think that nonviolent action is meaningless. At this point I'd be grateful to see any action.
But I'm pretty damned pissed off at just about everything.
Sarah Palin is an unfunny date-rape joke. She's ignorant, unlearned, arrogant, and belligerent. She's white trash and proud. She thinks that killing animals and destroying land is fun and profitable; she's incredibly misogynistic; she's a moral hypocrite.
The economy doesn't need a boost in the form of rich white sell-outs receiving more money. They had money, and they lost it, and I don't want to be paying for this bail-out for the next ten years. I don't even make enough money to pay for my own mistakes, much less someone else's.
The Arctic ocean is a jacuzzi of methane gas leaking up through chimneys on the ocean floor, which had been capped with permafrost until recently. The permafrost melted due to global warming, and now all that methane-- which is about 20 times more potent a greenhouse gas than CO2-- is being released into the atmosphere.
Gas should be ten dollars a gallon. Public transit should be expanded. Hybrid and biofuel buses already exist. Build upon existing technology. We can build the fucking Large Hadron Collider but we can't make low-emissions, high-milage vehicles? Bullshit.
I don't know what to do. I want to scream but I don't know how. I'm surrounded by people who think that nonviolent action is meaningless. At this point I'd be grateful to see any action.
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Date: 2008-09-26 04:21 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-09-26 05:10 pm (UTC)Rawr.
Read "Boomsday". It's an amazing book that will get you fired up.
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Date: 2008-09-26 05:18 pm (UTC)I'm sick of feeling like my hands are tied. I work full time, I commute three hours a day, I sleep-shower-eat-etc. I don't feel like I've got enough time to be involved, and I don't know where to begin anyway.
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Date: 2008-09-26 05:23 pm (UTC)::nodnodnod:: I agree. Completely. Where do you make the first step? The sixties had sit ins and other protests that disrupted, but things like that don't work anymore. The only thing that talks is money, but it's so hard to get enough people together to make a difference.
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Date: 2008-09-26 05:29 pm (UTC)Money, or violence. It's sad but true. I can't even say that I write to my representatives, because I don't have the time to research the bills well enough to feel comfortable composing a letter. *sighs*
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Date: 2008-09-26 05:40 pm (UTC)So very true. And they don't read their letters; they line their cat litter boxes while you get ones in return thanking you for your attention and faith in the government to work on your behalf, even though it doesn't. I don't understand; we have so many people who think the things we do and want the things we do, but none of them ever run for president. Or they do, and then change all their views for their constituents.