I'd been hoping to wake up this morning and for the US election to already be over. Shame the time differences aren't quite different enough. This has certainly been the year I've come closest to ignoring it altogether, which has been refreshing. It's tedious to have to pay so much attention to something so totally outside of my control, while also tedious to have to pay so much attention to something whose outcome is ultimately probably quite unimportant for most of the world. The foreign policies of the two parties involved are just not different enough to matter.
I guess I could start caring on the basis of which party is most likely to have policies leading to a devaluation of their currency but frankly it seems like a waste of energy. I'm guessing whoever wins it'll be an ongoing race to the bottom that will continue to fuck the productive economy of my homeland while enriching its bourgeoisie and creating an ever-widening income gap that I plan to be on the money side of when I buy a second home there, but still deplore.
In that vein, Bad Lip Reading has been incredibly helpful.
I find this contextless absurdity to be such effective satire because the scripted nature of two-party politics in the US has become so painfully nonsensical and distant from practical policy that the dubs make about as much sense as actually listening to these people talk.
Say what you will about Australia, and there is a shitload of bad shit to say, and I say a lot of it. But - probably because of its smaller size, probably because the contagion of political puppetry hasn't wholly spread here yet, probably because Australia is just so fucking rich, probably because it's a multi-party proportionally representational parliamentary system, probably because the federal government plays a bigger role in day-to-day life here vis-a-vis the incredibly corrupt and inept individual states - there's still some sort of concrete relationship, even if a tenuous one, between what federal political leaders say and enacted policy. For now. And I've been enjoying it, and it makes US political posturing all the more tedious.
All that having been said, I'll be upset if the people who don't want women to be able to get abortions or birth control win. At 39 weeks pregnant, you appreciate like never before that no one should have to do this until or unless they really, really want to.
I guess I could start caring on the basis of which party is most likely to have policies leading to a devaluation of their currency but frankly it seems like a waste of energy. I'm guessing whoever wins it'll be an ongoing race to the bottom that will continue to fuck the productive economy of my homeland while enriching its bourgeoisie and creating an ever-widening income gap that I plan to be on the money side of when I buy a second home there, but still deplore.
In that vein, Bad Lip Reading has been incredibly helpful.
I find this contextless absurdity to be such effective satire because the scripted nature of two-party politics in the US has become so painfully nonsensical and distant from practical policy that the dubs make about as much sense as actually listening to these people talk.
Say what you will about Australia, and there is a shitload of bad shit to say, and I say a lot of it. But - probably because of its smaller size, probably because the contagion of political puppetry hasn't wholly spread here yet, probably because Australia is just so fucking rich, probably because it's a multi-party proportionally representational parliamentary system, probably because the federal government plays a bigger role in day-to-day life here vis-a-vis the incredibly corrupt and inept individual states - there's still some sort of concrete relationship, even if a tenuous one, between what federal political leaders say and enacted policy. For now. And I've been enjoying it, and it makes US political posturing all the more tedious.
All that having been said, I'll be upset if the people who don't want women to be able to get abortions or birth control win. At 39 weeks pregnant, you appreciate like never before that no one should have to do this until or unless they really, really want to.
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Federal Election I voted down ballot....but,
For the State elections, I cast a ghusty, boisterous, vote for banning birth control.
It will never end.
How's a down ballot different from a spoilt ballot?
You all'll be crying out of the other side of yor mouths if abstinence ever catches on.
I voted Libertarian because the biddies running the polling station caught a case of the vapors when I asked for a write in ballot.
I promise to you and all the internets that if ever a candidate runs on banning birth control...I will vote against him.
You never know. It might be a "her", who's decided the best way to win women over to the team from Lesbos is to make sex with men just too damn risky.
I'm certainly looking at women in a new light these days - they've never done things to me that have given me indigestion and about 40 extra pounds.
It was sweet of you not to give little old ladies the vapours. And I appreciate your attempt to vote for me, but I'm ineligible for office there anyways.
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