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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
since you ask
over the years, i've worked on things like:
- human rights (got tired of sending letters to governments and other shit)
- labor organization
- war protests (not just marching but organizing)
- rural electrification (satisfying, but not without side effects)
- voter registration (yeah, you don't approve, you prefer emperor-messiahs)
- affordable housing at municipal & state level
- university politics (both college + grad school... both largely pointless, but good for the experience)
- environmental crap. both advocacy and fieldwork.
- public health seems to be a recurrent theme. i'm currently involved in this through work and i can see the value of federal policy as it trickles to the community level.
- other shit i can't remember at this hour, fuck, i had a long day at work.
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i've seen with my own eyes that people are rotten everyehwere, and they are good everywhere. the "machine" operates at every level, local work is connected with local politics and it goes up the chain to city, state, national, international, and everybody has a fucking ego, wants more power, has issues.
still, there are people who do, and there are people who just whine about it from the sidelines. fuck your useless good for nothing "nihilism". if things are so bad do something about it instead of crying like an internet bitch. stop trying to be a saint and a prophet and fucking do something instead.
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You can call me a bitch, and you can pretend I only do this on the internet, but as you've pointed out from your experience, you and me both know I'm right on this. What I have been antagonizing on this thread is not the obvious reality of the ineptitude and inherent corruption of our political machinery, rather, its that folks like you who damn well know better still seem to shrug your shoulders can carry on perpetuating the myths. I know, you're tempted to believe them, they seem so very real, but as you've said, from your very real experience you know they are just that, myths. There is some truth to myth, and fact sometimes more truth in myth than fact. However, in this instance, the substance is the opposite. I applaud what you've done, keep it up, but stop being counter-productive to your own successes by promoting lame ass political partisanship and bullshit political jingoism and fear mongering
You can badger me all you like, it won't make me feel bad or suddenly vote for Barack, it only makes me wonder how you manage to live inside your own head with all that cognitive dissonance..