election night

[egypturnash]

I probably have better things to do than idly refresh election results pages. But cnn.com managed to sum up this stuff so damn succinctly: here's what's needed for majority, here's the change. So far it's looking like nothing for the Republicans, which makes me happy. I voted about how you'd expect a pink-haired transsexual in a polyamorous relationship to vote - Democrat in races involving a Republican, and mostly Green in races that were not, because I feel the Democrats have really let the Republicans frame the terms of their debate way too much, and drifted far enough to the right in their pursuit of those just to the left of the current GOP's base that they're quite possibly to the right of me.

The voting involved filling out huge paper ballots, too. Hooray for paper trails.

Meanwhile, I've started fooling with Hash Animation Master. Installation and a couple tutorials, so far...

Comments

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

Amen to that. Also, I'd like the political axis to orient itself libertarian vs. socialist rather than plutocrat vs. plutocrat/theocrat. If we ended up with libertarian socialism, I wouldn't weep too much. ;)

[eriscontrol.livejournal.com]

Libertarians seem to be what the Republicans once were and generally claim they still are (except with the added religious baggage). Socialism is tempting. Very tempting.

One of the less important but still-present things that pisses me off about the current parties is their respective stances on video games. Nearly fucking identical! I especially have it out for (Hillary) Clinton and Lieberman in the democratic party, because it's the major party that otherwise makes me the least nervous, but they hate video games and people who play them as much as any republican.

I'd love to go tell them in person about all the terrible, violent video games that I played in my life, like Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil, Doom, Grand Theft Auto (all of them), Quake, Halo, Conker's Bad Fur Day, several of those generic World War II games… jesus goddamn christ, I could never bring myself to hurt or kill another human being. I hurt animals like a fucking Buddhist hurts animals. You don't leave these games with anything that you didn't have before you started playing.

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

Hear hear on the lack of difference between the parties. Nobody in the political mainstream, for instance, seems to question that we need more cops, more jails, and more drug law enforcement.

As for video games -- I don't see anything terribly repressive happening there. We're talking about _business_, and in this country business wins out over moral panics. The game companies seem to have formed up a decent lobbying group, and they don't want to have to march their games through a government censorship office.

[eriscontrol.livejournal.com]

For once I am in favor of the big business (actually, no, that's a lie. Just in favor of something they're doing). Of course nothing repressive is happening yet because we haven't given the major parties enough time to form into the Grand Unified Überparty and establish a dictatorship wherein they pretty much fuck everyone in the ass who isn't part of their little inner circle! ;) Do you believe that? I don't really. Yet!

Huh. I guess Lieberman isn't a democrat; I thought he was, but I stopped paying attention to him when I realised he was a nut.