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jackshoegazer) wrote2008-02-19 01:49 pm
jackshoegazer) wrote2008-02-19 01:49 pm
Son of a bitch.
Is it really possible to viscerally hate someone you've barely exchanged four words with? This will be a vitriolic rant; be warned.
I fucking hate, I mean HATE this guy in my English class. He never pays attention to what's going on in class, constantly wears earbuds and holds up the class when he's called on since the teacher has to reexplain everything to him. The first day of class he called himself an "artist" and yet from what he's shared in class, is a complete shit writer. He's the guy who is doing the large peace signs and "STOP ALL WAR" scrawls in chalk on the buildings downtown near campus. He goes on rants about how he hates Hillary Clinton, even going to a talk Chelsea did, heckling her and holding up a sign saying, "HILLARY IS PRO-WAR." When Mike Huckabee was in town, his campaign bus right across the street from my school, he ran outside and started screaming about Huckabee being a racist and a fascist and a couple dozen other words I'm sure he only vaguely knows the definitions of. When he ran out of vague pejoratives, he started going on about how Huckabee is at least better than John McCain. Today in class, same as usual, not paying attention, et cetera, general annoyances, but then someone asked about where to vote in today's primary and he starts going off about how he went to the polls and got a ballot then tore it up in front of the poll workers and threw it away and then started bleating, "Baraaaaaaack Obaaaaaaama." The guy is a fucking moron, thinking he's so nonconformist and independent a thinker and is one of those people who will accuse anyone with an opinion nearing popular thought to be uneducated and brainwashed, yet his own beliefs are such obvious repetitive talking points and prejudices. Everything about him makes me want to punch him in the face. After his Obama bleating, I said "What a fucking moron." to myself and I think a few people heard me since a couple turned and smiled. I am going to have a very difficult time being objective when we start workshopping our writing.
Fuck.
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I fucking hate, I mean HATE this guy in my English class. He never pays attention to what's going on in class, constantly wears earbuds and holds up the class when he's called on since the teacher has to reexplain everything to him. The first day of class he called himself an "artist" and yet from what he's shared in class, is a complete shit writer. He's the guy who is doing the large peace signs and "STOP ALL WAR" scrawls in chalk on the buildings downtown near campus. He goes on rants about how he hates Hillary Clinton, even going to a talk Chelsea did, heckling her and holding up a sign saying, "HILLARY IS PRO-WAR." When Mike Huckabee was in town, his campaign bus right across the street from my school, he ran outside and started screaming about Huckabee being a racist and a fascist and a couple dozen other words I'm sure he only vaguely knows the definitions of. When he ran out of vague pejoratives, he started going on about how Huckabee is at least better than John McCain. Today in class, same as usual, not paying attention, et cetera, general annoyances, but then someone asked about where to vote in today's primary and he starts going off about how he went to the polls and got a ballot then tore it up in front of the poll workers and threw it away and then started bleating, "Baraaaaaaack Obaaaaaaama." The guy is a fucking moron, thinking he's so nonconformist and independent a thinker and is one of those people who will accuse anyone with an opinion nearing popular thought to be uneducated and brainwashed, yet his own beliefs are such obvious repetitive talking points and prejudices. Everything about him makes me want to punch him in the face. After his Obama bleating, I said "What a fucking moron." to myself and I think a few people heard me since a couple turned and smiled. I am going to have a very difficult time being objective when we start workshopping our writing.
Fuck.
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I should get to vote twice because of that dumbass. I pity you, honey. You should call him out about the earbuds next time. Say something like, "I'm surprised such an ardent nonconformist even buys into that materialistic icon of consumption."
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And yes, it is possible.
the bloody hell
Re: the bloody hell
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I hope your classes are still going well, though.
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Otherwise my classes are going great :D
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I can undestand that. One thing to keep in mind is that paper dolls only have one demision. If he's that much of a cause-head poseur personally then chances are it bleeds over into his writing like a ruptured aorta. Then you'll be able to critque him for getting on a soapbox with only a fraction of an argument.
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This reminds me ... I was at the train station to day, waiting for my train (there is a college campus near my office), and I saw a guy ahead of me with long black hair, black clothes, and a black trenchcoat. As he turned slightly I noticed from his profile that he had a black goatee. The girl beside him (c'mon, you can guess this) had dyed black hair, thick-framed glasses, and a black beret. Seriously - I had to stifle a laugh at their lovingly created "original bohemian" college student looks. (I realize this makes me sound a total bitch, making such a snap judgement, I'm sure they were really nice kids. But still.)
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I make the same kinds of assumptions about people every day. Sometimes I feel bad about it, but then I remember that me and my friends were doing the same shit a dozen years ago and others were doing it a dozen years before that. Once you're far enough away from it, you see how silly it all looks and wish you could just shake them and wake them up, or maybe I do at at least :P
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I have very good friends who have political views that are 180 from mine. Why? Because it's fun to talk to them and talk with them. People who spew forth words like "fascist" then when asked to define that word and the best they can come up with is "Ah..Ah..BUSH!!!! FUCK THE WAR!!!!" make me want to punch them in the head until they are a drooling mush head.
Oh not to hurt them but just assure they can never ever vote. I mean I want people to vote but have an actual fucking idea of what it is their voting for and not just what some left wing or right wing blogs spews.
Oh God I could rant about this topic forever.
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If I want to explain how Bush is a fascist, I'll talk about how fascism has spread in previous times, like creating external enemies, creating gulags, spying on your own people, harass counter-groups, controlling the press, et cetera, all things this Administration has done. Naomi Wolf wrote an article about it in much greater detail. Anyhoo, I agree. I don't care if people have views I disagree with, but it;s their damned tactics that bug me :P
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Be careful with trying to overwhelm him with logic; he can't see the forest through his reflection in the mirror. Instead, perhaps you ought to stand agape when he reads a piece he's written, then comment with all the mock sincerity you can muster -- dammit, man, I want an Oscar performance -- comment that you are floored by his "/SUB-i-til/ genus" [sic].
If he still doesn't get it, ask him his thoughts on Kirkegaard, then kick him in the balls.
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If I could bring myself to actually engage him in conversation, I know I could run circles around him with actual facts and probably lead him to prove my own points, but as I said, ultimately futile.
I might just skip Kirkegaard and go straight for the nut stomp.
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So now I won't feel so bad when I do a rant soon about this brainwashed superficial brainwashed generic occult-book-regurgitating satanist bitch my best friend is suddenly dating/f**king cause she looks like his ex, lol.
arghle
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And here I thought you were going to explain having some irrational, visceral dislike for someone you hardly knew... This guy, though, seems to deserve it. Destroy him and have fun with it, if you feel so inclined.
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I had a friend in college who was JUST LIKE THIS. I didn't fully realize it though until we got an apartment together and I got stuck in the lease with him for over a year. He thought he was going to be the next George Lucas and went around calling himself a "total pinko liberal commie" (as if that was something to be proud of) and driving around with a "Labotomies for Republicans Now!" bumper sticker, but in reality he was just a Star Wars dork whose understanding of liberal politics was almost as bas as his understanding of conservative politics. The crazy part is that he did the SAME THING to Bob Dole back in 1996 that the douche in your class did to Huckabee. He and another crazy friend of his put on women's lingerie and feather boas over their street clothes and went and shouted stuff at Dole from behind the police line. They weren't crossdressers or anything, they just thought that Dole was so prejudice and unstable that seeing them dressed like that would freak him out and cause him to embarrass himself in public and loose the election. Yeeeeah.
I'd love to have a chat with this guy. I'd scare the shit out of him. I've run the gamut from being a hardcore, Reagan-loving, Clinton-hating, Young Republican that fantasized about PETA members being mauled by animals.. to being a deadly serious, rabidly Bush-despising, quasi-bohemian militant who was totally prepared to shoot-to-kill at cops if they should try to invade the privacy of my home again.. to where I'm at now at (I hope) a reasonable, normal human in between point. Nobody was as sociopolitically crazy as I was and the only to be gained from that is the realization that "oh, extremes and fanaticism are bad." In this age of religious extremism, you think this guy would have gotten a clue by now.
Anyway, sorry about the length of this comment, but I just want to make it abundantly clear how right you are about this guy being a complete fucking moron.
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I'm glad you've found your balance. Though, God hates the lukewarm. Or so I hear. I bet that's kind of bullshit, actually.
My main beef with this guy is that 1) he's obviously not educated on "reality" especially political reality and 2) getting in these people's faces and offending them is NOT going to change their minds. Only time and thoughtful, convincing arguments are going to do that.