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jackshoegazer ([personal profile] jackshoegazer) wrote2008-02-19 01:49 pm
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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.

/rant

[identity profile] violet-meeks.livejournal.com 2008-02-20 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
I'm creeping out here to say I'll bust him up for ya.

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.

[identity profile] jackshoegazer.livejournal.com 2008-02-20 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
I agree. In this day of the 24-hour news cycle, pundits, spin, etc, everything has to be whittled down to a 5 second blurb and it really bothers me that people consider themselves politically savvy because they've memorized all the talking points.

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