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http://lehti.samizdat.info/2008/11/05/2575/
(YLIOPISTO) Nuori intellektuelli ja filosofian ylioppilas Juha Pässi muistuttaa, ettei Barack Obaman valinnasta Yhdysvaltain presidentiksi pidä ilahtua. Pässin mukaan ilahtuminen osoittaa, että ilahtuja ei ymmärrä niitä todellisia prosesseja, jotka ohjaavat maailmaa.
“Koska kaikki ei muutu nyt heti aamulla leivoksiksi ja hunajaksi, ei minusta pidä ilahtua. Paljon fiksumpaa on esimerkiksi jutella muiden intellektuellien kanssa siitä, miten mikään ei kuitenkaan ikinä oikeasti muutu”, Pässi muistuttaa.
Nuoren intellektuellin ystäväpiiristä kukaan ei myöskään äänestänyt kahden viikon takaisissa kunnallisvaaleissa. Pässin mukaan he eivät katsoneet, että äänestäminen toisi todellista muutosta.
“Koska kaikki ei kuitenkaan olisi muuttunut heti aamulla vaahtokarkeiksi ja limonaadiksi, ei minusta kannattanut äänestää. Sen sijaan itse juttelin internetin keskustelupalstoilla siitä, miten mikään ei oikeasti muutu” hän pohtii vittumaisella nenä-äänellä.
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Paikallinen intellektuelli ei innostu Obaman voitostaKeskiviikko 05.11.2008 15:48
"Nation Finally Shitty Enough to Make Social Progress"Keskiviikko 05.11.2008 15:38
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/nation_finally_shitty_enough_to
Although polls going into the final weeks of October showed Sen. Obama in the lead, it remained unclear whether the failing economy, dilapidated housing market, crumbling national infrastructure, health care crisis, energy crisis, and five-year-long disastrous war in Iraq had made the nation crappy enough to rise above 300 years of racial prejudice and make lasting change.
"Today the American people have made their voices heard, and they have said, 'Things are finally as terrible as we're willing to tolerate," said Obama, addressing a crowd of unemployed, uninsured, and debt-ridden supporters. "To elect a black man, in this country, and at this time—these last eight years must have really broken you."
According to a CNN exit poll, 42 percent of voters said that the nation's financial woes had finally become frightening enough to eclipse such concerns as gay marriage, while 30 percent said that the relentless body count in Iraq was at last harrowing enough to outweigh long ideological debates over abortion. In addition, 28 percent of voters were reportedly too busy paying off medial bills, desperately trying not to lose their homes, or watching their futures disappear to dismiss Obama any longer.
Although polls going into the final weeks of October showed Sen. Obama in the lead, it remained unclear whether the failing economy, dilapidated housing market, crumbling national infrastructure, health care crisis, energy crisis, and five-year-long disastrous war in Iraq had made the nation crappy enough to rise above 300 years of racial prejudice and make lasting change.
"Today the American people have made their voices heard, and they have said, 'Things are finally as terrible as we're willing to tolerate," said Obama, addressing a crowd of unemployed, uninsured, and debt-ridden supporters. "To elect a black man, in this country, and at this time—these last eight years must have really broken you."
According to a CNN exit poll, 42 percent of voters said that the nation's financial woes had finally become frightening enough to eclipse such concerns as gay marriage, while 30 percent said that the relentless body count in Iraq was at last harrowing enough to outweigh long ideological debates over abortion. In addition, 28 percent of voters were reportedly too busy paying off medial bills, desperately trying not to lose their homes, or watching their futures disappear to dismiss Obama any longer.
Can't stop looking at this and cackling to myselfTorstai 21.08.2008 19:20
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