Mark: on a scale of 1 to really fucking funny, how humorous are you finding the election coverage me: I'm not watching it, no TV, and even if I had one I've on strike against democracy me: only bloodshed will satiate my burning hatred of this country and its degenerate people Mark: well put me: I'm probably going to start spying for the Chinese Mark: well, maybe a bit m ore active than i'd be game for Mark: i'm pretty sure that with the teatards me: at least they appreciate competence Mark: they'll do a pretty good job of fucking themselves over Mark: no need for assistance me: who? Mark: the tea partiers/americans Mark: the level of stupidity out there in the country Mark: i mean, it's impossible to exaggerate Mark: rand paul's acceptance speech Mark: it was like someone creudely cut and paste random Cato blog entries together me: lol Mark: it was the most trite, hackneyed, bullshit libertarianism I've ever heard, it was like a bad joke Mark: he literally said Mark: "we all either work for rich people or sell stuff to rich people, so let's not punish rich people" Mark: when asked if he wanted to raise taxes on the top 2% me: he must have meant "we" as in "we in Congress" Mark: oh no, he meant all americans Mark: pretty explicitly stated that "everyone" worked for rich people me: I know, I'm kidding Mark: (i guess rich people all work for themselves?) me: I mean they operate in large part as proxies for various interests me: which isn't even the problem, really me: the American people should all be drafted me: since they're so concerned about jobs and have entirely forgotten about the two wars they started Mark: hah Mark: that's a jobs program that i could support me: and that they don't feel like paying for Mark: well, to the extent that jonah golberg supports it Mark: which is to say Mark: all the little people msut go and fight and die Mark: i get to stay here and write bullshit Mark: and eat cheetos me: god damn that guy's a fucking chump-ass faggot Mark: i actually wrote him an e-mail Mark: the other day Mark: because he wrote some gloating little post Mark: about how apparently hitler was a communist for like 2 years right after WWI Mark: i said Mark: "joseph stalin was an ORTHODOX PRIEST me: I seem to recall we talked about how they don't respond to shit me: good point, though Mark: does that mean that he was secretly a religious fanatic all of those years he was mandating and violently enforcing state athiesm? me: also me: look up what the pope said about mussolini back in the early days me: he fucking loved him me: you have to hand it to Catholics Mark: exactly it's just Mark: if you selectively quote people me: they play pretty hard with the shittiest hand Mark: you can get them to support pretty much anything Mark: i could selectively quote from joseph stalin's writings Mark: and make him appear as a peace-loving, moderate, rationalist Mark: now he was actually batshit insane Mark: but it's really easy to make a cast if you don't even pretend to be intellectually honest