Comments | snickersnack: Lazing around on a lovely Saturday morning.

snickersnack

Lazing around on a lovely Saturday morning.

Feb 25, 2006 11:33

I don't watch the O.C. but I thought this was funny:

O.C. Spoof

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Before I rant about rallies and other shitty political things, let me sum up a few of my friends' thoughts on the matter.

( Le sigh. )

Comments 8

awildflowersoul February 25 2006, 03:58:57 UTC

hahahaha!!!

that's hilarious! and it's so well-done too..!

sps February 25 2006, 15:54:11 UTC

Of course. Except - I have reservations about the last phrase. Are national boundaries doing you any good? It's always seemed to me that, if not the cause, they are certainly the excuse for demagogues. I think the world stage is like the national one: multinationals desperately need controlling and ignoring them or even fighting them is not the most effective way of accomplishing this. We need to believe in the phenomenon-and in the potential-and develop new forms of governance that actually work...!

snickersnack February 26 2006, 03:24:18 UTC

About the last phrase ("buy Filipino goods"):

A significant bunch of those who have the spending power in this country ultimately prefer something foreign to something equally good, but made here. It's terrible.

I'm not saying we should troop out of our houses and burn down the multinationals. (But yes, I agree that there should be some way to control them.) I have an IBM laptop, I drive American and English cars. We can't produce these things, maybe we don't want to, and I think that's probably okay (I don't know if the economists would agree).

I guess all I want is for our people to acknowledge that we can make good stuff too. I hate it when certain people scorn locally made but okay things because they are, well, locally made. That's all.

sps February 26 2006, 20:27:03 UTC

Ah. Then I take back what I said :).

Here in Canada the environment is somewhat different. I don't think there are many people left who think that because it's American it must be fantastic. We do get a lot of people who can't understand that the continental economy is such that at equlibrium, 90% of the businesses would be US, so Canada would do well to work on having the 10% be first-class, competitive concerns. As I see it, that's almost independent of the question of whether that equilibrium is socially and economically desirable.

About that I'd say that Canada would be better served by becoming a more credible member of the entire international community, rather than becoming so cowed by the proximity of the US that it tries to withdraw into isolationism.

But here, we have riots about the WTO. We don't have them about much else; 'down with the WTO' is the thing that people are willing to hurl rocks over. And that is dumb, that is beyond dumb, because what the multinationals want is to place themselves beyond regulation. The ( ... )

sps February 26 2006, 20:30:05 UTC

Actually, that relates back more to the original topic, doesn't it? It is always worth remembering that it is your enemies who want you to riot. Then they get to shoot you in person and discredit you in the media. Doesn't matter if it's national politics, international economics, warfare, or tasteless cartoons.

Your friends do not try to get you killed.

aksvc February 25 2006, 16:13:27 UTC

My thoughts on rallies and politics...

"Can't we all just get along?"

im2pink4u February 26 2006, 06:44:20 UTC

the OC spoof was funny :D

pinkyhearts February 26 2006, 12:30:30 UTC

yes, pieceing all the rants/entries together nice.

but i do agree (think it was marsattacks who said this) that it's not as bad as some people think. it just really gets me how some people can put so much energy on something so senseless.

you're right, it's just le sigh all the way.