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Greens disown Nader. What does that tell you?
Nader doesn't really fit into the "banality of evil" model. He lays claim to another modernist discourse, that of nihilism. And you know what I am really sick of? Fucking white American priveleged activists (and I don't want to hear anything about how your papa worked in a mine and you are the first one in your family to go to college, or how you are not Really White because you are Jewish, if you are a white (yes, Jewish, too, yes, really) American activist, you are privileged) raising the old banner of outdated Marxist escalation-of-contradictions-leading-to-Revolution or whatever, translating into "Bush should win in 2004, that would radicalize people, it's good for the movement. Kerry winning will make people complacent." How ideologically sound of them to discount the pure quantitative difference between the number of people who will die under Kerry vs. under PNAC hawks. Yes, number fetish is gross, as demonstrated by the dramatic count-up of yesterday, up to the 1,000th dead soldier in Iraq (and at least 23 Iraqi civilians die for every soldier)...998...999...1000, break out the candles! I am sure this made the family of the 998th soldier feel disappointed, like their son or daughter was thisclose to being the Round Number that spawned a brief flurry of media attention, it's just like trying to not be bitter about a bronze medal. Anyway, so our radicals, like, don't care about numbers at all. Numbers are for pussies. Uh, pussies vs. sexxy Revolution: discuss. Number of walking dead, sentenced by Bush's impending coup part deux versus the same number of those living, perhaps to organize in a local, grassroots way, or to just take care of their families, or to just pick lint from between their toes. Dead vs. alive. How easily they dismiss the difference, literalizing their metaphores, "globalization and empire are just smaller forms of murder." Since they, themselves, probably won't be dying for the cause, at least not in the next four years, instead competing with each other for "arrest cred," it's easy to think about What Would Che Do, rather that how many thousands people will lose life or limb to cluster bombs. Because in a self-righteous mind of a radicalized Refuse & Resist-er the invasion of McDonalds isn't merely comparable, it is completely equivalent to violent, painful death in Iran or in Syria, or in whatever country comes next on the PNAC roadmap to global domination. Like, fuck you all. Go cream yourselves over Hero or something.
Nader's September Schedule Tells All: No Credibility to His Claims of Helping Defeat Bush
WASHINGTON - September 9 - Greens for Impact, a committee of elected officials and Green Party leaders, is dismayed to see that Ralph Nader's campaign schedule for September consists almost completely of battleground states, where his presence could aid in re-electing George W. Bush. From September 11th through September 18th, Nader will be stumping in the swing states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Colorado. This route cannot be coincidental and it in fact belies claims he made when first announcing his presidential candidacy: "This is a campaign that strives to displace the present corporate regime of the Bush administration."
On September 3, 2004, Ralph Nader's campaign issued a press release deconstructing President Bush's spin machine, entitled "Bush Rhetoric and Reality Are Two Different Things." Following this model, Greens for Impact seeks to figure out what could possibly motivate Nader to visit every swing state. Our analysis indicates: "Nader Rhetoric and Reality Are Two Different Things."
( They really, really are )
Nader doesn't really fit into the "banality of evil" model. He lays claim to another modernist discourse, that of nihilism. And you know what I am really sick of? Fucking white American priveleged activists (and I don't want to hear anything about how your papa worked in a mine and you are the first one in your family to go to college, or how you are not Really White because you are Jewish, if you are a white (yes, Jewish, too, yes, really) American activist, you are privileged) raising the old banner of outdated Marxist escalation-of-contradictions-leading-to-Revolution or whatever, translating into "Bush should win in 2004, that would radicalize people, it's good for the movement. Kerry winning will make people complacent." How ideologically sound of them to discount the pure quantitative difference between the number of people who will die under Kerry vs. under PNAC hawks. Yes, number fetish is gross, as demonstrated by the dramatic count-up of yesterday, up to the 1,000th dead soldier in Iraq (and at least 23 Iraqi civilians die for every soldier)...998...999...1000, break out the candles! I am sure this made the family of the 998th soldier feel disappointed, like their son or daughter was thisclose to being the Round Number that spawned a brief flurry of media attention, it's just like trying to not be bitter about a bronze medal. Anyway, so our radicals, like, don't care about numbers at all. Numbers are for pussies. Uh, pussies vs. sexxy Revolution: discuss. Number of walking dead, sentenced by Bush's impending coup part deux versus the same number of those living, perhaps to organize in a local, grassroots way, or to just take care of their families, or to just pick lint from between their toes. Dead vs. alive. How easily they dismiss the difference, literalizing their metaphores, "globalization and empire are just smaller forms of murder." Since they, themselves, probably won't be dying for the cause, at least not in the next four years, instead competing with each other for "arrest cred," it's easy to think about What Would Che Do, rather that how many thousands people will lose life or limb to cluster bombs. Because in a self-righteous mind of a radicalized Refuse & Resist-er the invasion of McDonalds isn't merely comparable, it is completely equivalent to violent, painful death in Iran or in Syria, or in whatever country comes next on the PNAC roadmap to global domination. Like, fuck you all. Go cream yourselves over Hero or something.
Nader's September Schedule Tells All: No Credibility to His Claims of Helping Defeat Bush
WASHINGTON - September 9 - Greens for Impact, a committee of elected officials and Green Party leaders, is dismayed to see that Ralph Nader's campaign schedule for September consists almost completely of battleground states, where his presence could aid in re-electing George W. Bush. From September 11th through September 18th, Nader will be stumping in the swing states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Colorado. This route cannot be coincidental and it in fact belies claims he made when first announcing his presidential candidacy: "This is a campaign that strives to displace the present corporate regime of the Bush administration."
On September 3, 2004, Ralph Nader's campaign issued a press release deconstructing President Bush's spin machine, entitled "Bush Rhetoric and Reality Are Two Different Things." Following this model, Greens for Impact seeks to figure out what could possibly motivate Nader to visit every swing state. Our analysis indicates: "Nader Rhetoric and Reality Are Two Different Things."
( They really, really are )
