Gravity Collapse » united states http://www.gravitycollapse.com from Marc's brain to yours Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:58:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 On Obama http://www.gravitycollapse.com/2008/11/on-obama http://www.gravitycollapse.com/2008/11/on-obama#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:52:22 +0000 gravitycollapse http://www.gravitycollapse.com/2008/11/on-obama OK, not literally. But I thought I’d write a few words about Obama after the election, and then I ended up so busy that it sort of never happened. I could wait until the inauguration to write about this, in that most apropos of moments, but now is just as well, while the President-elect goes about the business of choosing cabinet members and managing “the transition”, as the robotic American news anchors keep regurgitating from the teleprompter.

It’s funny, I am extremely politically active, in that I engage in political debate and discourse with my friends almost constantly, although I would never work on someone’s campaign. I’m sitting in half a world away from my home country, but thanks to VoIP, talking to my friends back home costs very little, and we were burning through minutes and hours talking about McCain’s head-scratching tactics, about the Barbie doll vice presidential candidate, about the brawl between Hillary and Barack in the primary, etc. and so on.

Though those close friends who sat through my endless wind-baggery know full well my seemingly contradictory political beliefs (which are really only contradictory when viewed through the idiotic prism of American political theater), more casual acquaintances or business associates really don’t have a feel for my politics, because I usually play those cards close to my vest, so to speak. Therefore, it may surprise some that I am not a progressive.

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]]> http://www.gravitycollapse.com/2008/11/on-obama/feed 0 Learn to keep your mouth shut http://www.gravitycollapse.com/2005/07/learn-to-keep-your-mouth-shut http://www.gravitycollapse.com/2005/07/learn-to-keep-your-mouth-shut#comments Mon, 25 Jul 2005 22:07:25 +0000 gravitycollapse http://www.gravitycollapse.com/mesolimbic_reward_center/?p=31 The linked story discusses Manlin Chee, a Chinese-American immigration attorney. In a nutshell, she was put in jail for a year because the FBI set her up and she filed some papers for them that she shouldn’t have. The more interesting bit of the timeline is that the FBI’s “sting” came after she had participated in a PATRIOT Act forum, in which she (rightly) decried the legislation as a violation of Americans’ constitutional rights.

This brings up an interesting point, as America inches closer to a kind of ‘corporatized Stalinism’. We Americans are going to have to learn how to keep our mouths shut.

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