This sign advertising the republican primary is actually still up, but even the actual election sign only offers “cut taxes” as any indication of what this person will do and I suspect the sign’s keeper didn’t notice the difference. Although “cut taxes” is loads more information than these signs typically give.
Stefanowski is running against Ned flippin-dippin Lamont, who I complained about in 2006 as also having nothing new to say or contribute. As with the 2014 election, I do not think it matters which one of them gets in. Ned of course won the democrat gubernatorial primary on the strength of not winning the previous Connecticut election he was in for a lower office.
My brother Een produced a song parody that I don’t totally understand. It depicts Ned Lamont in a ludicrous fashion, but treats Stefanowski in a sincere and serious fashion even though he is just as much a red/blue stereotype as his opponent. And then does it to the tune of a song by someone whose prime fans are cartoonishly devoted to the opposition party. But Ian came and jump started “my” car when I was stuck in the miserable Walmart parking lot yesterday because I hate driving a car and every aspect of it exists to spite me, so I know Ian is a decent person. Would Bob Stefanowski help me get away from Walmart?
As usual, the only candidate who actually proposes anything is the one who isn’t supposed to be allowed to win, Oz Griebel, and wasn’t supposed to even be allowed to debate but slipped into one on a technicality when people running the venue were under the impression he was a great and powerful wizard.
Which is not to say I believe in Griebel, but of the three he offers something that can potentially be believed in. I don’t believe in anyone anymore who I cannot directly interact with.
I had wanted Trump to win the nomination in 2016 and gut the party because I underestimated republicans’ ability to be party members first and humans second. I also underestimated the democrats’ ability to pander and regress themselves to try and compete with that. People that get retweeted at me simultaneously say “you’re part of the problem” if you don’t vote for what you believe in and also that you’re “throwing your vote away” if you don’t vote for the sad compromise that they order you to take. I might as WELL vote for a wizard. Half these people are corrupt imbeciles, and the rest are running for office.
Ned Lamont has an unusual bonus this time in that some group has paid for and distributed sarcastic campaign signs announcing that he is “for taxes and tolls” even though only Griebel is openly in favor of tolls. They are obviously fake signs because the real Ned signs don’t say he is for anything. We only know that he is the white guy with a three letter name who is NOT going to cut taxes, and with the people I know, that might just be enough. Even though they don’t actually pay all the taxes because they get their wages in cash off the record.
I do not have a picture of these signs because I only see them when driving.
I hate driving. But I also hate having so many pictures that I cannot finish what I am writing because I want to insert them all. But I hate even more describing something that would work better if I had a picture of it. You know what I like? Lo mein. I believe in noodles.
I actually don’t mind paying for road improvements because I hate driving and would like to feel slightly less like I am going to suffer imminently every time I do it. My issue with tolls is that paying them is terrifying because it requires getting in a specific lane and having a specific amount of money and probably having somebody behind you angry at you for something beyond anybody’s control. Or you have to pay a fee to get a special automatic toll-paying brick from the government, even though the point is to help THEM get money from you more easily. I would rather mail Ned a dollar every week, and I hate mailing almost as much as I hate driving. I will vote for the candidate that will institute a statewide pneumatic tube system so I do not have to drive again.
Although the previous winner, Dan Malloy, declined to seek re-election because he was so tired of people complaining about the non-job he was doing, that gives me no hope that the next job-haver will do a better non-job.
(Ian ALSO has a song about Dan Malloy, and I like this one better because Ian sings it himself and it isn’t to the tune of something I can tell he doesn’t care about, but you wouldn’t know it without excavating it from facebook because the unaltered music from the original song that Ian sang over got it blocked on Youtube which I discovered just now. And then the video shills for some local radio dorks whom I doubt have his best interests in mind)
Grimbedly poketer, nobody complains more than people who win and get what they what.
Something that is “really popular” obviously is liked by more people than hate it. These scumbags get to smear their essence on everything while pretending to be victims.
This guy is set for life and was putting out the narrative “anyone who doesn’t like this thing that I made is a hater” in ADVANCE of it being available, –literally assuming it WOULD get popular because it was already crowdfunded for more money then I will smell in six lifetimes– and people that I KNOW are repeating this years later like that is to his credit, IN ADVANCE of whatever other thing he made more recently, even though the first thing ended up just about the most loved and inescapable heap of happy hype plopaganda relative to the amount of effort involved that may have ever existed and everyone involved has a mutually beneficial situation.
You know what happens if someone who actually is hated complains about being hated? Nothing, because people actually hate that person!
This forklogan who is only ACKNOWLEDGING THAT THIS HAPPENED is exponentially more loved than I have ever experienced! And doesn’t even watch the page, judging from its own screenshot, only leeches off it.
I don’t have a choice to not know or to form an independent opinion on the pertinent matter, which i have personally dumbed “Dintydoone” so I can pretend it is a combination of my favorite inexplicably named supermarket products that also thrive without me ever buying them. I only know it is there because I try to force myself to deal with things that I would rather not be aware of, to give an amount of consideration to the people who come to me, because I worry that avoiding what my instincts tell me are bad news makes me look like an unkind person, and my inability to function when put in that position has made me LESS kind. I don’t have a choice to simply not be interested, even though if I mention what I like I get gloated at like “ho ho I’ve never even SEEN that” like it’s an accomplishment that they haven’t, if I get acknowledged at all, which I probably won’t be. Maybe, MAYBE we are BOTH have a right to like different things. I don’t understand how this is a foreign concept. Of course our political system is preposterous: THESE are the people the candidates have to reach.
And I can’t just not use twitter because the websites that make sense were thoroughly devalued when every person who already gets what they want vacated those sites in favor of ones like this where nobody EXCEPT them can do so.
Do i overreact? Yes absolutely! This is a consequence of a life spent as a square peg trying to get through a round hole when I am actually a tea kettle, and now the culture is dictated entirely by square pegs which includes the hole which is also now square. My only hope is to avoid it entirely. I don’t mind people having their fun and their own personal false gods. They can be furries and bronies and John Balbonies but it is imperative that they be people foremost, and accept that no frivolous expenditure of time can have unanimous approval. Whatever the case I won’t beat myself up anymore for not liking enough stuff that I have no foundation on which to like, and hopefully I won’t make [as many] spiteful drawings on the topic, either.
At least the Hamilton guy, who came into and ruined a piece of my life equal in size around the same time has humility about his fame and considers that it is something of a fluke, even if his creative work comes from the perspective of the abrasively unhumble. He knows, on some level, that is garbage and only for show. I don’t know if he tries to communicate that to his fans, but he definitely wasn’t on 60 minutes 4 times warning people that there is something wrong with them if they don’t like his annoying songs. I bet he would jump start my car even if he read this first, although he might jump ON the car and sing a few lines from Man of LaMancha as punishment for my besmirching attitude.
I heard a [different] song, again, without wishing to, whose primary lyric was “i wish that i could be like the cool kids. like the cool kids.” no rhyme, just that over and over again. While this seems in conflict with “i’m a nerd and i’m cool” and thus a distinct personality type, both speak of a feeling of subjugation. “I’m not cool, I’m not good enough” & “I AM cool, other people who think they are cool actually aren’t.” People in the first group aspire to be the people in the second group. Both see themselves as nerds that society does not approve of, and both are disingenuous. If your song is on the radio and I hear it at the laundromat, you ARE the cool kids. And then if you say you are a nerd, then I have said this before.
Oh chads. Having a prefabricated message from nobody that mysteriously speaks in the first person and that is sent to every single actual person regardless of merit or attempt at it has thoroughly appeased my desire to be appreciated, and so I go out and vote for my favorite factor of purple now.
which is convenient since I literally cannot determine a thing about either of these people beyond that one is a lawyer and the other filed for bankruptcy in 2010. I have to think if somebody WANTS to be the dintdooned registrar of voters they would have a reason for it, or at the very least some piece of personal information they would want me to know before I knew they filed for bankruptcy.
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Indighost sez:
I too hate undertale with a vicious passion, but that’s not only because it’s popular but also because an army of hyper-sexualized clones of its characters infest f-list.net whereas I would rather encounter geuinely original hyper-sexualized characters.
Frimpinheap sez:
People who hate this thing because it is popular have a completely different way of thinking and set of ideals than I do. The person who first told me that it existed closely monitored all news of it because he was obsessed with hating things. I would prefer to never have known!
I hate being forced to have an opinion on it even though I have no business doing so. It is made for other people, like rave music, beer can hats or daytime talk shows. I can get along with such persons so long as we don’t talk about our hobbies. But on the internet of this decade, the stuff you claim to like is ALL that matters!
My concern is when people fall into place and just homage whatever is shoved at them, whether they like it or not, and whether it is sexual or not! Thinking for yourself is not encouraged unless you already have a mob on your side or are creating an openly derivative work. They don’t seem to realize they have created a class system even in their fantasy “communities.” I feel like those who have cautiously avoided me for years and years attach to stuff like this instantaneously without evaluating it in any way. And beyond that, I get treated like *I* am the one holding back progress if I protest this at all. This is a really stupid form of fascism. But stupid little things can still hurt, and can lead to stupid big things.
I hate this thing not for being popular, but for underlining that nothing less than full uncritical embracement of the popular is granted value.
Fribribbindudle even when they claim to hate or not care about it they will still perpetuate its presence because they want to leech off it. I have seen that with pokemon also. That is NOT GOOD!
Indighost sez:
I agree with ya. People LOVE things that are popular and LOVE to uncritically cling to popular things. Welcome to the human race, man :)
Frimpinheap sez:
It is not anything new but I feel like it happens more intensely than before. The internet used to be a somewhat equalizing force but it seems to increasingly resemble the hierarchies which came before it, as single entities have more influence and users as a whole become more like each other.
guidoVegeta sez:
I feel that intensity too, although at first glance it just looks like another case as Freddy and My Little Pony. It’s telling of how fast social media platforms work to spread things these days. Years ago I decided to generally keep away from pop culture. I was right then, but today it finds me somehow, even though I barely keep any social media accounts.
To me, it’s another alarming reminder of how cancerous meme culture can be. It’s the nature of the beast to create like minded people who all channel the same idea, which is dangerous on the Internet because there are no “house rules” about user behavior. We can only have that in smaller forums within the net, with mods/admins that set ground rules about such behavior. There are no standards, no age or maturity limits when you’re on the computer connected to the rest of the world. People are free to run wild here shouting the same tired jokes like lemmings, and of course there will be those hacks like Toby Fox who put minimal effort in their games and fill it to the brim with unfunny jokes to monetize this primitive, collective aspect of humans. I hate it too, but it’s a sad fact of life.
It’s getting more apparent that a growing number of people show absolutely no purpose in life. People hate being left alone, and they will always want to be part of the “in” club so that they don’t feel left out. But at the same time they don’t want to work to make any original jokes. Meme culture grants these them both wishes. And when they spend so much time with like minded people, their sensitivity to the “outsiders” who dare criticize the subject of their adoration or themselves increases exponentially like a stretched rubber band waiting to snap at the slightest touch. And the fascist march against the “non-believers” begins.
My fear is that people like us who don’t get on with this meme culture and are not afraid to say it are getting increasingly rare. I hope that’s not the case.
Frimpinheap sez:
People favor what they already like. When they have access to all content, they have no reason to give a chance to anything which is a tad unusual. And so smaller amounts of people have greater and greater influence and more and more in common with each other. disney owns perpetual copyright on about half the stuff that exists now, and these people think that is GOOD.
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