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[prog]

Dreamed that the election was over, and it was looking like a landslide for my man. A moment of horror, looking at the map of New England on the screen and seeing solid red. What happened?! Oh, I see; the entity running the map decided to be literalist, and kept the 2000-and-before tradition of coloring incumbent-party wins blue and challenger-party wins red, despite the strength of the "blue-state/red-state" meme that based its colors on how they happened to be defined during the 2000 race.

In reality, a few days ago, a friend and I were wondering what color scheme the networks would use; would they stick with tradition (and risk confusing everyone) or bow to the meme (and risk confusing everyone)?

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I started watching that new South Park episode that has been getting lots of props across my friends page (thank you, BitTorrent), and had to stop five minutes in, because it was clearly ramping into a "both the candidates suck, so why bother" argument. And I have no patience at all for that, and only angry frustration with Parker and Stone.

It reminded me of Ebert's recent razzing of "Team America" for falling beneath his contempt, being in his eyes a screedful promotion of apolitical nihilism. I haven't seen the movie myself, but I knew just what he meant, and tend to find this attitude... unfortunate, especially today. Especially today.

Comments

[leahleaf.livejournal.com]

ah, it was funny though. ultimately they made the dave barry point, that adult life mostly entails choosing between a giant douche and a turd sandwich. he learned his lesson in the end. you gotta watch the whole thing!

[aspartaimee.livejournal.com]

my friend AI (who ran with <lj user="temvald" in the aimee-zing race), is a die hard south park fan and refuses to watch the eppy in question until sometime next week (she has the teevoe), for similar reasons to yours. for me, team america was more about completely mocking any sort of summer blockbuster, rah-rah-jerry-bruckheimer-and-the-object-of-his-art-nick-cage-but-with-puppets, rather than anything specifically political. neither candidate is in the film, and there is really only a nod to america going in, completely destroying a place, then expecting locals to be grateful. i don't count the actors. i was more with roper and less with ebert on that one.

[xymotik.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the warning on the South Park episode. I'll be sure to avoid it, at least for a while. "Unfortunate" is indeed a very polite term.

The blue/red thing does seem to be an appropriate color scheme: Rot ist Blut und Feuer und heißes Eisen! After all, the chief policy concern of the Bushies that friends in Maine (mostly kyroraz) have met seems to be "kicking ass." Whether it's the right ass or not doesn't matter to them. And besides, describing them as the new, new Red Menace seems fun as well.

[xymotik.livejournal.com]

Ahem. Blut und Feuer und heißes Eisen sind Rot. My German is rusty.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

You really should watch the South Park episode to the end. It's not (quite) what you think.

Or at least watch until the P.Diddy video, which is genius.