Talkin' bout a revolution.
After months of being bombarded by a slew of gas scandals, and tape scandals, and countless rumors of other foul govt machinations (nobody can prove anything, anyway cause the judicial system here is a sad, sad joke)
my thoughts on the upcoming Ukrainian elections have been reduced to:
"I want a green Lytvyn umbrella too!"
(don't get me wrong, i certainly don't support his blok, but you have to agree his ad campaign has been pretty slick.)
In stark contrast, V. (the best friend of my roommate and a fervent supporter of "Professor" Yanukovych...yeh, Putin's man, the one who sorta rigged the last election.) has all but moved in to our cramped little dorm room. She lies around on my roomie's bed, constuctively showing politcal fervor by angrily protesting the color of the sheets.
(Orange, not because my roomie supports Yushchenko or the Orange revolutionaries, but because they make the room warmer.)
Lately, V. has been dropping in with several copies of the newspapers that Professor Yanukovych's party publishes about themselves, reciting the party line and giggling about the clever Professor's remarks.
(for the outsider Clever:Yanukovych::Intelligent:Bush.
Random note: Prof. Yanukovych is credited with a degree that he purchased from a prestigious California Univerisity that doesn't actually exist).
What an asshat.
As an outsider, it seems like the teeming masses are just BEGGING to be propagandized by this garbage.
You don't just see this coming from Prof. Yanukovych's people either.
Yulia Tymoshenko (one v. hot firebrand politician, pretty rich, pretty intelligent, pretty bad economic policies, sworn enemy of Yanukovych, and you can purchase a popular Russian porno featuring her likeness!)
anyway. Her people are out on the streets now, selling fictional paperback thrillers entitled "To Kill Yulia"
it has become a national bestseller.
Who wants legit news coverage? Who needs it, when we have the internet to back whatever mad theses we can dream up?
(and who am I to complain? The only news I watch is the Daily Show. and my dad gets all his news from right wing radio.)
so the exchange of information continues to get quicker, faster, better, in a technical sense.
...and so it gets that much easier to drown yourself in media that adheres to the bias of your choosing.
I guess this is just a basic social function. In my last phone call home, Gypsymomma and I had a nice talk about whether I could ever see myself marrying, or even dating a Republican male. My answer was a resounding "Hell no!" No, I don't want to associate with people that sport different views than i do, are you crazy?
my thoughts on the upcoming Ukrainian elections have been reduced to:
"I want a green Lytvyn umbrella too!"
(don't get me wrong, i certainly don't support his blok, but you have to agree his ad campaign has been pretty slick.)
In stark contrast, V. (the best friend of my roommate and a fervent supporter of "Professor" Yanukovych...yeh, Putin's man, the one who sorta rigged the last election.) has all but moved in to our cramped little dorm room. She lies around on my roomie's bed, constuctively showing politcal fervor by angrily protesting the color of the sheets.
(Orange, not because my roomie supports Yushchenko or the Orange revolutionaries, but because they make the room warmer.)
Lately, V. has been dropping in with several copies of the newspapers that Professor Yanukovych's party publishes about themselves, reciting the party line and giggling about the clever Professor's remarks.
(for the outsider Clever:Yanukovych::Intelligent:Bush.
Random note: Prof. Yanukovych is credited with a degree that he purchased from a prestigious California Univerisity that doesn't actually exist).
What an asshat.
As an outsider, it seems like the teeming masses are just BEGGING to be propagandized by this garbage.
You don't just see this coming from Prof. Yanukovych's people either.
Yulia Tymoshenko (one v. hot firebrand politician, pretty rich, pretty intelligent, pretty bad economic policies, sworn enemy of Yanukovych, and you can purchase a popular Russian porno featuring her likeness!)
anyway. Her people are out on the streets now, selling fictional paperback thrillers entitled "To Kill Yulia"
it has become a national bestseller.
Who wants legit news coverage? Who needs it, when we have the internet to back whatever mad theses we can dream up?
(and who am I to complain? The only news I watch is the Daily Show. and my dad gets all his news from right wing radio.)
so the exchange of information continues to get quicker, faster, better, in a technical sense.
...and so it gets that much easier to drown yourself in media that adheres to the bias of your choosing.
I guess this is just a basic social function. In my last phone call home, Gypsymomma and I had a nice talk about whether I could ever see myself marrying, or even dating a Republican male. My answer was a resounding "Hell no!" No, I don't want to associate with people that sport different views than i do, are you crazy?