DEATH OF HIPSTER
Some junk e-mail I received today (also available here):
AMERICANS ELECT NAMED SXSW AWARD FINALIST
Innovative Technology Acknowledged for New Way to Pick a President
WASHINGTON, D.C., JANUARY 26, 2012 - AmericansElect.org has been selected as a 2012 Interactive Awards Finalist in the experimental category by South by Southwest (SXSW), the annual music, film, and interactive conference and festival held in Austin, Texas. Americans Elect is on the cutting edge of political reform - changing the way we nominate a President of the United States, and also emerging as one of the best new websites in the marketplace today.
“Americans Elect uniquely offers everyone an online way to participate, regardless of party affiliation, in political discussion and debate, and results in a balanced ticket that is on the ballot nationwide,” said Joshua S. Levine, Chief Technology Officer of Americans Elect....
The SXSW Interactive festival takes place March 9-13, 2012, featuring presentations showcasing the best new websites, video games and startup ideas.
SXSW, you're pathetic. And hipsterism is now officially dead.
(X-posted at Booman Tribune.)
3 comments:
"Americans Elect is on the cutting edge of political reform - changing the way we nominate a President of the United States, and also emerging as one of the best new websites in the marketplace today."
No.
No, you're not.
If it were one the cutting edge, the Republican, Obama, and their polling numbers would tell us.
We know you want to insert an even more Centrist candidate than our already centrist President Obama, only in a lighter shade of pale - but no one is really clamoring for it.
YOU want to create the market! And be the ones to fill it. For money, access, and power, of course!
Can it work?
Sure.
But, you'd better have some choices that people want.
Ross Perot wasn't the creation of some political lobbying firm. Neither was John Anderson.
You need to come up with better candidates that Bayh, Bloomberg, and the other assorted people like Huntsman, who have NO chance in the general.
Except, of course, if you what you want is to take votes away from President Obama.
In which case, why not Ralph Nader?
He was successful in making Little Boots' the most disastrous Presidential Administration in history - with the possible exception of the one(s) right before The Civil War.
And it was Nader, the SCOTUS, and the voting machines, that gave W an 8 years head-start on de-evolving this great country.
Why don't you spend you money getting better Democrats in office?
Oh yeah. The pay-off sucks.
So, FUCK YOU!
About a week ago I had about an hour to kill & thought I'd do my part to skew AE's numbers by answering their online list of questions. It turned out that I wasn't the first one: there's a libertarian element that boost the "more freedom leg regulation" questions, but overall I found myself in or near the majority on taxation (rich should pay more), healthcare (national system), jobs vs deficit, etc. A lot of the folks that have taken the poll over on their site are progressive/hard left, which should make it interesting when their financier owners decide to nominate some turd like Bayh.
It usually (although not always) votes right compared to most of my infuriating state, but Austin has become so damn self-regarding that I can't stand it. SXSW is a prime manifestation of that: moneybag yupsterism rampant.
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