Saturday, June 20, 2009

How I interpret this Iranian crisis

There's a whole lot of shit to understand. I have three options: either watch the news and watch my dick fall off from boredom, read Twitter and watch my eyes fall out from people's sheer ignorance and stupidity, or skim through Wikipedia and look at pictures, charts, bold words, titles of things, and numbers.

I did the third.

There's no reason for me to sit in my house and watch protests in a country that seems to have nothing going for it, ever. Especially when I can watch the Nationals win their fourth straight. (They might actually be good.) Anyway, here is what I am getting from the Wikipedia article:
  • Politics couldn't be more boring. There's a reason why old, rich, white men dominate - it's because they have no desire to do anything interesting, so they chill in politics.
  • The hundred polls that they have are terrible and obviously have no credibility.
  • Their electoral process is garbage. When you have a category for 'spoiled votes' and they account for about 1 out of every 50 votes, there's a major problem.
  • Why don't you get some non-corrupt people to watch over the vote tallying? Maybe because if you tell the truth, you'll get capped, because every motherfucker and their kids in that country got an AK.
That's all I learned.

So this Mousavi dude got done dirty and this Ahmadinejad dude is getting flossed for no reason. So what do you do as a country, Iran? Do you suck it up like America did when Al Gore allegedly got dicked out of the presidency? Do you try to make it work and let the president know that you as a nation are going to work to make your place a better place?

Or do you run into the dirt roads and ack a azz on what ends up being national TV?

They did the third.

My very easy to answer question is: Am I missing something extremely important, am I being extremely insensitive and ethnocentric, or do none of these people have jobs?

I'm guessing the first, second, AND third.

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1 comment:

Eamonn Rockwell said...

I'm not even going to start on why this is too accurate for mainstream media.