Rev Roger, Year of the Rat #10: I'm Talking to YOU, Bubba.

[Cain]

Of course, voting is not the be all and end all of the political process.

I frequently email my MP, and have created anonymous false identities to email others, to essentially harass them continually.  If politicians just go by how people vote, then of course they will keep on doing the same shit until they're eventually voted out.  Many however become rather panicky when confronted with a number of emails from voters who are upset about a particular vote and often go to great lengths to enter a dialogue with you.  I suspect this is because most people never bother, and so when they get more than a few complaints on any given vote, they start to worry about public opinion.

Plus arguing with politicians (or, rather, their offices) are fun.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Now trolling politics, that's got potential.

[fomenter]

Of course, voting is not the be all and end all of the political process.

I frequently email my MP, and have created anonymous false identities to email others, to essentially harass them continually.  If politicians just go by how people vote, then of course they will keep on doing the same shit until they're eventually voted out.  Many however become rather panicky when confronted with a number of emails from voters who are upset about a particular vote and often go to great lengths to enter a dialogue with you.  I suspect this is because most people never bother, and so when they get more than a few complaints on any given vote, they start to worry about public opinion.

Plus arguing with politicians (or, rather, their offices) are fun.

i have only ever gotten form letters in reply but i have ended up on some interesting email lists doing this

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Heh! Now you're getting it. So I can act and nothing changes or I can do nothing and nothing changes. Why waste 20mis of good drinking/fucking time scribbling some meaningless shit on a piece of paper. I mean ffs, the way things are going that might well be the last 20mins of my life 

Okay, that's one vote for "I am a monkey, content to jack off in my cage".

NEXT! (I really prefer to talk with bipeds)

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Of course, voting is not the be all and end all of the political process.

Sure.  There's nothing wrong with having fun with the system (or even monkey-wrenching it beyond repair).

Beats apathy.

[Requia ☣]

My senator (one of them, the other refuses to accept emails at all) gave me a lovely form letter when I bitched about the patriot act to him, which commited to nothing while promising everything.  I gave up since then though, and just accepted that Hatch will always and forever vote the opposite of what I want.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

My senator (one of them, the other refuses to accept emails at all) gave me a lovely form letter when I bitched about the patriot act to him, which commited to nothing while promising everything.  I gave up since then though, and just accepted that Hatch will always and forever vote the opposite of what I want.

Orrin Hatch is the second funniest man in the legislative branch.

I forward his office all of my spam.

[fomenter]

My senator (one of them, the other refuses to accept emails at all) gave me a lovely form letter when I bitched about the patriot act to him, which commited to nothing while promising everything.  I gave up since then though, and just accepted that Hatch will always and forever vote the opposite of what I want.

Orrin Hatch is the second funniest man in the legislative branch.

I forward his office all of my spam.

how do you direct email for  government oafish-ills i have to fill out the form on a web page to contact

[Requia ☣]

My senator (one of them, the other refuses to accept emails at all) gave me a lovely form letter when I bitched about the patriot act to him, which commited to nothing while promising everything.  I gave up since then though, and just accepted that Hatch will always and forever vote the opposite of what I want.

Orrin Hatch is the second funniest man in the legislative branch.

I forward his office all of my spam.

I am almost terrified to ask, but who is actually funnier than Hatch?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

My senator (one of them, the other refuses to accept emails at all) gave me a lovely form letter when I bitched about the patriot act to him, which commited to nothing while promising everything.  I gave up since then though, and just accepted that Hatch will always and forever vote the opposite of what I want.

Orrin Hatch is the second funniest man in the legislative branch.

I forward his office all of my spam.

I am almost terrified to ask, but who is actually funnier than Hatch?

Senator James Inhofe (R-OK).  He's a laugh a fucking minute.

Remember when he was "outraged at the outrage" over the Abu Graib thing?

[Requia ☣]

Oh wow, I need to be paying more attention to the house it seems.

I actually regret getting rid of tee vee now, I need to try and catch this guy on C Span

[Adios]

58 million monkeys voted for the last American Idol.

How about political contestant game shows? No more endless campaign circus.

It would run for X weeks and would be open to all applicants. Now to pick the judges. I would prefer three people who would rather kill each other than be in the same room. This will require some thought.

The initial interview will be a 500 word essay on Why I want to be King. This will be judged on content, style and the ability to speak intelligently in public. The judges would be responsible for trimming the list down to 50. After this the people would have to call in their votes for who stays.

One week the topic could be "How I Would Invade........ . One week could be on simple math. One week could be on speech writing.

Well, you get the idea.

[Idem]

We could get support from coca-cola and Dell on it.

[Jenne]

to the OP.  Apathy is what these fuckers count on, by the way.  They tally up just how many have been lost to it, and they count it as their gain.  The more anti-democracy (because in essence, that's what you become when you don't participate) you become, the better off this Machine(tm) will be.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I'd like to be the first to point out that I was totally fucking wrong in this thread.