Comments on: Campaign tech: Bailout edition http://minnesotaindependent.com/10451/campaign-tech-bailout-edition News. Politics. Media. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:48:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: jonerik http://minnesotaindependent.com/10451/campaign-tech-bailout-edition/comment-page-1#comment-12949 jonerik Sat, 27 Sep 2008 04:41:35 +0000 http://minnesotaindependent.com/?p=10451#comment-12949 If this works, I may become a free market convert. The problem is what to do about the $62 trilion "shitpile" which has aggregated around the other "shitpile" of worthless mortgages created over the past twenty five years under successive worthless conservative regimes. If everyone for diffferent reasons rejects the usual and conventional government bailout, then we have two choices: either the enormous $62 trillion shitpile which even government can't save us with a $1 trillion can't save us or the $62 trillion is really not a problem after all. All we must do is believe. If this works, I may become a free market convert. The problem is what to do about the $62 trilion “shitpile” which has aggregated around the other “shitpile” of worthless mortgages created over the past twenty five years under successive worthless conservative regimes. If everyone for diffferent reasons rejects the usual and conventional government bailout, then we have two choices: either the enormous $62 trillion shitpile which even government can’t save us with a $1 trillion can’t save us or the $62 trillion is really not a problem after all. All we must do is believe.

]]> By: Erik Hare http://minnesotaindependent.com/10451/campaign-tech-bailout-edition/comment-page-1#comment-12770 Erik Hare Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:15:47 +0000 http://minnesotaindependent.com/?p=10451#comment-12770 What I found most interesting about the internet is that it clearly was a way for people to crank themselves up. The first day was met largely with silence, and some grumbling the second. The chorus gradually built up to what can only be described as a major advent for conspiracy theorists. People aren't just pissed, they worked themselves up into a righteous indignation that came on a slow boil and won't simmer down any time soon. It was as if the social networks around the nation validated what people were thinking long enough for them to bravely express it. Things like this can't sneak through anymore because we are connected on a very gut level. This has gotten a gut reaction that should be feared by politicians. What I found most interesting about the internet is that it clearly was a way for people to crank themselves up. The first day was met largely with silence, and some grumbling the second. The chorus gradually built up to what can only be described as a major advent for conspiracy theorists. People aren’t just pissed, they worked themselves up into a righteous indignation that came on a slow boil and won’t simmer down any time soon. It was as if the social networks around the nation validated what people were thinking long enough for them to bravely express it.

Things like this can’t sneak through anymore because we are connected on a very gut level. This has gotten a gut reaction that should be feared by politicians.

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