Liberal Party ad on youtube...

[gtarman]

So while I was waiting to watch a video on youtube just now, a political ad came on...and while I have a personal policy of not watching youtube ads through to completion, it was just so astoundingly stupid that I had to see it through to completion. It's a Liberal Party attack on the Labor party.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not partisan by any means. I think both parties are incompetent bunches of ne'er-do-wells. But I thought that it was a profound commentary on how politicians see the public...as dumb, malleable sheep to be influenced by crude cartoons and generally any shiny objects. Never mind sensible debate or valid concerns, or - shock horror - shit that actually matters.

This is the ad:

 

And a spoof "directors commentary" done by some random dude in reply, that I think highlights quite nicely how dumb it really is:

 

[gtarman]

The great thing about being a political cynic (read: realist) who hates pretty much every horse in the race without discrimination, is that you pretty much just get to sit back, have a bitter, insane laugh (followed by a cry) and say "look at these absolute muppets destroy the world, they're not even making a great job of it".

Just found possibly the most awkward politician reaction to a journo's question I've ever seen:

 

I lol'd quite heartily at the top comment: "tonyabbott.exe has stopped responding"

Edited May 6, 2013 by gtarman

[PositiveHAL]

careful gtarman, don't repost a pro liberal ad here, the bots will think we're a bunch of right wingers

[qualia]

dumb, malleable sheep to be influenced by crude cartoons and generally any shiny objects

i'd say they're pretty much spot on.

[qualia]

yes i found it, as much as you might not believe in polling it at least provides a snapshot of some voters thoughts,

"voters are so primed to ditch Labor out they will vote against their own interests to do so"

[gtarman]

i'd say they're pretty much spot on.

Touché salesman, I too have an uncle.

On a more serious note though I think that's (sadly) true of certain sections of the public. But I wouldn't say it's everybody.

Though I can't help but think that if the education system wasn't just some pointless compulsory daycare/standardized citizen production facility, some of those people might have not hated it enough to learn something more than ignorance before they were set loose.

EDIT: that link you posted pretty much sums up why I hate Australian politics. It's just a short-sighted game of "which idiot do we hate the least?"...a game also perhaps better known as "who do we want to screw things up this time?"

Edited May 6, 2013 by gtarman

[Sallubrious]

The great thing about being a political cynic (read: realist) who hates pretty much every horse in the race without discrimination, is that you pretty much just get to sit back, have a bitter, insane laugh (followed by a cry) and say "look at these absolute muppets destroy the world, they're not even making a great job of it".

Just found possibly the most awkward politician reaction to a journo's question I've ever seen:

 

I lol'd quite heartily at the top comment: "tonyabbott.exe has stopped responding"

Hahaha, here I was thinking he was a puppet but now it looks like he's a cyborg drone of some sort.

It seemed like the satellite feed from Washington went down for a while there.

Maybe they'll build some intelligence into Tony 2.0 so it can respond if the feed goes down.

[gtarman]

Hahaha, here I was thinking he was a puppet but now it looks like he's a cyborg drone of some sort.

It seemed like the satellite feed from Washington went down for a while there.

Maybe they'll build some intelligence into Tony 2.0 so it can respond if the feed goes down.

I was kinda hoping when they crossed to Laurie Oakes from the studio that he was going to ignore them for a bit to take the piss...but alas, it was only satellite delay