n e u f n e u f: seriously major bust of groupthink propaganda machine

04 July 2009

seriously major bust of groupthink propaganda machine

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I mean major.

And, recall, now, if you will, please, that Obama has been very approving of it.

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Pedestrian7/4/09, 5:06 PM
99, I saw the recount on TV. HOURS of it. Way before the fucker Pitney had it in his toilet bowl along with the rest of the profanity he puts in there. The stuff about the same handwriting is bullshit (although, in the images the website you linked to provides the first two writings are the exact same handwriting, but I didn't see that stuff on TV, so I don't really care).

I have voted in EVERY ELECTION since I was 16. Parliamentary, city councils, expediencey council, presidential ... in at leat five Iranian provinces. There is always someone watching over the voting box and they never let you throw in your paper without folding it TWICE. That's a UNIVERSAL rule in Iran. The only people who don't follow it are the ones who are filmed voting (the leader, the president, etc, as you can also see in those pictures. They only fold it once)I checked with all sorts of family members in various provinces and they said it was no different this time. It was no different at the embassy here. I also linked to the minister who spoke on TV last week and said that "any ballot that is not folded is fraudulent" and he goes on to explain why. That is coming from an Ahmadinejad minister, not me.

But some of the ballots they showed on TV had no folds.

The recount wasn't an issue anyways. To me, the entire thing was more whimsical than anything. They had been honest and RANDOMLY recounted ballots - even the fraudulent ones.
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997/4/09, 5:14 PM
I'm struck by the supposed lack of transparency thing everyone's bitching about, and yet there are all these pictures of the ballots and the people counting them, and all these globally published tally sheets, and a fucking fantastically fair random recount of 10% of the ballots.

Those kinds of recounts, common here, are rarely random, though they HAVE to be in order to be fair. And I don't believe we have EVER had a national level recount of any percentage. Democracy is in better shape in Iran than it has been here for decades and decades.
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Big Dan7/5/09, 7:04 PM
The bigger question is: why is our media obsessed with other country's elections, and not our own?
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997/5/09, 7:57 PM
They're only obsessed with them when they want to rig them or when they want to make them look rigged so they can make that government look like shitheads. They only care when it furthers their ability to control the planet's wealth. Only.
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04 July 2009

seriously major bust of groupthink propaganda machine

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