Moby wants you all to join Canada

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― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Monday, 8 November 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

What a cop-out.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 8 November 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

many people seem to feel that way

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 8 November 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

(about joining Canada, not that Moby has 'copped out')

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 8 November 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

what an idiot. who gave this guy a political platform...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 8 November 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Canada's full, bitches.

― Huk-L, Monday, 8 November 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Moby wants me to move to Canada = I'm not moving to Canada.

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 8 November 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Grrr, more of this bullshit: "Most of us in the states that voted 51 percent Kerry can no longer relate to those in the states that voted 52 percent Bush."

― briania (briania), Monday, 8 November 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay! More idiocy like that will win us the day!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 November 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd rather that moby moved to antarctica, preferably somewhere w/o electricity

― 6335, Monday, 8 November 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

b-money. cold hard cash. the red states in the u.s might have the voting power, but guess who has the money? yup, your friendly neighborhood blue states.

If the blue states have all the money, I have a better idea... Buy the USA.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 8 November 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

We might not take 'em. If the most liberal candidate you guys can up with is Kerry, than you can't join our cold, harsh, socialistic, godless country.

― peepee (peepee), Monday, 8 November 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"b-money. cold hard cash. the red states in the u.s might have the voting power, but guess who has the money? yup, your friendly neighborhood blue states."

www.fuckthesouth.com

― peepee (peepee), Monday, 8 November 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

?cue: cinniblount being an asshole...?

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 8 November 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Does this one work?:

http://www.fuckthesouth.com/

― peepee (peepee), Monday, 8 November 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

How curious that a hardcore Xian who ripped off blues and gospel wants to split from the red states.

And someone should inform Moby that the cradle of jazz is New Orleans. (ie. LA also stands for Louisiana, you dumb fuck.)

― doug watson (solid air), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

IT'S A JOKE

― wetmink (wetmink), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, yeah. The problem lies in his inability to deliver it. Gwynne Dyer gets it right: http://gwynnedyer.com/articles/Gwynne%20Dyer%20Article_%20%20The%20Divided%20States.txt

― doug watson (solid air), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I always liked Gwynne, he seems a good sort. His War series and book was a good eighties PBS experience.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, I'm in an "ILX keeps taking liberals hating on the red states too seriously" mood. Moby's not being very original (big surprise).

― wetmink (wetmink), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I can relate just fine to some of the people I know who voted for Bush -- maybe not on politics, but on lots of other things.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 04:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Moby's entry on Canada was fine, and the more seriously he meant it the better. I hope he meant it as seriously as I meant my personal secessionist epistle Exit this Roman shell. His entry the previous day worried me, though:

'a lot of people have been asking me, 'what do we do now?'
well, my answer is kind of simple and probably disappointing.
we should have fun with our friends, and do good work, and maybe adopt a dog, and eat. eating is good.
in other words, we shouldn't let ourselves get distraught over politics.
yes, america has chosen gw bush as their president.
it's not what we wanted, but that's the way it is.
we can hope that maybe the 2nd bush term will be more moderate than the first(this isn't just me being willfully naive, i do believe that a 2nd bush term might be more moderate because he's not going to up for re-election again so he doesn't have to accomodate the christian right as slavishly as he's done in the 1st term).
we'll see what happens. sorry if i sound like i'm being wishy-washy, i just don't want us all to let ourselves sink into depression over the democratically expressed will of the majority of voting americans.
it is what it is, and being depressed and despondent isn't going to make anything better.
so go out and eat some ice cream and play with a dog and go see a movie with your friends.
the world will go on, don't let yourself get depressed, ok?
moby'

Now to that we can certainly say 'What a cop-out'.

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 08:39 (twenty-one years ago)

No, that just means he is a human being with a life after all.

― Vasquesz, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 09:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Moby: "i do believe that a 2nd bush term might be more moderate because he's not going to up for re-election again so he doesn't have to accomodate the christian right as slavishly as he's done in the 1st term)."

Yeah, like he didn't actually want to...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 09:25 (twenty-one years ago)

momus wants blood! perhaps he is warrior at heart. hails, momus!

― Mr. Vas Djifrens (byzantum), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I know for the most part it's a joke, but it humours me that people think they can just pick-up and defect to Canada. We don't want you. And if we do it's going to take a load of paperwork before anything is guaranteed. Good luck with the job search.

― grapeshine (grapeshine), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

'We shouldn't let ourselves get distraught over politics... we should do good work... and eat.'

But anyone who loves their work, or loves eating, should get distraught if their work is turning bad, or the soup tastes mouldy. Getting distraught when something goes wrong is essential. Someone in Moby's position telling people to forget about politics for the next four years is tremendously irresponsible and tremendously wrong. Especially this four years.

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.marryanamerican.ca/

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Momus's "epistle" has convinced me - I'm going to move right away. It's all about me, and how I "feel," after all.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd rather that moby moved to antarctica, preferably somewhere w/o electricity

that'd mean he'll go all unplugged on us, surely? not a good prospect either.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

We need red states so I can wear my cotton-made F-Bush t-shirt.

― tiggerpoo, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:03 (twenty-one years ago)

God, I once against ask you to use Obie Trice as your personal warrior and have him stomp Moby. For the good of us all.

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 06:12 (twenty-one years ago)

failing that, I make the same plea to Eminem.

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 06:12 (twenty-one years ago)

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