Comments on: “Promoting Hacker-Citizens” http://el-oso.net/blog/archives/2006/10/07/promoting-hacker-citizens/ An Irreverent Look at the Glocalized World Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:48:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: A.M. Mora y Leon http://el-oso.net/blog/archives/2006/10/07/promoting-hacker-citizens/comment-page-1/#comment-140680 A.M. Mora y Leon Sun, 15 Oct 2006 04:55:36 +0000 http://el-oso.net/blog/archives/2006/10/07/promoting-hacker-citizens/#comment-140680 Aw, Oso, it's not about liberal or conservative. In Latam, they don't really have conservatives outside the libertarian think tanks (economic) and the Catholic Church (social) and those two don't overlap (though I think they should). Most of those Rosales chicks are probably liberals by gringo standards. It's just that against Chavez, they look conservative, because well, anyone would. I have heard some rightwingers insist that the pretty chicks are all rightwing but I don't buy that either. It's not the rightwingishness that makes chicks pretty, but the business of being on the cutting edge of trends. In PJ O'Rourke's book, which first noticed this, think it was 'Give War A Chance' he said that all the pretty chicks in the 1960s were leftists and rightwing chicks were ugly old crones. That's because the cutting edge of trends was liberals and leftists, culminating in the McGovern era. I came of age when Ronald Reagan was first elected, casting my first vote for the guy, cringing in horror and utterly rejecting the odious Jimmy Carter. That's where I am coming from. There's been a big rightwing wave for a long time in the states, that's where the notion that rightwing chicks are prettier than leftwing ones. After November's election, who knows? The Babe Theory of Politics only argues that where the pretty chicks are, so are the authentic political winds of change, the real waves of trends. The prettiest chicks flock to the cutting edge. Some biological force at work, I suppose. By the way, I am female. Aw, Oso, it’s not about liberal or conservative. In Latam, they don’t really have conservatives outside the libertarian think tanks (economic) and the Catholic Church (social) and those two don’t overlap (though I think they should). Most of those Rosales chicks are probably liberals by gringo standards. It’s just that against Chavez, they look conservative, because well, anyone would.

I have heard some rightwingers insist that the pretty chicks are all rightwing but I don’t buy that either. It’s not the rightwingishness that makes chicks pretty, but the business of being on the cutting edge of trends. In PJ O’Rourke’s book, which first noticed this, think it was ‘Give War A Chance’ he said that all the pretty chicks in the 1960s were leftists and rightwing chicks were ugly old crones. That’s because the cutting edge of trends was liberals and leftists, culminating in the McGovern era. I came of age when Ronald Reagan was first elected, casting my first vote for the guy, cringing in horror and utterly rejecting the odious Jimmy Carter. That’s where I am coming from. There’s been a big rightwing wave for a long time in the states, that’s where the notion that rightwing chicks are prettier than leftwing ones. After November’s election, who knows? The Babe Theory of Politics only argues that where the pretty chicks are, so are the authentic political winds of change, the real waves of trends. The prettiest chicks flock to the cutting edge. Some biological force at work, I suppose.

By the way, I am female.

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