SA Election Exit Poll

VOTE ROB LOCKWOOD FOR SENATOR AT LARGE!

Kevin is desperate!

I respect a man with a mustache.

You Cant Multiple Times, it records your IP Address, there goes my faith in the Colonialist ability to understand technology. Every Student is given an IP address thus you can not vote twice, attempt to you will notice the votes remain the same.

As relevant as this blog is to the GW elections, I think screaming FRAUD after 15 people around the same time express their vote for one candidate is a little premature.

Shit, maybe an email on a few listserves went out? OH OH OH, maybe people are ACTUALLY expressing their vote!

If someone was smart they would go to a computer lab or the apple store. …I mean, they would have to care about the impact of the Colonialist for that to happen, sooo

unequivocally, absolutely there has not and never will be fraud on this site.

I have voted twice. There is no IP tracking, e-detective. Its an exit poll. Who cares if there is fraud?

Intersital?
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/interstitial

Yes, interstitial.
Yes, I read the definition.
Yes, I knew what it meant when I typed it and posted it.

On another front, can someone interpret this comment for me?
If someone was smart they would go to a computer lab or the apple store. …I mean, they would have to care about the impact of the Colonialist for that to happen, sooo

unequivocally, absolutely there has not and never will be fraud on this site.

I have no idea what it means.

Well let’s take a closer look:

1. “If someone was smart they would go to a computer lab or the apple store”

- note here the purposeful shift from the singular “someone was” to the plural “they”. This is clearly a message about personal identity. What are the boundaries between me and other potential voters? The physical boundaries are quite obvious, but humans seem to be more than mere flesh and blood. Perhaps the author is shifting common grammar conventions to make a statement about the metaphysical conformity of the modern psyche - abstractly we are all the same. The “I” is a myth, a trap meant to decieve us from the reality of our collective persona.

2. “. …I mean, they would have to care about the impact of the Colonialist for that to happen, sooo”

- Simply put, this is quite brilliant. A period then an ellipse. A Joycian fragment, only part of which we have the privelege of viewing. But the fragment begins with “I mean”, and of course because it is a fragment we have no idea what is the realm of discourse. This obscurity of reference is highlighted by reference to some mysterious “they”, and an allusion “that” to some prior event. Who are these people? What is this previous event? What is going on here? There is no conceptual location. Juxtaposed against a statement of direct meaning, the message is clear: how is it possible to have a conceptual location? What is meaning? Can a person mean what he/they says? Can this ever be really understood by others? Of course this segment ends with an invented word “sooo”, possibly meant to mimmic a gutter sound emanating from deep within the throat. I believe the inclusion of this word/sound is meant to jar the reader, shock him out of the comfort of readily-interpretable words and into the recognition that language is a construction, its rules are breakable.

3. “unequivocally, absolutely there has not and never will be fraud on this site.”

- I believe this third part is the coup de grace. We, as readers, have been successfully displaced. The first two sections have shot us in a tailspin of meaning - nothing makes sense any more as the conventions of grammar, identity, meaning, and linguistic semantics have been shown to be precisely what they are: social conventions, crutches that mask the potential for true freedom and true expression. How ironic, then, to conclude this profound discourse in a pithy phrase ripe with convention, a phrase we can eagerly pick up and laughingly consume. Mighty in the clean air of understanding we can together mock that which once chained our imaginations.

So to answer your query, Kirk,
you are not supposed to understand this passage. It is a piece of postmodern art, a constructed text paradoxically devoid of meaning - definitive validation of the deconstruction project.

I hope that helps.

I wrote in Francisco Franco on the theory that a fascist victory would spare us from ever having to endure another student election.