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London: Don’t let the bas­tards of the world get you down. Oh, and learn from our mis­take, don’t let your politi­cians run wild, either.

dom: I /msg’d you this on IRC, but it’s not so much that USians can’t get it, as it is they are denied the infor­ma­tion nec­es­sary to get it. There are a few rea­sons (IMO) why this infor­ma­tion isn’t presented:

1. Explaining the con­nec­tions between poverty, crime, and vio­lence, won’t fit between commercials.
2. This type of mate­r­ial isn’t “advertising-friendly.” It doesn’t put you in a “buy­ing mood,” but it does get your synapses fir­ing. These two things in con­cert are death for all but the smartest ad cam­paigns, and most ads are crap — so there’s lit­tle incen­tive for advertising-driven media to cover these issues in depth. So much the bet­ter to have two blowhards try to yell over each other and switch from one over­sim­pli­fi­ca­tion to the next every other minute — and con­spic­u­ously agree on lit­tle things like war.
3. There’s money to be made off our ignorance.

And now, because I really need to laugh, I present this (which is stu­pid, but in a funny kind of way):

<clee>    I can't wait for wintertime
<clee>    I'm using that baby to heat my apartment
<thaytan> you heat your apartment using babies?
<clee>    thaytan: yes.
<clee>    just like the Matrix.
<thaytan> woah