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Poll #979920
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllWe are now 19 episodes into Season 3. What are your feelings on Lost right now?

View AnswersIt got so bad I had to stop watching. 0 (0.0%)It has completely jumped the shark. I'm watching because, like a trainwreck, I cannot avert my eyes. 1 (10.0%)It's not very good, but I'm holding out hope that it'll pull me back in. 2 (20.0%)True to form, just before the season finale cliffhanger, it's getting good again. 5 (50.0%)I don't know what the griping is about. Lost has been consistently awesome since minute one. 2 (20.0%)

So, my boss showed me something amazing today. I don't know if LJ will let me embed stuff via email, so I'll link to the video here. This guy appears tobe running for an actual position in government, and it seems that Japan's political process allows all candidates equal, uncensored time to present their platform, on television, to the people. It's worth watching the video for his occasional gestures, but I am so convinced that this is the most quotable piece of political speech ever written that I have transcribed it in its entirety, directly from the subtitles. I have bolded my favorite bits.----------Governor of Tokyo candidate, Independent Candidate Toyama Koichi, age 36Starting as a Anti-Administrative Education Activist, then becoming an Anti-Establishment Extreme Left Wing Activist. In this day and age, he was imprisoned 2 years for political crimes. He is a Anti Establishment Intellectual. The following is Mr. Toyama Koichi's Political Broadcast.[long glaring pause, then he leans into the camera in an attempt to be intimidating]To all the voters! I am Toyama Koichi. Gentlemen! This nation is horrible. I have no interest whatsoever in political reform or any kind of reform. Nothing will be solved by reforming or changing anything. We are no longer in such an optimistic state! We must abandon this detestable nation. This nation must be destroyed! I do not have a single constructive proposal! The only thing we must do now is "Scrap and Scrap" . . . Annihilate everything that exists! Gentlemen! I despise each and every one of you. The people who have supported this worthless nation, this system is YOU! To be precise, the majority of the people who are watching this are my Sworn Enemies! I am calling upon the minority among you people. To the people of the minority! We must unite and rise up immediately! The people of the majority do what they want to us. But now, finally, a world where we the minority will not be easily oppressed is being constructed! To the people of the minority! If you thin you can change something by voting, you are COMPLETELY wrong. An election is simply a festival for the majority! There is nothing as idiotic as an election to us minority people. If you choose by majority vote, of course the majority wins! You probably wonder why I'm in the election then. Because that story will be long. Please look at my posters on the political bulletins. There are 2 types of posters, so be sure to read both. I . . . can no longer tolerate the oppression of this nation's minority! To the people of the minority! There is no way we can persuade the majority! The people of the majority will not under any circumstances listen to our voices! A fucked up nation like this, where the majority rules, has no other option but to be destroyed! NO MATTER HOW MUCH REFORM IS DONE THERE IS NO HOPE! Every single one of the political reforms being proposed presently are all reforms for the Majority of the People! We the Minority obviously will not support or anticipate the results for any of these reforms! We the Minority no longer ask anything from such a nation. We the Minority only have one option left: TO OBLITERATE THIS NATION! To be completely honest, THE ONLY PATH WE HAVE IS TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT! I speak to the people of the minority! Let us use my broadcast as an opportunity to further our ferocious, terrifying plans of overthrowing the government. There is information on how to contact me on the posters. I do not care if you contact me before or after the elections. Please give me a phone call. Of course, I do not care if you are underage and do not yet have voting rights, or if you live outside the City of Tokyo. Elections never had anything to do with us Minority. I have one thing to state just in case. If I get elected, They will be terrified. I myself will be terrified. Give Toyama Koichi 1 Spiteful, Malicious Vote! Give Toyama Koichi 1 Desperate Vote! If not, then don't go vote! Nothing will be changed through elections anyways! [shakes middle finger haphazardly at the camera nine times, then cracks neck briskly]----------Magnificent, wasn't it? For all I know, that was subtitled by some punkass in a basement in Omaha, but dear god, I hope that's for real, and that guy is actually talking about a concert he went to.

In a just world, this admission would annihilate any chance a man had to bepresident.