I did raise my eyebrows very pointedly but on the whole I acted with too much restraint

[cimorene]

Spent today assisting the school's two Japanese students to teach origami to other foreigners in Finnish, making Christmas ornaments to sell for charity.

Several people including two strangers asked after the election results and then congratulated me. One of them later turned to a second student and said,

CUTE LITTLE DUDE: Oh, Obama won!
ASSHOLE: It doesn't matter.
CUTE LITTLE DUDE, falteringly: ... Oh.
ASSHOLE: It's the same. They're all bastards.

And then I almost smacked a bitch. Namely, him. Then cute little dude came back and told me that his asshole friend was American like me, to which I responded loudly, "But he has such a strong accent when he speaks English!" Apparently he's German but he lived in America just long enough to become too hipster for politics.

Comments

[aeslis]

I wonder where in America he lived, to come back with that opinion. Bah.

[cimorene]

Hard to say - he could just be natural asshole and get it anywhere of course. My first guess would be he's an anarchist/libertarian/other crazy - they always hate all government.

But he could also be one of those people who thinks Obama is just exactly the same as Republicans because he isn't liberal enough and hasn't immediately changed all the laws in the country according to their exact specifications (please note, Obama HAS done things I disagree with like drone strikes, it's just that these things self-evidently do NOT make him the same as Romney because I'm not crazy). I've seen people with this view on Tumblr advocating not voting for him, apparently because if someone doesn't agree with them 100% it doesn't matter how much other evil stuff he does.

And of course he could also just be one of those ignorant assholes who doesn't really care about politics and likes to say that none of it matters blah blah all politicians are the same. Those are found in most parts of America probably - must be if you look at the low voter turnout we get. Even if I haven't known too many of them personally (which is good because as a teenager I would have taken the time to yell at every. single. one.).