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Internal dialogue in my head:

ME1: This thread makes me wonder, am I a hipster?
ME2: Uhh... you wear jackboots with knee-high athletic socks and pinstripe slacks cut off at the knees. And nobody thinks you're cool.
ME1: Oh yeah. SAVED!

tonight: pizza or whatever

but tomorrow:
GUMBO

Taco salad.

We had the most awesomest taco salad the other night too.

What are you, a monk?

I was broke.

Tonight, I had tostados.

How is the tax code fucked?

Because there are too many loopholes for the obscenely wealthy, and it's too hard for the less fortunate to find ways to save on their taxes. Brackets should be more simply defined, and rates should be solidified so there is absolutely no dodging and no room for accounting tricks.

If only we could get the word out that the Discordian Society has officially endorsed the Tea Party Movement.

I've always been a terrible liar. Partly because when I was a kid I fucked up and believed it when I was told lying is bad and people shouldn't do it. I say I fucked up because, apparently, people THRIVE on bullshit and lies. It seems everyone is always plotting about what to say to somebody, which is either a lie, or includes an intentional omission of relevant truth. Everyone is in the business of making themselves look good all the time at any expense, and the only account anybody really has to withdraw from here is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - that is, banking on the fact that it will be impossible or too much hassle for other people to figure out they're being lied to, especially when all those people have their own webs of lies to maintain.

This kind of behavior, although I've tried (and failed) to engage in it myself, really really annoys my pants off. Honesty isn't just some high-minded morality thing, it's way the fuck simpler than making up lies all the time to make yourself look good. This, however, is lost on most people. They just don't understand that it's easier to be in control of a situation when you're not tied down by all the lines of bullshit you've tossed out there. And I've found that in everyday life, some of the most hilarious events is when somebody reaches the end of that line and their entire web of bullshit falls apart and everybody ends up hating them.

But people do it anyway, whenever they get a chance to. Everything from trying to cover up something they overlooked at work to who they were with Saturday night to fibbing about what is or isn't included in epic legislation that directly affects tens of millions of people. In all of these arenas, it is the Discordian within me that is dying to pull a string and have everything fall apart for these people, just for the lulz. Not because of a moral objection to lying, but because for some ethereal, supernatural reason, seeing people hang themselves on the lies they've told invokes pure laughter in my soul. That is the "chaos" I think Discordianism represents: the complete destruction of harmful bullshit, just so people can breathe a little easier, even if it's only to catch their breath before building their next web of deceit.

I don't know if I really have a direction with this.

I missed it. But I hate her accent, anyway.

Teabaggers are idiots. They say stupid shit, they believe stupid shit, they are xenophobic and backward and ignorant and all that.

BUT

Maybe they have a point about some things?

A - the government is hopelessly bloated and wasteful.
B - the tax code is fucked.
C - nobody in DC knows or cares to know anything about real people.
D - black people shouldn't be president. (lol jk).

These points are something that I actually agree with. I think the Tea Party's approach to solving them is terrible, and I'd never join up with them because it would feel like joining the Klan, but while their solutions are bad, the problems they're trying to solve are real.

Of course in our dualistic political culture in the US, the antidote to "Mutant Republican" is either "Thoughtful Democrat" or "Mutant Democrat." That's too bad, because Democrats are idiots too. The "There's a SOCIAL PROGRAM for that!" solution is almost as terrible, in the long run, as the "AW JUST LET THE MARKET HANDLE IT" solution.

- When people are provided for, they tend to forget how to provide for themselves. (How many of us know how to properly slaughter, quarter, and dress a game animal if we had to, or keep the meat from rotting long enough to eat it, without modern conveniences?)

- If people cannot provide for themselves, then they have no choice but loyalty to whoever is providing for them, and will maintain that loyalty at any cost so long as those provisions keep coming. And, of course, any thought of cutting off those provisions is immediately met with anger; anyone who suggests maybe people are a little too dependent on the system is disregarded as intellectually alien or perverse.

I'm not saying Progressivism is bad (or that the raging xenophobia of the Teabaggers is good), but maybe we should consider this stuff when we think about the fight between "liberal" and "conservative."

It's amusing when they say stuff like that, and then argue the military budget should be doubled, and more wars declared.  Because the military totally isn't a quasi-socialist society, and the Pentagon budget is paid for by faeries and leprechauns, not out of the budget.

WE HAVE TO KEEP AMMURKA SAFE! You wouldn't know anything about FIGHTING for LIBERTY, Redcoat!

god i hope they win control of congress.

pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease

RICE.

with water.

http://www.revisionism.nl/Moon/The-Mad-Revisionist.htm

Ancient people had stronger stomachs.