Yeah, I don't give a fuck about America or Freedom v 2.0, and I haven't for years. I am one of those treasonous assholes that cares about roads and bridges and making sure people don't starve to death or die from easily-treated medical problems. Some might call me a socialist...But they'd be wrong, because socialists are just as DUMB as the free market tards.
It's not Goddamn brain surgery. We can manage EITHER our own country, OR we can show other countries "how it's done" (usually by killing loads of people and then making them a captive market, see: Great Britain, 2nd Empire). You HAVE to choose.
And since our bridges are falling into rivers and our dams are crumbling, but by God we'll have another aircraft carrier, it's fucking obvious which option we chose. This is why we can't have nice things. Because we, as a nation, are TOO FUCKING STUPID TO HAVE THOSE NICE THINGS.
As a side effect of this decision, our "government" is running hog wild, doing whatever the fuck it pleases to anyone who pops up on the radar, because they KNOW how fucking DUMB the country is (based mostly on the decision made above), so your rights, your "Freedom v 2.0", are meaningless because THEY DON'T EXIST. You are free to read this because YOU HAVEN'T YET BEEN NOTICED. That's really all there is to it.
I don't LIKE this Freedom v 2.0. I like the OLD freedom...The freedom to run my mouth. The freedom to not give a fuck. The freedom to whatever perversions I can talk another consenting adult into committing with me. The freedom to own muscle cars, insanely unnecessary weaponry, and BIG RED STRAPS. And if I DO fuck up, or get ACCUSED of fucking up, I want amendments V, VI, VIII, and XIV. I do not want them as PRIVILEGES because I'm WHITE and MALE and MIDDLE CLASS, I want them because I am a GODDAMN BIPED, and I want EVERYONE ELSE to have them as well...Because if they DON'T, then those aren't "rights" I have, are they? No. Back to privilege, which can be revoked at any time.
Problem is, Freedom v 2.0 is the supposed freedom of "safety", which the "government" can't provide, even if that was their actual intent (which, of course, it isn't), and the po'buckers DO love that illusion of safety, because they are COWARDS. They are SCARED SHITLESS...Just as they have been CONDITIONED to be for the last hundred years.
And while conditioning may be a REASON, it is NOT an EXCUSE. I feel no pity for them, for they have traded their personal sovereignty for a "safety" that ISN'T ACTUALLY THERE, just as they have traded a FUNCTIONAL ECONOMY for some magic beans called "derivatives".
I don't CARE why they do it...I don't CARE if it's "for the children" or "TICKING TIME BOMB" or ANY OF THAT SHIT. If you want to know how free you REALLY are in these times, just go to the fucking airport. They'll show you Freedom v 2.0...And it DOES look impressive, until one day some terrorist figures out that the waiting line to get TO the security checkpoint is in itself a perfect target.
So there you have it. Not free AND not safe. So what benefit ARE the po'buckers getting for flushing our birthright down the toilet? Oh, yeah...They get to pick on brown people again, in the EXACT SAME REASONING that got hundreds of thousands of po'buckers to support the CSA back in the year dot. Sure, they'd be less free under that system, but there would be people WORSE OFF THAN THEM, which is easier than trying to actually DO something yourself.
And THAT, friends, is the root of everything that's happening today. "Fuck me all you like, just so long's I can fuck this here brown fella." Well, there are consequences for every bad act, and America is about to learn that the hard way, with no lube. Fuck 'em, they deserve it.
Okay for now,
Treasonous Dok
Not Free, Not Safe, With Illusions of Comfort.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on May 28, 2013, 06:18:02 PM
Not Free, Not Safe, With Illusions of Comfort.
Ah, yes, the comfort. The comfort of knowing that someone else is getting fucked harder than you.
What kind of society thinks that way? Not one that's going anywhere, that's for damn sure.
People are getting mighty dicey with those 'priviledge vs right' things. The definition of "American" as it applies to who gets those rights seems to be getting narrower and narrower . . .
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on May 28, 2013, 07:34:12 PM
People are getting mighty dicey with those 'priviledge vs right' things. The definition of "American" as it applies to who gets those rights seems to be getting narrower and narrower . . .
That is the nature of privilege. It is exclusive, and becomes more and more exclusive as time goes on.
Amusingly enough, so do many of the groups that claim they oppose privilege.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 28, 2013, 07:49:55 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on May 28, 2013, 07:34:12 PM
People are getting mighty dicey with those 'priviledge vs right' things. The definition of "American" as it applies to who gets those rights seems to be getting narrower and narrower . . .
That is the nature of privilege. It is exclusive, and becomes more and more exclusive as time goes on.
Amusingly enough, so do many of the groups that claim they oppose privilege.
Some people would rather become the oppressor than get rid of oppression.
Awesome rant. 8)
Quote from: stelz on May 28, 2013, 08:33:48 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 28, 2013, 07:49:55 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on May 28, 2013, 07:34:12 PM
People are getting mighty dicey with those 'priviledge vs right' things. The definition of "American" as it applies to who gets those rights seems to be getting narrower and narrower . . .
That is the nature of privilege. It is exclusive, and becomes more and more exclusive as time goes on.
Amusingly enough, so do many of the groups that claim they oppose privilege.
Some people would rather become the oppressor than get rid of oppression.
Awesome rant. 8)
That is an odd, true thing. Like the only payoff for surviving oppression is to get a chance to oppress other people instead of everyone getting the same rights and freedoms.
FUCKING RAH!
In psychology the concept is called "relative deprivation", and yeah, you're spot on.
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on May 29, 2013, 12:46:16 AM
FUCKING RAH!
In psychology the concept is called "relative deprivation", and yeah, you're spot on.
Thank you. *off to read*
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 29, 2013, 12:52:33 AM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on May 29, 2013, 12:46:16 AM
FUCKING RAH!
In psychology the concept is called "relative deprivation", and yeah, you're spot on.
Thank you. *off to read*
*as am I* :)
I... I... I just don't get America, I think.
Quote from: Waffles, Viking Princess of Northern Belgium on May 29, 2013, 09:14:42 PM
I... I... I just don't get America, I think.
It's easy. You snort crank up one nostril and heroin up the other, and then walk down the street accusing everyone else of loose moral standards until the men in the white jackets come lock you away. At that point, you have achieved America™.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 29, 2013, 09:22:45 PM
Quote from: Waffles, Viking Princess of Northern Belgium on May 29, 2013, 09:14:42 PM
I... I... I just don't get America, I think.
It's easy. You snort crank up one nostril and heroin up the other, and then walk down the street accusing everyone else of loose moral standards until the men in the white jackets come lock you away. At that point, you have achieved America™.
And then you get a medal that's really a stale chocolate coin wrapped in foil that a hobo has peed on.
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on May 29, 2013, 09:28:21 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 29, 2013, 09:22:45 PM
Quote from: Waffles, Viking Princess of Northern Belgium on May 29, 2013, 09:14:42 PM
I... I... I just don't get America, I think.
It's easy. You snort crank up one nostril and heroin up the other, and then walk down the street accusing everyone else of loose moral standards until the men in the white jackets come lock you away. At that point, you have achieved America™.
And then you get a medal that's really a stale chocolate coin wrapped in foil that a hobo has peed on.
:mittens:
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 29, 2013, 09:22:45 PM
Quote from: Waffles, Viking Princess of Northern Belgium on May 29, 2013, 09:14:42 PM
I... I... I just don't get America, I think.
It's easy. You snort crank up one nostril and heroin up the other, and then walk down the street accusing everyone else of loose moral standards until the men in the white jackets come lock you away. At that point, you have achieved America™.
:eek:
Quote from: Waffles, Viking Princess of Northern Belgium on May 29, 2013, 10:41:11 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 29, 2013, 09:22:45 PM
Quote from: Waffles, Viking Princess of Northern Belgium on May 29, 2013, 09:14:42 PM
I... I... I just don't get America, I think.
It's easy. You snort crank up one nostril and heroin up the other, and then walk down the street accusing everyone else of loose moral standards until the men in the white jackets come lock you away. At that point, you have achieved America™.
:eek:
RELAX IT'S ONLY SLAPSTICK
Emphasis on slap unless you want to know what that prodding burning sensation in your behind is.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 29, 2013, 10:50:44 PM
Quote from: Waffles, Viking Princess of Northern Belgium on May 29, 2013, 10:41:11 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 29, 2013, 09:22:45 PM
Quote from: Waffles, Viking Princess of Northern Belgium on May 29, 2013, 09:14:42 PM
I... I... I just don't get America, I think.
It's easy. You snort crank up one nostril and heroin up the other, and then walk down the street accusing everyone else of loose moral standards until the men in the white jackets come lock you away. At that point, you have achieved America™.
:eek:
RELAX IT'S ONLY SLAPSTICK
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU
Quote from: Waffles, Viking Princess of Northern Belgium on May 29, 2013, 10:54:17 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 29, 2013, 10:50:44 PM
Quote from: Waffles, Viking Princess of Northern Belgium on May 29, 2013, 10:41:11 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 29, 2013, 09:22:45 PM
Quote from: Waffles, Viking Princess of Northern Belgium on May 29, 2013, 09:14:42 PM
I... I... I just don't get America, I think.
It's easy. You snort crank up one nostril and heroin up the other, and then walk down the street accusing everyone else of loose moral standards until the men in the white jackets come lock you away. At that point, you have achieved America™.
:eek:
RELAX IT'S ONLY SLAPSTICK
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU
It totally is. Except that Larry and Moe beat Curly to death for having the wrong values.
I think america has to be experienced.
I don't wish it on anybody though. Well, maybe Pol Pot.
Call me a masochist, but I kinda want to experiene it, if only for a while.
GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH