I hate this. I really hate this. I really hate having to do three serious posts three nights in a row. And by that, I mean I apologize to all of you (more like the three of you) who have to suffer through it. I love it. It’s easy and I never have to stress over anything. And I hope (for your sake) that I don’t have to be serious tomorrow night or you all may explode from boredom.
Really this shouldn’t be a really long post, even though I want to make it more of a cover-all to finish the last two days’ posts than have any one specific subject. So I think I’ll list a few things that I hate, you know, just to make it easier for you.
Hate #1: You know, sorry if I’ve been repetitive, but most of all I really hate when people take freedom of speech as selective. You cannot select what people are free to say! That kind of undermines the whole meaning (not to mention the name) of the right. Hello people, your opinions are not exclusive. People are allowed to disagree with you. People are allowed to say what they want to you. People are allowed to speak violently against what you wish and for what they wish, even if it means jeering at a soldier’s funeral. They get the reputation for being complete and utter bastards (which they are), but they’re allowed to say it anyway. Freedom of Speech is absolute, and you have no say in it. That is literally the one thing you are not free to talk about.
Hate #2: Alright Republicans, congratulations on cementing your homophobic status in the collective American mind. You set up a contingency plan for what you apparently think is more catastrophic than the impeding default, the collapsing economy, and the nine percent unemployment rate: gay people serving openly in the military. All I can say is really?? You’re wasting your time on a repeal of probably the most progressive repeal in the last year? This is the fucking 21st Century! We should have gotten over this shit ten goddamned years ago! Are your delicate moral compasses tingling? I guarantee you that’s all the people banging on your offices because they’re out of work or the people dying overseas in a war that should have ended years ago… not the gay people in the military who are just as willing to defend this country as their heterosexual counterparts. Now I know it’s hard for some of you far-right wingers to let go of your profoundly racist and prejudiced roots… but it’s time to let this one go. Prissy, privileged, heterosexual white men do not rule the world anymore. They don’t even have the majority in Congress.
Hate #3: This is just something that came up earlier in an argument about Casey Anthony. This is my opinion in it’s entirety, and this is my most elegant way of putting it. Capital punishment is politically correct bullshit for killing someone to make a statement. That’s what North Korea does. That’s what the Soviet Union did. That’s what Khomeini did. That’s what Hitler did. That is not what the United States of America should do. You want to kill someone to make a statement… look back to May 2nd. You killed one of the most hated and radioactive men in the world. That’s the kind of statement you make by killing, not killing American criminals. That’s what terrorist and totalitarian nations do. Last time I checked, we weren’t one of them. And always, if you want them to suffer, stick them in Gitmo for the rest of their lives. Then on the off-chance that you convict the wrong person (see Nick Yarris), you haven’t killed an innocent man. And for god’s sakes… someone go watch The Green Mile.
SONG OF THE DAY: WAITING FOR THE END
Great song, and I think it fits. For those of you who are too lazy to watch, I’ll read my favorite line. “The hardest part of ending is starting again.” That’s a little better than Bieber don’t you think? Now adios muchachos, and I hope I don’t bog you down like this again tomorrow.
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