Humans are Selfish, Conservatives more so, and people are Stupid

Let me see if I got this:

• If something good happens to a Conservative, it's because he worked hard;
• If something good happens to a Liberal, it's because he worked hard;
• If something bad happens to a Liberal, it's his own fault for fucking up;
• If something bad happens to a Conservative, it's because some Liberal fucked him over....

...waitaminute...

Actually, I think Jarvis Slacks says it all a lot better, and I think his piece simply emphasizes my long-formed views that humans are naturally selfish, and conservatives simply more so (with narrow-focused selfishness simply becoming a more powerful force the more right-wing you go).

Funny thing, if brown-skinned people are the "thugs," then why is it only the pink-skinned people that ever seem to have an apeshit hard-on for guns and amass personal arsenals that would supply a guerrilla army, before losing their shit and murdering people (by the way, that link is a really fucking great article about the downside to white male privilege, entrenched misogyny, and how the asshats at the NRA soak you for money by pushing the agenda of white male privilege as the Natural Order of things).

And, why is it only pink-skinned people who "need" assault rifles to buy cookies, but we're not surprised when they lose their shit and murder their own family members.

Okay, so now that I've gotten all the feisty and dramatic language out of the way, let's address some conversational disclaimers.

"conservative" - someone who prefers the status quo to change, likes tradition, ritual and consistency. Tends to think small government is good, but also recognizes the value in a strong government to maintain stability, security, and the economy.

"Conservative" - a group of neo-feudalist political hacks who have lied, cheated, and generally hood-winked and swindled conservatives into self-destructive behaviors, often by selling snake oil and inventing "LibDem" bogeymen to be Very Afraid of.

"Tea Party" a bunch of naive fools whose individual worldview generally consists of "I'm right, fuck you!" They also seem to think the US Constitution was somehow holy writ on origin, and that the founding fathers were Christian, suggesting a critical ignorance about both. Lots of misdirected anger. Even the KKK And Aryan Nation think they're easy recruits (no, seriously, Google that one yourself).



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Theological Thursday: The Fallacy of America as Christian

I'm fed up with idiots chanting "America is Christian." Let's just call them all out in one great smashup of memes.

My rant follows the memes, so skip ahead if you've already seen these before.

Funny thing, how so many of the first white settlers were fleeing religious persecution - from other Christians! - have essentially re-invented the persecution.

Perhaps it is in the nature of Christianity to seek martyrdom. I mean, Jesus was martyred on the cross, and the history of Christianity is filled with epic tales of heroes who died for their beliefs. There are even books celebrating people - stupidly - martyring themselves for Jesus.

The problem being that it's easy to die, but once your dead you no longer matter. Oh, some people say "But the memory lives on!" Well, no, because those who remain re-invent the memory to suit the needs of the moment. Look at President Reagan - the memory sold by the spin-media is nothing like the man who really lived, and even those who lived thru the era don't recall correctly anymore. That's just being human.

So, do modern Christians seek martyrdom as a way of feeling like their faith is being tested and therefore strong? Therefore contemporary Christians wind themselves up over bullshit?

I've got a phrase I like to use: "The other holidays used to think Christmas was a good neighbor until Christmas started picking fights with everyone."

It becomes a self-fulfilling agenda: pick fights because you think you're persecuted, annoy everyone, be persecuted, be validated. Of course, that validation comes only by first having been a jerk and creating a problem where peace stood before, so you decide: is it really martyrdom if you started the fight?

And last, but not least... (rant continued below the meme)...

Ah, Sainted President Ronald Reagan - let's keep in mind that by the standards of today's right-wing rant-chant media, this guy was a bleeding heart Lib Dem of the worst kind. He's only held up as some kind of right-wing icon because the "piddle down" economic models that feed the rich on the backs of impoverished slave labor started under his regime, and because prophets, idols and gods are part of the religion of the right-wing. Reagan smashed up unions, carved up taxes (i.e. massive tax breaks for the rich), and blew all his hot air into inflating the deficit beyond sane proportions (like all Republicans do - they borrow money as the government, and give it to the rich, and then tell the poor to eat dirt, because there's no money for government. Give me a "tax and spend" Liberal over a "spend and spend without income" fake Conservative any day).

Mansplaining why women aren't the property of men

And the drive to force women to be human incubators and property of men continues, unabated, and unashamed, and unbelievable.

Let me mansplain something, because "men's rights to block an abortion" are bullshit for one very simple reason:

A man's "right" to force me to carry a fetus I don't want requires that he have ownership and property rights to control my body. Yep, that's what it breaks down to: in order to force me to perform an action against my will, I must be his property, a second-class citizen, less than human.

That's what it all boils down to. Anyone who thinks otherwise is naive and stupid.

Pregnancy is physically and mentally demanding. It is potentially life-threatening. It leaves permanent physical changes to a woman's tendons, joints, pelvis and entire hormonal balance for the rest of her life.

It's not just a one-off nine-month ordeal, in which most women are forced by the physical demands to completely alter their patterns, and many are forced to stop working due to inability to sleep, physical pain, or simple exhaustion.

It's that simple. Sorry if you want to whine about a woman aborting "your child," but it's not your choice. You don't want to see this happen? Then keep your dick in your pants and don't go knocking up women, because you don't get to own us.

Thank God, under the US Constitution and Bill of Rights, I am a person, and not your breeding stock, so you don't get to force me to have sex with you, and you don't get to force me to incubate a child as if I were a breeding dog or prize mare.

Need that "mansplained" again, liittle boy? Okay, how about "You want to treat my body as property? Trespassers will be violated, and beware the dog, because she's a Bitch, and won't bother to bark before she takes your nuts off."

Little boys, your rights to anything growing in my body end at the words "my body," and end of discussion.

Kickstarter - remember people still want to throw money at you later

Memo to anyone doing a Kickstarter ever:

 

Include info about "Oh, crap, sorry you missed the chance to throw money at us for the Kickstarter, but here's how you can still give us your money and get cool stuff [at our store, or by email, or any way at all]!"

It's so damn frustrating to run across some cool game or whatever and not be able to obtain it, because it funded and the idiots didn't consider that the stupid campaign page is still up, so new people will STILL WANT TO THROW MONEY AT THEM!

And in exchange for this brilliant (if obvious advice) YOU owe me one free copy of whatever you're selling! (Or not, just as long as you give me a chance to throw money at you later, we're cool)

:)


 

Musical Monday: M.I.L.O. - "Farvel til 09"

 Some friends of mine met Milo Martin, aka M.I.L.O., a few years ago at the GI Film Festival in Washington, DC.  They watched his film at the Canadian Embassy, then went to dinner with a Canadian Admiral.  Yeah, filmmakers live weird lives.

Anyway, M.I.L.O. is an internationally famous rap artist, from Denmark, who joined the military to fight the Taliban.

This music video was shot using footage from his time in Afghanistan, and is kind of his "going away" to his family, before he left.

Just watch it and remind yourself every damn day that:

1. Life is short;
2. Find something worth LIVING for

Woman: Thou Art Human Incubator - Property of the State

I've been warning about this exact slippery slope for years.

"Young-Woman-Serving-30-Years-For-A-Miscarriage-Receives-No-Pardon"

THIS is the eventual slide we are heading toward in America. The next step beyond this bullshit of spending life in prison for an act of God! is that women become property of the state when pregnant, to "ensure" they can't fuck up the pregnancy. Oh, at their own expense, of course, since we can't possibly have "socialized medicine" to pay for the forced incarceration of the human incubator.

This is insane. This is stupid.  I remember there was a story about another woman there who was being killed by the non-viable fetus inside her, but no one would remove it, because then the doctors would go to jail. And they would not let her leave the country, because she would get the non-viable fetus removed. The woman's only option given to her by the fascist, anti-women authorities was to hope she didn't die until enough time had passed that the doctors could legally induce labor to get the fetus out before the pregnancy killed her.

These pricks are so self-righteous in their "defense of the unborn" that they callously murder and throw away adult life, and tell themselves they are good people.

Related posts

• Slipperyslope: "Raped American Soldier - Birth Our Enemy's Baby"

• "Boys will be boys" means you agree to be butt-raped

Theological Thursday: Romans 1:16-32 - wow, Paul-who-had-been-Saul had been in a mood that day

Someone tried to quote Romans 1: 16-32 at me. She was an angry self-righteous piece of work, and threw in a bit of swearing and antisemitism, as I recall.

So I went and read it again (yes, again, I've actually read the Bible start-to-finish twice in my lifetime, which is twice more than most Bible-thumping tits have done).

Okay, anyone quoting this is a narrow-minded asshat, looking for an excuse to marginalize others, and be a jackass to anyone she doesn't like.

As I said in an earlier blog post - Your god is a lousy "What have you done for ME, lately?" kind of jerk, isn't He?

Or, as I said in that same earlier post, maybe when it's all said and done, it's you - little narrow-minded, short-lived, self-righteous, mortal human with "Romans 1:16-32" stickers on your car - who has her head up her ass, and God just looks down and weeps for ALL of His Stupid Children.




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And, least anyone wants to start on me with the whole "Paul-who-had-been-Saul"...