If someone knows me just now then they probably hate me.
Republicans hate me because I don't roll over when they spew their empty statistics and false science regarding the changing climate of the Earth ... and any number of other things. They say respect us for what we have done for America. I ask what that was and the room gets quiet. So they hate me.
Seriously. What did Republicans ever do that served America in any way. Eisenhower built some roads. Lincoln freed some slaves. To find anything else you would have to start talking about colonials and dinosaurs. They've started a shitload of wars, tho. Their ability to call themselves 'financial conservatives' while turning a blind eye toward the military corruption is precisely my cause for concern. This isn't the first time the world has had to deal with this kind of myopia.
Democrats hate me because I have no use for the dowdy matron they're rolling out to the podium to represent the Best Hope of the Free World. There's a better Democrat in Angela Merkel than you'll ever find in Hillary Clinton and Merkel isn't even left wing. Clinton will not be forgiven for making the jet fighter deal with Pakistan.
Obama has been more spineless than a sea sponge in standing up for the principles of the Democrats and he derives his philosophy from a Gallup poll. That Republicans revile him for carrying on their own policies carries some amusement. If ever there's a real Democrat they will go into conniption fits.
So Democrats hate me.
It doesn't matter if the Tea Party hates me as their appalling ignorance is of no significance except in terms of whether their weapons are loaded. Ignorant people shoot quickly.
Most of my family hates me because I won't roll over for their bullshit politics and I will not respect what is bullshit about those politics. I knew people would reject me for what I write and it's far from the first time it has happened but I will not waver if it alienates me from the whole fucking world.
The premise was that I was failing to support family when one of our number was serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. My support was to get him the fuck out of there so he didn't die or get injured for nothing but that was not acceptable and thus I am the black sheep.
In fact the US has never successfully 'installed a democracy' anywhere and, contrary to general belief, the government in Germany now is not something that was constructed by the occupying powers. As we've seen, the installed governments have largely lost control of Iraq and Afghanistan (witness ISIS in Iraq and soaring heroin production in Afghanistan). The US record of success with installing democracies remains intact at zero, just as it was after Vietnam and for largely the same reasons.
There are probably still Republicans screeching that had liberals not prevented appropriate bombing of Hanoi then the US would have won in Vietnam. In fact, what would have happened is that Ho Chi Minh would have escaped to the tunnels and you would have had a guerrilla war that went on for decades ... just like Iraq.
Cat and I have talked a great deal about the Milgram experiments on obedience and various other aspects of human behavior that help explain what happened in Nazi Germany. Look at it from her standpoint and those of everyone around her when she sees this heritage. OK, now what do I do with that. What the fuck should I do. I will not tell you specifically but I will tell you she does very well and her dues are paid many times.
The biggest question to much of her generation is why didn't anyone stop it. The myopia that came into play in that time is similar to that which we see now in which being a financial conservative is sufficient to justify moral righteousness while at the same time ignoring or attributing as necessary for freedom the violations of international and moral law in drone bombing.
Multiple people in the US and elsewhere around the world but primarily here have been quite loud in denying the Holocaust ever happened. I know directly about Dachau but will have to confer to determine how much of that information should be public.
So Holocaust deniers hate me.
A lot of the negative publicity against GMO food is the same kind of pseudo-scientific crap being used in the climate change pseudo-debates. A whole lot of people are serving as Facebook shills without researching much of anything. If something has a cool enough picture, they will share it with all the friends.
So the hippies hate me.
The first move typically is to attack my own morality. I do not support capital punishment whereas I have no concern with abortion, at least in the first trimester. Immediately, I'm a hypocrite, charlatan, etc, etc.
But none of that changes in any slightest way the matters I have previously discussed. Anything that diverts from that is the standard FUD technique that is so embarrassingly obvious and yet so frequently effective, at least in terms of repression. (FUD - Fear Uncertainty Doubt - A Propagandist uses all three)
If you support Republican economics then you support Republican killing and profiteering from that killing. There is no way to hair split or word doctor past that fact. Whether I am a Saint from Heaven or NAZI war criminal doesn't make any kind of difference.
That one usually finishes it and everyone hates me after that. Why you are reading and who you are is unknown and something I do not understand. I encounter resistance everywhere I go and it has reached the point that I am ashamed to go outside, not of them but of myself as obviously I do not belong here. It's not clear that I belong anywhere. Do not think for a millisecond I am exaggerating.
The middle class is a relatively recent invention and Republicans serve to protect those who are destroying it. The American Dream is gone. Many people are broke. And then they even quibble over whether there should be medicine.
That typically starts the Republican economic shadow dance and we'll go straight to trickle down economics and don't you love that voodoo. You better or we will kill you. Check our record. We will do it. Remember Kent State. Remember what they did to the girls at UC Davis. Remember what they did to OWS.
They let that low tax voodoo roll right about 1920 and it stayed that way right up to the Great Depression. Reagan and Bush did it again and, lo and behold, the same thing happened only this time the rich were better at protecting themselves, everyone else got screwed. It wasn't the Big Dealers who died in the Great Depression and they didn't feel much from the latest financial debacles. To them, it's just a percentage.
Most of the Republicans are betting on a lottery they can't possibly win and John Oliver covered that nicely in a recent show. Someday I'll join that 1% if I just work hard enough, if I can only be productive enough ... and this stuff will motivate the proletariat all day long. Milgram can tell you all about it.
The Middle Class doesn't believe it's dying so they hate me.
I have no kids but I have voted in favor of every school tax and school levy that ever came in front of me. This doesn't make me a saint but rather a realist as I don't like talking to ignorant people. That sure worked out well, didn't it. (They voted many of them down anyway)
Now we have people talking about evolution when all they ever saw on the subject was some cartoon religious tract. They ignore altogether that if other things didn't happen naturally then what happened as a result of evolution is irrelevant.
So I'm a sinner for this thinking and religious people hate me.
That leaves Cat and my friend, Yevette.
The above was irony but the usual response is I'm a victim, whiner, complainer. Please don't bother as I've heard it before.
Republicans hate me because I don't roll over when they spew their empty statistics and false science regarding the changing climate of the Earth ... and any number of other things. They say respect us for what we have done for America. I ask what that was and the room gets quiet. So they hate me.
Seriously. What did Republicans ever do that served America in any way. Eisenhower built some roads. Lincoln freed some slaves. To find anything else you would have to start talking about colonials and dinosaurs. They've started a shitload of wars, tho. Their ability to call themselves 'financial conservatives' while turning a blind eye toward the military corruption is precisely my cause for concern. This isn't the first time the world has had to deal with this kind of myopia.
Democrats hate me because I have no use for the dowdy matron they're rolling out to the podium to represent the Best Hope of the Free World. There's a better Democrat in Angela Merkel than you'll ever find in Hillary Clinton and Merkel isn't even left wing. Clinton will not be forgiven for making the jet fighter deal with Pakistan.
Obama has been more spineless than a sea sponge in standing up for the principles of the Democrats and he derives his philosophy from a Gallup poll. That Republicans revile him for carrying on their own policies carries some amusement. If ever there's a real Democrat they will go into conniption fits.
So Democrats hate me.
It doesn't matter if the Tea Party hates me as their appalling ignorance is of no significance except in terms of whether their weapons are loaded. Ignorant people shoot quickly.
Most of my family hates me because I won't roll over for their bullshit politics and I will not respect what is bullshit about those politics. I knew people would reject me for what I write and it's far from the first time it has happened but I will not waver if it alienates me from the whole fucking world.
The premise was that I was failing to support family when one of our number was serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. My support was to get him the fuck out of there so he didn't die or get injured for nothing but that was not acceptable and thus I am the black sheep.
In fact the US has never successfully 'installed a democracy' anywhere and, contrary to general belief, the government in Germany now is not something that was constructed by the occupying powers. As we've seen, the installed governments have largely lost control of Iraq and Afghanistan (witness ISIS in Iraq and soaring heroin production in Afghanistan). The US record of success with installing democracies remains intact at zero, just as it was after Vietnam and for largely the same reasons.
There are probably still Republicans screeching that had liberals not prevented appropriate bombing of Hanoi then the US would have won in Vietnam. In fact, what would have happened is that Ho Chi Minh would have escaped to the tunnels and you would have had a guerrilla war that went on for decades ... just like Iraq.
Cat and I have talked a great deal about the Milgram experiments on obedience and various other aspects of human behavior that help explain what happened in Nazi Germany. Look at it from her standpoint and those of everyone around her when she sees this heritage. OK, now what do I do with that. What the fuck should I do. I will not tell you specifically but I will tell you she does very well and her dues are paid many times.
The biggest question to much of her generation is why didn't anyone stop it. The myopia that came into play in that time is similar to that which we see now in which being a financial conservative is sufficient to justify moral righteousness while at the same time ignoring or attributing as necessary for freedom the violations of international and moral law in drone bombing.
Multiple people in the US and elsewhere around the world but primarily here have been quite loud in denying the Holocaust ever happened. I know directly about Dachau but will have to confer to determine how much of that information should be public.
So Holocaust deniers hate me.
A lot of the negative publicity against GMO food is the same kind of pseudo-scientific crap being used in the climate change pseudo-debates. A whole lot of people are serving as Facebook shills without researching much of anything. If something has a cool enough picture, they will share it with all the friends.
So the hippies hate me.
The first move typically is to attack my own morality. I do not support capital punishment whereas I have no concern with abortion, at least in the first trimester. Immediately, I'm a hypocrite, charlatan, etc, etc.
But none of that changes in any slightest way the matters I have previously discussed. Anything that diverts from that is the standard FUD technique that is so embarrassingly obvious and yet so frequently effective, at least in terms of repression. (FUD - Fear Uncertainty Doubt - A Propagandist uses all three)
If you support Republican economics then you support Republican killing and profiteering from that killing. There is no way to hair split or word doctor past that fact. Whether I am a Saint from Heaven or NAZI war criminal doesn't make any kind of difference.
That one usually finishes it and everyone hates me after that. Why you are reading and who you are is unknown and something I do not understand. I encounter resistance everywhere I go and it has reached the point that I am ashamed to go outside, not of them but of myself as obviously I do not belong here. It's not clear that I belong anywhere. Do not think for a millisecond I am exaggerating.
The middle class is a relatively recent invention and Republicans serve to protect those who are destroying it. The American Dream is gone. Many people are broke. And then they even quibble over whether there should be medicine.
That typically starts the Republican economic shadow dance and we'll go straight to trickle down economics and don't you love that voodoo. You better or we will kill you. Check our record. We will do it. Remember Kent State. Remember what they did to the girls at UC Davis. Remember what they did to OWS.
They let that low tax voodoo roll right about 1920 and it stayed that way right up to the Great Depression. Reagan and Bush did it again and, lo and behold, the same thing happened only this time the rich were better at protecting themselves, everyone else got screwed. It wasn't the Big Dealers who died in the Great Depression and they didn't feel much from the latest financial debacles. To them, it's just a percentage.
Most of the Republicans are betting on a lottery they can't possibly win and John Oliver covered that nicely in a recent show. Someday I'll join that 1% if I just work hard enough, if I can only be productive enough ... and this stuff will motivate the proletariat all day long. Milgram can tell you all about it.
The Middle Class doesn't believe it's dying so they hate me.
I have no kids but I have voted in favor of every school tax and school levy that ever came in front of me. This doesn't make me a saint but rather a realist as I don't like talking to ignorant people. That sure worked out well, didn't it. (They voted many of them down anyway)
Now we have people talking about evolution when all they ever saw on the subject was some cartoon religious tract. They ignore altogether that if other things didn't happen naturally then what happened as a result of evolution is irrelevant.
So I'm a sinner for this thinking and religious people hate me.
That leaves Cat and my friend, Yevette.
The above was irony but the usual response is I'm a victim, whiner, complainer. Please don't bother as I've heard it before.
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