Views and that
So, I have some bones to pick with people at large. Their logic is flawed beyond comprehension, and I feel like I have to be the one to provide corrections, like the crew of Apollo 13. (Who, by the way, had to correct the computer because it was thinking they actually landed and picked up lots of moon rock.)
Bitching at the left
- First off, what the fuck, Tumblr? what are these genders you keep blathering on about? apparently the number has reached 73, but I'd wager that the number is around 30. Hard to tell, because they claim it's a 'spectrum'. Then why have all the individual names? I'd define such a 'spectrum with three gender distinctions; 'MAN' on one end, 'WOMAN' on the other, and 'OTHER' in between. That's the number of pronouns we have to use, so that's the number of genders there can be.
- On the topic of Tumblr, They also claim sexuality is on a spectrum, too! HOW? How is that even possible? they also tend to make up words to describe these things, like 'ace biromantic' to describe someone who likes both genders, but not in the loving department, or 'pansexual' (It basically means transsexual, but I'd probably set off the genius who thought of this shitty idea if I said that.), In my logical opinion, there are four sexualities: To boys, to girls, to both, or to neither, and those who claim otherwise have no idea what the words they are spewing mean. (Or they do, but nobody else does)
- Then, there's the 'Microagression': things that you don't notice you are doing, but cause misery or offend. This concept is the most horrible of them all! This basically feels like an excuse to call people 'OFFENSIVE' through no fault of their own! Microagressions don't exis, plain and simple. If the agressions are so small that I cannot tell I'm doing them, how can you tell? you are just trying to find something wrong wth me!
Screaming at the Right
While my problems with the left are in the social department, my problems with the right may be far more severe. They have to do with economic policy.
- First off, the guy who still thinks that 'Supply-side' economics is working should get a hefty supply of bollock punches. The philosophy popularised by Regan has only worked when the tax rates for the rich have been super high - around 90%. Problem is, the last time they were that high was during the reign of the Kennedys, and subsequent tax cuts for the rich haven't worked. If that was the case, then why isn't the economy screaming along when the rich have a tax rate of, at most, 35%?
- Guns are not our friends. They are horrible killing machines. People on the right (namely, the National Rifle Accociation, which should know better, given it was founded to promote gun safety) say that it's people that kill. Of course, they're right, but perhaps if they couldn't get a gun, maybe they wouldn't kill so many? Knife attacks are much less deadly than gun attacks, and while we cannot regulate everything that can kill you, we can at least stop the things that are very obviously designed to kill lots of people very fast?
- Now, you claim to be pro-life. I am actually not pro-life, because human life hurts the planet way too much, and the best way we can not hurt the world as much seems to be to reduce the number of people in it. But if you claim to be pro-life, why hate abortion and not support babies after they're born? Why not support adoption, which would allow people who would otherwise abort give away a perfectly functional child to a loving family? Or paid maternity leave, that could incentivise women and men to actually help their otherwise-aborted child? As far as I can tell, the only reason they do these things is to fuck the poor people. They don't deserve to not have many screaming, mewling detriments to their success!
- Actually, now that I think about it, all of their policies seem to be about fucking the poor and the minorities. Tax cuts for the rich and tax raises for the poor, making churches able to politically donate, restricting vote to people they want to vote - WHY? You are undermining democracy this way.