After my last post I was accused of being up on a soap box. Well...I liked the view from up there so here I go again. Last night a friend and I were baiting people on facebook with some political stuff, just for giggles. He's a liberal communist fag, I'm a conservative fascist douchebag, it's pretty much a match made in heaven. The truth of it is we're both pretty moderate, he leans to the left, I lean to the right, but both of us prefer common sense and reason to political talk show silliness. So last night I was actually arguing in favor of the liberal side, not because I believed it, but because the people arguing the conservative side were using nothing but media lines, name calling, and unrealistic views about what the president can accomplish. So in honor of those people, here is a list of people I hate :)
1. Republicans. Not all of them, because I'm obviously pretty awesome. No I hate the republicans that denounce democrats and everything they do just because they're democrats and they do stuff. They have no logic, no reason, or rely on completely misplaced anger. On a personal level I don't like Obama because he seems to be incredibly mediocre. He didn't start the war in Iraq, he didn't start the recession, he didn't kick your dog and steal all your toilet paper. He also hasn't ended the recession, well he did officially but not in reality. He hasn't ended the war in Iraq. He doesn't walk my dogs for me and he won't share his presidential 73 ply toilet paper. Now a lot of this isn't his fault, congress has road blocked much of what he tries. Would any of his plans work? Who knows. I would like to see him get more passionate about it though.
2. Democrats. Again, not all of them, but there are tons and tons of rich democrats that are guilty of the exact same money hording and refusal to hire as the rich republicans. That little D next to your name doesn't make you one of the regular people. IF democrats believe that businesses and rich people have a social responsibility to hire and help this recovery, then they can do it. Even if republican controlled money stayed sidelined if all of the democrat controlled money was in play it would make a huge impact. On top of that, the conservatives would be forced to put their money in play or risk falling behind in business.
3. Independents. Just...choose a side. Yeah I'm probably an independent when it comes down to it, but I get sick of the ones that only choose a side based on who's winning a particular argument. They manage to never be wrong by not taking a stand until after the fight. Grow a pair.
4. Stupid teenagers. I covered this in my last post so I won't take up space here.
5. Smart teenagers. You're not that smart.
6. People that complain about a problem they helped cause. This can be on any scale. I'm cold, well maybe you should have brought a jacket like I told you or put down the 72 ounce ice cold coke. Or on a bigger scale, and this has parts of two separate conversations I had with the same person, I'm still waiting for him to connect the dots.
Dumdum: "All these people need to stop complaining about unemployment and go get jobs."
Me: "Most of them agree with you. Sure there are a lot that are just abusing the system but most WANT to be working. Look at me, I've been a construction worker my whole life and now there is simply no work to be found."
Dumdum: "You should come check out my new house. I never would have been able to afford something this big if it wasn't for illegal immigrants."
And here comes the giant facepalm. Obviously there are a lot of variations, but a typical house has enough man hours to keep a person working for close to 2 years. So this guy complaining about people being unemployed is directly responsible for one person being out of work for 2 years. When I tried to explain it to him I just got the blank stare of doom.
7. Bad drivers. We've all seen the texters, the eaters, the makeup appliers, and no one likes them. To truly earn hate you have to be extra stupid though. I'm talking about the woman I saw driving down 435 reading a book. Not glancing at it, or checking out the cover, but actually propped up on the steering wheel turning pages while she drove across 3 lanes of traffic. If you're smart enough to read, you should be smart enough to know this is a bad idea. I'm also talking about the person who stops in the middle of the highway because they missed their exit. Guess what bud, cars behind you going 70 and you going 0 don't mix. Keep driving, there's another exit in 2 miles where you can turn around.
8. Self righteous "religious" people that ignore large chunks of scripture. Usually these are the people screaming about sexual morality. No abortions, no sex out of marriage, no homosexuals, and often times they use arguments that are found no where in the Bible. They've been added in later by other religious figures, or the meanings of the scripture are open for debate, it doesn't matter you're going to burn in hell. Point out to them that usery is a sin equal to sodomy? I'm going to hell because I'm defending gay people. Highlight scripture that speaks out against greed or excessive wealth? I'm just trying to draw attention away from my whoring ways. Point at the 9 year old boy duct taped in their closet? Well, he was practically begging for it.
9. Fred Phelps. He's the only one that actually gets named here. I could put him with the group above but he's a special kind of stupid. I've been banned from his website under a few different names just for pointing out holes in their reasoning. Without listing every questionable thing they say the basic idea they have about our troops dying out of punishment is, several years ago some idiot threw a pipe bomb in the street near one of the WBC member's house. It did a little damage to a car, think a couple paintings fell off the wall, I'm sure it was a terrible experience. They automatically jumped to the conclusion that someone was trying to kill them. It's possible, but the explosion happened in the street, not in their house. They really had nothing else to go on, but this was enough. So they tie that in to troops dying saying that God is using the Improvised Explosive Devices like the one they were attacked with to punish our troops. The tie in to gays is tenuous at best. I simply asked if God was using IED's as punishment, how do they know the one He used against them wasn't as a punishment for being hateful and judgemental to their fellow man. I was banned that day.
10. You. Thanks to the people I argued politics with last night I realize I don't even need a reason for this. In fact, I think I will quote one of them, only replacing whatever slur he used for Obama's name with the word you. "Who needs to post proof on here when everyone knows YOU suck giant donkey...."
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