Hansel, I swear, you read my mind. I didn’t plan on writing anything this long, but after the first two paragraphs I went off on this completely cathartic tangent (resulting in this mess).
I decided to get all this stuff off my chest here and now, since you can’t actually talk about anything current-event related without some cockmonger innterrupting you and braying about why whatever dipshit uninformed opinion he holds is the ONE AND ONLY RIGHT ONE, and I (apparently) couldn’t tell my head from my ass on a sunny day, with both hands, a map, and a guided fucking tour. :rolleyes: I’m gonna preface this rant by saying, “No, I don’t really care what you think.” If you agree, great. If not, hey, it’s a free country. I just want to say this all before I have an aneurysm from holding it all in.
I’m not even sure I can put my emotions into a single coherent stream of thought anymore. Don’t get me wrong. I see both sides, I really do. I think there’s perfectly good reasons both for AND against it.
However…
I’m sick of the “You’re either for us or against us” bullshit. Last time I checked, this was still America, and I had the right to feel any fucking way I feel about something. Just because I disagree with one of your opinions doesn’t make me wrong. If I disagreed with ALL your opinions, it STILL wouldn’t make me wrong, BECAUSE IT’S A MOTHERFUCKING OPINION! We all remember the cliche about opinions and assholes. Well, everyone’s is starting to stink. I wouldn’t be nearly as tired of smellin em, except that everywhere I go, people feel the need to show em to me (their opinions, not their assholes).
I’m tired of America-bashing. It’s trite, trendy, and generally spouted by people who, for the most part, haven’t got the faintest fucking clue as to what they’re talking about. If you live in America and are bashing it, don’t let the fucking door hit you in the ass on the way out. You have every right to criticize our leadership if you disagree with them, and have every right to a lwaful demonstration, as well as the right to vote them out. IN MY OPINION, if there’s NOTHING you like about this country, think it’s a bunch of facist/commie/whatever political slur is popular this week bastards, and would rather badmouth it than help try and make it better, then be my guest. Get the fuck out, and see how the game is played in the rest of the world. If you ask really nicely, I just MIGHT let you back into the country when you realize that as much as we sometimes suck, there’s still alot of good here. On that same note, if you’re not from America than stfu. I am not the entirety of my government, and I don’t personally make the decisions, ok? I’m not a pig, I’m not a baby-fucking warhawk, nor am I a vegetarian-hippie-peacenik. I’m not a commie, or a facist and in point of fact, I can’t stand my government’s current administration either. Just because I think Chirac is an asshat, doesn’t mean I think all French are cheese-eating surrender monkeys. I at least try to give people the benefit of the doubt. Instead of being the rude arrogant asshole you’re accusing me of being, why don’t you try and do the same?
I’m almost tired of French-bashing. Although the cynical bastard in me makes me laugh at the jokes, if you made jokes about Texans, I’d laugh too. And I live in Texas, so there. However, what I said in the above paragraph still stands, and just because I think Chirac needs a plexi-glass plate put into his chest so he can see where he’s going with his head that far up his ass, I try not to make the ignorant assumption that I have the right to prejudge someone based on something as trivial as the fucking country he came from.
I’m sick of being accused of being unamerican or unpatriotic just because I have some fucking doubts about the wisdom of sacrificing our international respect and standing in the community, not to mention our troops as well of those foreign troops strong/brave/stupid enough to throw their lot in with us, to remove some sad little egomaniac with delusions of grandeur, that unfortunately got to sit at the big table for a while and couldn’t keep from pissing in the soup tureen.
I’m tired of watching the endless stream of biased sensationalized crap spewed by the news networks, the 24 hour networks being the worst. I fully expect to see a blurb on CNN called “Survivor: The Gulf War” and have them admit that this is nothing more than a particularly morbid reality show to them. Fucking ratings whores. I’m disgusted by the way the reporters latch onto every new tidbit, like baby lions pulling apart the bloody half-alive mangled lump of flesh that was skipping along the Serengeti just a second ago, singing the fucking “Circle of Life”. Do me a favor, ok? If you’re gonna be so fucking insensitive as to ask the poor families of the POWs to be on your network, for Christ fucking sake, can you at LEAST have the common decency to NOT ask them stupid inane questions solely designed to solicit an emotional response in their time of uncertainty and pain/loss/grief? They interviewed one of the POW’s sisters, and the reporter asked if she’d seen the photos/video. Sister says she had seen the photos. Reporter asks “How did he look to you? Did he appear ok? Did he look ok?” I broke out into impromptu applause when the sister responded with "How do you THINK he looked? How would YOU look?"in a tone dripping with incredulousness shock at the sheer stupidity of the question. I laughed as the reporter quickly, uncomfortably, tried to change the topic and didn’t ask the sister anymore questions.
I’m tired of being afraid, wondering if what I’m watching on TV isn’t the beginning of the end, a pre-Apocolyptic Pandora’s Box, if you will. The beginning of the shitstorm that will finally bomb us back into living in the trees, which in all likelyhood, we never should have left in the first fucking place, the simple-minded chimps we really are.
I’m horrified by the overwhelming amount of stupidity I find myself bombarded by on a daily basis. Give an asshole an internet connection, and I’ll show you an asshole that’ll post anyfuckingthing that pops into whatever he/she/it is trying to pass off as a brain, just to hear themselves post (and mind you, I don’t exclude myself from this category)
I’m overwhelmed, I’m incredulous, I’m tired, I’m sick, and above all, I’m pissed off. Pissed off at the human race in general, for being so mindless. For being a big fucking herd of sheep, following blindly whereever the one with the biggest carrot leads them. I’m fucking pissed off at the entire world for parroting bad catchphrases and cliches while waving their cocks around in the air, and masquerading it as international policy/opinion.
I want to collectively bitchslap the entire world and make them ALL wake the hell up and realize that if we don’t smarten the fuck up real quick, there’s a damn good chance that NONE of the bullshit we’re all so up in arms about won’t be worth 2 pieces of gorilla turd in a top hat in 50 years, because none of us will be around to worry about it. Cockroaches and Twinkies, here we come. They’ll be the things left to witness our racial demise, until the next virus that passes for intelligent life on this planet evolves into the poisonous trash heap we’ll have left behind.
The really funny part? I’m an optimist.