WARNING: This is probably full of spelling errors, grammatical errors, run ons, paragraphs that should be separated... I don't care. This is my rant, not a professional piece of writing.
We are all allowed to have our opinions, we are all allowed to freely share those opinions, but in an age where information is at your fingertips... don't you think you should check a fact or two before spreading bull shit all over the internet?? Educated free speech would do a lot less damage. Perhaps you should also try compassionate free speech. Oh and maybe before really using that free speech, you should remember basic things we're taught in kindergarten. Like, treating others how you want to be treated. Don't sit there and insult people, beliefs, whatever, and then sit back and be surprised when someone takes issue. Don't hide behind your 'free speech'. Free speech is not a shield for saying whatever stupid shit you want to say.
Where the hell did common courtesy go? Where did RESPECT go? Respect for ourselves, respect for others, respect for this planet and ALL of it's inhabitants. It's really no wonder so much of the world hate's America. We're completely clueless, and what's worse it's by choice. Most Americans have access ot the internet, most Americans have free information at their fingertips, most Americans chose not to use that information.
Here are a few simple thoughts I have to get out before I explode:
1. Your religion gets to tell you what to do, it doesn't get to tell me what to do. I respect that, so should you.
2. Religion has no place in law, in a country that was built on separation of church and state and ESCAPING religious persecution.
3. Stop saying you're tolerant and tolerate other people and their differences. A pretty smart friend of mine recently said, saying you tolerate someone is a bit condescending and you're basically saying "I know I'm right, but I'll allow you to continue thinking what you think." Here's an idea, instead of tolerance try acceptance. Accept that everyone is different, welcome to their beliefs and opinions, and just leave it at that. It doesn't hurt you if Bob over there thinks Jesus was born to a virgin, and you don't.
4. Before you vote, check your facts. Do not vote based on campaign ads, do not vote based on pictures floating around the internet of he said she said bull shit. Non-Bias information can be really hard to find, but it IS out there. Find it. Educate. Vote.
5. Small government vs big government, it's all bull shit. It's like this, the guy up top with the ideas and the money creates the jobs. He hires people to help him run the company he's starting. They then hire people to do build the company. Then they hire people to keep the company running. This is like a card tower, if you remove one person from the equation, it will all come tumbling down. This means that everyone, from the innovator at the top, the the janitor at the bottom, are equally important. They are all doing their part to keep the business running. So why is the janitor expected to live on peanuts while the innovator lives on caviar? We're all putting into the system, the system needs to be giving back to ALL of us. Taxes and health care should all be on a sliding scale. A set scale of you pay what you can afford to pay. Not you find every tax loop hole you can, get the best health care, and the little guy gets pretty much nothing. Trickle down economics doesn't work. It hasn't worked. We need a change. We need to stop killing the middle class. Everyone should have the chance at a good education. Everyone should be able to see a doctor without fear. Everyone should do their part to pay their taxes. Everyone should have a system that helps keep them from falling when they hit hard times. I'm sure you're thinking, "okay now let's all join hands around the campfire and sing kumbaya". Well you know what, yes let's do just that. Let's all realize that we are all tiny little parts that make up the whole, and start treating each other as such.
6. Treat others how you want to be treated is the most important lesson you ever learned in school. That and the way the buddy system works. Maybe politicians and all the people at each others throats over repub vs democrat or christian vs... everyone else... should all go back to kindergarten and relearn this lesson.
7. My uterus and ovaries are in my body, stop trying to tell me what to do with them. I'm pretty sure this falls under one of my other points, about your religion telling me what to do. However, all of you super far right conservative tea party republicans and your "Small Government, except in every womans uterus" need to understand this... I get to decide what I do with my body, not you or anyone else. You don't get to limit my birth control options, you don't get to make it harder and more expensive for me to access, and you don't get to tell me that I HAVE to continue to be pregnant should one of my forms of birth control fail, or god forbid, I get raped. I don't feel like I should have to tattoo "property of MYSELF" on my reproductive organs just to remind you that they do in fact, belong to me.
8. Was there an 8? Oh yea, there was I remember now. Why, in 2012, when so many other major countries are over this issue, is "gay rights" still something we're talking about? Because religion runs America. See how all these issues tie back to, keep religion out of politics? As long as they can control who you love, who you can marry, who is fit to raise children, whether or not a woman can control her own uterus, who gets health coverage, and a couple other key factors... republicans are ALL for small government. Totally makes sense. Men love men. Women love Women. Sometimes, a man or woman born as one gender identifies more with the other and goes through some changes. I'm sorry, how the fuck does that effect you? Stop worrying that 'the gay' is contagious and get over yourself. If you are so insecure in your own sexuality that you think seeing two dudes kissing or holding hands is suddenly going to make you gay too, well that's your own personal issue you might want to investigate. As for the 'institute of marriage'... don't even get me started. It's such an archaic out of date thing, but legally it's necessary. Let's not sit here and pretend though, that marriage today is exactly what it was at it's beginnings. Women are no longer property. Women are no longer bought and sold for properties too a husband. If a women is raped, that man is no longer considered her husband. Men no longer take several wives, well most men anyways. No, the point behind marriage now is very simple. It is A: a way to stand up in front of your friends and family and say, I love this person. B: a legal piece of paper that says, if something happens to this person I get to be there and I get to have a say in what happens, because I know them best. No one can keep me out of that room. C:A great way to get gifts. Seriously though, why are we denying gay people the rights of straight people? How does allowing a man to be by the side of the love of his life, as he lays dying, effect your marriage at ALL? How does allowing two women to share in health insurance, effect your marriage AT ALL?? What does it teach our children? That love is love, whoever is feeling it. Get over it.
9. We're killing our planet. We have no respect for it. We have no respect for the other species living on it. Creating a more sustainable, healthy, cleaner world would be a lot easier than we make it seem. In this technological age, I think we have to, before it's too late. The earth can't continue to support the way we are living. Lower your carbon footprint, buy from companies that are lowering their carbon footprints, buy local when you can. Support renewable resource based companies. The more you support, the easier to access these things will become. Where there is a will, there is a way. Find the will, so we can all find the way to a cleaner earth for our kids and their kids... and so their kids, kids, have an earth to live on.
I guess my basic point here is really simple.. religion is not law, laws and freedoms are not a crutch, and if we spent 5 minutes treating someone else the way we expect to be treated... things could probably get a whole lot better real fast. Now go hold hands with strangers and make them sing kumbaya with you.
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