I heard that a school here in town banned hugs. Apparently, middle school kids were hugging TOO much. Now, my first response was “what kind of neo-puritan fascist crap is this?” Then I heard the other side…apparently, kids hug each other so much before classes that they’re late for class, and they “peer pressure” other kids into hugging.
That’s when I realized…kids today are fucking dorks. My generation really didn’t do them any favors when we raised them up to be complete goobers. I can almost imagine them seeing grown ups hug each other once in awhile at bars and parties on TV and taking it way too far. “Oh wait, I have to hug like 15 people, including that guy over there that I don’t know too well” before I go to class or I won’t be popular. When I was a kid, that kid who went around hugging people got his ass beat down at some point. That’s because we didn’t put up with that kind of nonsense back then. I don’t know. Maybe it was because these kids were raised with social networks or something and they’re starved for physical contact. In any case, kids are fucking dorks today. We screwed them up bad if they’re that needy for physical attention.
Republicans and Libertarians are the sorts of people who’d willingly lose everything they have to a shell game, and can’t figure out that the people who make all the money couldn’t care less about their “ideals”. Those people are money junkies. They only want to make more and more of it. If they can get it through a government program or by swindling stupid Libertarians into thinking they’ll get more return on their investment by handing their cash over to a private entity for important services rather than government…only to have that private entity make off with the cash…there’s no difference.
Libertarians and Republicans just don’t have street smarts. When you get a bunch of people to pool their money together, then elect one of them to manage the pot, there’s considerably more transparency there than if “some guy” came along with a marketing pitch and you handed your cash off to the guy, only to have the guy decide that providing that service to you isn’t “financially viable”. You can’t help but know what’s going on when you know the guy who is managing your money and he’s not getting the job done, but the private company that takes your cash? Go ahead, try and sue them. They already covered their bases by quietly changing their contract on you when you weren’t paying attention because you were just trying to deal with everything else in your life. Now, they have your money and you’ll get NOTHING for it.
Need me to explain how a shell game scam works? Apparently, Libertarians and Republicans sure do.
And for all Democrats who think they can stay home just because of one bill this November…think about the Citizens United decision. Our Supreme Court, a group of APPOINTED officials, who have the last say about the law of the land, decided in an activist right wing decision to give corporations “personhood”, thus effectively killing anything remotely similar to campaign finance reform. And before you think it, unions do not contribute anywhere as much as corporations on account of Republicans effectively breaking the unions down into pretty much nothing over the past 40 years.
Their argument was that because corporations were made up of a bunch of individuals, that the whole collective was actually an individual itself…which might work if corporations were actually collectives and not dictatorships ruled by a small number of people. If the voice of the company janitor is the equivalent of the CEO, then that argument holds true, but that’s obviously not how things are. And that sort of stupid, crazy decision is only going to be the first of a lot of bad decisions made by Supreme Court justices with an obvious right wing corporate bias. Unless you hold on for dear life and keep Democrats in office to keep the balance of the court, it’s just going to get worse. Think the Health Care bill isn’t progressive enough now? You wait until the President is trying to make bills even more “Republican friendly” to get them passed. You’ll be feeling pretty stupid about your little silly protest vote then.