A few of the Youtube responses do NOT:
"torture has always been used to get information.Who is this guy who is responding? I mean, how do you picture him? The way he talks, he's obviously young...so it's not some Bill O'Reilly type...but he's so loose and free with terms like "sisterfucker" that indicate some sort of collegey, 15-29 type person...but the fact that he would respond to this on Youtube and say something so inane, stupid, and rhetorically ineffective implies that he's not some intellectual who has sat down and thought this through. I mean...is this some nihilistic pale computer geek? Or some redneck southern boy? Or is he like SJB? Or some khaki-loafer-side part-brooks brothers jackass? Could he be black? Chinese? I have a very hard time figuring out who a person like this could be....anyone have a guess?
this is not a new thing.
welcome to reality. you and that moronic redneck guy have a thing or two to learn about the way things really work."
"listen, asshole, why don't you go hug a terrorist?
as if scumbags weren't tortured when clinton was president.
please. stop being so naive."
"goofy works at disneyworld. and that's where you belong. in a magical kingdom where everything is puppydogs and cotton candy. why don't you go find a terrorist and give him a big hug, you anti-american sisterfucker."
And as usual, there's nothing more exhausting or demoralizing than stumbling onto a discussion thread that involves something political...the incessant ad hominem attacks, the vitriol and disgusting invectives hurled about are just so discouraging.
I found a letter to the editor in the Boston Globe today that really struck me...so simple and trivial, but ringing true...
AMERICANS WONDER why the world at large hates us. Recently I found the answer.I went to the Burlington Mall with my two small children. In one store, I asked a question of the sales clerk who was ringing up my sale. Apparently, I shouldn't have done that, as the woman behind me, apparently irritated, sighed for my benefit.
As my children and I were walking in the mall, two teenage girls behind us made loud comments about how slowly we were walking in front of them.
Then as we were leaving the mall, a man in a Ford Explorer cut me off to take a left in front of me.
As a country we are so obsessed with ourselves -- me first, who cares about everyone else. It makes me so scared for the world my children are growing up in.
No wonder the world hates us -- after today I hate us too.
3 comments:
Stupid woman. The reason America is so great is that people have the opportunities to succeed. This is in part because people are not held back by the limitations of their fellows (i.e. communism, socialism). If this woman can't walk fast enough to keep up with the general flow of traffic, than the polite thing to do is to move over and let other people by, instead of mozying along taking her own sweet ass time. I have to drive behind these stupid twits, and its the same thing. If you can't keep up with this rest of us, kindly do not limit others from getting their business done. Or at least apologize if things take longer for you than the rest of us.
And by the way. Don't you have something better to do than write a letter to the Boston Globe about a woman sighing in line behind you. I mean really. Surely you must have something more important to worry about. It took you an hour to write that letter, and to stick it in the mailbox. Now, circumstantial evidence (i.e., you can't walk fast in the mall, and are apparently so big that people can't move around you) leads me to believe that you are fat you stupid woman. So take that hour. Go for a walk. Prepare a healthy snack rather than Bon Bon's. And quit blaming people because of your inability to control your weight.
Terrorist don't hate us because we don't have patience with our fellow man. Hell, the people who happen to hate us would like nothing better than to blow up their fellow man. So lets see, would you rather be blown up, or just be sighed at? I repeat. You are a very very stupid woman.
And now I feel better.
SJ
I usually don't go for such ad hominem attacks, but you're an ass.
I want to address your brief commentary on communism/socialism though.
The issue is about mutual awareness and mutual support as humans. The question is not whether our government should interfere with our lives and impede someone in order to help someone else, it's deeper. The only reason we would ever NEED government to do something like that is if people are so self-serving and self-absorbed that society can't function because of an all-consuming "me-first" free-for-all. That is, in James Madison's words "If men were angels, no government would be necessary." THAT's the point.
The reason we CAN'T follow the system you espouse, that of individual freedoms and individually seeking our own private gains is because our mindset, culture, and inherent tendency towards self-love make it impossible for a society to function without controls on many of those freedoms. To simplify, it is precisely because people are untrustworthy, selfish assholes that we need government in the first place.
You express deep mistrust for the competence, intelligence, and worthiness of others...yet you feel comfortable giving them all the freedom in the world to act on their impulses and idiocy by being more "free." This is essentially why I reject libertarianism, which is that I don't believe we can trust each other enough to depend on goodwill and love to protect us FROM each other.
And what the hell is a bon bon?
A few brief points:
1.) Self Love - uhh thats we you have a girlfriend, so you don't have to practice self love.
2.) BonBon's are this chocolate candy things. Didn't you ever watch married with children. Peg Bundy used to eat them all the time.
3.) Yes I am an ass. But, my commentary was more in fun than anything else.
4. Perhaps the question shouldn't be whether or not the government should or should not be involved in our life, but to what extent.
But, I'd like to explore a different topic that I have been ruminating on the past few days. What do I believe. Here are the first five. Its harder than it looks, what are yours?
1.)The greatest joy a man can have is to have a woman by his side to grow old with. The second greatest joy is to have children.
2.)If you don't like the rules, you change them by legislative process. You don't break them, and you don't circumvent them.
3.) Parents shouldn't have to monitor what is on television for their kids to watch. Television should be okay for everyone to watch. It was once, and those old shows are still pretty good.
4.) A man should never hit a woman. Ever. The only crimes worse are murder and rape.
5.) Education is a precious commodity, and it should be funded over any other priority short of national defence.
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