Fuck it, imma rant
I'm feeling like Alice Cooper at the moment. You know, "I used to be such a sweet, sweet thing, til they got a hold of me."
I've always kind of choked on my generally rampant anger, opting instead to post stuff here (like now), or on (gasp!) MySpace, back in the day, shit like that. I didn't really address the direct source, I would just let it percolate and then erupt later, where no one was likely to ever read it anyway. No harm, no foul, I guess, as long as no one got hit by any shrapnel.
The only drawback to that, of course, is the fact that the source of my irritation had no idea that I was over here screaming about whatever batshit fuckery they were spreading around, so as far as they knew, they had free rein to continue being batshitty and spreading fuckery. And I would just stay irritated. Impotently, apparently.
But it's reaching a point where it's just not working anymore. I feel no satisfaction in the vicious circle of screaming into the void while fuckery abounds.
See, I always thought the high road was the better approach to everything. No matter how bad it got, I could pat myself on the back for not feeding into shit; it was more honorable to be the better person.
Fuck. That. Shit.
Just fuck it. I can't do that anymore.
Every day. Every. Fucking. Day. I see the same baseless, groundless bullshit being passed off as fact. Every day I see people who I've respected for years saying the stupidest shit, without pausing once to consider another point of view. Every day, I see people who have preached respect for others, disrespecting people left and right. I see people whose lives are being destroyed by fuckers who throw them under the bus to save their own asses. I see people demonstrating the absolute worst, bottom of the barrel, self-centered fuckwit behavior, proudly dragging humanity back into the Dark Ages with a joyful, slack-jawed smile on their faces.
I'm tired of treating bullshit with kid gloves. Which forces me into what I've always frowned on: playing dirty.
But it's reached the point where it's become a necessity with these people. They're playing dirty by pushing an agenda of self-centered, fact-barren, low-IQ bullshit. They're sliding knives into backs with utter abandon, and not batting an eye over the fact that this kind of behavior tends to run completely counter to what most of them proclaim in their spiritual beliefs. And I'm trying really, really hard not to slide into a full-blown anti-religion rant, although I'll bet you anything from a diddle-eyed Joe to a damned if I know that the vast majority of these clueless fucks will play the god card as soon as logic is used to refute their bullshit conspiracy claims, or they're called out on their self-serving behavior.
The only way, the only way any of this bullshit can be countered is by playing the game, but playing it dirtier than they do.
And if I might make a point here, at the risk of being drummed out of the Liberal corps for turning on the cause, this is exactly why liberals lose. We want to keep to the high ground, we don't want to stoop to the levels that the far right have no qualms employing. And while there's always going to be a part of me that salutes the sentiment, and wishes that things didn't have to be this way, reality has to be acknowledged here. We have to abandon the squeaky clean persona and get down into the dirt with these fucks.
We have a variety of weapons at our disposal, don't get me wrong; we know how to think critically, we know how to bring facts to bear, we know how to back up our arguments. And that's a plus, but we can't keep deluding ourselves into thinking that the other side will fall victim to our well-organized arguments. Again, that's why liberals fucking lose: we can't get our heads around the fact that the people we're arguing with are willing to cling to nonsense and bullshit like a drowning man clings to a life preserver. These people will build a shell out conspiracy theories and shit they found on Facebook, they'll armor themselves in full tinfoil mail, and tilt at any logical windmill they can find, convinced in their ability to bring it down simply because they're too fucking stupid to realize how stupid they really are.
We lose because we expect our opponents to be rational, logical thinkers. We're arguing with the poster children for the Dunning-Kruger effect, expecting a rational argument and getting endless evidence of idiots dragging us down to their level and beating us with experience.
So no, it's not going to work, not with these people. Expecting irrational, self-serving people to behave logically is what's killing us at this point. So, it's time. Time to start stooping to their level, time to start playing dirty. We might not win on the logical front, but goddammit, it might help us to at least lower the bar to stopping the bullshit in its tracks.
And I guess maybe there are some who need to keep their hands clean; I mean, we can't claim the moral high ground on anything if we're all so covered in mud that you can't tell who's fighting who. And that's fine. Let those people be the generals, as it were. Let them stay in the light. But for the rest of us, we're the foot soldiers. We're the assassins. We are the ones who work in the dark to serve the light.
Because at the end of the day, what we're really up against is a group of bullies. That's it, bottom line. We are dealing with bullies. And for whatever reason they're angry at the world, or scared, or whatever, they're still trying to intimidate us by being loud and wielding nonsense and batshittery like cudgels, hoping all the time that no one notices how scared and pitiful they really are. And, unfortunately, the only way to deal with bullies is to stand up to them. We can't afford to keep running away; we have to stand up to these people and take our lumps. And there's no guarantee that we'll win out in the end, but it's on us to remind them that they've been in a fight. It's on us to remind them that "fuck around and find out" has serious fucking consequences.
It's time to get dirty.
I've always kind of choked on my generally rampant anger, opting instead to post stuff here (like now), or on (gasp!) MySpace, back in the day, shit like that. I didn't really address the direct source, I would just let it percolate and then erupt later, where no one was likely to ever read it anyway. No harm, no foul, I guess, as long as no one got hit by any shrapnel.
The only drawback to that, of course, is the fact that the source of my irritation had no idea that I was over here screaming about whatever batshit fuckery they were spreading around, so as far as they knew, they had free rein to continue being batshitty and spreading fuckery. And I would just stay irritated. Impotently, apparently.
But it's reaching a point where it's just not working anymore. I feel no satisfaction in the vicious circle of screaming into the void while fuckery abounds.
See, I always thought the high road was the better approach to everything. No matter how bad it got, I could pat myself on the back for not feeding into shit; it was more honorable to be the better person.
Fuck. That. Shit.
Just fuck it. I can't do that anymore.
Every day. Every. Fucking. Day. I see the same baseless, groundless bullshit being passed off as fact. Every day I see people who I've respected for years saying the stupidest shit, without pausing once to consider another point of view. Every day, I see people who have preached respect for others, disrespecting people left and right. I see people whose lives are being destroyed by fuckers who throw them under the bus to save their own asses. I see people demonstrating the absolute worst, bottom of the barrel, self-centered fuckwit behavior, proudly dragging humanity back into the Dark Ages with a joyful, slack-jawed smile on their faces.
I'm tired of treating bullshit with kid gloves. Which forces me into what I've always frowned on: playing dirty.
But it's reached the point where it's become a necessity with these people. They're playing dirty by pushing an agenda of self-centered, fact-barren, low-IQ bullshit. They're sliding knives into backs with utter abandon, and not batting an eye over the fact that this kind of behavior tends to run completely counter to what most of them proclaim in their spiritual beliefs. And I'm trying really, really hard not to slide into a full-blown anti-religion rant, although I'll bet you anything from a diddle-eyed Joe to a damned if I know that the vast majority of these clueless fucks will play the god card as soon as logic is used to refute their bullshit conspiracy claims, or they're called out on their self-serving behavior.
The only way, the only way any of this bullshit can be countered is by playing the game, but playing it dirtier than they do.
And if I might make a point here, at the risk of being drummed out of the Liberal corps for turning on the cause, this is exactly why liberals lose. We want to keep to the high ground, we don't want to stoop to the levels that the far right have no qualms employing. And while there's always going to be a part of me that salutes the sentiment, and wishes that things didn't have to be this way, reality has to be acknowledged here. We have to abandon the squeaky clean persona and get down into the dirt with these fucks.
We have a variety of weapons at our disposal, don't get me wrong; we know how to think critically, we know how to bring facts to bear, we know how to back up our arguments. And that's a plus, but we can't keep deluding ourselves into thinking that the other side will fall victim to our well-organized arguments. Again, that's why liberals fucking lose: we can't get our heads around the fact that the people we're arguing with are willing to cling to nonsense and bullshit like a drowning man clings to a life preserver. These people will build a shell out conspiracy theories and shit they found on Facebook, they'll armor themselves in full tinfoil mail, and tilt at any logical windmill they can find, convinced in their ability to bring it down simply because they're too fucking stupid to realize how stupid they really are.
We lose because we expect our opponents to be rational, logical thinkers. We're arguing with the poster children for the Dunning-Kruger effect, expecting a rational argument and getting endless evidence of idiots dragging us down to their level and beating us with experience.
So no, it's not going to work, not with these people. Expecting irrational, self-serving people to behave logically is what's killing us at this point. So, it's time. Time to start stooping to their level, time to start playing dirty. We might not win on the logical front, but goddammit, it might help us to at least lower the bar to stopping the bullshit in its tracks.
And I guess maybe there are some who need to keep their hands clean; I mean, we can't claim the moral high ground on anything if we're all so covered in mud that you can't tell who's fighting who. And that's fine. Let those people be the generals, as it were. Let them stay in the light. But for the rest of us, we're the foot soldiers. We're the assassins. We are the ones who work in the dark to serve the light.
Because at the end of the day, what we're really up against is a group of bullies. That's it, bottom line. We are dealing with bullies. And for whatever reason they're angry at the world, or scared, or whatever, they're still trying to intimidate us by being loud and wielding nonsense and batshittery like cudgels, hoping all the time that no one notices how scared and pitiful they really are. And, unfortunately, the only way to deal with bullies is to stand up to them. We can't afford to keep running away; we have to stand up to these people and take our lumps. And there's no guarantee that we'll win out in the end, but it's on us to remind them that they've been in a fight. It's on us to remind them that "fuck around and find out" has serious fucking consequences.
It's time to get dirty.