Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ~Gautama Buddha
There's something I'm getting really sick of hearing about.
"Cancel culture."
This isn't really a thing, just a term Republicans have made up to account for the fact that people are having to face consequences for their actions. In a free society, nobody has to do business with you, nobody has to buy your stuff, nobody has to engage your services, and in recent years when somebody does or says something stupid, people have begun to exercise the power of the purse, to shun somebody, and to vote with their feet when somebody does something they don't like.
Conservatives do this too, ask Colin Kaepernick, or the Dixie Chicks, or for that matter Adam Kinzinger, Justin Amash and Liz Cheney.
Either way, freedom of choice is one of the most basic of human rights.
But in the last couple of decades as our culture has shifted away from conservatism, it's the Right that's feeling the heat more, and they can't stand it.
So naturally, Republican logic says "If your choice isn't us you shouldn't get a choice." Marco Rubio, as a prime example, has started to disallow comments from people who aren't on his list on some of his Twitter posts. You know, mostly the Bible verse ones.
Because people kept pointing out (rightly) that Marco Rubio is not living by the Word himself.
Fuck these motherfuckers.
We've got half a million dead Americans from COVID-19, our economy in tatters, people need help, and there's the rising threat of a right-wing insurgency...and what does this Republican idiot think is worthy of people's time? Dr. Seuss, Mr. Potato Head, and what products Amazon chooses to sell...or not. So his problem is with...Capitalism? Intellectual Property? Corporate and personal responsibility? I'm not seeing why he thinks this is important except for maybe constant, fanatical, unreasoning fear of and resistance to change.
I don't give a damn about Mr. Potato Head. I didn't know or care that Mr. Potato Head had a gender to start with. The parts between the nominally Mr. and Mrs. Potato are interchangeable. You do the math.
I've heard of one of those particular six Dr. Seuss books that Seuss Books itself has chosen to discontinue. Just one...Theodor Geisel wrote over 60 of them. Why are the ones that have racist stuff the only ones that are important?
And isn't it the purview of Amazon...or any retail corporation...just what they choose to sell?
And why are books, toys, or any other products only suddenly important when somebody says the words "Misogyny" or "Racism?"
Can anybody tell me with a straight face that if "Cancel Culture" was a thing Republicans controlled, that they would not use it utterly ruthlessly against all enemies, real and imagined?
I mean, come on now.
The truth is, Republicans are scared of the Boogeyman.
I heard 3 different transphobic rants last night, unprompted, for no fucking reason. These people fear the cultural and social change that they think is coming, even though it's actually been continuous these whole last five years and longer. They fear that we have a government that'll be responsive to people's needs, including theirs, because perhaps most of all they fear not having their biases confirmed, They fear having their mostly-imagined "Authority" eroded. They fear not having Trump or somebody like him, to Tweet and yell and scream on their behalf. They fear the bill for all their bad behavior is going to come due. They fear that somehow, someday, they're going to be treated the same way they have treated others.
Oh, and believe me, they know what ways those were.
Good. Let them make themselves miserable, I don't give a fuck. I'm fresh out of sympathy.
I'm not in the business of comforting morons, most of whom
want to be afraid.
I don't have the time for it.
We as a country need to stop listening to these assholes. Don't be these fucking people.
Vote these fuckers out.
If you want a better country, you have to be a better citizen...
Part One.
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