Gabe. Comment Sections.

"Stop sending me that video."

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:23:04 -0400

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The Daily What’s effective takedown of the Invisible Children movement. We don’t agree with every point here, but again, we want to encourage you guys to think about this on your own. So … read.

Now THIS I’ll reblog. I waited for something like this to emerge about this whole Kony push. Not that I was instantly doubtful, but I think being a skeptical optimist is best way to absorb information from the internet.

pauljay: If you go to the movies, pick a spot in the middle of your section, get to your seat...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:31:07 -0500

pauljay:

If you go to the movies, pick a spot in the middle of your section, get to your seat early, sit quietly through all the PSAs and trailers and Coke ads, and then get up to elbow your way out of your row to go to the bathroom during the OPENING LOGO OF THE FEATURE, how about you just go past the bathroom and all the way home and lock yourself in an antique fridge.

This really baffles me.

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:58:28 -0500

DEA Investigates Medical Marijuana Legislators.

I know this makes me sound like a conspiracy nut but I’d kill to know who’s profiting so heavily from this… I mean, it has to go up pretty high. Is it big pharma? It isn’t like legalized marijuana is going to suddenly put an end to people needing Lipitor and opiates… Is it the prison system? We’re all smart enough today to know that this isn’t about health or gangs or public well being. Study after study has shown that not only is marijuana not detrimental to your health but that it actually helps to cure certain illnesses and alleviates the symptoms of many others. If marijuana were legal and regulated there would be less of a demand on the black market which would lessen gang involvement, not ratchet it up. There would be less of a demand from cartels south of the boarder so agents could focus on weapons and heavier drugs instead of a plant. Our prisons wouldn’t be so overpopulated, we’d spend less money housing the inmates and just think about the taxes it would generate?

The money legalization would bring in would have to outweigh all the bullshit tickets and fines, right? Then again, I don’t know. When they took me in I had to part ways with around six hundred dollars. I’d like to see a flow chart documenting who has a stake in this.

Mushrooms make you less depressed.

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:23:00 -0500

Or so says THIS ARTICLE.

Obviously.

“Some of the greatest minds in recent history strongly advocated the use of LSD and psilocybin. Anyone who’s ever experimented knows that you never go in to and come out of a ‘trip’ the same person. You go deep in to your own brain… it unlocks doors you’ve long since boarded up, allows you to tap in to parts of yourself you didn’t even know existed. I know some guy who thinks that because he’s conservative and his government says that these are no no’s will be in here railing against progressives for suggesting something outside the box but like someone earlier said… just based on the comments, you can tell who ‘gets it’ and who doesn’t. I love Steve Jobs’ take on the use of hallucinogenic drugs. “Doing LSD was one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life.” … If you’ve never tried it, you have no reason to be against it. It doesn’t kill anyone, it doesn’t cause long-lasting negative effects, all it does is open the user’s mind.”

“Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.”

Congratulations Washingtonians.

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:12:35 -0500

AP posted a link to an article on Washington having enough votes to pass gay marriage, making them the seventh state to support equality. Read it HERE.

Thirty or so people commented on the article before me and most of them were opposed to the legislation. They use the same ridiculous argument that all conservative religious lunatics use…

“I don’t care what you say God created marriage between one man and one woman. The senate or government did not create marriage so who cares?

“Technically from a scientific point gays are genetically defunct, having no desire to reproduce- aka, a waste of genes.”

My opinion on the issue differs slightly…

“If you’re so against gay marriage due to the sanctity of a man-made tradition intended to connect powerful families, why don’t you rail so hard against divorce? How many of you hypocritical fuckwits who are so adamant that two gay people shouldn’t marry have been divorced? How may of you destroyed a child’s life because mommy and daddy aren’t together anymore? No one cares about your silly imaginary friend or what you think he thinks about an archaic tradition like marriage… who are you to stand in the way of two peoples’ happiness because you think it’s icky? You’re an embarrassment to what this country is supposed to represent. Even if you don’t actively support gay marriage, what two people choose to do with their lives is none of your business… so, focus on your own failing marriage, shitty kids and future divorce instead of imposing your nonsense on people who just want to be happy. It’s time to wake up. Most Americans support gay marriage including nearly half of all conservatives. With so many problems in our country at this time it’s insulting that this is so opposed. How about we focus on campaign reform? Poverty? Homelessness? Child abuse? I can think of a thousand issues that deserve your attention more than the private lives of two citizens who couldn’t care less what you think in the first place.”

Oh, NPR.

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:59:00 -0500

The post on their Facebook was a relatively lighthearted slice of life piece about a guy from Southern California who moves to Washington state to help out with a project his parents started. After relocating, he and his wife are married and have children… then he gives up his job at Whole Foods for one more suited to life in a rural setting. After years of being a vegan he trains as a butcher and starts his own small business with his wife. You can read the article HERE. Most people who know me know that I can’t stand vegans. They are, generally speaking, a smug group of self righteous, judgmental assholes.

Here are a few of their comments:

“Such bullshit. I’m a vegan, but I’d gladly eat one of these ‘post-vegetarian’ jerks.”

“Must not be as well informed as many vegans. Meat is toxic. Why the hell would you eat it?”

“Art of butchering? Isn’t that a bit contradictory? I never knew there was an art to ripping apart corpses.”

“FYI, I’m vegan because meat causes such a huge portion of our health problems in this country. I cured fibromyalgia and autoimmune disease…things “medicine” can not effectively treat! The research is abundant, animal protein is bad!”

“I’ve been a vegan for 16+ years and the idea that raising and slaughtering an animal would somehow make me “closer” to my food is assinine. I’d still be a murderer. Disgusting and pathetic.”

“I am quite certain this guy was never vegan for ethical reasons. And to talk about forming a closer bond with the animal by harming it is the stuff serial killers are made of.”

“I couldn’t even get through the entire article because the thought of killing an animal upsets and sickens me. That is why I don’t eat meat.”

There are a few hundred of those, some more annoying than others.

My response:

“I can understand the benefit of not ONLY eating a shit ton of pork and beef but to preach a lifestyle devoid of living protein seems anti-evolutionary. Hunting, killing, and ingesting other creatures is how most life on this planet sustains itself. Some of you make me wonder if developing consciousness was really such a good thing. The reason going vegan changed your life is probably because you simply weren’t eating enough fruits and vegetables before.

And why all the hate on this guy? He didn’t move to be a hipster, indie pig butcher, he moved because his parents needed his help. He then adapted to life in a rural setting. On a farm. Where *gasp* raising and butchering animals for food is a way of life. You have no more right to criticize him for his lifestyle choices than I do to mock you for yours.

So many people claim they went veg after seeing the cruelty in commercial slaughterhouses. Isn’t this at least a step in the right direction? Free range, small scale, relatively humane husbandry? Because despite all your criticism, people aren’t going to stop eating pork any time soon. It’s delicious.”

People keep slamming this guy while comparing him to large-scale factory slaughter houses…

“Everyone keeps bringing up factory farming…

I agree, factory farming is wrong. This guy has a handful of pigs, a small piece of land and a garage. How the hell is that in any way comparable to commercial animal slaughter? That’s like comparing someone with a community farm to Monsanto. The ignorance in this thread makes me sad. For a group of ‘forward thinking vegans,’ many of you have an awfully stubborn and narrow view of the world.”

“And it comes back to commercial slaughter once more. This is like trying to talk sense in to conservatives… this guy’s story isn’t that he left his job at Whole Foods and went to work the kill floor at a slaughter house. Natives Americans were perfectly capable of living off of fruits and vegetables too but no one gives them shit… why? Because they had respect for the life they were taking and used every part of the animal. So does this guy. I’m gonna’ donate money to their kickstarter account in the name of NPR supporting vegans just to spite you. Congratulations, you all just donated $20 to a small, independent, American business that values it’s product and customers.”

George compared vegans to Jesus but I felt the need to point out that:

“@George - Jesus ate fish.”

This was my favorite vegan post next to the one that got deleted before I could copy it… it was a guy comparing animal slaughter for food to the murder of millions of European Jews during World War II:

“Would NPR run a positive article on how someone learned to embrace white supremacy, or learned to be rapist, complete with how-to videos? This is insanely offensive to the ethical vegetarian perspective.”

And my response:

“Wow. That is the most ridiculous thing anyone has posted so far… except the moron who compared a small farm owner to Hitler. Think about the resources used to transport your vegetables to your local grocer. Unless every single one of you only supports local, seasonal produce, of course. The burgers the trucker scarfs down as he drives his diesel guzzling rig across the country so you can sit back and be smug… Let any of you spend a moderate amount of time without food and I guarantee you’ll start reevaluating your love for pigs with a quickness.”

Sorry this was so long… they aren’t usually.

For example...

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:01:00 -0500

The Associated Press or AP posted the question… “How will you remember Joe Paterno? What will his legacy be?”

There were several morons who defended the guy but my response was:

“As the guy who admitted to having knowledge of a little kid getting ass-raped on a scummy, locker room shower floor and didn’t do everything in his power to contact law enforcement and have the creepy old pedophile… be he friend, co-worker, whatever… thrown in prison. I’m sorry but telling your superiors isn’t good enough. Not by a long shot. It’s times like this I wish I wasn’t an atheist so I could take comfort in knowing he’s holding a spot for Sandusky in hell. I’m sure all the idol-worshiping fuckwits who defend this pervert would feel differently if it was their prepubescent child with a sweaty old man laying on top of them. Ugh. This case and every one like it makes me sick. The world lost nothing today, not a thing.”

More people supported him than I would have anticipated. I mean, coach or not there are some things that are just inexcusable. A lot of people kept insisting that covering up child abuse for over a decade wasn’t really that bad and that in their eyes he was a hero because he coached a bunch of football games. I’m not glad he’s dead but I’m not sad he isn’t alive.

Hey, look... stuff.

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:46:33 -0500

I was talking to a friend earlier today about different Facebook groups we follow and how more often than not the comment sections are filled with some of the worst people on Earth. There’s something about complete anonymity that, for a lot of people, encourages them to say all the evil shit they could never bring themselves to say out loud… and I know I shouldn’t but I love how the Internet facilitates that. It’s when people seem the most honest. Anyway, I participate in a lot of these conversations and I’m often excessively opinionated and stubborn. I’m also okay with words (and a bit of a narcissist) so when Justin suggested I start a blog and post them there I agreed that it was a brilliant idea. I mean, the more people aware of my opinion the better.

Video

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:00:17 -0500