Some Extra Words for Today in Book Six: Trying to Hold On 2019

To start with 2 small political items:
(1) I understand that there are people in this world that don’t understand nuance or tact or historical truth. I get that. But I don’t have to like it. I saw today a sign comparing “Muslims, bad.” to “U.S. Soldiers, good.” Now, aside from the abject B.S. generalization; there is the obvious if unspoken element there. The idea is that we live in a U.S. Soldiers versus Muslims world. THE TRUTH IS THAT THERE ARE US SOLDIERS THAT ARE MUSLIMS and they are good and wonderful people serving their country faithfully. Muslim is not “shorthand” for Terrorist. Just as U.S. Fighting Forces are filled with Muslims, Christians, Jews, Atheists, Agnostics, Pagans, Wiccans, and every other faith on this earth… terrorism, by its true definition, is filled with Muslims, Christians, Jews, Atheists, Agnostics, Pagans, Wiccans, etcetera. And before I get a bloody earful… look to the totality of history and use the definition of terrorism: the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

TL;DR Point 1: Muslim is not shorthand for terrorist; and if your talking point is U.S. Soldiers versus Muslims, you are deeply disrespecting our soldiers.... some of whom are Muslims.

(2) I understand that any and all discussion of The Wall is doomed. Those Against use facts, figures, history, and economics. Those For use fear, deception, and inflated misrepresented statistics that have been debunked. Therefore, no rational conversation can be had as “Wall to stop Terrorists!” isn’t affected by the Nation’s Terror Statistics which say “The majority of alien terrorists are reported from Airports. A wall doesn’t stop airplanes!” So I say this next thing with that knowledge in mind. My Pro-Wall friends and family have been saying “We didn’t get a choice on Obamacare! So if the President wants to build a wall that most Americans don’t want; go fuck yourselves, we didn’t want Obamacare, either!!” This, ultimately, depicts simultaneously a fundamental logical failure on two grounds. First, it presupposes that Obamacare and The Wall are equal. They are not. Obamacare was an attempt to create (1) a better health care system; and (2) create an environment where poor people aren’t draining the resources of the country by using ER all the time. The Wall is an attempt to (1) ineffectively deal with problems in our immigration system; and (2) partially fulfill a campaign promise the candidate should never have made. Obamacare, failure or success, was honestly contemplated as something intended to help the American People. The Wall, factually and theoretically, is not designed to help the American People so much as it is designed against foreign individuals. Second, while people may have felt that Obamacare was shoved down their throats, there were many (too many) consolations when it was drafted. In essence, Obamacare was more bi-partisan than The Wall. Democrats wanted to go full Single Payer Health Care, Republicans objected… a non-single payer system was enacted. As to the Wall? Trump says Wall 5 billion dollars, Democrats say “Border Security,” and Trump says, “Wall 5.7 billion dollars!” So… yeah. The Wall is not Conservative ObamaCare and the desperate attempt to say it is comes off as hollow and uneducated.

TL;DR Point 2: Being upset at ObamaCare does not mean The Wall is okay.

(3) I was going to stop at 2 but this just came up and it always pisses me off. YET ANOTHER DOUCHE BAG spouting off that he shouldn’t have to pay taxes that go to public schools because he doesn’t have any kids. Hey Asshole! I don’t have any kids either. I think public schools should be better funded! Because school funding isn’t about “misusing tax dollars”, you ridiculous plebian grotesque fuck! Have you no concept of the world around you? Are you so selfish and self-focused as to believe that if it doesn’t affect you directly, it never affects you at all? Tell me this, Ayn Rand.... in your day to day life do you ever interact with other people? Contemplating the prohibitive costs of Private School, do you understand the high probability that the majority of humans in the United States that you interact with went to public school? Do some people seem stupid, ignorant, or just dumb enough to royally piss you off? Then why do you think schools don’t need to be funded?!!? We fund schools for the same reason we don’t burn a room down once we’ve left it.... it will be important later. The better educated future generations are, the more likely they are to succeed. ESPECIALLY in a world that is asking for more and more innovative solutions to problems that PAST generations started but THESE KIDS are required to fix!

TL;DR Point 3: Thinking “I don’t have kids, I shouldn’t have to pay for public schools” makes you the kind of short-sighted fucktard that would piss in their drinking water than complain that it tastes funny.