Following up on the successes of the Low Content threads, I present to you the Low-Content Rant thread!
Rant about anything you like! Statists, Republicans, Democrats, left-libertarians, silly right-libertarians, GMOs, corporations, stupid people, your mortgage, your stubbed toe, the fact that the acceleration due to gravity on earth is about 9.8 m/s^2 near the surface, and how you think that it’s stupid to have a Low Content Rant thread.
Go!
P.S. - This thread is supposed to help people vent. We’re not looking for fleshed out theories, but ways to express our frustration. Because of this, content may be lacking. In fact, the formatting might look awful and unpleasant, but that’s the point. Beat up your forum posts to your heart’s content.
Oh, and I also picked up strawberry preserves at the store instead of strawberry jam. How the hell am I supposed to spread these hunks of fruit on my toast?
I just sat through an hour and a half of an ISO meeting. It was really boring. The people there aren’t very smart, and they basically criticized Obama for wanting to work with the Republicans because that means he’s going to have their welfare… Totally ignoring the fact that if he doesn’t do this then the United States won’t have had a budget passed for something like four years and will continue to accumulate massive debts. It’s also great that they don’t string two and two together and realize that their precious democracy has failed them for the 10 millionth time in a row. These people endorse Marxism while at the same time doing things that Marx totally despised in a time where if you buy into his theory it should take at least another century for the immiseration of the proletariat to get to the point where the revolution comes. They talk about how great grassroots movements are while at the same time lauding Obama for not passing explicitly pro-union legislation.
I go to these meetings occasionally thinking that maybe sometime I’ll actually have a good discussion with these people, but instead it’s just depressing. It’s interesting seeing how people who are radically different than I am think, but it’s really depressing watching people endorse violent theories which revolve ENTIRELY upon the economics of the matter while not understanding anything about economics. I was really pissed when they were talking about what’s going on in NYC and I didn’t have time to bring up price controls.
The most depressing thing is the fact that they talk about how great things like marijuana legalization and gay marriage are, how the government continually fails them, and how grassroots organization is the bee’s knees, while at the same time wanting to “fight back” against the “oppression” of someone who gives them a job and who can’t raise a finger against them and which provides a service to a large number of consumers. It’s like watching a retarded person trying to walk through a door repeatedly, and getting half. way. there. every. single. time.
As much as I would like to vent, I really can’t. If I were to open the verbal floodgates, it would get too ugly and too personal… way into the TMI realm.
I think I’m starting to develop a deep-seated misogyny in the vein of Schopenhauer.
I can’t stand my US history class. It’s the same old BS. Federal government is supreme because John Marshall said so. The Articles of Confederation made the government too weak (good!) so the Constitution was necessary. I can’t wait to learn about the evils of Standard Oil and how Herbert Hoover did nothing during the Great Depression.
The people in my class are annoying too-I was looking at a study guide someone made for one of the chapters, and they mentioned that, at the Constitutional Convention, men like “John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine” tried to create a new government. None of those people were there-argh.
Two days ago we had a sub and talked about the election. It was the same old statist bs-although I did hear one kid in my class bring up the marijuana issue (I live in WA) as a matter of states’ rights, which was cool. That’s why bothers me so much. So many people seem to be so close to libertarianism. It’s like they’re libertarian in one issue, whether it’s drug laws, or gun laws, or economic freedom, but statist in all other issues. I’m reminded of the Harry Browne quote where he says something along the lines of “the left thinks the government can regulate economic behavior but not social behavior. the right thinks the government can regulate social behavior but not economic behavior. neither side ever attempts to explain why government is so efficient in one area, but so inefficient in another.”
Come now Clayton, if you had to many people and things which you wanted to rant about that you couldn’t throw up half of them in at most a reasonably sized post then you would have died of anger by now!
@Neodoxy: Sometimes, that’s how it feels. This is part of what has motivated my investigation of astrology, Eastern teachings, etc… general life-wisdom kind of stuff.
This time last year, I got into it with several people over Occupy Wall Street, largely trying to make inroads and push back on some of the more vacuous rhetoric. They all railed against the status quo. Now, almost all of them praise the affirmation of the status quo. These damn people…
It’s one thing to vote for Obama and/or think he’s preferable to Romney. But to celebrate as more poor people around the world are bombed by drone, inner city blacks are locked up at disproportionate rates, Mexicans above the border get deported and those below get their heads chopped, etc., is disgusting. As it’s said, the lesser evil is still evil, and evil does not deserve your fucking adulation.
Maybe it would be a better idea to get this rant thread OFF of the LvMI website?
I think it’s a great idea, but perhaps there will be embarassing/damaging words that come out onto the page, and it’s not really fair to the good people at LvMI to have the forum on their own site get crudded up with terrible PR and momentary slips of the tongue. I know I would like it if it were off here because I could make a new user profile and be able to vent but still have the same like minded people to angrily press keys to.
