We Need to Re-Define Equality

I was taking a survey on YouGov one day, and one of the questions asked me how much effort, if any, I think the government should put into reducing the “inequality” of living conditions between poor people and wealthy people.

I was stunned to think there are people who expect rich people and poor people to live in the same conditions. That this is considered something that needs to be “fixed”, rather than just a manifestation of physical reality. Someone with less money obviously cannot acquire the same ‘luxuries’ as someone who has more money. You only have as much money as you…have.

Equal opportunity does not mean an equal outcome. Someone who makes different decisions than me will have a different life. It is not an injustice onto you if someone has a life you would rather have. It’s certainly nothing the government needs to “fix”.

You know what would be unjust? You know what I think real inequality would look like? Busting your ass 70+ hours a week saving lives and receiving the same income as a part-time telemarketer. When no matter what you do or how hard you work, you can never have more than what you are given now. Your paychecks are the same now…but you scratch and claw for yours, and the other person slept more than half the time.

We should think about what we mean when we say “Equality”, and whether equality in and of itself is always inherently good.

Hitting Your Friends and Family is Not Normal

A couple of years ago when I still had a Facebook, a few of my family members congregated on there and talked about how it’s normal for friends and family members to have fist fights. I actually completely disagree with this for adults. Kids, maybe. Adults, no.

The closest-to-intelligent rationalization I read was, “When words aren’t enough to make the person see reason, violence is the only solution.”

I’m like, um, no. The only time that makes sense is if you’re trying to reason with the person to stop being violent, and they keep being violent, so now you need to be defend yourself.

But I can’t think of any other kind of disagreement that could warrant violence between adults. If the person can’t be reasoned with, then just accept that they are unreasonable (at least on that topic) and move on. If this person’s inability/refusal to see reason is somehow making them toxic for you, just cut them off.

And this is one of the many reasons I don’t speak to my relatives anymore. I am not going to have people in my life who think it’s okay to hit me if I disagree with them.

Only COMMUNISTS Think the Government Should Regulate Social Media

America’s “Right-wing” are just another bunch of angry, regressive hypocrites looking for government handouts. Except they don’t think you’re entitled to free healthcare and housing; they think you’re entitled to unlimited access to privately owned social media sites. They equate this with access to money and electricity…but surprisingly not food, which you still have to work for.

People who think the government should force us to provide everyone a space/platform on our own property are just as bad as people who think the government should decide what we can and cannot say.

I really don’t get how people who claim to live and die by the First Amendment can be so ignorant to what it actually says. Congress cannot pass laws restricting speech. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, etc. are not Congress, and Terms of Service are not laws. These companies are not oppressing you any more than I am oppressing my neighbor by kicking them out of my house for calling me a rude name. It’s my house, you don’t have to be here, I gave you the privilege of being there for a little while, and threw you out once I stopped wanting you there. You can call me an asshole, but you certainly cannot call me an oppressor or claim that I’m “treading on you”. If anything, you should thank me for the time I did give you, especially considering it was free of charge–and I even helped you make money!

There is no difference between a Socialist saying, “The government should give me free healthcare, food and housing because I am too incompetent to acquire it on my own” and a so-called Capitalist saying, “The government should force other people give me an internet platform from which I can say whatever I want because I am too incompetent to create such a platform on my own.” The only difference is that at least the Socialist has the excuse of healthcare, food and shelter actually being necessities. Everyone I know who quits or gets banned from social media usually ends up healthier for it, and there are plenty of other, more effective ways to stay connected to people and informed on current events.

The Right are always going on and on about personal responsibility. Well, it’s time to take responsibility for your plights the same way you expect everyone else too.

You took the bait and embraced Liberalism up until the culture you were trying to preserve by doing so was completely destroyed.

You decided to let other people handle all the technological advancement while you sat on your asses daydreaming about decades long passed.

You made yourselves dependent on resources that should only supplement your social life at the most, not replace it, dominate it or determine its fate.

You’re the ones who decided to marry and befriend people who loathe your values, thinking “Well at least I have the internet to vent on”, leaving you lonely and with nowhere to actually speak freely.

You’re the ones who think your political views are so important that the fate of humanity depends on you sharing them, and yet you don’t think they’re important enough to risk your secure, comfy lifestyles over; so you keep it on the internet.

And that’s all fine and dandy until you start cherry-picking our Constitution and petitioning the government to violate our rights and force other people to serve and share with you. You know, like commies do.

And no, I am not a Libertarian, Liberal, or Conservative. Just someone with common sense who understands how personal responsibility works.

Update To You Dumbfucks on Gab

You’re still hypocritical faggot retards.

Hitler will always be right.

Donald Trump is everyone’s Daddy.

White people, always remember the 14 Words.

Black people, stop being retarded.

The Jews are pretty much the most underlying cause of every societal problem in America. And more. So much more. Really don’t even know where to begin.

Sharing life with the right man/woman can bring you ultimate, ever-lasting fulfillment.

There is a difference between a nigger and a Black person, and not all niggers are Black.

We women should not be voting.

Social media is toxic.

Always speak freely.

Consensual Sex is NEVER Rape

We need to stop acting like women can’t make our own sexual decisions. I don’t care what kind of deal you strike with her: If she consents (without the threat of physical harm), she wasn’t raped, abused, or anything to that nature.

If your career is on the line, you have a choice: Money or Integrity. I just recently pulled out of a job offer myself because I was being sexually blackmailed by the man who was helping me get it. There are other jobs/careers out there, and other paths to my financial goals. But I only have one body.

I chose my body. My integrity. My self-respect. My physical and mental health. I chose not to prostitute myself. As much as I hate welfare, applying for food stamps to keep yourself afloat until a new professional opportunity arises is an infinitely better option than selling your soul.

If a woman chooses her job/career over herself, that is 100% her fault and she knows it. Just because someone hands you a gun and tells you to shoot yourself doesn’t mean you actually have to; and they are not at all responsible if you do.

We live in a world where, as social creatures, we are told that we are somehow not responsible for each other’s emotions. Yet we are responsible for each other’s actions? No. Doesn’t work that way.

Sacrifice > Spare Change

One million dollars from a billionaire is nowhere near as valuable as five dollars from someone who only has ten.

Because the billionaire isn’t sacrificing much; it would mean even less to him than giving someone a penny would mean to me.

But someone who already has barely enough to live giving me half of what they have; that person I would be far more grateful for.

I mean, I’d be grateful for anyone giving me money, and I ain’t complaining about a million dollars, but you know what I mean. What a person is willing to sacrifice says a lot more than what they’re merely willing to spare.

Earth Needs Mars AND Venus

I’m an exception to a lot of general facts about women. For example, I’m pretty sure I can shoot an enemy of my country in the face without hesitation.

But not without cost.

I would do it with tears pouring down my face, and part of me would die with every life I took.

War breaks men. Men are not even (typically) as sensitive or empathetic and emotional as women are, yet they come home from war traumatized and jaded.

Why would women, who are born to nurture and have an unlimited capacity for love, want to waste these special gifts to become hardened and crazed? Someone has to do it, but it shouldn’t be us, even if we were able to fight, defend and endure as well as men do on the battlefield.

I may be physically capable of performing many tasks men can, and I may even have just enough emotional fortitude to endure some of the horrors, but I also have twice as much heart as the average man. I need to foster my emotional side, not squander it. It’s nothing to be ashamed of. I need to be able to cry, to overthink, to build strong interpersonal bonds and believe nothing can break them. I need to be merciful, compassionate and forgiving, and feel what others feel.

I need to be a Goddess of Love; there are already enough Gods of War out there, and they need us as much as we need them.

This doesn’t mean I can’t be a warrior too, if or when the situation demands it. With love also comes a fierce sense of protectiveness. So by building that love, I become a formidable last line of defense; in case the soldiers on the field ever fail to hold off the enemy, at least there’s a Queen in the castle ready to do anything to defend it. If I have to fight, it’s going to be with all the ferocity and resolve of a woman who has everything to lose.

And when those soldiers come home, haunted and hurting (or even worse: empty), they need women and our abundance of humanity to help them heal and thrive. We owe it to those who sacrifice everything for us to be women.

I used to think a “strong woman” looks like a stone-faced male soldier with tits. I was wrong. Strong women cannot be away from their families for more than one day without feeling as if their hearts are being shredded. Strong women still write love poems to their husbands 20 years into marriage. Strong women are courageously vulnerable. Strong women cry when they see another creature suffer. Strong women understand children because they share many of the same raw, untamable emotions and romantic worldviews that uncorrupted children do.

Strong women know they may have to take a life one day, and we hate the thought of it…but not as much as we love our husbands, children and homes. I believe a strong woman facing a direct threat to her loved ones is no less dangerous than a man doing the same thing overseas. Becoming a strong woman doesn’t happen in the army though; it happens at home.