Harrison’s Highly Critical, Judgemental, Elitist Rants Presents: Strong Opinions
Life, Limb, Philosophy, Pissed off rants, Propaganda
Posted July 25, 2010 at 12:28 pm by Severed Head
Allow me to explain what I’m talking about before dismissing me as hypocritical: Strong opinions without a good foundation.
Here’s what I originally wrote on twitter: Everyone has such strong opinions on the economy, immigration and health care without knowing how any of these fucking systems work
I am so goddamn fucking sick of seeing my age post about the immigration bill and about Obama and the law and anything vaguely political. I know these people, and they are fucking dumb. The large majority of you out there don’t have a good understanding of how any of these systems work. I completely admit that I don’t understand how the economy works, or how healthcare works, or how immigration works, but I’m learning. How? Public Radio. A completely neutral news source which attempts to explain how the world works without presenting their opinion as the only option. If you get your information from Fox News, I have a difficult time respecting your opinion at all. They feed you your opinions and a completely one-sided view on how the world works. Everything becomes political, from the economy to health care, to alternate lifestyles (whatwith the gays). Now, if you know how the world works, and you’re simply watching Fox News objectively, then I can understand that, but the fact of the matter is that that’s probably not happening–it’s a terrible network to do that with. They feed on your paranoias and take small truths and blow them out of proportion using the slippery slope argument–which is a giant fucking logical fallacy.
Any of you who take one side strongly, whether it be protesting SB 1070 or shooting Mexicans, look at both goddamn sides first. Both sides have good points and their good ideas. It’s to easy to lose yourself to the bipartisan bullshit that the media is feeding you. And by media, I include facebook too. Like I said, I believe that most of the people I know who use facebook to voice their opinions and entirely uneducated on how immigration/healthcare/politics works. It’s really easy to do this. Most of the information out there, anywhere, is one-sided and extensively uses the continuum fallacy (practically synonymous with the slippery slope argument–that there is no middle ground, that your 2 options are for or against something).
One of the biggest problems that seems to cause this issue is our political system. With only two political parties, (I know there are others, but let’s pretend they don’t exist since they don’t for all practical reasons) we have politicians out there who want to make a difference. Let’s just assume, for the sake of argument, that all of them out there wish to do what’s best in the world. In order to move up in the world, they have to align their views with their political party. This makes it extremely difficult for any politician to stray away from his party’s political views, and if their terms are fairly short, and an opponent starts the campaign process as soon as one election ends, the only choice for everyone is to keep campaigning. There are a lot of flaws in the system, and we haven’t even gotten to the corruption yet, not that it affects everyone as much as you’d think. Classifying all politicians as completely self-motivated and corrupt is just as stupid as only listening to one side or closing yourself off from learning about the issues because there exists biased information out there. In order for a politician to keep an office, he has to stick to his party’s values, which drastically reduces the possibility for free thought and new ideas.
Look, we are all going to have our own opinions, and we can’t always help them, but PLEASE go educate yourselves before ranting about something which you really don’t understand!
All of these links will help you understand what the fuck is ACTUALLY going on in the world, and how to get through the shit that you’re being fed from other media outlets:
The Economy
Reading through politician bullshit
An article about immigration
Health care podcasts: 1, 2
Posted July 15, 2010 at 11:34 am by Severed Head
Posted July 9, 2010 at 5:40 pm by Severed Head
Just read this, and I laughed because it’s so straight forward:
However, there are a few situations in which your loan may be discharged and your repayment obligation cancelled or forgiven.
You die.
You become totally and permanently disabled and meet certain additional requirements.
There are some more, but I thought I would demonstrate how straightforward “You die” was hahaha
Volunteering and Public Service
Posted July 6, 2010 at 8:47 pm by Severed Head
You see all these people out there actively trying to convert people into Christianity or any church, all of which are incredibly corrupt and rely on false premises. Why aren’t there groups out there actively, yet unaggressively/reasonably talking to people about faith outside of God? Or about just being good people and not expecting reward?
Just a thought!
Music, Philosophy, Pissed off rants, Propaganda, Robots, Time Paradox
Posted June 28, 2010 at 9:35 pm by Severed Head
It doesn’t get more pop than Bowie! But is is good fucking pop. What the fuck happened, music scene?
To all the Apple iPhone critics:
Conspiracies, Pissed off rants, Propaganda
Posted June 28, 2010 at 9:14 pm by Severed Head
What the fuck? You’re clearly running out of things to complain about? Your initial biggest complains:
Home Screen needs to be cleaner, multitasking, homescreen background, more powerful antenna, screen orientation lock, threaded e-mail, better video/picture quality, flash for taking photos/shooting videos, playlist manipulation, etc.
ALL OF THESE ARE SOLVED WITH THE NEW PHONES, YA WANKERS! The only big complains left are: “Death grip” non-issue, Openness (yes, it sucks we don’t allow Google Voice, I can acknowledge that, but Flash is terrible and most smart websites are adapting with HTML5, and in regards to shitty apps: fuck you, we don’t need more fart apps (as a side note, the Android app store really suffers because their lack of standards/regulations)), AT&T exclusivity contract.
My guess is the main issue with google voice would be that it breaks with the supposed Apple-AT&T contract, but I really don’t know. Still, to all of you bitching on the internet, it is a pretty fucking sweet phone and you can’t deny that they’ve listened to you most of your complaints!
Posted June 27, 2010 at 11:15 pm by Severed Head
Remind me about this when Starcraft II comes out. Holy ass this looks cool. Look at how detailed these maps are! That alone makes me giddy for Starcraft II!
Quick Thought: The Internet and Intelligence
Philosophy, Propaganda, Robots, Time Paradox, Website
Posted June 16, 2010 at 9:15 pm by Severed Head
Some people feel that having such a vast array of data available so easily at your fingertips will make us stupider. We will no longer have to learn anything, because we can always google it and learn more about it than most would know in a semester-long class in college.
I, however, make the opposite argument. Since we have so much fucking data available to us, you have little to no excuse as to why you don’t know something. If there’s anything you wanted to learn how to do, I’m sure there’s a page on the internet that talks about it extensively.
Just a thought!
Now More Fun gets all political and shit
Conspiracies, Pissed off rants, Propaganda
Posted February 5, 2010 at 5:57 pm by Severed Head
This kind of shit infuriates the fucking hell out of me. Bipartisan politics that are nothing more than always voting at your party’s core and never thinking of thinking for your fucking self. And spouting off the same goddamn bullshit excuses. Thank god for politifact.com, who fact-checks these ass holes.
To sum it up: Obama wanted his stimulus bill to go through, and it didn’t because of Republican’s voting against it, who condemned him, and instead, they came up with THE EXACT SAME IDEAS, and praised themselves for making them come through. I really wish they went through every fucking Republican in this one, and just called them all out. Both parties are guilty of this kind of shit, I’m sure, but this anti-Obama “Nazi” rhetoric has got to fucking stop so we can get shit done.
On budgets and My Fitness Coach 1 vs. 2
Conspiracies, Life, Limb, Propaganda
Posted January 30, 2010 at 4:02 pm by Severed Head
First, the budget part: Here. Obama is getting a bad rap for shit he just plain didn’t do. That’s right. Fuck you Republicans who want to misdirect blame because of the public’s poor perception of how an economy works.
Now. My Fitness Coach 1 vs. 2:
The first one was good. Unfortunately, there is no way to turn down the music so I can listen to my own music. That is, if I turn down the music, it turns down the instructions as well, which is a bit annoying. On My Fitness Coach 2, you can turn down the music all the way. Unfortunately, it still provides you with a beat on how stuff must be done, and it not only does this, it makes you use the Wiimote in order to judge that you are in fact doing this on time. Why the fuck would you take away music but still keep you on the beat? The whole idea is to let you listen to your own workout music. Good workout music is the thing that has helped me most in motivating myself to exercise, personally.
In conclusion, fuck My Fitness Coach 2 and Republicans.