Random Thoughts Thread

[catnip]

I think what we're all forgetting is that rich people don't have enough money or control, so extending either is always good, because all they do with their money is make jobs.

Of course I'm lumping "corporations" with "people" above, because who wouldn't? We must submit, because capitalism! Cowboys! Marlboro Red 100's! Obesity! Eagles! Indentured servitude for the masses! America!

Also birth control is against what a bearded dude in the sky told my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandpappy at some point, so if you don't agree your eternal soul will only know constant suffering forever

[ZeroAX]

America. The land where half the nation is fighting for your good from sperm to birth, from which point on you might as well die for all they care.

[Jmustang1968]

America. The land where half the nation is fighting for your good from sperm to birth, from which point on you might as well die for all they care.

While I am nore pro-choice, you realize this is pretty incorrect dont you?

[AppleQueso]

Hobby Lobby has no objections to covering vasectomies, just in case someone tries to tell you that this is about some principled religious stance against contraception.

[MrPopo]

America. The land where half the nation is fighting for your good from sperm to birth, from which point on you might as well die for all they care.

While I am nore pro-choice, you realize this is pretty incorrect dont you?

They do care about you once you turn 18 and can join the military.

[Jmustang1968]

America. The land where half the nation is fighting for your good from sperm to birth, from which point on you might as well die for all they care.

While I am nore pro-choice, you realize this is pretty incorrect dont you?

They do care about you once you turn 18 and can join the military.

They also generally protect children.

[catnip]

America. The land where half the nation is fighting for your good from sperm to birth, from which point on you might as well die for all they care.

Although Zero's post is hyperbole (and I find it hilarious), it certainly rings a bit true, at least in the sense that so many businesses (MMORPGs; tobacco; alcohol; fast food, just to name some really obvious ones) are built around "hooking" you, sucking out your cash, and not really caring about you as a person. In a capitalist framework, the ultimate goal is money. The people making absolutely stupid amounts of it tend to be in some... morally-interesting areas.

Mix the above with the prison-industrial complex, the military-industrial complex, big pharma, privatized healthcare, and massive credit/student loan debt, and you've got a country that really doesn't seem to give too much of a shit about its people.

TL;DR wah wah evil capitalism

[AppleQueso]

TL;DR I can see where Zero's coming from, and I think his statement was clever. Never heard it before.

Really?

[MrPopo]

TL;DR I can see where Zero's coming from, and I think his statement was clever. Never heard it before.

Really?

George Carlin sums things up best:

Once you leave the womb, conservatives don’t care about you until you reach military age. Then you’re just what they’re looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers.

[catnip]

TL;DR I can see where Zero's coming from, and I think his statement was clever. Never heard it before.

Really?

Excuse me, I hadn't heard it phrased like that before, if that's what you were asking.