Let me preface my comments by saying that I know that no one is listening to me. I write under a pseudonym, because the Human Resources department at my job told me - years ago - that all the good writers had to hide behind a different name in order to protect their jobs and benefits.
If I knew how to change this blog to my own name, I'd do it, but I'm old as hell and I can't figure it out.
So ... no one is listening. Got it.
What the fuck is happening in this country? Am I wrong to root for anarchy? Am I wrong to root for the protesters? Am I wrong to defend the police? (Yes, yes, and yes.)
Anarchy is not productive. A small, vocal minority of the protesters are assholes, and the police forces throughout the country are not doing a great job of protecting law and order when they shoot tear gas and projectiles at people who are exercising their 1st Amendment right to PEACEFUL protest.
A new ordinance was recently passed in the state in which I live, which is an "anti-hate" rule. Such total bullshit. An ordinance is NOT a law, and the way the ordinance is phrased is almost entirely unenforceable. It helps no one.
Let's just speculate that Trump wins the next election. (We're fucked, as a democracy.)
Let's just speculate that Biden wins the next election. (We just hit pause for the next four years, until god-knows-what happens after.)
We are not doing well.
COVID took attention away from the dictator in charge. Then murder-by-cop took attention away from COVID. NO ONE IS WINNING.
My new theory is that literally NO ONE in charge of anything knows what the hell is going on.
I had a "work meeting" (Zoom) the other day, in which nothing of importance happened, but for which I got paid. I genuinely feel bad for earning money that way. I am lucky that I don't own a restaurant or a bar or am a nurse or whatever. And I sure as hell wouldn't want to be a police officer right now, even though so many of them are literally trying their best to protect and serve.
Prayer, religion, and hope are irrelevant right now. America (WE) needs to get it together before we all go six feet under.
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Saturday, June 6, 2020
COVID-19 5 June 2020
I know there is a date in the title of this post - I hope I'm guessing correctly. Half of the time I have no idea what day of the week we're on or what day of the year. I have lost track. And I genuinely like it.
This COVID shit was one thing, but then America added a bunch of death and protest into the mix. I can't even believe what's going on in my own country. Honestly, you could tell me ANYTHING was true, and I'd believe you for the (roughly) 60 seconds I'd use to fact-check you. America is borderline anarchic.
I'm not even going to say a bunch of political things, because (some) people seem to have lost the ability to think. They believe what they believe, and no amount of truth or evidence is going to change their minds.
So now we have to go from that starting point. Here's my advice: EVERYBODY FUCKING BE COOL ...
America can be a better place if we follow the spirit of the law more often, rather than adhering to the legal parameters. A curfew is a fucking joke. A curfew is an invocation of violence - preemptively - because the 1st Amendment allows people the right to peacefully assemble, and the curfew is entrapment. (Yes, some people do bad things - I'm not talking about those assholes.)
If America needs anarchy or an extension of the violence we are seeing now, so be it. Historically, democracies don't survive. Look at Greece. Look at "democratic" Russia, where Putin often (somehow) gets 115% of the vote.
They all fall, get overturned, because the people are frustrated and the government is enabling certain parts of the populace, discriminating against other parts, and making a very few people obscenely rich. I wonder why people are pissed. Most of us live month-to-month, so three months can be a financial crisis, for a household. I have been lucky, but I understand that I am in the minority in terms of my job.
Listen to music. Maybe some old Bob Dylan. Practice positive thinking, engage in constructive dialogue, and don't get tangled up in blue.
This COVID shit was one thing, but then America added a bunch of death and protest into the mix. I can't even believe what's going on in my own country. Honestly, you could tell me ANYTHING was true, and I'd believe you for the (roughly) 60 seconds I'd use to fact-check you. America is borderline anarchic.
I'm not even going to say a bunch of political things, because (some) people seem to have lost the ability to think. They believe what they believe, and no amount of truth or evidence is going to change their minds.
So now we have to go from that starting point. Here's my advice: EVERYBODY FUCKING BE COOL ...
America can be a better place if we follow the spirit of the law more often, rather than adhering to the legal parameters. A curfew is a fucking joke. A curfew is an invocation of violence - preemptively - because the 1st Amendment allows people the right to peacefully assemble, and the curfew is entrapment. (Yes, some people do bad things - I'm not talking about those assholes.)
If America needs anarchy or an extension of the violence we are seeing now, so be it. Historically, democracies don't survive. Look at Greece. Look at "democratic" Russia, where Putin often (somehow) gets 115% of the vote.
They all fall, get overturned, because the people are frustrated and the government is enabling certain parts of the populace, discriminating against other parts, and making a very few people obscenely rich. I wonder why people are pissed. Most of us live month-to-month, so three months can be a financial crisis, for a household. I have been lucky, but I understand that I am in the minority in terms of my job.
Listen to music. Maybe some old Bob Dylan. Practice positive thinking, engage in constructive dialogue, and don't get tangled up in blue.
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