The Letting Off Steam Thread - Page 144

12 year olds who think they know everything about politics. You're obnoxious, unreasonable, and uncompromising. You're literally everything you hate about the "fat cats" in government/wallstreet/illuminati/wherever the fuck your anger is directed at. I wish more places had strict moderation like TL just so I could find a good general discussion that isn't tainted by your sorry asses derailing everything into an argument about the sheeple who take it hard from the government. There's a whole wide world out there beyond the liberal propaganda put out by 17-year-olds with a Guy Fawkes mask and a webcam. Save ourselves the trouble and realize that you're an idiot.

Whiteknights on the internet. You will never, ever, come close to getting a modicum of respect by doing what you're doing. Please stop being an embarassment to humanity and either fix your behavior, or find a hilarious way to render yourself sterile. You want to fantasize about it? Let me google that for you. Boom. Done. Go spend a weekend with your right hand. I'll wait. Better? Good. Now stop wasting your life watching Tara Babcock's stream or blindly defending the hypocritical nature of Anita Sarkeesian, and stop writing sycophantic posts in reply to every single confirmed girl on Team Liquid.

One day I'm going to pretend to be a girl in the LR thread and observe the results just so I have a shortlist of people I can be disappointed in.

People who love to argue on the internet, and especially people who love to argue on the internet for the sake of arguing and thinking they're being productive. That's not how it works. They think, much like the 12-year-olds whose Youtube favorites list is comprised completely of Call of Duty montages, Minecraft LP's, and 17-year-old pseudoradicals, that if you yell at a person long enough with your various beliefs and stances, that the other person will magically say "Oh, how silly of me! Of course you're right!" This is why arguing on the internet is stupid. The whole point of debate is not to convince the opposition, but to sway a neutral audience in your favor. On the internet, the audience is already in the argument and have picked a side. Think you're doing something by stating your opinion? Fuck you. The solution to gun violence is fuck you. Putin is sending troops to Crimea because fuck you. The optimal system of healthcare for the US is fuck you.

Fuck the Tea Party. You make the Republicans look bad.

Fuck the Republicans. I thought Republicans had the support of most old people, why are you the bigger baby of the two parties? The term "RINO" shouldn't exist.

Why can't there be a consistent political party in this country that doesn't piss me off everytime I try to interact with it?

CNN isn't neutral or unbiased. It's a news network of liberal shills. Have you seen their coverage of Trayvon Martin? They're just able to do it subtly. Fox, take notes.

Why the fuck is there so much shilling in politics? I don't even know who to vote for this November. Both the potential Republican candidates are gimps to big business and are going to be carbon copies of what we already have in Washington. Booker (and Hillary as well) only support affirmative action because it gets black people to vote for them. The only politician from my state that I like is Christie. He may have his own skeletons, and he's definitely hiding something about the bridge, but at least the guy's got an actual backbone.

I have nothing against gay people or same-sex marriage. My belief is that you can stick it wherever you want, or get stuck by whomever you want, as long as it's 100% consensual between everyone involved. But I have a problem with those beliefs being shoved in my face. It's fine to be proud of being gay, but it doesn't mean you should go tell everyone on the street how gay you are. I'm not saying hide it - you can be openly gay, just don't make it your main defining feature in society. Ellen Page came out? Good for her. I personally don't give a shit, I'll still watch Inception the same way I do now. I shouldn't be expected to care, and hopefully someday in the future nobody will think it's a big deal, just acknowledge it with some mild interest. Homophobia obviously needs to be dealt with in the best way possible, but I think the number one obstacle in eliminating homophobia is gay pride itself. For example, if I'm not too keen on same-sex marriage and come from an environment where the existing gay people aren't exactly open about it, and then I see a gay pride rally where men in assless chaps and women clad in nothing but rainbow underwear/bra and facepaint are all dancing suggestively (which was actually the highlight of a parade I saw in New York once), I'm probably going to be more homophobic because everything about this confirms my preconceived notions. The message needs to be less "Look, I'm gay, let me show you how gay I am!" and more "Look, we're just like you, we just have different romantic partners!". The best way to promote equality is to show how we're all, you know, equal.

As an immigrant of the US myself, fuck immigrants who refuse to put any effort into speaking the language of the land. The US has no official language, but really it's English. You'll have a hard time getting by only knowing Spanish and an even harder time with any other language.

Enough politics. I hate politics.

Fuck my state and all the people who live in it. I shouldn't have to spend 20 minutes driving less than 2 miles across town.

Fuck me for being unable to rant hard enough. Even when I'm mad as hell about something my first thought is always to structure my various arguments soundly, and then speak what's on my mind.

Fuck the academy.

12 Years a Slave doesn't deserve best picture. Best adapted screenplay? Sure. Best director? Absolutely, Cuaron couldn't turn Sandra Bullock into a decent actor in Gravity. Best supporting actress? No, Jennifer Lawrence breathed life into American Hustle and I'd have to give it to her. Best actor? Hell yes, although Leo would have been a valid choice as well.

But not best picture. Cinematography was beautiful and all of the prolonged whipping scenes were both necessary and contributed very well to the message of the movie. Acting, especially Solomon's character, was absolutely phenomenal. But there's nothing new or enlightening about this movie that we haven't seen or understood before. It simply offers the fullest extent of the horrors of slavery and puts it in front of us, but I wouldn't give Best Picture simply for increased violence.

But what I'm really pissed about is how the exact same critics who lambasted Passion of the Christ for its excessive use of violence in 2004 come back and say the violence 12 Years a Slave is groundbreakingly enlightening. You could argue that Passion was just as enlightening as Slave from a both Christian historical perspectives. As a Christian, you're led to fully see what the Romans did to Jesus because the Bible only offers about 3 sentences between the 4 Gospels about his torture. Historically you're confronted with the fact that the Romans, who the Western world draws a majority of its influences from, aren't the perfect, superior people we historically imagine them to be, and are capable of some of the worst atrocities you can commit to a person - any person, since any political prisoner could be subject to such a fate.

Basically, what really pisses me off about the Best Picture award isn't the merit, which you could even argue the film has, but the hypocrisy of the Academy in their judging process.

I am so fucking sick of people saying "In all honesty" or "well if I'm being completely honest", I mean come on, give it a rest! Try being honest more often, or at least make it seem like you aren't a lying sack of shit the rest of the time!

What about "with all due respect?"

Wow, fuck me. I feel like such a fucking idiot. I came out of the SAT feeling like I actually did pretty fucking well, yet of course for some reason or another I managed to fuck up yet another thing and ended up getting a 2020. I knew my essay was kind of shitty, but I thought that I actually did all of the math correctly. Nope, just turns out that I didn't figure out the tricks to each math problem and got fucked on like 8 questions. Go me. Of course, there is some joy in the fact that my SAT tutoring cost thousands of dollars and ended up doing absolutely nothing for me.

Really, just I can't understand how the fuck I made so many mistakes. It's frustrating as hell too because I got a 204 on the PSAT and I got a 2130 on a practice SAT I took earlier. Either I managed to get dumber, sloppier, or I fucked up something.

Really, can't believe that I'm such a dipshit. While all of the seniors at my school are at Disney World and enjoying the 80 degree weather and having fun, I get to be miserable and feeling like a complete dipshit for fucking up something that I thought I had in the bag. The worst part is that I knew so many answers and actually thought that the test was easy, other than a few questions. Guess I just ended up not knowing nearly as much as I thought I did; guess I've gotta go to school and talk to my friends and humble myself a bit.

I really don't like being forced to rewrite my English class papers into a "more polished" draft. What motivation is there for me to actually write clear, good sentences if it will just make it that much harder to correct/make better later on? When a teacher grades your revised copies based on how many revisions/changes you've made, it really kind of bothers me because, if I wrote my paper so well to begin with, I'm not gonna be able to make all that many changes. Sometimes it can be warranted, I suppose. I've read some of my classmates' papers last semester, and seen how awful they were. No sentence flow. Spelling and grammar mistakes out the wazoo! These papers looked like they were written by middle-schoolers. I don't mean to be insulting, but it's surprising for me to see people who can't grasp that their papers read terribly. It's like they don't even reread them after they finish. Hell, maybe they're smarter than me and know to write a really shitty first draft so they can make a bunch of changes later in the revisions easier. I'm pretty doubtful though.

Well, I guess I should start writing shitty first drafts. That's what I'm off to do now.