The Inner Machinations Of My Mind

I used to be against gay marriage and abortion.

Like last year.

But not anymore.

While I’m still not supportive of the act of abortion and not a fan of it, I don’t think Roe v. Wade should be overturned and I don’t think abortion should be outlawed.

Why? Simple. Basically, while I do not agree with the act, it’s not my right to impose my views onto women. And it’s not the governments right either. Everyone has a different mindset and that needs to be respected and realized, and through that notion, abortion should remain legal.

As for gay marriage, there’s really no logical arguments against it. It’s silly. Being gay is a sin? So is premarital sex, get over it, God will. Besides, religious law is always unjust.

Gay marriage will destroy the sanctity of marriage? I think the outrageous divorce rates we have already did that more than any gay couple ever could. And the ‘sanctity of marriage’ is a nonsensical argument anyway because no one could even define what that means or how gay couples would destroy it. Do straight couples love each other more than gay couples or something? So if gay couples got married it would destroy the meaning of love? It’s absurd and if you believe in that idiotic argument you will be on the wrong side of history.

The only problem I have is that the government shouldn’t even involved in the marriage business anyway, because who you love and marry is your business and your spouses’ business and no one elses. 

And let me tell you, I’m quite conservative, and I believe my views fall in line with true conservatism, because in the end conservatism is all about smaller government and individual liberty.

Too bad the GOP has been hijacked by the trainwreck known as neo-conservatism and a mob of religious blind fools.

The problem with governing by faith is that not everyone in this country ascribes to your faith.

Rick Santorum and other religious zealots….that ones to you.

Rick Santorum just dropped out of the Presidential race.

Thank God, the GOP needs less neo-con religious zealots, and more actual constitutional conservatives. Newt I-cheated-on-all-my-wives-and-got-kicked-out-of-office-for-ethical-wrongdoing Gingrich and Mitt I-am-a-flip-flopping-war-mongering-big-government-statist Romney should both drop out too and leave it up to the real conservative to take on Obama. By the way, if you don’t get what I’m saying, Ron Paul has been the only real conservative running since the beginning.

Media Bias Shapes Political Thought

By Dustin Morris

Support the wars? Warmonger.  Against the wars? Unpatriotic. Pro-life? Hate women. Pro-choice? Baby killer. Democrat? Welfare for all. Republican? Old rich white men only. Now, how exactly did all of these absurd stereotypes take such precedence that people actually believe them and take them seriously? Welcome to the world of media manipulation and how it decides thought process.

Every hour of everyday people are bombarded by news, whether from the papers, the radio, the television, or in more recent times, the juggernaut that is the internet. The problem with this is not the news itself, but the way the news is portrayed by the people who put it out on the air.  People are inherently biased, so news reports are inevitably biased themselves, there is no way around it; every single thing anyone anywhere reads is biased. This is a monumental problem because the people who rely on these outlets unavoidably have their opinions and their minds changed and subverted to agree with the bias in the media, creating a nation divided for the benefit of media corporations.

Now how exactly does the media manipulate the mind? A better question would perhaps be how does the media not manipulate the mind, because that would be a much shorter list. Basically political agendas that the mainstream media support influence the stories that each individual outlet covers, and influences the way the stories are portrayed. Take for example simple nationalism. There’s a very common slogan that goes around and it says, ‘support the troops,’ but people take this as irrevocably supporting the wars themselves, so if one does not support the wars, then they do not support the troops. People fail to realize the immense difference between the two, and why is this? Because the mainstream media smashes the two things into one, and people take it as such without question, because questioning is out of the mainstream created by the media, and no one wants to be outside of the mainstream. Inevitably, the power that mass media has boils down to a very simple point that they exploit people’s fears.

Everyone who was old enough too, certainly remembers vivid details of September 11^th, 2001 when this country was attacked by bin Laden’s al-Qaeda. Now look back at the days following, what happened? The media, and in this instances, all media outlets, crucified the Middle East, and every day it was terrorism here and terrorism there, over and over, because they were playing off people’s fear and now, years later, what is the result? People at airports are wary of Middle Eastern people, there is racial profiling of Middle Eastern people, and even sometimes open hostility against them, and the majority of people do not care or do anything about it. The media has so influenced people’s thinking processes that they do not care if another group of people loses their rights, as long as it isn’t them themselves. ‘Why would I care if a Middle Eastern person is scanned by the TSA unfairly or abusively at an airport, it’s not me right?’ This thought process is so common, not because people don’t know that it’s wrong, but because they have become immune to other’s abuse because every day they are bombarded by propaganda that subliminally encourages it.

Partisanship is not a natural result of different opinions; it is the result of media manipulation.  People are so scared to be any different at all, that they stay rooted in the ideals of normalcy which does nothing more than split the country in half, red vs. blue, party over substance. Anyone out of this mainstream is instantly crushed from all sides by an onslaught from the media. Out of the norm is no good, conformity is essential, people have to think a certain way and if they do not, they are wrong. Do the people in the media outright say things like this? No, but the message is still there.

This year’s presidential election is a perfect example of media bias against something that is out of the norm. There are two candidates that most people know little to nothing about because those candidates have both been largely ignored by the media. Gary Johnson. Ron Paul. Who? Gary Johnson was running as a republican and was so shut out by the media that he wasn’t even invited to the debates. He then dropped out to switch parties and run as a libertarian, which utterly crushes any chance he may have had because third party candidates get no media attention at all. Ron Paul on the other hand, was slightly more successful, but not by much. This man is one of only four republicans left in the race, but how much do you hear about him in proportion to the other candidates. Hardly ever. There have been multiple different studies showing that Paul has received significantly less media attention than the other three Republican candidates, even though he has the largest youth and independent voting numbers. Furthermore, during all the debates in the past year, Paul has also received significantly less speaking time, in fact, in one ninety minute debate, he received a mere eighty nine seconds to speak, which is an absurdity. So why did the media blackout Johnson? Why do they still blackout Paul? Because both of those men advocate positions that our out of the mainstream for their party, such as ending wars, legalizing recreational drug use, and auditing the central bank. The media can’t have the sheep distracted by the differences, so they get rid of the differences, leaving people with the simple choice of red vs. blue even though for the most part red and blue are the same thing.

This is where the partisan game comes into play. Exaggerate the differences between red and blue to make the people forget that there are more colors, fuel the discourse between red and blue so people stick to one color and refuse to merge, this is what the media does. Are there any substantial differences between George Bush and Barack Obama? Not really. The only difference is that when Bush did something wrong, the donkeys would explode and the elephants would keep quiet, and now, with Obama doing things wrong, the elephants are roaring, and the donkeys are saying nothing. Why? Because people are driven to party lines by media rhetoric.

If the media covered third parties, covered different opinions, paid attention to people who are not all the same, people would realize and remember that there is more than a choice between one or the other evil. The media tells people, if you don’t like republicans, vote democrat; if you don’t like democrats, vote republican. But what if the people don’t like either? What if the two parties have no substantial differences? What if the policy of the government doesn’t change no matter who’s in control of the Oval Office? What if the media knows this? What if the media supports this agenda? What if the media enables this to happen? What if the people understood that without them, the power of the media is useless? The media is scared of losing what they have, so they turn to their practice of crushing any semblance of resistance. The media is no different than an army. The media is an army.  The media is an authoritarian dictatorship that destroys free will and free thinking. The media regulates the complexities of humanity into choice A or B and expects the people to go along with it. There are twenty four other letters in the alphabet; the people want option C, D, E, and F. The people want option Z. The media doesn’t care what the people want. Just conform. Fall in line. There’s no option C. There never was. There never will be. In November, the media will choose the next president. Four years from now, they’ll choose the forty fifth. And there’s nothing anyone can really do about it. Or is there? People need to free their minds. This country doesn’t need a revolution of arms, or a revolution of violence; what this nation needs is a revolution of intellect. Turn off MSNBC. Turn off FOX. Free the mind from the confines of propaganda, regain the individual thought process, liberate the mind from slavery, and shake the foundations of a dystopian system of repression and subjugation.

The media does not own the people, the people own the media. Remember that.

Sen. Nina Turner submits bill to regulate men’s reproductive life.

Feminists?! I expect you to take this one down with just as much zeal as you would attack an anti-abortion bill.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/bill-introduced-to-regulate-mens-reproductive-health-1341547.html

But you probably won’t because your movement is ridden in just as much hypocrisy and bigotry as any pro-life movement.

Ron Paul is 0 for 23.

But even if he goes 0 for 50, he’s still the only GOP candidate that will get my vote.

End of story.

I will take a slight vindictive pleasure in watching Obama slaughter the GOP nominee after the libertarian base abandons the party because of the way it treats Paul.

You need us to win.

You won’t win without us.

Seriously, if you still support Obama, you lose some of my respect.

I don’t care what your arguments for supporting him are, the NDAA destroys all of them.

Impeach Obama for signing.

Impeach Congressmen who voted yes.

Dear Rick Santorum, stop with the act. You are not a real conservative. Real conservatives do not vote to raise the debt ceiling or to increase the size of government departments. Real conservatives do not support unconstitutional foreign aggression. Real conservatives do not support regulating the social lives of citizens based off of religious zealotry. You are a phony disgrace to the idea of conservatism, you are a disgrace to the Republican Party, and you are a disgrace to human decency. Go fuck yourself. Love, me.

‘You’re only libertarian because you like weed.’

I’ve never smoked marijuana in my life, nor have any desire too.

That is all.

Because I hate when people say that shit.

Dear neo-cons,

You are not pro-life if you support war. 

Not voting for Ron Paul because he personally believes in Creationism, and is personally pro-life?

dobbaaa:

delrinn:

Congratulations, you now acknowledge that someone being religious and pro-life are more important issues than unconstitutional wars, deep, deep deficits, a horrible economy, and the erosion of the Bill of Rights.

In other words, you are probably really dumb.

Ron Paul is, quite frankly, a piece of poop.

He thinks if somebody can only have an abortion/morning after pill after an “honest rape.” 

He is so anti-choice it makes me want to vomit. He wants to keep this war on womyn* going.

He doesn’t believe in reproductive healthcare and freedoms for people. That’s just a dick move.

He wants to cut funding to the FDA, the CDC, and many other health organizations. He would also quit all foreign aid and funding, and cut corporate taxes down to 15 percent. There’s plenty more fiscal decisions that could totally fuck us over, but those are the ones I have on top of my head.

He doesn’t believe in the separation of Church and State, which is just silly.

He thinks if you’re sexually harassed in your place of work, that you should just suck it up and quit.

He wants to define marriage as between one man and one woman in his grody Marriage Protection Act. 

Back in the 80’s and 90’s he wanted to abolish public schools. I mean, what the actual fuck? 

This guy also thinks access to education isn’t a right. No college for poor kids in poor families who work their asses off and have good grades!

He doesn’t believe in global warming, which is definitely happening.

The only reason people brocialists like him is because he is “anti-war” and totally fine with legalizing weed.

What the fuck, people.

• The majority of things you listed are minor issues compared to the real problems we face, which is what my OP was originally about, so I don’t know why you listed all of these things reinforcing my original point.
• Anyway, he is personally pro-life, but thinks abortion isn’t a federal issue and should be up to the states. And him being pro-life is not a good enough reason to not vote for him because economically and foreign affairs wise, which are far more important than abortion, he has the best answers. And the ‘honest rape’ comment obviously meant ‘actually raped’ which anyone with common sense can realize, because as much as you hate to admit it, false rape does exist.
• And it’s spelled women, not womyn. 
• Do you mean taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood? Well he’s right, taxpayers shouldn’t fund private organizations, especially because we have no control over where that tax money goes too, whether it be abortions, contraceptives etc. There’s no problem with contraceptives, but a pro-life person for example would be pretty upset if their tax money was funding abortions. 
• Federal departments don’t exactly do anything beneficial that private enterprises couldn’t do just as well, or even better. The majority of our federal departments drain our money and use it and accomplish little to nothing except to increase the national debt level. The majority of them should be eliminated.
• Taxes should be as low as possible for everyone. High taxes do nothing beneficial at all, and never will. Also he wants to audit and end the central bank and put an end to the failures of Keynesian economics such as TARP. He also wants to cut regulations on businesses which will bring overseas jobs back and make it easier for small businesses to grow. And if you think Keynesian economics are good, you need to study more economics.
• He’s actually a Constitutionalist, so your statement that he doesn’t believe in the separation of Church and State is pretty wrong.
• He’s openly said gay people should be allowed to get married and be allowed to call it whatever they want, and that the federal government should be out of marriage.
• Education isn’t a right, it’s a business. Same with healthcare. When someone has to provide you with something, it can’t be a right. That’s impossible. Our rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Free education and free healthcare are not rights, nor should they be. 
• There are contradictory reports about global warming, for example, the Himalayan mountains have lost no ice over the past 10 years. That’s pretty contradictory to global warming. But again, global warming is a non-issue compared to much more important things.
• He is anti-war. I don’t know why you put that in quotations, because he’s anti-war, anti-foreign aid, and against preemptive war. This is a fact. And that’s a good thing.
• He’s against the drug-war, which is another very good thing, because the drug war is a waste of money and discriminatory. It also puts too many people in jail for non-violent crimes. 
• So again, really? His economic and foreign policies are easily the best out of any of the GOP candidates, and Obama is a complete disaster.
• Out of curiosity, if you support Obama, I’m just going to throw it out there that he’s authorized the assassination of American citizens, signed the NDAA indefinite detention bill into law, increased the debt exponentially, lied about Iraq, signing statements, superPACS, illegally bombed Pakistan, Libya, and multiple other countries, passed a disastrous healthcare law and a disastrous stimulus, which didn’t work, and voted to censor the internet through ACTA. Also, he’s flip flopped on gay marriage, which is probably an important issue to you since you don’t seem to care much for the economy or our debt, at least according to your reasons for disliking Ron Paul.

Not voting for Ron Paul because he personally believes in Creationism, and is personally pro-life?

Congratulations, you now acknowledge that someone being religious and pro-life are more important issues than unconstitutional wars, deep, deep deficits, a horrible economy, and the erosion of the Bill of Rights.

In other words, you are probably really dumb.