Irony(AKA, folksy stupidity from those slowly losing touch with reality)

Let's start off saying that I am not the most intelligent person in the world, but I am intelligent.  I am not a great human being, either, though I have been trying as of late.

One of my former employers, a man whom I once had a great deal of respect for, sent an email yesterday with the subject "Irony".  We'll call him Bill.  Bill is one of these Libertarian types who wants to force everyone to live just like he wishes he could.  Talk about irony.

Here is the e-mail.

"Two Statements that speak volumes:

Irony 1

“We are told NOT to judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics."

BUT on the other hand…….

"We are also encouraged TO judge ALL Gun Owners by the actions of a few lunatics."

Irony 2

The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture this year, is proud to be distributing the greatest amount of free Meals and Food Stamps ever, to 47 million people, per the most recent figures available for FY2013.

Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, asks us "Please Do Not Feed the Animals." Their stated reason for the policy is because "The animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves."

Thus Ends Today's Lesson On Irony"

Re-read that.  Leave this page, and come back to it in six hours or so, after you have had enough time to nearly forget about it.   That's what I did to the original e-mail.  I slept on it.  I re-read it this morning(Sept. 7th) and was completely blown away by how fucking retarded I must have been to even think that these statements are in any way ironic, and not more of a cry for help from someone whose mind realizes it is separating itself from reality.

from telegraph.co.uk

Irony 1

“We are told NOT to judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics."

BUT on the other hand…….

"We are also encouraged TO judge ALL Gun Owners by the actions of a few lunatics."

Facts:  Islam is the world's second largest religion and is considered, even by Islam, to be the world's fastest spreading religion.  All non-radicalized populations in Muslim countries are afraid of being targeted by radical Muslim groups, specifically other Muslims.  All radical, militant Muslim extremists are gun owners, duh.

Opinion:   Gun owners in the USA(AGOs) are to the general population of the USA what Radical Muslim Extremists are to Islam:  The people who are going to get us all killed because you do everything in your power to appear mentally imbalanced and increasingly separated from reality.  Okay, here is an eye-opener.  Ever Google NRA and look at the images that pop-up?  Ever Google "Islamic Militants"?  Quite a difference.  American gun owners are a long-running political joke whose "representatives" use them for their own power games even as they complain about the politicians using people for power games while allowing their 4-year-old children to shoot their siblings and neighbors.  We don't judge them by the actions of a few lunatics, we judge them because they allow their "representatives" to PORTRAY AGOs as lunatics, the same reason most sane people inadvertently judge the Muslim community, then feel guilty about it.   That's why we judge gun owners, and that's why we judge the Muslim community, but at least the Muslim community has the decency not to rally behind and publicly support the people making them look bad.

Irony 2

The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture this year, is proud to be distributing the greatest amount of free Meals and Food Stamps ever, to 47 million people, per the most recent figures available for FY2013.

Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, asks us "Please Do Not Feed the Animals." Their stated reason for the policy is because "The animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves."

Opinion: This one is just my opinion against pure idiocy.  The difference here is if you don't help feed 47 million hungry people living next door to you, they will rip your face off to get to your food, which they cannot afford.  I live in the same black bear infested area as "Bill", and even I know that when you feed the bears in your neighborhood, they will rip your face off to get to the food inside your house, food that you are already giving them, and we won't be able to defend ourselves because gun owners are so busy supporting people who portray gun owners as militant idiots that the government is going to take away the guns we do have.  Moron.  

This world is going to implode.  Not because of satan, or prophecy, or the messiah.  It is going to implode because eighty four percent of the world believe they have the correct fairy tale, and everyone else is wrong and needs to die or burn in hell for it.

Anything I have stated as fact or opined as, well, my opinion can easily be found using your pretty little fingers to Google search.

A Letter to Mr. Kokesh, I Guess.

Mr. Adam Kokesh,

I would like to start off by saying that I, unlike many "freedom loving Americans", respect the opinions of others, even if I do not agree with them.   I am no one to judge, however, I am forced to interpret one's opinions in light of their actions.  I am actually a subscriber to your You-Tube channel, subscribed for over a year, I think. 
 I think your opinions are valid, and point to something that is rotting, but not abnormal in, our society.  I agree that our rights are being eroded, rather quickly.  However, your assertion that the Democratic process has failed/is failing our country is, I believe, fundamentally flawed.  Even a cursory review of the great democracies throughout history shows that our country is simply on par for the course.  Eventually, special interest groups impose their respective wills on the society, eroding control from the populace, and placing that control into the hands of that nation's self-styled aristocrats.  Without fail.  Ever actually take a look around our nation?
 Now, for your opinion that America is raring for a Revolution, uhhh...  Howsabout read an opinion I posted in Huffington Post to an article about you in their Politics section. 


"Mr. Kokesh, I think you have seriously overestimated your influence, and underestimated the democratic process, rather through ignorance or because of your ego, it is hard to tell. You want to enact change in this country? Sure, voting is somewhat useless nowadays, but there are better, more intelligent ways of going about it. For someone who purports to be versed in the ways of, and ready for, war, you seem to have overlooked one of history's most knowledgeable men in that arena. Your lack of foresight is disheartening. As a person born in a nation that owes its existence to revolutionaries, your regressive tendencies and obvious lack of planning would make the founders shake their head in disbelief. We live in a decadent and decaying society, and there is little that anyone can do, armed yahoos included, to change that. All someone like you is going to do is enforce the idea that our rights need to be further restricted in order to prevent future saber-rattling. Thank you for making life harder for the rest of us.[golf clap]"

Re-read it.  I stick by every sentence in my evaluation of your actions.  You appear so irresponsible it almost makes me smile.  Almost.
 I honestly thought, until I heard of your assembling an open-carry march on DC(then saw your You-tube Vid espousing the same), that you were more rational than the average...  Well, being real, more rational than the average outraged, gun-toting redneck.  If you are not a redneck, fine.  Why are you acting like one?  
 I live in the reddest dot in my blue-leaning blue state, so I see this sort of behavior every day.  Impotent rage against the government, "How dayer Obawma!"  Ask the same people about the Patriot Act, and their canned response is "I'm uh Patriot."  And they are, almost without fail, tourists from Texas. 
 Whether you are this way or not, this is how you are appearing to the public: irrational and unintelligent. P.T. Barnum, dead for a century, knew that appearance is everything.  He was a scoundrel, and a consummate showman, allowing him to turn fraud into fortune.  The appearance you put forward makes you seem like a mad-man, and no one willingly follows insanity.
 I guess I may as well not rant.  So, I end with a question:  Adam, sir, when taking actual reality into account, not a rose- or azure-hued version of what many people "believe" is reality, what do you actually hope to achieve with your recent, apparently irrational, actions?


-Thank you,
TF Proleteriat, a member of the irrational, illiterate masses.

P.S. Really stopping because I have had one too many alcoholic beverages and I have lost my train of thought.  My youtube account is by TF Proleteriat as well.