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3/29/2017

Nationalism & You

   3/29/2017      

Unpopular opinion: American nationalism is annoying.

Before I get called a member of ISIS or *gasp* a communist, hear me out.

The United States is flawed. Just like every other country, despite what hanging around on Polandball will tell you. I mean, Liechtenstein made a friend in 1866, but they didn't have women's suffrage until 1984.

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I think that I'm getting more fed up with American nationalism the more I learn about other countries and learn about politics. Look, America has a lot of cool things about it. Like the fact I can, in less than a mile, reach a McDonald's. Also, freedom of religion, so I can practice my faith on this blog as a good Christian woman should.

I also think that the entire platform Trump ran his campaign on irritated me, too.

Look, I'm all for you using your American flag emoji on July 4th and every other day you please. However, when you take every critique of your country to heart and tell people on Facebook to go move to the middle east, that is when I have a problem.

America's court system? Broken. We care more about the image of, "Bad guys need prison where they can get raped lol" than "How do we make these people contribute to society in positive ways". America's school system? Broken. Why can't we teach other languages from an early age to help out these kids? It would provide more jobs and more opportunities for our future. Why does college cost so much? Dunno, but at least we are America! America's infant mortality rate, considering it's a first world country? Embarrassing.

I like to think of America as a small business:
Some people need to believe in it to get it off the ground. However, refusing to admit your flaws in business is going to fuck up your business.

I am not saying that we should run America like a business. 

 I mean, plenty of people wanted that when they voted for Trump. With this in mind, they also believed he would bring back coal jobs when oil is cheaper. Half of being an American is finding where you could get something cheaper! Delicious, juicy capitalism tells us to maximize profits, so labor needs to be cheap.

Whatever. People thought Trump was going to fix the divided America. I don't know why they thought that, but I also don't understand why we allow Peppa Pig to exist. So there's that, I guess.

You should be allowed to critique systems in your country without being told that you're communist scum and need to go live in the middle east. How are we supposed to allow change when a good portion of the population meet it with, "COMMIE SCUM HOW DARE YOU GO AGAINST WHAT THE ARMED FORCES OF THIS COUNTRY HAVE ALLOWED THEY DID NOT DIE FOR THIS YOU ARE A FEMNAZI MOO-SLUM"? Just asking for a friend. Mostly so I can make accurate Polandball strips for my OC, DevamgunWW2BestcountryTrumpPence.

I blame what we're taught in schools. I'll give you my whole knowledge of history prior to reading historical webcomics here:


  1. America used to be a colony.
  2. America's founding fathers were rebellious motherfuckers who wanted to make America all official. 
  3. Britains = bad
  4. What are other countries lmao
  5. WW1 was started by the assassination of Archeduke Franz Ferdinand. I don't even think we learned about the Austro-Hungary Empire, looking back now. 
  6. Germany got involved, so eventually they had to pay war reparations to France.
  7. These war reparations led to the rise of Adolf Hitler, a bad man who hated Jews
  8. The Holocaust started WW2, apparently 
  9. The Allies, which contained AMERICA, singlehandedly destroyed the Axis Powers. 
  10. We talked about the nuclear bombs we dropped on Japan for a second, but those bombs were justified because Japan was bad.
  11. The Cold War? What was that?
  12. Uh, America never lost a war. I mean, what is Vietnam, anyways? It sounds like a word you would cough up while choking on orange juice. 
  13. Then the Civil Rights Movement happened. Martin Luther King Jr singlehandedly gave every black the right to be free.
  14. Then we elected Obama, who is black, so we are no longer racists. 
No mention of any of the previous conflict between European countries. I remember watching APH and wondering why France and Britain were always fighting. Turns out they have had a lot of conflict in history. Oh, I didn't learn about that. Why? Because we're AMERICA!

My junior year of high school, I took a government class because I needed it to graduate and I really needed to graduate so I didn't end up like one of those kids from your high school who rap about how their dad left them or whatever. We already had one of those. He deleted me off Facebook for saying Trump probably wasn't a good person to give your vote to. Anyways, my government teacher was big on this image of America. We went over the constitution and the Bill of Rights. He spent a month on the right to own a gun, while barely going over any other rights. 

It would have been interesting if he could have possibly incorporated why we had that right, why he thought it was important, and so on. I got to say, I'm not exactly on either side of the gun debate until I read up more about it. I want to see statistics to really solidify my opinions, and so far I've seen things that make me have mixed opinions. But no, he told us that guns were America. 

Whatever, I'm going to shut up before I get attacked over that. 

It's just concerning to listen to people who are blind to their patriotism and hatred of all things different, and realize that these people with no knowledge outside of their tiny little world and those terrifying moo-slums are changing the country with their vote.  

I like how these people claim that this is the best country in the world until something happens that they don't like. Like when same-sex marriage became legal nationwide. Then it was Obama's fault for ruining the country. 

Loyalty and no room to critique the country until the luh-barrels do something you don't like.

  

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3/25/2017

Diary Post #165

   3/25/2017      

So I don't like to talk about my life too much on here. I prefer to bottle up a lot of my emotions, and let them age like a fine wine before anyone can take a sip of them. That's why I've avoided counseling all these years. Oh, and also the fact counseling is expensive. And the fact I just deal better by not talking about things. 

But guess what? 2017 has been a rough year. I mean, I'm laughing at the failure of El Presidente Trump, which makes me a horrible American but a hilarious person to be friends with on Facebook.

First, my grandmother passed away. She was in a lot of pain ever since I was born. She had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which is a disease I can't remember the exact words, let alone spell without the help of ol' trusty Google. 

I don't know why I didn't see it coming. I just assumed that she was always going to be there, you know? She had been sick all those years, so I just assumed that she was going to live the normal age of elderly grandmas everywhere. But nope. She got so skinny, so sick, and so bad so fast. 

And I watched it, thinking it was normal.

She never got to see my high school graduation. She never got to see the world. She had to stay at home all those years. 

And you know what? It sucked, but I never really realized it until she passed away. 

Sure, I had other people in my family pass away. Pets, too. But none of them were as influential as my grandmother. 

She raised me. She walked me to the school bus every single day, even though she had this illness that made her struggle every single day. She let me make her entire house a mess without even thinking twice. She even roasted marshmellows for me. 

But now she's gone, and while one part of me is happy that she no longer has to suffer to breathe, there's a chunk of me that feels empty and doesn't know quite how to react. 

My dog had to be euthanized a couple of days ago, too. She had a tumor in her throat that couldn't be fixed. She was vomiting up everything she was eating. I never got to say goodbye to her or my grandmother. 

We used to live in the middle of nowhere, but in the last few years of her life, we moved near a park. She got to go for a real walk in the last few years of her life. She loved it. She jumped around like a rabbit, and barked like she was a tiny puppy again. All of her energy came back from when she was young. I swear you could see a smile on her face. 

I didn't cry when I found out. But I'm crying now. 





I don't really think about death much, but this year is changing that. 

  

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3/11/2017

Worst Characters Ever: Debbie Gallagher Edition

   3/11/2017      

Teen rapist, teen annoyance, and teen mom all in one!


(Note: please don't be a shithead and send these blog posts to any of the actors/actresses/writers/producers because they're just a little bit of fun here and there. I get it, we want to blend that line of the fictional and real world but people are sensitive.)

I was in happy tears when those last few seconds of season 7 showed Debbie learning welding. But then I learned that we still have at least one more season and that wasn't The Ending. It was supposed to be The Ending in case they didn't get The Renewal, but they got The Renewal, so now more shit is going to go down next year. Which means Debbie still has time to be even more of a fuckup.

Whatever. Bitter blog post can continue.

My friend Nikole started watching Shameless and my warning was, "You're going to want to punch Debbie." Guess what? She's on season 6 and she wants to punch Debbie.

I'm not saying Debbie is badly written. In fact, I think how she turned out fits in line with how she was as a child. She's probably one of the better written characters in the show! But god, does she make me want to rip out my uterus.

It all started when Debbie started going through this thing called puberty. Before that, she was just there. She could save the Gallaghers when Fiona couldn't. She had a lot of potential, really. But to keep the story going for her, they had to funnel her into a trap. I think the moral of the story is that if you're in poverty, it's extremely unlikely for you to get out.

But god damn. Let's just think of what Debbie has done!

1. Debbie raped a guy. Let us not downplay that. She raped an innocent, awkward pizza guy because she wanted to pop her cherry. 
2. She didn't think of the consequences of having a child in her circumstances. 
3. She didn't think how her romantic partner felt about having a child- and even worse, she just didn't care.
4. She forced a young boy into fathering a child he didn't want!
5. She brought a child into the world without thinking of anything past, "I want to be a mommmmmmm!" 
6. Very clearly doesn't understand that actions have consequences. 

Trying to manipulate your sister into having a child so you can raise your kids together is something that I hate her for. No, your sister doesn't need to keep her child! She struggles to feed the kids she already has! So why on earth did you think it was okay to purposefully get knocked up to add to the number of mouths she has? Why not just bring a stray puppy home? They're cuter than a fucking baby and cheaper. 

It's like I'm watching my kid. Except I'm a lesbian. And I'm childfree. And my last name isn't Gallagher. And there's a screen between us. But I just want to flick her in the forehead and tell her to have some fuckin' sense! I can't be the only one!
Sometimes, my roommate tries to be rational with me about fictional characters. She's tried to get me to understand why Jace from Shadowhunters is such a whiny, intolerable fuckface, but I still see him as a whiny, intolerable fuckface. But I don't think she's ever tried to get me to understand Debbie Gallagher. 

And you know what? Very, very few people are trying to get people to 'understand' Debbie Gallagher. If she was a male and did this shit, there's no way in hell anyone would try to excuse this.

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