Stupid political humor
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muck_a_luckI let myself get riled up about a stupid joke thing making the rounds of my FaceBook circle. I spent enough time responding to it that I thought I would copy the content here, behind the cut. Each numbered item is a direct response to the conservative joke version of the same item.
Really. I used to have a sense of humor. I did.
Mostly, I think people who post that kind of shit should consider the venue. Put it where people who agree with you can read it and have a good laugh at the inside jokes. Don't broadcast it to other people who have legitimate policy positions that are not yours and who may therefore see your humor as less humorous, more frontal attack.
Anyway, have fun.
1. I voted Democrat because I believe the government has a role to play in certain social issues that cannot be easily addressed soley by the "free market," such as providing health care to all who need it and providing a social safety net to those who are most vulnerable.
2. I voted Democrat because I believe in transparency in government and not hiding behind national security arguments in response to every FOIA request.
3. I voted Democrat because sometimes war is not the best way to conduct foreign policy.
4. I voted Democrat because I have concerns about finding ways to conserve our natural resources and to reduce our reliance on carbon based energy, particularly our dependence on foreign oil that keeps us embroiled in negative ways in difficult regions where we don't belong. We need to find a way to support energy consumption that is renewable and non-polluting. If cap and trade is the path to that, then no matter what turns out to be the final judgement on greenhouse gases, a shift in energy use and production will still be a very, very good thing.
5. a. I voted Democrat because I believe that my body is my body, and medical decisions I make about my body should not be dictated by people who are not me. I'm sorry if your priorities are different than mine, but that does not negate my priorities or make them something other people should mock. There should be respect for this position. It is not the position of "slaughter of babies," as people like to couch it. It is about control of one's own very self, control that is especially complicated for fertile women, and until the anti-abortion individual shows acknowledgement of that aspect of the problem, there is no way I will engage that person in a debate.
b. Also, I would support the death penalty if I believed the American court system could apply justice fairly. But as has been shown over and over, our judicial system has a very difficult time with evidence in capital cases, and therefore I do not support the application of the death penalty because the system for arriving at the sentence is much too flawed for my level of comfort.
6. I voted Democrat because I believe that business should give back to the community in a reasonable way and profit should not be at the expense of society.
7. I voted Democrat because I believe that the Constitution should be applied fairly, and the religions of individuals should be checked at the door. I voted Democrat because I believe in civil liberties. I voted Democrat because I want everybody to keep their religion the hell off my lawn.
8. I voted Democrat because I believe in a reasonable immigration policy, not knee-jerk anti-foreign sentiment. Though we'll see what I get out of ANY party on that one.
9. I voted Democrat because I believe in gun control. I freely admit that this view is strongly colored by the fact that I live in a heavily urban area where the gun culture is mostly about being a criminal and/or using a gun irresponsibly in densly populated areas. Frankly, I don't want the people in the row houses on either side of me to shoot me through the wall, or the enraged driver in front of me to shoot me in the face over a fender bender because of road rage. I freely admit that there are more rural cultures where guns are much more about hunting and/or legitimate self-defense concerns in isolated areas. Maybe we should all let individual localities set their own appropriate gun control laws and mind our own damned business.
10. I voted Democrat because believe in the important social benefits of marriage as an institution and don't see any very good civic reason to exclude gay people from it. Not to mention that I just think it's fair. Nobody is talking about bestiality and there would never be a slippery slope to that anyway, let's TRY to be reasonable.
11. I voted Democrat because I believe that business should give back to the community in a reasonable way and profit should not be at the expense of society.
12. I freely admit that after I decided I could never vote for John McCain in 5 million years, I realized that I probably am a Yellow Dog Democrat, unable to vote for any Republican. But that is much more about how even when there was a Repubilcan that I *really wanted* to give a chance, as soon as he opened his mouth on social issues I wanted to PUNCH HM IN THE FACE. Even though I agreed with him on most foreign policy and some financial issues. The violence of that response to him startled even me, and suggests that I may be too far to the left to ever come to a compromise with any Republican candidate. But legitimated differences on policy exist. If having a difference of opinion in America means my face is up my ass, well... *shrugs*
Really. I used to have a sense of humor. I did.
Mostly, I think people who post that kind of shit should consider the venue. Put it where people who agree with you can read it and have a good laugh at the inside jokes. Don't broadcast it to other people who have legitimate policy positions that are not yours and who may therefore see your humor as less humorous, more frontal attack.
Anyway, have fun.
1. I voted Democrat because I believe the government has a role to play in certain social issues that cannot be easily addressed soley by the "free market," such as providing health care to all who need it and providing a social safety net to those who are most vulnerable.
2. I voted Democrat because I believe in transparency in government and not hiding behind national security arguments in response to every FOIA request.
3. I voted Democrat because sometimes war is not the best way to conduct foreign policy.
4. I voted Democrat because I have concerns about finding ways to conserve our natural resources and to reduce our reliance on carbon based energy, particularly our dependence on foreign oil that keeps us embroiled in negative ways in difficult regions where we don't belong. We need to find a way to support energy consumption that is renewable and non-polluting. If cap and trade is the path to that, then no matter what turns out to be the final judgement on greenhouse gases, a shift in energy use and production will still be a very, very good thing.
5. a. I voted Democrat because I believe that my body is my body, and medical decisions I make about my body should not be dictated by people who are not me. I'm sorry if your priorities are different than mine, but that does not negate my priorities or make them something other people should mock. There should be respect for this position. It is not the position of "slaughter of babies," as people like to couch it. It is about control of one's own very self, control that is especially complicated for fertile women, and until the anti-abortion individual shows acknowledgement of that aspect of the problem, there is no way I will engage that person in a debate.
b. Also, I would support the death penalty if I believed the American court system could apply justice fairly. But as has been shown over and over, our judicial system has a very difficult time with evidence in capital cases, and therefore I do not support the application of the death penalty because the system for arriving at the sentence is much too flawed for my level of comfort.
6. I voted Democrat because I believe that business should give back to the community in a reasonable way and profit should not be at the expense of society.
7. I voted Democrat because I believe that the Constitution should be applied fairly, and the religions of individuals should be checked at the door. I voted Democrat because I believe in civil liberties. I voted Democrat because I want everybody to keep their religion the hell off my lawn.
8. I voted Democrat because I believe in a reasonable immigration policy, not knee-jerk anti-foreign sentiment. Though we'll see what I get out of ANY party on that one.
9. I voted Democrat because I believe in gun control. I freely admit that this view is strongly colored by the fact that I live in a heavily urban area where the gun culture is mostly about being a criminal and/or using a gun irresponsibly in densly populated areas. Frankly, I don't want the people in the row houses on either side of me to shoot me through the wall, or the enraged driver in front of me to shoot me in the face over a fender bender because of road rage. I freely admit that there are more rural cultures where guns are much more about hunting and/or legitimate self-defense concerns in isolated areas. Maybe we should all let individual localities set their own appropriate gun control laws and mind our own damned business.
10. I voted Democrat because believe in the important social benefits of marriage as an institution and don't see any very good civic reason to exclude gay people from it. Not to mention that I just think it's fair. Nobody is talking about bestiality and there would never be a slippery slope to that anyway, let's TRY to be reasonable.
11. I voted Democrat because I believe that business should give back to the community in a reasonable way and profit should not be at the expense of society.
12. I freely admit that after I decided I could never vote for John McCain in 5 million years, I realized that I probably am a Yellow Dog Democrat, unable to vote for any Republican. But that is much more about how even when there was a Repubilcan that I *really wanted* to give a chance, as soon as he opened his mouth on social issues I wanted to PUNCH HM IN THE FACE. Even though I agreed with him on most foreign policy and some financial issues. The violence of that response to him startled even me, and suggests that I may be too far to the left to ever come to a compromise with any Republican candidate. But legitimated differences on policy exist. If having a difference of opinion in America means my face is up my ass, well... *shrugs*
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Date: 2009-06-25 01:56 am (UTC)My dad used to send me emails that would make me absolutely livid with the way things were presented, and then tell me they were "just jokes." Bleh. Ech. Ugh. SO not funny. I mean, I would never encourage him to read an Al Franken book or go to a Michael Moore movie, even if I agree with them, because they preach/joke to the converted in ways that aren't accessible to people on the other side (or sometimes even the middle). By the same token, I never, ever, ever want to hear crap from Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, and their ilk, again.