Celebrities Should Shut Up

When I was younger, I was a Trekker.  This was Next Gen.  I'm not that old.  Anyway, one of my favorite characters was Lt. Reginald Barclay.  I was shy and bullied.  So was he.  I could relate to that character.  I rooted for him.  Was joyed when he succeeded because it gave me hope that maybe I could too.  I needed to feel hope.  And then Dwight Schultz, the actor who played dear Reg, had to open his stupid mouth.  I disagreed with every horrible thing I heard.  Now I can't watch TNG if he's in it.  I can't even watch The A Team (he was in that too) because he ruined even that.  Never meet your heroes.  You'll always be disappointed.

I'm of the opinion that if you're in the business of selling yourself, your talent or your goods, it's in your best interest to remain publicly neutral.  You want as many customers as possible.  Therefore you don't risk offending or alienating any segment of the people who make your livelihood possible.  Regardless of how strongly you feel.

It's cool if you're Republican, Dwight. Just be an idiot in private.  A lot of your fans aren't neo nazi conservatives and Trek was liberal fantasy at its best anyway.  Did you not know who was watching that show?  Do you really think being anti immigrant is cool when diversity is such a big part of Trek?  Should have kept your hate to yourself.  You broke a little girl's heart.

Celebrities make the faux pas of getting too political way too much.  You don't have to like abortion to know that a lot of your fans have a different opinion.  You may want to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it, but you have to understand that some of your fans are Mexican and some may even be immigrants.  By saying people who get abortions should be stoned or all immigrants are rapists, you're OFFENDING your fans.  You need your fans. You may be racist or hate Jews, but those are career killers.

Don't be a Scott Baio or a Mel Gibson or a Beyonce or a Colin Kaepernick or an Amy Schumer.   Don't be an asshole about your opinion because that doesn't validate your opinion.  It just makes you an asshole.

I'm sick of celebrities jumping on social justice bandwagons.  The ones who wait to see what the majority opinion is before picking a side.  I'm talking to the Beyonces out there.  Come on.  She didn't really care about black lives until it was popular to do so. Until being pro black could help her career.  Kaepernick only started a protest when his boss was threatening to cut him in order to save his failing career by making himself more appealing.  Now if they cut him for being a lousy player, he can cry racism and ruin the rest of the team.  Now they wouldn't dare let him go even if he does suck.  No actual caring about black lives.  Colin was securing his future.  Ted Nugent wasn't even relevant until the Tea Party.  His actions have all been geared towards getting back in the spotlight so he can be marketable again.  At least Mel Gibson was honest enough to be a consistent asshole.

But when celebrities promote causes, we as the public need to understand why they are doing it.  It's not usually because they really care.  It's just for show and that makes them all the more evil for doing it.   It's because the appearance of caring pleases us, the fans, and they want our admiration more than to do good in the world.  More importantly, they want our money and we only give our money to celebrities we like.  That's why celebrities overwhelmingly only support causes that are popular among the majority.  You rarely see a celebrity disagree with the majority and survive.

Which is why Scott Baio and Mel Gibson and Ted Nugent and that guy from Seinfeld no one remembers the name of are no longer around career wise.  They had opinions that were unacceptable to the majority and they were stupid enough to voice them in public.  They are now black listed.   What?  You didn't really think we had free speech, did you?

In my humble opinion, you should never trust a celebrity's opinion anyway.  It's usually a lie they were told to say by their publicist.  That's why celebrities have publicists.  To say all the right things to keep the public happy.  And you should never base your opinion of something on what other people think of it regardless of how famous they are.  Famous doesn't mean right.

I'm not trying to say celebrities aren't entitled to opinions.  All humans have opnions but unless you're famous specifically for politics, you shouldn't get involved.  Think of your fans and keep it classy.  All of your fans, Beyonce.  Even the white ones.  Because with the power of celebrity comes responsibility and your responsibility is to entertain.

Not to insult.  Not to use a cause to further your career.

Never meet your idols.  They're horrible people.

Don't preach, do

It's been my personal experience that those who thump their bibles the hardest are the least Christian people you will ever meet.  Even if they know hundreds of scriptures by heart.  Even if they don't have to use the index to find the books.  Even if they know all the hymns even the really old ones.  Even if they're actively involved in church. Even if they teach Sunday school.  Even if they tithe a lot of money.  Even if they're a deacon.

See, all those things are things people do for show.  To keep up appearances because appearing to be devout is very important to a person's standing within the church. It's still fake.

Real Christians, that is people who have a close relationship with God, don't care about appearances.  They know they won't always make it to church.  They know it's ok to skip bible study.  Sometimes you think bad thoughts.  Sometimes you think about sex.  Sometimes you cuss.  Sometimes you blaspheme.  You pay what you can in tithes even if 50 cents is all you have.

You're not perfect.  God knows that.  He accepts that.  He doesn't care.

If you tried your damndest to be a good person, that's all that matters.  Not your church attendance or how many scriptures you memorized.  Church is not a building. It's not the preacher.  It's not the ritual.  The church of the bible was our relationship with God.

You can have that anywhere.  You can talk to God anywhere.   You don't need a middle man sanctioned by other middle men to be your link to God.  God is within YOU.

And that's why I don't like organized religion.  Sure, it's good to remind you about God.  Sure, it's good to make friends. But God isn't religion.  You don't need a building or preacher to walk with God.

Unless you're a faker, putting on airs to please the holy men.  God sees right through that.

A real Christian doesn't need to reference Jesus in every conversation.  They don't need to say grace at every meal or only listen to gospel. They aren't required to have a certain political leaning.  They can be pro life and still be pro choice.  They don't have to agree with homosexuality but they'll still be nice to gay people.  They don't have to believe women are inferior to men or even that a woman should marry or have kids.  They understand sometimes sex happens outside of marriage and birth control is a good thing to have. Good Christians can be liberals.

Treat others as you would have done unto you.  That's called the Golden Rule for a reason.  You show respect and love to those around you. You take care of the world and the creatures on it that the good Lord made for you.

In other words, you don't preach it because you're too busy living it.

Media Lies

So three black kids beat up elderly white guy in Baltimore, it's robbery.  Four white kids beat up a black lady as a gang related retaliation, it's a racially motivated hate crime.  Black guy shoots random white kid, NOTHING STOLEN, it's REPORTED as a robbery.  White guy shoots black guy after an argument, it's REPORTED as a racially motivated hate crime.  Black cop shoots unarmed white guy walking naked down a street, it's justified.  White cop shoots black guy pointing a gun at them, it's a racially motivated hate crime.

Think you get my point.

There is NOT fair and unbiased news reporting.   There is ONLY propaganda designed to keep the ignorant masses too busy fighting eachother to notice the many ways the rich are fucking us over.  I KNOW THE TRUTH.

People do shitty things to other people.  Most of it is not racially motivated.  Cops who are assholes are assholes to everyone regardless of race and cops can be assholes regardless of their race.  TRUTH.

The rich are distracting us with race baiting and IT'S WORKING.

I read the comment sections.  The only people calling for racial equality are white liberals.  Everyone else is calling for the deaths of white people.  White people are being demonized just like the Jews were prior to the Holocaust.  Trust me, if you're white, there is a huge chance you're going to find yourself being gassed in a few years.  Get out of America while you still can.

Don't call me crazy. Read the comments.  Listen to the speeches at award shows.  Go to a Black Lives Matter rally and people watch.  They have CHANGED the definition of the word racism to absolve themselves of their own racism while falsely claiming only white people can be racist.  Buzzfeed's 24 Questions Why White People Suck, MTV Decoded, anything on BET, Kaepernick, every rap song that isn't about sex.  When white people can be accused of cultural appropriation for having nappy hair but when black people wear kilts, it's just "assimilation". White people are targets

And it's getting violent.  White people went to BLM rallies to SUPPORT the cause.  BLM attacked them.  The media ignored it.  Why wasn't it newsworthy?  Those videos are all over the place.  White people being attacked for being white.  A fucking white REPORTER was attacked while covering BLM.  Not deemed newsworthy.  Not even to the reporter's own network.  Why?

Why does the media ignore it when unarmed whites or Mexicans or Indigenous Peoples are killed by police?  Why do the crimes only matter when the victim is black?

Because black people are easy to manipulate.  I don't know why.  Maybe they are intellectually inferior after all.  I don't know, but they believe anything.
Rich people want poor people to be violent.  It makes it easier to justify martial law and their total take over/ enslavement of the poor.  Black people who follow BLM are fools regardless of IQ.  They're being played.

The media lies.  They push the narrative that the evil white man is out to get the poor oppressed black man when that hasn't been the case in decades.  When there is only one oppressor: people with money.  When there is only one people being oppressed: the poor.  Color has nothing to do with it.

Oh, but white people, don't think for a minute it stops with blacks.  The demonization of your race is for everyone to enjoy and other groups are eager to get revenge on you too.  When this country is majority Hispanic, you're protection is over.  Latinos, Asians, Arabs, Native Americans, everyone with darker skin taught from birth to hate you by the wealthy elite's propaganda machines are coming for you too.  They hate you too.  They've been lied to too.

Why is no one else seeing this?  Why is no one else getting this?

The rich want us divided so we're too busy fighting eachother to stand up to THEM.  So we don't fight THEM.

Knowing who the real enemy is is terrifying.  Not because the truth doesn't liberate your mind but because you're aware of just how little hope you have of changing other people's minds.  They watch the news, not the world.  Truth does nothing to change opinion.

Humanity lost a long time ago.

To everyone who knows truth, keep your head down.  Stay safe.

White people, run.

Vaccines work

I don't believe vaccines are inherently bad.  I do believe not getting vaccinated for certain illnesses greatly increases your odds of getting that illness.  Smallpox is a prime example of that.  Tuberculosis is another.  Both are horrible diseases and the biggest reason they're so rare today is thanks to vaccines.

So do I despise anti vaxxers?  Yes and no.

What causes autism? The science is so iffy.  Do vaccines cause autism?  I personally doubt it.  Could OVER vaccinating?  Well, that's kinda different.

It's no secret the west has an over medication problem.  We stubb our toes and we're downing antibiotics.   Because we overuse antibiotics, they're no longer effective.  So we have to keep making new ones that we overuse until they become ineffective and so on and so on.  The only thing we accomplish is raising the price and profits drive everything in the healthcare industry.

The pharmaceutical industry is all about profit.  They financially rape you with every pill they con you into thinking you need.  Vaccines are money makers so yes, they tell you you need vaccines you don't need.

Flu shots.  You may or may not get the flu.  Even if you do get it, your body can fight it off.  Your body was designed to.  Truthfully, you can get by without a flu shot but millions get one anyway. Half of them will get the flu anyway.

Measels, chicken pox, mumps.  Common childhood ailments that can cause nasty lasting problems if acquired by an infant.  I get why parents want to protect their kids from those, but tetanus?  What are the odds your kids are going to stab themselves with something rusty?  And if they have that good a chance of getting tetanus, you're bad parents.

We can't even legally visit some countries without getting mandatory vaccines.  Why?  The people living there do fine.  I don't think you're giving the human immune system enough credit when you vaccinate for dysentery.

Zika vaccines. West Nile vaccines.  Ebola vaccines.  Whatever.  Unless you're in an area where a disease is actively killing people, you don't need a vaccine for it but someone sneezed so you need a shot.

And do you even realize what a vaccine consists of?  It's a dead strain of the virus you're trying to prevent being injected into your body in the hope that your immune system will create antibodies to fight off the infection you just gave yourself.  If your immune system can do that with a vaccine, it can do that with the actual virus.

Which is why half the people getting flu shots this year will still get the flu.  It's why some kids will still get chicken pox despite being vaccinated.

And freedom to choose whether or not you vaccinate is nothing to take lightly.  Once that's gone, the government can inject you with whatever they want.  Forced sterilization anyone?  Never take freedom for granted.

The point I'm trying to make is that though vaccines have their benefits, we need to be more careful about how we use them.  Like any medicine, they can be misused.  Our immune systems are wonderful things and I encourage everyone to try to heal illnesses naturally before reaching for the pills.  It's better for you.

As to whether or not vaccines cause autism, one or two vaccines are not going to screw up your kid in my opinion.  Five or six might.  Either way, vaccines shouldn't be mandatory anymore than aspirin should be.

Because no one should be making your heath decision or your child's except you.

Addiction isn't mental

I hate it when people make light of mental disorders.  They're not jokes to the people going through them.  All the poor people battling depression can't just cheer up.  All the vets with PTSD or the bipolar folks can't just take their happy pills and live fully productive lives.  It's hard and it will always be hard for them so stop making light of it.

Which brings me to my rant.  Why the fuck do you not think depression is a serious mental illness but you think drug addiction is?  Fuck you.

How dare you make fun of mental illness by using it to excuse your immorality.  Fuck you again.

No.  You don't eat junk food because you can't help it.  You eat junk food because you're too lazy to put in the work it takes to make a healthy meal.  Cuz it does take work and it does mean spending a little extra money and you just don't want to do either. Truth.  You aren't addicted to sugar because you were born that way.  You're addicted to sugar because you won't stop eating it.  You're not fat because you have a disease. Your fat because you don't want to exercise. There's accepting your body then there's ignorance and blaming over eating on a mental disorder is ignorant and a bitch slap to every person suffering from a legitimate illness.

And doing drugs or drinking too much alcohol or gambling are not mental disorders either.  They're moral failings.  People with mental illness don't get a say in the matter.  They don't get a choice.  You had a choice not to take up smoking (because tobacco is a drug) or pick up that crack pipe or get drunk or whatever.  You made the wrong choice but YOU STILL MADE THE CHOICE.

You didn't START doing drugs because you're defective and couldn't help yourself.  You started because you were curious, because you thought it was cool or because your friends did it.  I don't care why you started, YOU MADE THE CHOICE.  And you didn't like those things because you're defective.  You liked them because they're fun.  Because drugs and alcohol make you feel good and gambling is exciting and it's like that for everyone.  Humans like fun things.  They like feeling good.  The only difference between you and everyone else is that they're smarter than you.  They get their feel good vibes from safer places.

You MADE the decision to do drugs or drink too much or play craps or be a slut or whatever.  Because you lacked the common sense and moral values to say no.  Not just after the first taste but before you even did it.

Because drugs and alcohol are designed to get you hooked the first time you use them.  You would have been fine if you never touched them even the once.  And gambling or promiscuity?  No one's addicted to gambling or sex. They like the danger.  You get the same high standing in traffic on the freeway as you do playing 21 or being a whore.  If you're addicted to danger, it's not because you're addicted to the method you choose to feel danger through.  It's because you have a REAL mental disorder.

Probably that depression thing you make fun of.

But don't tell me addiction is a mental disorder.  You can stop an addiction. You can get counseling. You can go through rehab.  You can never do drugs in the first place.  And sex addiction is just a flimsy excuse to get some action.  Point is, you can STOP being an addict.  You can't stop being clinically depressed or bipolar or having PTSD.  You can CHOOSE whether or not you go to a casino or eat another cupcake.  You don't get to choose whether or not you're traumatized by war.

Stop making light of REAL mental health issues by making up fake ones to justify your own stupidity.