If you've read a lot of the posts, I've gathered much material and inspiration from my friend G on facebook. But disaster has struck and G as unfriended me! What will I do to keep this blog going?
I'm sure you are asking, "what caused that?" It is true that G and I have tangled a number of times and managed to survive. But it seemed I stepped over the / a line with this last one.
"The details!" I hear you ask. Well, of course! That's where all the goodies are.
And speaking of details, which I'll get to in a minute, why don't my liberal friends every supply then? "I want some industries to be socialized!" "Which ones?" Never an answer! "There is so much wrong with society; we need change!" "What would you change?" No answer.
Ok,we have the sit in in the house with a bunch of guns owners protesting how easily they got their guns and how they want to make it more difficult for the rest of us.
There was some photoshop memes going around to make fun of this. One had pacifiers in all the mouths of the Reps.
It seems one of the guys, John Lewis, had walked across some bridge in the 60s on Bloody Sunday, got beaten to "an inch of his life" (what I read, it was a cracked skull, serious, but not too serious that he went on TV before going to the hospital) and therefore John should never be made fun of. I think those were the rules, but again, details were lacking a bit.
So suggested that G's logic was a bit soft and he unfriended me for not feeling ashamed at making fun of John's actions. And proclaimed that his logic was solid and spot on.
Oh, really? Let's look at G's law for a moment. I'll grant that John was a civil rights hero and did everything that G said he did and that for these actions G demands that for some lengthy time that we never make fun of this guy.
I, of course, have some questions!
Will this last for a life time? Or would 50 years be enough?
Is the contrapositive true? In other words if this guy has done bad things at 21 would he never recover from that?
Is shaming and unfriending folks the proper punishment? Maybe public stoning would be more effective.
Since he is no longer a civil rights protestor, but basically the opposite, will he get off the "never make fun of" list? Or as long as the list manager doesn't like the second amendment too, John stays on?
Since the guy was protesting the exercise of civil rights now, it would suggest that he has changed his view on various articles of the constitution and are we allowed to reassess?
I'd also like to know who is on the list (is it secret? How do you get on or off? List additions, corrections and edits are all the rage these days!), and who maintains the list? Is the list biased? What other lists are there? Can I start my own?
So I didn't have the proper amount of shame and while some pols seems to be fair game, this guy and some others seem to be off limits per G. I can live with that.
I'm sorry to lose G as he did cause me to look stuff up and think about stuff. I still think he logic is bad; perhaps "Frequently wrong, but never in doubt" is a more common condition than I think it is.
Farewell G, may your convictions never falter!
