⛧ First Church of Hypocrisy, Blasphemy, and Self-Righteousness ⛧

Just like many Christians, the majority of vegans desperately want to believe they're being oppressed, they want to force other people to eat their stupid cult diet, they condemn and bully people who don't belong to their stupid cult, they pop up constantly being annoying as frick with their "holier than thou" attitude, you can't reason with them because they don't give a fig about facts (and so having any kind of disagreement with them is like playing chess with a pigeon), and also they're all massive hypocrites (pretending they care about animals and the environment and then turning around and eating vegan products that are worse for both than meat, such as arugala, agave, and avocados; also they don't care about human suffering from the exploitation of workers or the myriad people murdered for the avocado cartels in Mexico. Oh and there's everything PETA gets up to).

Honestly the only difference is they don't have any actual power yet, unlike the Christians. (And I hope to Satan it stays that way!) But on a purely personal level they're far more annoying because they infest my life almost more than Christians do. If Christians are lice, vegans are bedbugs.

I know I keep going on about it, but I genuinely have no idea how Stephen King is so popular as an author, when every book of his I've tried to read puts me to sleep before I even get through a single chapter. He goes on for pages and pages describing a single scene. It just reads like some random guy writing down everything he sees in his room for his journal because he's bored and it's something to do. And this man is somehow a consistent best seller for many decades? How???

And then I see movies and miniseries and so on based on his books, which are genuinely terrifying, and I can't help but think "Did we read the same book?" Because Stephen King's writing is about as terrifying as a bologna sandwich, and about as engaging as plain oatmeal. So like, where are they getting all this scary stuff from? It sure as heck ain't from his books, I can tell you that. I've been more scared of homework than I've ever been of anything written by Stephen King.

Guy can't even spell the name Steven correctly.

It is impossible, in this format, to express the depths of my furious ⛧ ☠ ⛧ ⛥ ☠ FUCKING ψ ψ ☠ ⛧ ψ abhorrence for Walgreens right now. It used to be a simple matter of logging into my account online and refilling the prescriptions. Neat, simple, tidy. Then that started to more frequently be down for some fucking reason. Annoying, but I could just use the guest refill thing. (Why one works and the other doesn't, I have NO fucking idea.)

Oh, but it gets worse. Because now, pretty much every time I want to refill a prescription, the fucking login system is ALWAYS fucking not working, now. Which, fine, okay, use the guest refill... which manages one RX and not the other. Okay, so we'll call them. Get a robot, of fucking course. No matter, go through the hoops. It understood me, got the right RX, and it--FUCK! It didn't seem to hear my confirmation, it's trying to call a human. I want to BREAK A FUCKING TABLE over someone's head, but I hold it in.

I hang up, try again. Oh what's that? It heard me perfectly well the last time, and STILL put me on hold to a human? We-heh-HELL, fuck me in every single one of my orifaces with a jackhammer and call me She-Hulk!

...all of which would still be just barely tolerable, if not for the fact that the hold music gets interrupted every ⛧ ☠ ⛧ ⛥ ☠ FIFTEEN MOTHER-FUCKING SECONDS ψ ψ ☠ ⛧ ψ for the FUCKING GODDAMNED PIECE OF SHIT COMPUTER VOICE TO TELL ME "wE aPoloGIZe foR THe waiT, bUT oUr staff Is aNSwering OTHer CalLs" like YOU FUCKING GODDAMNED LIAR FIRST OF ALL and SECONDLY, HOLD MUSIC IS TOLERABLE. YOU FUCKING REPEATING THE SAME FUCKING WORDS TO ME EVERY 15 OR 20 SECONDS IS JUST

⛧ ☠ ⛧ ⛥ ☠ FUCK!!! ψ ψ ☠ ⛧ ψ

I want to

⛧ ☠ ⛧ ⛥ ☠ FUCKING MURDER ψ ψ ☠ ⛧ ψ

whatever

⛧ ☠ ⛧ ⛥ ☠ FUCKING IDIOT ψ ψ ☠ ⛧ ψ

thought that was a good idea!

SERIOUSLY! THAT SHIT IS INFURIATING ENOUGH TO MAKE ME WANT TO DOUSE THEIR ENTIRE CALL CENTER IN NAPALM AND LIGHT IT ON FUCKING FIRE!!! WITH EVERYONE TRAPPED INSIDE!!!

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(furious, wind-down sigh)

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(Kalm)

I have what is, by necessity, something that looks very much like a high level of patience about certain things, at least in public. But this kind of nonsense? No matter how much I try to hold it in, this kind of UTTER FUCKING BULLSHIT puts me into a TOWERING RAGE MELTDOWN and it takes EVERY FUCKING OUNCE OF SELF CONTROL to not throw my phone against the fucking wall and scream myself hoarse and pound the walls with my fists until they FUCKING BLEED!!!

Which is why I never do that kind of shit while out and about, like some people do, because I have no interest in attracting the sort of attention that has people calling cops.

In conclusion,



PS = Turns out my doctor had sent in a refill for me already without my knowledge or consent, which according to the person on the other end is common, but it's the first time it's ever fucking happened to me, so I say FUCK THE DOCTOR TOO.

A long, long time ago
I can still remember that earworm song which is so vile
And I knew if I had my chance
That I'd take Don McLean to France
And drag him down the road a mile.

"American Pie," it makes me shiver
Wish I could toss it in a river
Bad news on the doorstep
Don McLean didn't catch strep

I can't remember if I cried
When I heard this agony on my first ride
But something deep inside me died
The day this shit soooong arrived.

So die, die, "American Pie"!
Drive your chevy off a levee once the tide has gone high!
Let them good old boys drown in whiskey and rye,
And may this be the day that you die!

( It keeps going )

If I were benevolent dictator of the world, vaccinations would be mandatory for everyone who didn't have a legitimate medical reason not to. Show us the proof you'd die or get sick from the vaccine or else if you refuse the vaccination, you get fined. First fine starts at $100. Multiplies by ten every time you refuse. But if you still refuse after the one million dollar fine, we'll send people into your house to drag you to the clinic to get your vaccination.

(Don't worry, they won't be armed. But if you attack them you get thrown in jail and given the vaccination while in jail.)

(Don't worry, my regime's jails will be nice places. And the law will be that if you manage to escape from prison, you'll be allowed to remain free. Unless of course you murdered multiple people.)

So... starting from a post on Reddit about replacing gendered words with non gendered words, we got to a good long post about why landlords are parasites:

KraZwhale: how is landlord sexist?

burningonyx: Probably because lords are always men. Anyway, a better term for landlord is "parasite."

forced_metaphor: Uh Jesus. Fucking sue me for renting out a room in my house. Wtf. You don't have to live there.

burningonyx:

I'm not talking about people who sublet. I'm talking about people who buy up houses by the dozens and then drive up the property values so that poor people can no longer afford to buy houses and then extort money from those poor people and paint themselves as providing a service when what they're really doing is making it impossible for anyone other than the insanely rich to buy a house. I'm talking also about corporations that have hundreds of houses and apartment buildings, charging ridiculous amounts of money and making billions in profits by preying on the poor while doing basically nothing in exchange. Landlords also pressure banks into rejecting home loans for poor people. I could afford a $300 a month mortgage on a house, but because of my income I'd never be seriously considered for a home loan, and even if I was, the landlords have all driven the cost of the available houses up to 10 times what they should be.

Furthermore, let's look at cost versus what you get for it. Landlords would have us believe that my apartment, which is a combined kitchen/living room, a bedroom, and a single bathroom, should cost $700 or more a month to rent. That's $8400 a year... for what? A place to sleep and eat every day? If it was rent to own, I could kinda see it. But a place to eat and sleep is literally all I get for it, my landlord doesn't even fucking do maintenance. Oh, they have maintenance guys, but they don't do any actual work. I had to get my toilet seat replaced because these assholes bought the single most shittily made toilet seat in the world. A week after they replaced it, it broke again. So I just gave up because clearly they're more concerned about their 99% profit margin than in doing anything useful.

And even if they were great at maintenance, and didn't cheap out, how would that be worth $700 a month? For $700 a month I could buy a new computer every month. If I saved $8400 in a year, I could buy a car.
But think: $8400 a year, from a single apartment. This building has 20 apartments in it. That's $168,000 a year. I could buy an entire house for what these assholes make in a year by charging people for the right to exist. And these assholes own like 10 properties, just in my area alone. I know at least one of those has like 50 apartments in it. And all of these properties are actually low income apartments, so I'm paying $200 a month for this apartment, and they get a government subsidy for the rest of that $700 a month. These people are making millions of dollars every year off people who can barely afford to eat even with their rent being largely subsidized. And they're charging us the maximum amount they're allowed to charge. They could be charging less and still getting their full $700 per apartment, but they're like "Nah, we're going to charge as much as we're legally allowed to charge. So what if a difference of $20 means the difference between running out of food before the end of the month?" Hence why I call landlords parasites. Because they do nothing but suck the money and life out of us who live in poverty.

But oh, sure, go ahead and think that I give a single solitary fuck about you subletting a single room. As if that's even remotely close to the same thing.

Basically, you're not a landlord. You're a serf with delusions of grandeur.

Burningonyx:

Oh and, not only do I get nothing out of my part of the $8400 a year I make for these assholes, I can be evicted at any time for not paying rent one month. I've been living under this company's management for like 10 years. So basically, I can sink thousands of dollars into fattening up these parasitic worms over the last decade and all that pure profit I made them means nothing to them if I miss a single payment. Miss a single payment, boom, I'm out on the streets. They're making thousands of dollars from just me existing in a space they've squatted down on, and I don't even get the benefit of some flexibility if something happens to fuck up my income unexpectedly.

Don't start in about the laws around evictions. That's one parasite keeping another parasite in check. Landlords wouldn't hesitate to throw me out on my ass the day after a missed rent check if they could get away with it.

Yes, the government are also parasites. But that's a whole other rant.

There are two kinds of people in the world who make the world a worse place by making themselves known. The lesser of these two types are the people who don't know what they're talking about on certain subjects. These are people who might be knowledgeable in some areas, but have this idea that their opinions on shit they know nothing about are valid because they know shit about other stuff. There are some really good examples of this sort of person, but one that comes to mind for me as someone who was like this when he was alive was Carl Sagan. Yes, he was a very knowledgeable scientist, but he was also one of the worst sorts of scientists in the world because he treated science like a religion. It's one thing to not believe in stuff that you can't observe for yourself, like god or ESP or whatever, but Carl Sagan wasn't satisfied with that. No, for Carl Sagan, his take was that if he didn't believe in it, than neither should anybody else, and he went on a decades long crusade trying to disprove magick and ghosts and stuff, without ever once stopping to remember that conscious minds alter reality and so maybe the reason he wasn't finding evidence of these things was because he actively didn't believe in them, and so his disbelief was warding off the very thing he claimed to be looking for.

Like, if he'd at least had the neutral scientific "I neither believe nor disbelieve" take you're SUPPOSED to have with science, then I wouldn't be so angry about it. But he didn't. He wasn't simply a non-believer, he was an anti-believer. You see the same thing in so called atheists these days, many of which are not simply disbelievers but anti-believers. These are the people so opposed to the idea of any kind of god that if they ever found proof of it, they would either not believe the proof or they would switch tactics and try to murder god. Carl Sagan was the same way with ESP. If he had managed to find proof of ESP, he would either have not believed it, or he would have gone on a campaign to exterminate anyone on Earth who was capable of any kind of ESP.

So Carl Sagan was type one, who knew what he was talking about with science but should have shut the fuck up forever about ESP and ghosts and so on. And as bad as that type is, it's nowhere near as bad as the second type of person: the person who, for one reason or another, has proven that nobody should ever listen to anything they have to say about anything, ever.

Trump is an obvious example of that. He lies so much that if he said "the sun rises in the east," I'd have to go out and make sure the sun hadn't changed directions.

But the example I want to bring to light is J. K. Rowling. She is an anti-semite, a transphobe, a racist, and generally a horrible human being who uses her position of wealth and power to ruin the lives of vulnerable people. She is of the second type of person, who knows nothing about anything, her opinion about virtually anything is utterly worthless, and she needs to either straight up die or just shut the fuck up forever and never talk about anything ever again to anyone. She is so awful, I want her to die penniless in prison after having been in prison with Donald Trump as her cell-mate for the last 30 years. I sincerely want her to die alone and unloved, forgotten by everyone. She doesn't deserve any happiness.

There's this YouTube video going around where this speech pathologist is claiming to be teaching a dog to communicate with one of those speech boards some nonverbal autistic people use. Her claim is that the dog understands what it's saying, that it's as intelligent as a human child. And people are falling for this obvious hoax! Seriously, dogs are nowhere near that intelligent. They only seem to understand human words because the command words are distinct enough from each other that it's not exactly difficult.

All it is, is training through conditioning, and that doesn't require very much intelligence. Hell, there's also a YouTube video where someone taught their chicken to play a song on a piano. I suppose the people who think the dog is really talking think the chicken is equally intelligent? But no, in both cases, it is simply a trick.

Fuck, I wouldn't have fallen for such an obvious hoax even when I was 9! Because by then I had already read of a similar trick by this guy who trained his horse (named Clever Hans) to appear to be doing math. But it was outed as a hoax; the guy was just training it to do the simple task of tapping a hoof on command, and was making it tap in a way that looked like it was doing math. The same thing is going on with the dog; the woman is clearly just commanding it what to do. It doesn't understand what it's doing or why, it just knows "I do this thing, and I get treats and/or praise." Seriously, you could train a chicken to do the exact same thing! It doesn't understand what it's saying or doing any more than Clever Hans really knew what math was or how to do it. It's a trick. A hoax. Intentionally or otherwise, IT. IS. A. HOAX. And she's using her "credentials" as a speech pathologist to further legitimize it, but again, IT. IS. A. HOAX.

I'm not agoraphobic, but I do stay home a lot just because I just hate dealing with the kinds of assholes I run into in the outside world:

1. Inconsiderate smokers and vapists¹ who smoke/vape on public sidewalks and around bus stops and if you ask them politely to please put it out because you're allergic, they scream at you that they can do "whatever the fuck" they want to do.

2. Creepy men.

3. Loud-ass motherfuckers talking on the bus and making an already uncomfortable experience ten times worse with their inane BS that I don't want to fucking hear because it's so fucking boring and they're so damned loud.

4. People who were introduced to the concept of bathing in their teens and have been like "No thank you" ever since, who usually smell not only of BO but also of piss and shit and beer.

5. People who think just because they love talking to random assholes in public means you do too, and won't fuckin take a goddamn hint, even one as big as wearing sunglasses, very obvious big headphones, and looking at my phone (even though doing so makes me carsick).

6. People riding their goddamned fucking bikes on the fucking sidewalk instead of the fucking road where they fucking damn well BELONG! Especially since they always get pissy if you refuse to move out of their way. THOSE particular assholes make me so tempted to ram my walking stick in their spokes as they ride by, or push them into traffic. (But I don't do either because I fear cops and prison.) Little kids doing so I don't mind, but I rarely see kids on bikes anymore. Hell, I almost never see kids out in public anymore unless they're with their parents, or preteens/teens in large groups using the public bus when there exists a school bus system FOR A REASON.

7. Which reminds me: preteens/teens in large groups using the public bus when there exists a school bus system FOR A REASON. But oh no, they'd rather turn the already overcrowded buses INTENDED FOR ADULTS into a sardine can from Hell every afternoon after getting out of school, because fuck everyone, I guess.

8. I am also made very uncomfortable by large groups of preteens and/or teens out and about in general. More so even than large groups of men.

9. Really loud, obnoxious people. I just wish everyone would SHUT THE FUCK UP when they're out in public.

10. Other various assorted assholes.

11. The fuckers who bring big ass fucking dogs on the bus, and they're not even service dogs. I have cynophobia, or fear of dogs. I'm okay with small dogs now but big ones still make me want to scream or wet myself. (Not run. Never run. Because then Cujo would chase me down and eat me.)

12. I'm not a fan of people who have big dogs out on the sidewalks, either. I always cross the street to avoid them whenever possible, or put my walking stick in front of me protectively in case I have to defend myself from those monsters.

13. OMG and people who have their dogs OFF LEASH should be tortured for their crimes.

But, you know, I still go out. Especially if I need to. Because for me it's not anxiety or fear (mostly), just severe irritation and anger.

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Footnote:

1 = Vapists is my term for people who vape. I use it because it rhymes with "rapists," since they're raping my lungs with their toxic fumes.

This fucking jackass at the bus stop isn't merely smoking in the shelter, he's smoking a cig he found on the ground! That someone else smoked then threw away! Who knows how long that shit was sitting there. Smokers are fucking vile. Vile, nasty, disgusting little trolls.