The biggest freedom that is at stake, if not already lost, is the freedom of information. I have remarked before that there has never been a time where the wealth of the world's information is pretty damn available on command. On your phone.
The internet is the repository of man's knowledge. Of course, estimates range anywhere from 4 to 30% of ALL internet traffic is for porn... So, yay! You horny devils, you!
The "quality" of the information presented for consumption is automatically suspect due to it's origins. If you heard it from the propaganda arm of the GOP, Fox "News", Murdoch probably shit it earlier that morning, and the anchors scrambled for each nugget.
If you got the story off MSNBC, it is instantaneously (spelled correctly, first time! hells yes!) dismissed because of it's "liberal media" genetics. Despite factual accuracy. More on that later.
In an evening news cast, there is 22 minutes of air time. Minus sports, which is 3 or 4 minutes... Add weather, another 4 or 5 minutes for the news. End the broadcast with a feel good, warm n' fuzzy special interest story about a fucking water skiing squirrel, which eats up at least 4 minutes... And you have TEN minutes of actual NEWS. On a good day.
I understand not watching the news. This year has been bloody depressing.
Then there is the newspap..... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... I almost made it without laughing.
That leaves the internet. Which is another joke. MSN had to put little labels on their main news feed articles to let people know which stories were actual stories, versus "Sponsored" click bait.
If the best thing to be on election day is an "informed voter". We are screwed.
The freedom of information is under attack for another reason... Not only is it affronted by lack of quality, and the repercussions of what damage can be done with bad intel... But...
Information does not matter.
Facts, logic, and reason? Pshaw... I can say inflammatory, idiotic shit and and get more play than the dude talking about "infrastructure". In the WWE (wrasslin') they call it getting a "bump" from the audience. Mick Foley was a genius at it... First, mention the city you are in. Bump. Next, mention a city that is hated by the city you are in. Bump. Does it matter what was said? Hell no.
Trump called the President, "The Founder of ISIS". Not "in a figurative" sense. He said that the fairly, TWICE elected president, is the founder of, the man who established, ISIS. There is no, zero, nada, evidence to support this claim.
Think that matters to Cletus or the average Trump supporter? No.
Of course, that overshadowed the news that the DEA and FDA won't declassify marijuana as a Type I Substance. That's because a Type I Substance has "NO medical benefits".
Um... There are mountains of research papers that to a one state that is does. Information based on research, facts, testing, and science? Nah... Big Pharm doesn't want to compete with something WE could grow our own damn selves and be waaaaaaay better for it.
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I also would love to see the ability to have freedoms FROM things.
Namely religion.
The other tidbit of news that caused my brain to shoot thought daggers at people was this...
A New Mexico woman was forced to attend court ordered Christian counseling.
I read that and I short circuited. How fucking DARE that judge be permitted to stay on the bench. How fucking dare that Mary Pepper cunt-seller (play on the word counselor - work with me, peeps!) be allowed to be paid with tax payer dollars. Cash, of course... as tax dodging is pious!!!
The lady dealt with it to get her kids back... I, having no kids would have screamed all the way to the Supreme Court and fought with fiber of my being that every judge who did not kick the previous idiot judge of the bench got dealt with acrimoniously.
How difficult is it to just say, "No thanks. Sell your bullshit somewhere else." and that be that. Better yet... to get the attention...
On the other end of the spectrum... A month ago, in Pensacola, a guy got up at the City Council and recited a Satanic prayer. He was sick and tired of all this Christian rhetoric going on at MUNICIPAL meetings. Separation of Church and Everything... Not too much to ask for.
Oh, you know what happened at the end of his prayer? Not a fucking thing. Know what happens when anyone prays? Same.
That is the fun thing about freedom, you have to take the good with the bad.
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When you have a walking, orange shit stain, poised to be the President of The United States of America, saying all this vile, repulsive and most importantly INCITEFUL garbage...
He told "second-amendment" people, they had a way to "take care" of his political opponent. He fully realizes his base of supporters and how gullible they are. Wanna visual? Think about how bad Trump supporters will be feeling after their beloved Cheeto-In-Chief gets royally spanked after a debate. A debate he is ducking like a little bitch, by the way.
One of his supporters will proclaim his patriotism as he puts the former Secretary of State in the cross hairs*.
I also worry about what is next... Who will be next, trying to one up this fuckstick? I do not worry about getting a gun though... No Sir.... That is one thing I DO not worry about.
Lips like morphine,
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* - Tried working in the third homonym of "In sight", like a gun's sights... but it just would not work... Would have been AWESOME!!!!
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