Let Me Be Straight Up About This... What Is And What Is NOT Liberalism

If you believe that summary executions by bombings or drone strikes is acceptable, despite the innocent lives that such acts snuff out of existence, you are not a liberal. Liberals oppose the taking of innocent human lives. Anything else is convenient moral expediency - aka warmongering. Supporting these things is a luxury only enjoyed by those who do not live under the threat of being bombarded. Supporting the use of air strikes and bombardments to take out enemy targets with no regard to civilian casualties is what you do when you are a privileged American or Northern Hemisphere Western world citizen who, by right of technological dominance, will never be the target of such acts of mass murder. If you support summary executions and drone strikes, you do so because your child will never die for the simple crime of being an innocent bystander. You live under the safety of the protection of due process: before you or anyone you know can be put to death there must be a trial and the discovery of evidence, and a jury that convicts you and sentences you to die. For you to say that people in the rest of the world don't deserve the same exact thing, makes you no better than the so-called terrorists. You are not a liberal if you believe in summary executions or drone strikes. Period.

If you believe that America should in any way be involved in the Middle East, you are not a liberal. What we are doing out there is nothing short of the naked mass exploitation of natural resources in the name of protecting an outdated energy industry that is killing us all. So you say we need the oil? Do you also say we need the pollution and the global warming that comes with the burning of these fossil fuels? Do you believe the fossil fuel industry propaganda about how alternative fuels and energy aren't practical? Then you most certainly aren't a liberal, because you are clinging to outdated concepts that are going to lead to disaster for human civilization. Do you deny that burning fossil fuels is causing global warming and is causing the costly, outright disastrous droughts and floods that we are seeing today? Is your counter argument "but things will cost more if we don't stick with oil"? Then you are in fact a conservative, not a liberal, and moreover, you have a nasty surprise coming to you: global warming is already making things cost more... like food.

Do you say we also need to maintain a military presence in the Middle East to fight with people in the area who don't want us there? Do you argue that we have a right to be there because their governments - largely un-elected dictatorships that they are - invited us to be there? Such naked Imperialism is not liberalism - in fact it is the exact opposite, it is conservatism. You have the privilege of adopting this conservative warmongering mindset because you live in a safe Western nation where foreign troops don't routinely drive through your streets, shooting at your neighbors. If you were a liberal you would be fighting for the right of Middle Easterners to enjoy the same privileges. Oh but they're terrorists, you argue? Another bigoted conservative belief. Try having unwanted foreign troops in your city and see how fast your neighbors start taking up arms against them. If you were a liberal you'd understand the hypocrisy of this so-called "war on terror".

Does this sound like ideological purity? You betcha it does. The alternative is that liberalism will be re-defined as blind loyalty to old outdated industries with reckless disregard to the damage being done to our environment. The alternative is signing onto an ideology that saddles our children with an even more polluted world, for the sake of immediate economic gain for our generation. The alternative to the dreaded concept of ideological purity is to accept that liberalism has evolved into naked imperialism, racism and mass-murderous savagery repackaged as "bringing democracy and civilization to the East". 

If you support drone strikes, Middle East intervention and resource exploitation, and the war on terror, you are not a liberal. There is already a home for your beliefs, and it is called conservatism.

Few Things Are More Hypocritical Than (SOME!!!) LIBERALS Who Blame Women For Being Victims

Outrage After Exes Post Revenge Pics

Dozens of women are fighting back after intimate photos they sent to former romantic interests have been sent by their exes to a so-called "revenge porn" website and posted online.
Holley Toups says that she was at work one day and a friend called to tell her what she'd seen online. It's the moment that Toups, a teacher's aide in Texas, says her life became a living hell.
"She said, 'I overheard some people talking about a website. Its pictures, you know, explicit photos that people have posted,' and she said, 'you're on there,'" Toups said.
Toups found semi-nude photos she said she once sent to a former boyfriend - now posted on the porn site...

And what do some liberals have to say about this?

The solution is: don't take those pictures, don't let your boyfriend take them.

Legally? If you let someone take a photo of you? It's theirs to do with as they wish. Sending a picture to someone that they then use in a manner you wouldn't wish is a different matter, but the only legal recourse there is through copyright laws (as creator of the work you have legal rights regarding distribution and reproduction; it would remain to be seen whether a court might decide that you'd waived those rights by sharing the image in the first place and whether a contingent expectation that the image not be shared was reasonable).

Oh, but that's not all.

Our most respected actresses get naked and win Academy Awards

I think these ladies doth protest too much.

 Seriously? Some LIBERALS said this?

Okay, now let me explain where this bull crap comes from. Remember how people (particularly urban folk) look at you when you leave your keys in a running car or you sleep with your front door open, and a thief comes and takes advantage of you? The same (il)logic is routinely applied by most on the Right (and, apparently, some on the Left) to women who take nude pictures of themselves and give them to their boyfriends / husbands. Eventually if you let this (il)logic fester in your brain, it will poison you to the point of blaming women's provocative dress as a cause of them getting raped. It's the same logic, taken to its inevitable conclusion. Those who subscribe to the first example of (il)logic, of course, will be pissed as HELL when they read this blog and find me pointing out the axel grease on the slope.

Let me explain the poor logic of chastising a person for having their keys in a running car when they're off elsewhere. Suppose they took their keys and locked the car? Do you realize how many seconds it takes to steal and hotwire a car? 30 seconds to 2 minutes for a skilled thief. So now that you know this, why don't you secure your car using better methods? If you don't, then you're only SLIGHTLY less foolish than the person who left the keys in the car. If, of course, you buy the "the person with the keys in the car is a fool" logic.

Now, for rape. The going blame-the-victim logic dictates that women who walk to ATMs at night or who walk around in skimpy clothes are attracting rapists. So what happens when women avoid ATMs at night and are bundled up for Antarctica and they get raped anyway? "Ah, yes, they dared to walk outside. Serves 'em right" - you'd expect to hear that from a madman, but it is the logical conclusion of the blame-the-victim logic.

Finally, we get to women whose pictures get posted online without their permission. So now the woman is responsible for protecting herself by not sending a man her naked pictures. Gotcha. The same logic says she should sleep in full Antarctica gear in an unobtanium armored bunker lest some idiot drill a hole in the wall and take pictures of her sleeping in whatever stage of undress. After all, she knows the risks, she should take appropriate precautions, right? And God forbid she ever sleep next to a boyfriend, since he might take post-sex pictures of her and post it. (Google that last one, you'll find examples, trust me.)


Nobody is saying you should leave your front door open, leave your keys in your car, or go to an ATM at night. But, like wearing skimpy clothes or sending your lover a nude picture, these are rights that you have. We should not be intimidated into giving up those rights. When you give them up in the face of intimidation the predators will simply press forward in an attempt to get to you at all costs. You avoid going to the ATM at night - so the rapists and muggers simply get more brazen and attack you in broad daylight. What have you gained? You've given up your freedom to walk at night and now you're being victimized at high noon. Happens all the time in reality.

The lesson here? You don't win by fleeing from the predator. You win by standing your ground and kicking their ever loving ass! In this case, you levy HEFTY FINES upon every one of those bastards at that revenge website - the men who sold those pictures, and the website owner. And probably the customers, too, as they knew up front that they were whacking off to women being victimized. And then you leave them liable to civil action, too. I'd say throw them in prison, but our prisons are already overcrowded. Ruinous fines and civil judgments will cull the herd of predators well enough and send a message to the wanna-be's.

Sue the bastards. Sue them into oblivion. Send a loud and clear message to other predators: 

YOU

WILL

BE

NEXT.

So When Are the Pro-Lifers Going to Protest This?

Will they even figure out how relevant this issue is? Probably not. Idiots.

Yet another way in which Conservatives relegate themselves to irrelevancy. It falls to us liberals to step up and pressure Congress into closing this loophole which allows discrimination against pregnant women.

I told my boss I was pregnant, then he fired me.

Approximately a week after I told my boss I was pregnant, he fired me. I was an attorney at a small Seattle litigation firm. For most of the fall, I spent all of my time in trial preparation, working long days and weekends and enjoying it. The case settled the day before it was set for trial and our firm won a large settlement for our clients.

The day I told the managing partner I was pregnant, he threatened my job. About a week later, he came into my office to deliver a small production bonus check that I had earned for vastly exceeding my billable hour quota. Then he fired me. He assured me it was not based upon the quality of my work, but instead was for “economic reasons.” He promised to give me a good reference and said he would pay me until the end of the month regardless of whether or not I continued to work. Then he mentioned how busy the week was for him and how I could help him out by continuing to work.