Facebook plus

Facebook is already incredibly different than it was when I first joined 4 years ago. When I first joined there was no such thing as a like button. I don’t remember Facebook chat being super developed. Everything was blocky. There were apps you could have on your page. Most of the change has been good. They have made it easier to use. And to be honest, I don’t really mind the change. And I see no reason to complain so vocally as many of my peers do. We must seem so whiny and self-entitled to the real world. They complain that something they use for free is changing. If you hate the change so much, make your own version. Quit using Facebook, but don’t make your status about how much you hate the new Facebook. Its here to stay. Live with it. Grow up.

United States of Corporations

Democracy is supposed to be a government of the people by the people for the people. But in reality in the country we live in, it is a government of the corporation by the corporation for the corporation. Take a recent Supreme Court ruling that corporations are considered people when it comes to campaign donations. What does that even mean? Corporations are extended much of the same right as us real people. They are allowed to pay for as much political advertising as they want, because the Supreme Court ruled that to disallow them from doing so would be a violation of their 1^st amendment right to free speech.

Politicians also take massive donations from companies and lobbies. How can someone claim to represent the people when they are getting fat checks from big tobacco and oil? Instead they represent the issues of these big companies, rather than the constituents that they are elected to serve.

To truly practice democracy you need to have a smaller body of people to govern. It is impossible to truly have democracy with a population nearing 400 million people.

Who Told Minorities They Could Vote?

I hate constitutionalists. For real. Who thinks that the constitution is a static document? It isn’t. The way the framers wrote the constitution made it possible to amend. But you get these people who claim that the constitution is meant to stay the same. If that was the case, women wouldn’t be able to vote. Neither would African Americans. Truth is, they still could be slaves.

I have a friend who honestly thinks that anything after the 12^th amendment is bad. She claims that there is a scripture in the Doctrine and Covenants that tells us so. I have a really hard time believing that God would be against something as fundamental as basic human rights for everyone. But she constantly posts on her Facebook about restoring the constitution to its former glory. (i.e. getting rid of such silly amendments as the 13^th which abolished slavery or the 15^th and 19^th which created universal suffrage or the 26^th which lowered the voting age to 18.) What pisses me off the most is that she is 18 and a woman. So if the amendments hadn’t been made she wouldn’t be able to vote, a right that she relishes. I can’t stand it. I want to pitch her out on her head when it comes to politics. I love her to death but her politics drive me crazy. The fact that someone could be so ignorant boggles my mind. What makes it worse in my mind is that she uses religion to justify her ignorance. If she was just plain stupid it wouldn’t bother me quite so much. But her ignorance is from her indoctrination at the hands of a neo-conservative educator whose­­ school isn’t even accredited. I wish that there was a way for me to retroactively save her—go back in time and keep her out of the Kimber Academy. But there isn’t. So I am left to bang my little head against the brick-hard wall of arguments that Dr. Kimber has brainwashed into her pretty little head.

Dumbstep

Music is an everyday part of my life. I wake up to it, I fall asleep to it. It provides constant backround noise to my life. And I listen to EVERYTHING.
Most people say they listen to everything but upon further questioning it is revealed that they listen to everything on the radio or everything but blank blank and blank, which often happens to be more than they actually listen to. But I can honestly say that I listen to everything but two types of music. Screamo and dubstep, which if you ask me are mind rotting collections of noise with no real worth other than as a curiosity.