#1lie

[hop3ful-lov3-blog]

“ I'm fine...just tired ”

[rwsloyeriii]

I agree with this dish it in theory: violent video games are not the problem, bad parenting is. But that's where it ends. He says... "Here’s my question: Why aren’t we more concerned about why the parents are so tired and overworked that they can’t spend any time paying attention to what their kids are playing or watching? Do officials ever argue for maternity leave so mothers can spend more time with their children, something that is a right in nearly every damned country but the US? Of course not. Is there any support for raising the minimum wage so people who are working can provide a better life for their children? Very little. How about making healthcare something that’s a universal right instead of a necessity that bankrupts families when members need treatment? Nope." Are you fucking kidding me? Does he completely miss the irony that he's objecting to government interference in his pathetic little hobby of sitting in his mom's basement playing at his virtual life, and immediately suggests government interference in private business and healthcare? A "universal right"? is this really the kind of moron that we're raising in the government schools these days? Parents are too tired and overworked because they are unwilling to sacrifice material luxuries in order to properly raise their children. How many of these poor, poor people that are so tired and overworked have big screen TVs? Cable TV? A new car (or new to them) every few years? This fantasy that the left has of the "working poor" is exactly that, and is born of those that either were raised in such an environment and so are unaware that it is unacceptable (such as our current president) or who were raised in such privileged isolation that they have romanticized the thing they know nothing about. You know who the "working poor" are? They are the children of other working poor who sent their children to government daycare (aka "public school") where they learned nothing and instead had standards lowered to them instead of children raised to the standard and where they learned nothing whatsoever about personal responsibility, rewards for hard work (rewards such as healthcare for themselves and their families, ironically), and that the ability to make a better life for themselves than their parents had lies solely with them. They are also the immigrant, both illegal and legal, who came here for a "better life" AND GOT IT. The problem is that as soon as they arrived they started comparing themselves to the native-born and started throwing a temper tantrum about their poor treatment. Don't like it? Get on your tire and float back! No? Oh, so you DO have a better life than the one you left behind, don't you? And maybe it never occurred to you that the reason life in your country of origin sucks so bad is that its populated entirely by shitbags. They are the "good girl" who's rich mommy and daddy spent too much time at work paying for their Mercedes and BMW so their darling little girl got knocked up in the 10th grade and wound up doing meth. Sure, it's all admirable and whatnot that she's now "getting her life back on track" and working the drive-through window at McDonald's at 30 years old. Yep, that's an improvement over where she was at 20 years old, but its evidence of having totally squandered the opportunity her parents money should have afforded her. So yes, video games are not the problem. But neither is the problem a lack of government meddling in the lives of people you couldn't save with all the $20/hr minimum wage and free healthcare in the world. This is the of the left, but is is so seductive to the masses who refuse to do for themselves that they will win every time. The Russian revolution, the Cuban revolution, the Arab Spring, and other examples of the masses rising up are born entirely of this same misguided fantasy. The joke is that the masses just trade one master for another. If the Egyptians didn't like Mubarik, they're going to like the Muslim Brotherhood even less. And so will we.