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Freedom of Speech, and it's Savage Curtailments.
"Since, therefore, no one can abdicate his freedom of judgment and feeling; since every man is by indefeasible natural right the master of his own thoughts, it follows that men thinking in diverse and contradictory fashions, cannot, without disastrous results, be compelled to speak only according to the dictates of the supreme power." ~~ Baruch Spinoza. ~~~~~~~~~ This challenge, much like all the world, is a stage. We each must play our part in deciphering and judging what is morally sanctionable and what is unconscionable. There are questions to be answered and perspectives to be duly considered. We've had our differences here on Prose over the years, but I have always found it to be a place of unparalleled freedom of thought and a platform for lively discourse and spirited exchange of ideas. It has seemed immune to that modern sickness which seeks to excise certain people or opinions from the public sphere in the despicably lillylivered defense of people from the possibility of being offended; that sickening trend which has become so alarmingly prevalent among society at large.... I love that about this site. Perhaps more than anything else; the freedom to say whatever we sincerely give a fuck about, without fear of persecution or removal... So, let us celebrate that free atmosphere with another lively open, honest debate, shall we? Take it in any direction you choose. Speak on any issue you wish. The only rule is utter, complete, and total honesty.
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Pineapple Belongs On Pizza

It's sweet and it's savory. I don't really give a fuck what you think, it tastes amazing and I will take a slice of Hawaiian pie over any Italian concoction you can craft any day of the week.

Also - I've been to a Nickelback concert. No regrets.

If we want to discuss whether you should have a dog or a cat I suggest cats are better for anxiety, as their purrs are calming and their general presence is serene/solitary; whereas dogs are better for depression, as they are energetic and loyal whilst getting you out of the house. If you have anxiety AND depression just get both - fuck the binary.

Which, while we're on the subject, do I think gender matters? No, it shouldn't. But are humans inherently flawed fuck-up's who run their lives on stereotypes and love boxing themselves in with labels like a 5-year-old's Valentine Day art project? Hell yes, they are. If we're not going to stop and unpack our shitty made up social norms then at the very least we should have the common courtesy to allow others to choose which ones they want rather than forever damn people by their genitals. Fuck genitals. No literally - that's all they're meant for, they have zero impact on personality or preferences that was their only fucking job. Get over them already and stop assigning genitals to arbitrary shit like razor blades or shoes. Shoes don't even go there.

And speaking of razor blades fuck shaving. I quit.

Guns suck. I don't give a shit if you like them, you know what else Americans like? Cars. Can we kill people with cars? Absolutely, we do it every fucking day. But we still regulate that shit and force you to take a test, get a license, and hold fucking insurance for owning one. Do the same goddamn thing with guns and stop whining like some fucking future terrorist anytime somebody raises the specter of government regulation. Government exists because you're stupid. Be grateful, somebody would have shot you by now without a law against it. Hell they still might. At least you could sue if it was fucking regulated.

Rent. Is. Too. Damn. Fucking. High. Hello, Boomers. If I walk into one more coffee shop and listen to whiny homeowners who bought their shit in the 80's complain about how nobody wants to work anymore when it would take a salary of at least $24/hour to rent an average apartment in the U.S. I swear to god I will hit people. But not with guns. Because those suck. I have fists and I'm not a monster. Pass some fucking rent control already you goddamn dinosaurs, you control all the politicians anyway and your asses are gonna get kicked out on the street soon when your mobile home lot gets bought up by another investment firm. One third of this country can't afford a home and the cost of housing has skyrocketed 400% in the past twenty years alone, what the hell have you idiots been doing - sucking Reagan's dick? He's dead already - just like our deregulated economy. Our generation is now the first in American history to be worse off than its predecessors and there are literally hundreds of charts that can pinpoint the fall point to those choices you made and continue to make to this day without learning a goddamn thing while your children and grandchildren suffer the consequences. Well done, selfish pricks. Please die already.

Like the environment, which also got royally screwed by the last generation (thanks for thinking of us!) and is now a total shit show. It is 98 in May right now and we went from droughts to super floods in a decade, yay. Whatever real estate is affordable is increasingly located in a newly formed desert with less and less water. You wonder why we're not having children? What the fuck would we leave them with? Sand? Ashy post-wildfire asthma? Where are we getting water for all these new humans - our melting ice caps?

But God forbid we stop having those children, which is why you absolutely had to rescind abortion rights so that women can now bleed out in front of hospitals that are too afraid to treat them the way they used to in the fucking dark ages - because the needs of the unborn outweigh the needs of the living apparently, particularly women. That genital lottery just sucks, doesn't it? And then you freak out when somebody suggests they could change genders - why, because then you might start losing your forced breeders? Well gosh, maybe if you ACTUALLY GAVE A SHIT ABOUT PEOPLE and put any effort towards child care, maternal health, paternity leave, or family cost of living people wouldn't see children as the economic death sentence they've become. Or here's a thought - why don't we just mandate vasectomies for boys aged 15 and up? They're easy and reversible, unlike the same procedure in women which can't be undone or even requested until your 38 or already had three kids. Or maybe we could mandate castration for rapists - no repeat offenders, win win! Wait, what's that? We can't regulate male bodies? God damn those genital values again.

Yet despite all the extremely infuriating setbacks facing my generation and the next one I will at least always have pineapple options for my pizza. Maybe I'll go crazy - add some green peppers. Hell they could put corn cobs as crust - I've seen it, it's real! Let's just go crazy, the world's ending anyway. And in thirty years when my dementia kicks in and I can no longer keep working even part time to pay my eternally rising rent, I'm sure I'll still be able to go purchase a gun and shoot myself after I take one last long final vacation. Because America may never have universal health care, basic income, guaranteed and sufficient social security, or the right to housing. But hey we'll always have the right to buy a gun.

And put whatever the fuck we want on a pizza.

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