The misanthrope speaks...
As most of you can tell - I'm a misanthrope.
Here is the best definition I have found for what a misanthrope is -
"The misanthrope hates not man. The misanthrope hates idiocy, stupidity, self-righteousness, authoritarianism, selfishness, greed, ignorance, dishonesty, cant, and balderdash. All of these he hates rightfully. The problem is that all of these are shared by no other member of the animal kingdom but man. And the misanthrope does not entertain the vain hope that these traits will ever stop determining man's behavior."
So, I want you all to tell me the things people do to make you hate them.
The post below turned into this sort of thing but I want a general discussion on the topic. Invite your friends, tell people you hate, let's get a good discussion going about why people in general are so hate-able.
posted by Angry Democrat at 10/19/2005 10:18:00 AM
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I really detest repuglicans that support the guy that got himself elected to the office of president.
Because they are hypocrites. I hate hypocrites. I hate people that think they deserve a different standard of living than other people.
I hate people that are judgmental of other people. You can find these judgmental people in church every Sunday, thinking they are 'holier than thou' and they like to point the finger at everyone else, just because they go to church every Sunday. That is exactly what Jesus wants them to do, I'm certain. The devil goes to church every Sunday and he sits in the first pew. These people don't see themselves.
They act like they care for their fellow man, and they act like they want to help the poor, all the while, they are supporting policies and voting for people that wish to do the exact opposite, and then vote for big business interests and self interests with little regard for the everyday man, or the working class or the poor.
I hate people who lie. If you want to strip mine the environment and pollute the air, don't call your efforts, "Clean Air Efforts" or some other dispicable lying moniker, as if calling it something good, makes it something good.
I hate people that have little or no regard for others, like people who know you're waiting to get by them, and act like they don't see you and won't move out of the way, or mothers who bring their 9 yr. old sons into the ladies locker room with them, while everyone else is trying to change clothes.
I hate people who think a rousing game of football on the beach, only 6 feet away from where you've layed down your blanket, is somehow ok. Or people who crowd themselves and their 16 cousins on top of you in a 10 x 10 space at the beach, and then start blaring their rap on their boom boxes.
I hate people who double park on narrow streets to talk to their friends and won't move so you can't get by. I hate snotty teenagers who walk in the middle of the street and won't move, when you have to drive by. [These are the people I want to run over with my James Bond car.] "I can't drive on the side-walk, shit-heat--so one of us is going to have to move"...boy, the stuff I'd do if I thought I could get away with it.
I hate people that let their animals run at large all over the hood, so you're stuck picking up the piles of shit on your lawns and you don't even have pets.
I hate people who park their cars in the streets to hang with their homies, and play their car radios loud and long into 1am when you're trying to sleep. Then leave their 40oz's empty bottles under your car. I hate inconsiderate people, which seems to be mostly everyone these days.
Do I sound like Andy Rooney yet?
I hate shit like this, too.
Editorial
Abolishing the Poll Tax Again
Critics of Georgia's new voter-identification law, which forces many citizens to pay $20 or more for the documentation necessary to vote, have called it a modern-day poll tax, intended to keep blacks and poor people from voting. A federal judge supported these claims yesterday and blocked the law from taking effect. Instead of continuing to defend the statute in court, Georgia should remove this throwback to the days of Jim Crow from its lawbooks.
Georgia Republicans, who get few votes from African-American voters, pushed a bill through the Legislature this year imposing the nation's toughest voter-identification requirements. When it was passed, most of the state's black legislators walked out of the Capitol. Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., urged the governor to veto it. Under the new law, voters with driver's licenses were not inconvenienced. But it put up huge obstacles for voters without licenses, who are disproportionately poor and black. Most of them would have to get official state picture-identification cards and pay processing fees of $20 or more. Incredibly - beyond the cost imposed on such voters - there was not a single office in Atlanta where the identification cards were for sale.
Republicans claimed the law was intended to prevent fraud, but that was just a pretext. According to Georgia's secretary of state, Cathy Cox, in recent years there have been no documented cases of fraud through voter impersonation. There have been complaints about the misuse of absentee ballots, Ms. Cox says, but the new law actually loosened the antifraud protections that apply to them. Clearly, Georgia Republicans supported the law because they believed that making it harder for blacks and poor people to vote would help their electoral chances.
The League of Women Voters of Georgia, the N.A.A.C.P. and other civil rights and voting rights groups sued. In a lengthy and hard-hitting opinion, Judge Harold Murphy of Federal District Court enjoined the state from enforcing the law. He relied in part on the 24th Amendment, which banned the old racist requirement that citizens pay poll taxes before being allowed to vote in federal elections.
At least one Georgia state senator is vowing to appeal, if necessary, all the way to the Supreme Court. That would send an ugly message about the state of American democracy. In the civil rights era, Southern states had to be told again and again by federal courts not to try to stop their black citizens from voting. It is shameful that in 2005, Georgia needs to be told again.
More of what I'm talking about:
Leading by (Bad) Example
By THOMAS FRIEDMAN, NYTimes
Published: October 19, 2005
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (Iraq News Agency) - A delegation of Iraqi judges and journalists abruptly left the U.S. today, cutting short its visit to study the workings of American democracy. A delegation spokesman said the Iraqis were "bewildered" by some of the behavior of the Bush administration and felt it was best to limit their exposure to the U.S. system at this time, when Iraq is taking its first baby steps toward democracy.
The lead Iraqi delegate, Muhammad Mithaqi, a noted secular Sunni judge who had recently survived an assassination attempt by Islamist radicals, said that he was stunned when he heard President Bush telling Republicans that one reason they should support Harriet Miers for the U.S. Supreme Court was because of "her religion." She is described as a devout evangelical Christian.
Mithaqi said that after two years of being lectured to by U.S. diplomats in Baghdad about the need to separate "mosque from state" in the new Iraq, he was also floored to read that the former Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr, now a law school dean, said on the radio show of the conservative James Dobson that Miers deserved support because she was "a very, very strong Christian [who] should be a source of great comfort and assistance to people in the households of faith around the country."
"Now let me get this straight," Judge Mithaqi said. "You are lecturing us about keeping religion out of politics, and then your own president and conservative legal scholars go and tell your public to endorse Miers as a Supreme Court justice because she is an evangelical Christian.
"How would you feel if you picked up your newspapers next week and read that the president of Iraq justified the appointment of an Iraqi Supreme Court justice by telling Iraqis: 'Don't pay attention to his lack of legal expertise. Pay attention to the fact that he is a Muslim fundamentalist and prays at a Saudi-funded Wahhabi mosque.' Is that the Iraq you sent your sons to build and to die for? I don't think so. We can't have our people exposed to such talk."
A fellow delegation member, Abdul Wahab al-Unfi, a Shiite lawyer who walks with a limp today as a result of torture in a Saddam prison, said he did not want to spend another day in Washington after listening to the Bush team defend its right to use torture in Iraq and Afghanistan. Unfi said he was heartened by the fact that the Senate voted 90 to 9 to ban U.S. torture of military prisoners. But he said he was depressed by reports that the White House might veto the bill because of that amendment, which would ban "cruel, inhuman or degrading" treatment of P.O.W.'s.
"I survived eight years of torture under Saddam," Unfi said. "Virtually every extended family in Iraq has someone who was tortured or killed in a Baathist prison. Yet, already, more than 100 prisoners of war have died in U.S. custody. How is that possible from the greatest democracy in the world? There must be no place for torture in the future Iraq. We are going home now because I don't want our delegation corrupted by all this American right-to-torture talk."
Finally, the delegation member Sahaf al-Sahafi, editor of one of Iraq's new newspapers, said he wanted to go home after watching a televised videoconference last Thursday between soldiers in Iraq and President Bush. The soldiers, 10 Americans and an Iraqi, were coached by a Pentagon aide on how to respond to Mr. Bush.
"I had nightmares watching this," Sahafi said. "It was right from the Saddam playbook. I was particularly upset to hear the Iraqi sergeant major, Akeel Shakir Nasser, tell Mr. Bush: 'Thank you very much for everything. I like you.' It was exactly the kind of staged encounter that Saddam used to have with his troops."
Sahafi said he was also floored to see the U.S. Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan agency that works for Congress, declare that a Bush administration contract that paid Armstrong Williams, a supposedly independent commentator, to promote Mr. Bush's No Child Left Behind policy constituted illegal propaganda - an attempt by the government to buy good press.
"Saddam bought and paid journalists all over the Arab world," Sahafi said. "It makes me sick to see even a drop of that in America."
By coincidence, the Iraqi delegates departed Washington just as the Bush aide Karen Hughes returned from the Middle East. Her trip was aimed at improving America's image among Muslims by giving them a more accurate view of America and President Bush. She said, "The more they know about us, the more they will like us."
(Yes, all of this is a fake news story. I just wish that it weren't so true.)
Okay, everyone take note... these are the things that I detest! LOUD car stereos. I once posted I hope their friggin' cars vibrate apart at a stoplight, and that I'd be the one behind them laughing my ass off. I detest Rap music. Listen morons, if you don't find the words "bitch" and "ho" offensive, how about I come to your house and call your Mother or Grandmother that... or would that be Grandbitch and Mother Ho? You ruined MTV and music culture and I hate you and want you to die, is that too much to ask?
Another thing I hate is the loud inconsiderate bastards in my history class. What the hell are you there for if you're not there to learn?? How did you get into college in the first place? If you want to have a conversation, here's an idea... GO IN THE FRIGGIN' HALLWAY AND DO IT! I swear, some people have the intelligence of a toaster.
::tiptoes in:: Ohhhh guysss... we have sketches!! :)
Oh and DL, you forgot about spammers.
Oh yeah, spamming mofo's need for me to give them a good kick so that the next time they go pee they'll have to unbutton their collar.
I hate the fact that we are no longer getting news delivered to us, the real news, the true news, because of the news agencies being embedded with the Bush Administration and their lobbyists.
News, such as the following, should be on the 6:00 report every night and the a.m. update as a daily reminder. I put these articles up here, because I want all Americans to know what's going on, other than how long Natalie Holloway's been missing or who got kicked off Survivor...
Former Powell Aide Says Bush Policy Is Run by 'Cabal'
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 - Secretary of State Colin Powell's former chief of staff has offered a remarkably blunt criticism of the administration he served, saying that foreign policy had been usurped by a "Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal," and that President Bush has made the country more vulnerable, not less, to future crises.
The comments came in a speech Wednesday by Lawrence Wilkerson, who worked for Mr. Powell at the State Department from 2001 to early 2005. Speaking to the New America Foundation, an independent public-policy institute in Washington.
Mr. Wilkerson suggested that secrecy, arrogance and internal feuding had taken a heavy toll in the Bush administration, skewing its policies and undercutting its ability to handle crises.
"I would say that we have courted disaster, in Iraq, in North Korea, in Iran, generally with regard to domestic crises like Katrina, Rita - and I could go on back," he said.
Mr. Wilkerson suggested that the dysfunction within the administration was so grave that "if something comes along that is truly serious, truly serious, something like a nuclear weapon going off in a major American city, or something like a major pandemic, you are going to see the ineptitude of this government in a way that will take you back to the Declaration of Independence." [ok, this is exactly what I'm afraid is the real truth]
Mr. Wilkerson, a retired Army colonel and former director of the Marine Corps War College, said that in his years in or close to government, he had seen its national security apparatus twisted in many ways. But what he saw in Mr. Bush's first term "was a case that I have never seen in my studies of aberration, bastardizations" and "perturbations."
"What I saw was a cabal between the vice president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues," he said.
The former aide referred to Mr. Bush as someone who "is not versed in international relations, and not too much interested in them, either." He was far more admiring of the president's father, whom he called "one of the finest presidents we've ever had."
You are sooooo right. People Do suck! Here's an example...
Recently there was a storm here (Toronto, CA) that resulted in Tornados touching down, flashfloods, etc. It looked like New Orleans in my front yard...you get the idea. Anyway, my husband and I went out to the street in waist high waters and started rescuing people from their cars which had stalled due to the sudden onslaught of water. There was an elderly Chinese lady crying, and EVERYONE ignored her! I brought her into my home, gave her a dry towel, made her a cup of hot tea, and let her use my phone. I then opened my back door to allow people to use my restroom, as they had now been stuck for soooo long, they just had no other options. NOW..here is the worst part - My disgusting neighbors started coming out of their homes and began taking photographs of anyone trying to jump the curb and bypass the flood and try to get out of the area. One woman had told me that she had young kids at home alone who were frightened, and she had to try to get through this water and get home to them. My neighbor blocked her vehicle on the sidewalk because the grass was getting damaged. Now, this is a condo/townhome community. He doesn't exactly OWN the grass. He takes pictures of her car and demands the womans name and address, etc. He tells her he is going to ssend her a bill for the grass she destroyed.
This SOB who, I'm sorry to result to this but...he was a friggin PAKI...is worried about GRASS??? These people were suffering. They needed to get home to young children. They were cold. They were wet. Some were frightened. Some had no idea what they were going to do about their stalled vehicles now floating in the street. And I have a group of neighbors photographing their cars and taking down license plate numbers to sue them for damage to the frigging grass???? I was embarassed!! BTW..I'm an AMERICAN living in Canada. When W got elected, I TOOK OFF!!! Talk about disgusting human beings, he is worse than my ignorant PAKI neighbors! PEOPLE SUCK!
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