flimsy excuse for slimy behavior in the top brass)
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Rights
New addition 12/13/22 Nothing gives you the right to hurt children or the innocent. Not ignorance. Not tradition. Not fear. Not brainwashing. Not conspiracy theories. Not authoritarian parenting style. Not religion. Not great intentions. NOTHING. And if laws worldwide do not change to follow suit and implement appropriate punishment for those that do these things, we get to see more children and more gentle, kind, special, different in-the-wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time people get hurt. And I'm not willing to have that happen, are you?
New additions 7/4/22 and 12/17/22
A long time ago someone once said "Give me freedom or give me death." In that spirit here are several rights that logically follow from such a premise. They apply to all who have not been convicted of serious crimes (such as terrorism, human trafficking, rape, etc.)
These rights are potentially null and void if your existence provides a threat to others' rights or violates their rights, and requires trial by jury to determine sentencing and punishment
The right to act in accordance with the Universal Laws (see that section on that page) and to ensure everyone else follows the ones at the end of this point or is punished in a fair and reasonable way as determined by a trial by jury of one's peers. WHAT APPLIES IN THE OCCULT APPLIES TO EVERYONE IN MUNDANE LIFE ALSO. Most of these are monitored and enforced by the Universe; the ones that need to be monitored and enforced by living beings are: no black magic is allowed, no harming the innocent is allowed, no harming the undeserving is allowed, no interfering with someone's free will without their explicit and fully informed verbal consent is allowed. "Harm" I will define here as causing a living being suffering, pain, and/or an undeserved unwarranted restriction of their free will.
The right to freedom of action as long as it does not violate the rights of others
The right to the pursuit of happiness, because what is the point of existing if you cannot strive to want to exist?
The right to life, which logically includes clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, access to a bathroom, the right to sleep anywhere, the right to exist anywhere in any condition, the right to travel through public or common areas, 1/2/23 the right to at least try to earn a living in a fair and ethical manner
The right to exist, no matter how much of a minority you are - gay, straight, black, white, Pastafarian, Catholic, just plain weird, you're always a minority somewhere
The right to freedom of religion
The right to freedom from abuse or mistreatment
The right to suicide
The right to reproductive choice, specifically the right to use contraceptives and say 'no' to reproducing, and the right to be fully educated about how humans reproduce. Abortion is another debate which I will not get into here.
The right to choose a consenting, adult human mate or mates
The right to freedom of expression, including speech, dress, mannerisms, appearance, and so on
The right to access to information as long as such information does not interfere with the rights of others (i.e. how to make bombs, the general public does not need to know that)
The right to freedom of movement in the country
The right to live wherever you want, in whatever manner you want, without interfering with the rights of others
The right to privacy
8/15/24 The right to kill one's rapist or someone attempting to rape you; however this is really hard to determine by a court (what's rape versus consensual sex - even rough sex, what's consent when it was poorly understood for so many years) and to make into law in the modern era. With additional research into the vagaries of this problem and additional energy expended to figure each detail out, it could be solvable.
8/15/24 The right to kill anyone who has or who is trying to harm you as much as rape would. This is even more difficult to figure out, legally speaking, but it could be done.
Not Rights
Obtaining any of these things in any way, especially by force, can and often should result in legal consequences, including trial by jury to determine sentencing and punishment
The 'right' to reproduce so much that you and people like you threaten the entire environment and population of Earth
The 'right' to discriminate against people who make you uncomfortable
The 'right' to special privileges which cause harm to others that you did not earn, including special privileges one may feel entitled to as a result of any amount of intersectional oppression
The 'right' to abuse anyone for any reason whatsoever
The 'right' to destroy the environment
The 'right' to censor in the interest of creating a safe space
The 'right' to comfort
The 'right' to not be offended
The 'right' to be safe
The 'right' to free lunches or unearned benefits
The 'right' to preferential treatment
The 'right' to treat any human being, no matter how young or legally disempowered, like property
The 'right' to harm someone else in the name of exercising so-called rights
The 'right' to force others, who aren't criminals, to behave in a certain way
Those who must (edit 7/6/24) obtain the death penalty
Practically speaking, none of the aforementioned rights will ever be obtained by most on Earth if we do not imprison or kill those who would take those rights from the innocent, and there is a very good chance we will never see an end to wars either if we do not institute the death penalty for the following:
Child abusers
Terrorists
War criminals
Those who willingly, seriously egregiously harm innocent human beings and possibly also any other sentient being
Those who willingly, seriously egregiously harm innocent human beings and possibly also any other sentient being, including via severe environmental destruction, pollution, poisoning water through industrial runoff, poisoning air via industrial emissions, causing global warming and covering up the harms of the fossil fuel industry, etc.
Since the death penalty is serious business, it is critical to avoid it for cases that only rely on circumstantial evidence and for cases that define "egregious harm to the innocent" or "war criminals" without scientific backing, such as religious anything (*facepalm*). Without good evidence, and a coherent reason why, it's wrong.
Specific laws we must see enacted for the above principles to be closer to existence
End the statute of limitations at the federal level
2/14/23 Put laws on the books that adequately protect informants and witnesses of crimes. Particularly with anonymity. As it stands now if I am not mistaken, the accused has a right to know who accused them, which means in practice that the instant someone reports a crime, they're now on the top of the criminal's shit list, and you can imagine how well that works out.
2/20/23 Mandate body cams that are as tamper-proof as possible and live streamed to a police station, on all people in charge of watching kids, including babysitters, teachers, child psychologists, all people working at a school, and day care workers. If a child, minor, or dependent calls CPS on their legal guardian/s, then on their legal guardian from then on until they get out from under their roof. Same deal with any adult requiring a caretaker, such as someone who is mentally ill, disabled, or in a retirement home, but of course in their case it would be calling 911 not CPS. What is not seen is not believed by the legal system, and realistically those who are helpless can't just "bootstrap it" and defend themselves.
2/20/23 Make bounty hunting legal in all 50 states, US territories, Washington DC, and internationally also in collaboration with Interpol and local governments. This also includes reservations which technically speaking are their own countries, if I am not mistaken. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.
2/20/23 Specific legal penalties for hurting nature and the environment. At the very least an enormous tax on CO2 emissions and destruction of natural habitat.
2/20/23 Put the legal right to privacy in the Constitution as another Amendment. Because with data about users sold to the highest bidder that gives rich criminals one heck of an edge. In fact it gives all criminals one heck of an edge. You have any idea how easy it is to find out a lot more information about a total stranger than you reasonably should? It's very easy.
2/20/23 Emancipate all minors automatically at the age of 12, 14 maximum, (edit 3/12/23 Age 13 seems fair.) at the federal level and mandate a federal minimum wage for folks 12 (or 14) and up that makes it so if they get a couple part time or one full time job they can afford to move out. Otherwise legally speaking they are the property of their parents or guardian or whoever is overseeing them at school or daycare or wherever and have all the "rights" thereof namely none.
3/3/23 Mandatory education covering as much of the legal system and laws as possible in schools, with respect to the local, state, and national laws and legal system. If you don't know how it works, then you logically speaking can't have any idea who is the best person to vote for, or how to vote on ballot measures
3/3/23 Speed up the legal system such that its response time and lag time is as minimal as possible. Honestly, at this point I am really curious how many crimes Trump and his family have committed in the time since the January 6 insurrection and since the seizure of the classified documents he stole from the White House up until now. If nothing else convinces the US to tighten up its response time to minimize the time between crime and punishment, I think this should do the trick.
3/3/23 Federal funding for the legal system so that rich people no longer have any sort of an edge. Everyone gets public defenders and public employees for their justice system. That's it. Oh yes, and prisons federally funded too, no more privatization. No more separate laws for the rich and the poor. That isn't a justice system, it's a caste system. In fact it also means that if you get rich enough you can get away with anything, as abundantly proven by certain folks in our political system.
3/3/23 End Citizens United
3/3/23 Federal funding for the political cycle at local, state, and national levels. Every political candidate gets the same amount of dough and bankrolling. With the internet it's now doable. Also private and anonymous funding and lobbying for same completely illegal. To hell with the Democrat and Republican parties both. Oh yes, end those too, make them obsolete! Two party system is worthless.
3/3/23 As I've said before, over a certain amount of money you have been "voted for" without being actually voted for, and have a ton of money and power. This creates a de facto worldwide oligarchy/monarchy. So - I suggest, heavily, a personal net worth cap. Any extra automatically given to the government specifically to preserve and remediate wilderness areas. 3/10/23 Actually this will also nicely take care of a large chunk of the national budget deficit, and help fund several desperately needed programs to ensure this country is rather civilized instead of lookin' like a slum next to a mansion in every town, such as a public option for health care, better large-scale infrastructure maintenance so utilities and the grid don't get uh, issues anymore, and reliable public infrastructure projects - planes, trains, buses, subways. That arrive on time and are clean, dammit. Ancient civilizations in history, such as China, Rome, and ancient Ireland as several examples, often prospered because of abundant and efficient trade routes, and there's a reason it's important, okay. Other countries have them, we don't, vehicle-based society is keeping our economy stifled and stagnant and our social lives and even national culture stifled too. The Interstate highway system and the roads and railroads that criss-cross the United States were created more than seventy years ago. Heck, even the ports and the river trade infrastructure is super old. They're archaic. We need to modernize interstate travel and make it far more efficient and accessible. As for privatizing these things, see how well that worked for the Texas electrical grid! Ha ha ha! (cries) 11/12/24 Another reason for a net worth cap is that Capitalism has its limitations. The old saying "every man has his price" doesn't apply to everybody but it applies to a whole lot of people, therefore promises to pay for all lawyer fees and recompense a person for their whole lives and/or that of their families' lives (or even whole bloodlines) could be potent enticement for a large amount of corruption, and a good enough enticement to commit a felony offense. It also can give an entire family legal funding for representation, when the rest of the population has none, plus health care taken care of, enough food, safe housing, and no exploitative businesses to work for, and that's a hell of an advantage in this country.
3/3/23 Taxes paid only once a year, even if you have a business or invest or whatever else. Oh yeah and also: total transparency of the IRS. Where's the money go? How do they calculate taxes? They are as opaque and obtuse as it is possible to get.
3/3/23 Drastically reduce Social Security and Unemployment benefits. ***3/16/23 Eliminate all government retirement benefits and Social Security benefits. These are full grown-ass adults, and if they want people the age of their existing or would-be grandkids to pay for their existence through taxes, that is THEFT. They're welcome to set up a GoFundMe or to perhaps ask for help on the street, not take it from total strangers without their consent. They had their chance to earn a living. In fact in most cases they still have it. This is a Communist policy. Out it should go. Also, unemployment benefits should last two months and absolutely no more. What, rewarding people for not working?! Also, watch and learn to see who will be complaining about these formerly hardline Republican ideas: it will be the Boomers and the Republicans, just fucking watch*** Instead, reform the disability process such that anyone who legitimately needs it can get it easily, and create a public option for healthcare and mental health care - no, this will not make private healthcare obsolete or redundant; you can have both. Also raise the minimum wage to something that is a living wage. If it is roughly as expensive to work as it is to just sit on your ass at home, something is seriously wrong.
3/3/23 Burn through and cut through as much red tape as possible at the local, state, and national level to make starting and running any business from micro to macro as easy, cheap, accessible, and streamlined as possible. I once heard that Hong Kong used to have business laws like that, making its economy boom. It's also a pretty huge deal for ensuring that the US remains any kind of relevant in today's global economy.
3/10/23 Revoke US citizenship for people above a personal net worth cap and do not allow them to visit here or live here either. Unless they donate the excess above the personal net worth cap to the government specifically to protect wilderness areas and to help reduce and get rid of our budget deficit. Those are oligarchs, or in some cases just parasites on the system - in all cases un-voted-for de facto monarchy. And the United States does not like or pander to dictators or kings and queens. Right? This is in essence a tax on the richest. But in my opinion better. 3/10/23 Have now heard the only logical argument for this kind of wealth: apparently it gives you one option via you can pour a lot of money into a futuristic project such as creating technological breakthroughs, space colonies, etc. There are several issues with this. 1. That money in and of itself is so often an excuse for intellectual sloth. Money is a medium of exchange. It does not magically create ideas or cause the underlings to dance like puppets on a string like vehement libertarians think it does. No, that requires drive, passion, and inspiration - none of which require money or even an external incentive from someone trying to get you to do something. I should hope this website has at least somewhat proved that point. 2. What makes you think that anyone rich enough to buy just about anything will spend it on something innovative, let alone ethical? What possible reasoning from the past do you have? Even if you look at industry tycoons known for philanthropic efforts, you often notice they made massive business empires using a multitude of people who were massively overworked and underpaid and had little to no human rights, plus no unions, and on the side - oh look, a charity project. Take with one hand, give with the other? It's just a cycle of shit. 3. No seriously ask yourself how many people you've talked to about what they'd do if they had some obscene amount of money, like won the lottery or something. Now imagine if that actually happened. I bet a lot of the time people think to themselves "oh they're just joking around, they wouldn't actually make a Dr. Evil lair in a volcano." Are you sure? After all, money is power. Ask yourself what power and influence has done to the people you've known. 4. You don't even have to look that hard to see people getting corrupted by money and power. Look at local businesses. How many of these business owners actually pay people a living wage, as opposed to making them ruin their bodies through indentured servitude that costs them more in the long run than if they'd just stayed at home and not gone to work? Greed all over the place.
3/10/23 Minimum wage you can live on. There's no justification for not providing this. If you can earn more by flying a sign on the street, like $20/hr (I have actually seen people manage this, more often than you'd expect; folks are generous), and not working at all, or by getting unemployment benefits, Social Security benefits, or even disability benefits (and I've heard this is pretty pitiful), than by actually working your butt off, something's not right. 5/23/23 thanks to some insight I explain in Hindsight Is 2023 section, federally investigate everyone who pays under $11/hr or an otherwise unlivable wage, work schedule, benefits, etc. really anything that'd make you almost have to have a death wish to work that job (employers can get away with so much bullshit these days) to see if they employ illegal immigrants and institute a minimum punishment for doing so at the federal level of 20 years in prison, all assets money and capital seized and converted to cash which then gets used for the benefit of the community (requires transparency so certain governors don't pocket half and use the other half for "public" expensive golf courses or something), a felony charge, and extremely high fines. But if that isn't enforceable at the federal level, then I think border states would do themselves a favor here. Wink wink, nudge nudge.
3/10/23 Speaking of being able to "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" and all that, hey government, how about making it possible for people who want to work but can't do the usual work due to various kinds of hindrances (i.e. disability, discrimination, mental illness) by creating a website for finding work that actually... uh... works? Elsewise you can expect to see a whole lot more GoFundMes and OnlyFans. Honest, it should not be required for you to go to college just to figure out how to get a steady job you can handle if you aren't "normal," whatever that means. As for anyone diehard about government interference in whatever, perhaps state and local governments and local agencies and charities can do this work too. Y'all are slacking.
3/10/23 Deadbeat parenting? Not up to snuff on child support payments? Now a felony offense. Goodbye voting rights. It is only fair.
3/17/23 Make disability benefits livable. Also, make minimum wage for everyone, including the disabled and those under 18, the same wage. This is not rocket science, people gotta eat.
Automatically enroll all eligible voters to be registered to vote, and make voting only done by mailed-out ballots with an effective, efficient postal service
Also see the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. We have diverged greatly from these documents legally speaking and that is not good at all.
7/4/22 Make all convicted child molesters and male rapists eunuchs and give them vasectomies also. Hey, if we abolished Roe vs. Wade, it's only fair. At the very least vasectomies for these folks must be mandated by the state. Thusly we will get fewer people seeking abortions in the first place? Duh?
3/10/23 Oh on that note with regards to the abolishment of Roe vs. Wade: the men responsible for the unwanted pregnancy should get a felony charge for causing it. Problem? (world's tiniest violin plays, also players out there: consider getting a vasectomy so as to spare yourself legal headaches)
3/10/23 Some more logical corrolaries if the unborn now have rights: animals have rights. Plants have rights. Crystals have rights. Nature Herself has rights, and land has rights. Even heavenly bodies like Earth and the Moon have rights. Sooner or later science will discover that literally all of these have sentience and can feel pain. You can call it animist, New Age or whatever you want. It happens to be the truth. Not everyone can sense these things but a lot of folks can, and honestly, a lot of them are NOT in Pagan religions or Witchcraft. I understand this is a pretty bold claim and can't back it up with proof, but have faith science will back it up, perhaps in a couple hundred years.
3/10/23 So speaking of notions currently considered ridiculous, here's one for the cheap seats. Children are living beings too and thus should have rights. All this hoopla about the unborn, okay great, but til you're 18 you are considered property of your parent or legal guardian under the law, and when they're not around, you're the slave of whoever is teaching you at school or supervising you or whatever, and you can't leave the building. And this is somehow "pro-life." Sure, pro-life for the slave owners, aka the parents. It will improve THEIR quality of life, sure. If you really think that all people have kids in order to be loving good parents, and not to be selfish or because they kind of went "whatever" in all their life decisions, then you are an idiot. Therefore, these rights (at the very least) have to be written into law: 1. Full legal emancipation from legal guardian or parent at the age of 13, not 18, meaning that is the age when folks can move out, get a job, live on their own, have their own bank account, their right to make their own personal medical decisions, to pursue GED and higher education, indeed all rights granted to US citizens (except for drinking (21), tobacco use (21), age of consent (18), bearing firearms (18, or 21 in some places), voting (16), and marriage (18)), and not have their parents potentially controlling everything. 2. Lower the voting age to 16. 3. Just in case it's not illegal in all states and US territories already, make all arranged marriage before the age of 18 strictly illegal. Duh. Oh, and of course raise the age of consent to 18 everywhere also. 4. Minimum wage for adults the same minimum wage as for minors. 5. Children that call CPS on their parent or guardian must then have said parent or guardian put on a list of potential child abusers, as a sort of red flag for future incidents for law enforcement to look at. And they must have a police officer then place a body cam on said parent or guardian such that their every move is monitored, all the time. I really don't care about violations of privacy in this sort of situation. 6. Body cams on all teachers and people who aren't parents of those exact kids, by default, in all situations where they are in charge of watching youth and kids. Yes this includes day care personnel and babysitters. 7. Allow anyone to get a GED at any age and then proceed to higher education, and put the entire contents of K-12 school online such that anyone can learn it at a public library or any computer terminal at any school, get the GED, and get on with life. Speaking of, put GED tests at every library and school in the country so as to make this feasible, and make it a felony offense for all school personnel to deny a student their right to study for this GED and take this GED test, even if it means "neglecting their other schoolwork" (whatever, studying for the GED is definitely schoolwork) (and of course to tamper with the results - these guys do have a vested interest in keeping their jobs after all). 8. Maybe put more safeguards in all these systems, like CPS, the foster care system, and the school system, such that the worst possible people are not actually anywhere near it and so they're not actively attracted to these things? Because it's basically entirely made of shitty people in all of these right now? You could start by mandating that teachers get paid more and also that they all have a Master's degree or higher in the field of study they are supposed to be teaching. Oh, and also by getting rid of the entire Board of Education, Teacher's Unions, and principal/board of directors structure then rebuilding everything from scratch such that it is literally only teachers who are running the whole thing from top to bottom and the bottom up. None of this "degree in teaching administration" running everything crap. That would be a slightly less stupid system. Maybe then they'd actually read the textbooks before using them /s 9. Deliberately exposing your kids to something like coronavirus and withholding the vaccine from them? Or some other medical malpractice or really any practice done to kids for any reason whatsoever that actually puts them at serious, significant risk of permanent disability or death? Automatic emancipation of the minors under the law. Don't worry, if they love you they'll stick around. If. 10. Any medical professional that saves a child's life or a minor's life against the wishes of their parent or guardian should still retain their license. I've heard at least one story where the opposite happened. Never again. Yes, that is a Holocaust reference, and yes, I have the right to bring that up! 11. 3/12/23 Seeing as how apparently some states (how?!) actually a. want to try to put kids in the foster care system despite having loving parents due to for instance being transgender, or really anything else, and b. still allow child marriage with parental consent, uh, shut that shit down. Now. Ban child marriage of any sort at the federal level, regardless of circumstances, no marriage licenses granted under the age of 18 period. And also, disincentivize traumatization of families torn apart by unwise separation by making it so if children have been taken into foster care unjustly as determined by an assembled court, the guilty parties get the death penalty. It's not just an insidious form of kidnapping, it is also a form of child torture given the shit state of the foster care system.
3/16/23 Make taxes and business regulations and law clear and easy to understand for just about everyone, and for those that can't understand it due to lack of education or disability, provide folks to help explain it. Why? Well, because this situation with lack of clarity about taxes and business law is killing the economy. I only know this much about it because I have a lot of free time. You really think people trying to start a business or work for a living have as much free time as I do? WTF. It gets weirder because the more you work and the harder you work the more complicated the taxes and the business regulations get, and the more you get punished for working hard.
3/16/23 Federalize business law so they no longer vary from county to county and state to state. Incorporate knowledge of this into the public school system so people who want to start their own businesses can.
3/17/23 Make it legal to bring all little ones to work with you. Not everyone can afford a babysitter, and it's not even safe to do so in a lot of cases. You abolish Roe vs. Wade? Fine, take being pro-life to its logical conclusion.
4/11/23 As long as employers continue to hire people for peanuts wages and crazy hours, we will continue to have a problem with illegal immigration and outsourcing. Crack down on the employers for exploitative work practices like this and we revitalize the American economy. It is that simple. Therefore, make it a felony to hire anyone who is an illegal immigrant, with all assets, monetary and capital assets both, from the business and all who own and manage it, for all businesses that hire illegal folks. Also shut it down. Apply the same penalties to all businesses that buy, knowingly or unknowingly, items made with indentured servitude or slave labor. Have government inspectors visit outsourced factories at random times, to see if they are complying with American labor laws, and also make all outsourced factories subject to American laws, to the greatest extent possible while in tandem with local legal systems. Make company HR entirely redundant by making government HR (state, local, and federal levels) the place you can actually bring up grievances against a workplace for; otherwise workplaces never get legal consequences for mistreating workers. Ever. As for people searching for good jobs, have you ever considered that working in the wrong place, for the wrong people, for an amount of money that is insulting, and in a way that wrecks your life and your body, is actually you being a scab? (someone who breaks a union strike, or in this case a common-law nation-wide agreement that work should be beneficial to both boss and employee) Not working for such shitheads is a form of protest. Indeed, working for their competitors if you can might be very worthwhile.
4/22/23 Tax all places of worship that are "nonprofit" - right. And yes, that includes every religious congregation.
5/18/23 Put a bunch of pro-life legislation into law. No, no, not what is called "pro-life." Specifically this: organic, well-balanced school breakfasts, lunches, and after-school meals and after-school recreational programs free for all kids up til the age of 18. Free homeless shelters for everyone up til the age of 18 that anyone can go to at any age if they feel they need to, up til the age of 18 (and stay there til then), if they feel threatened at home. Free treatment for suicidal ideation at a health care center attached to any hospital, and free ongoing counseling and mental health care thereafter. Free health care, reproductive health care, and mental health care for kids up til the age of 18 (last day thereof, day before they turn 19). Free job counseling for everyone up til the age of 18, as well as job placement agencies, mentorships and internships and apprenticeships in high school, and access to an online set of libraries free with US citizenship. None of this contingent on membership in any given religion, which is something I saw a lot in a wide variety of "charitable" organizations that would withhold (or grudgingly bestow minimum amounts of) the goodies unless you at least outwardly conformed to their religion. And all this subsidized by local, state, and national governments (and they get to define how much they pay so we can see how pro-life they really are) and by taxes paid by all religious organizations (same).
5/18/23 Speaking of "pro-life," a public option for health care is by its very definition pro-life. Or at least anti-death. So is a minimum wage that protects the poorest from poverty ($15/hr is fair, at least $11/hr); realistically someone has to work those jobs, and if you do not want to be that someone due to inhumane living conditions that result, then that's actually indentured servitude. So is legislation cracking down on people profiting from indentured servitude from illegal immigrants. You can't be against these things and also call yourself pro-life. That would be self-contradictory.*
5/23/23 Mandate, at the federal level, a maximum of five pages of legal terms and conditions. Single spaced, MLA format, 12 point font, at a fourth grade reading level. If it can't be summarized in five pages and understandable by people who are poor thus not likely to have had the luck of having a good education, the lawyers don't know how to summarize or rephrase and that isn't exactly flattering.
5/27/23 Institute a parenting license. Have an exam people need to pass. If they don't pass it and renew it every year, they get no tax breaks and significantly increased taxes to pay for their inevitable serious damage to society. Have all those taxes pay for one thing only: food for kids. And if/when we get a public health care option, then health care and mental health care for kids also. This licensing and exam will have to be completely transparent, and will have to be at the bare minimum standards for raising a child in a healthy and safe environment (and given what I've seen, that's pretty rock bottom, and honestly many parents I've known haven't even met those standards). Most "objections" at that point would be thinly disguised belief that a child is one's property, one's slave, and not a sovereign living being protected under the provisions of the Geneva Convention and are therefore invalid and inhumane arguments. I have a feeling any other objections to this will quickly pass when people see just how egregiously some folks will fail these exams. Also, deadbeat parents fail the exams by default.
8/23/23 Enforce a federal ruling that any parent without any kind of criminal record can visit any classroom in their child's school at any time, for as long as they want. Also, put body cams on all teachers and personnel in schools and in the whole education system. This won't prevent all of the gross civil and human rights violations that happen in school, but it's a start.
9/9/22 Here's an interesting notion. If black magic is a crime punishable by death, and I do believe it is, then this raises a couple of points. Firstly, it is true that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. So this means that anything in the world that has the same effect as any kind of black magic is also therefore punishable by death. Secondly, this begs the question what is black magic, exactly? Speaking as a Witch, it is any magic that causes extreme harm to the innocent, and harm includes deliberately affecting someone innocent's free will without their explicitly given consent. It is also any magic that causes a deliberate extreme negative change without a justifiable reason (i.e. protect the innocent by causing harm). When it comes to black as opposed to grey or "morally ambiguous" magic, you KNOW what it is when you see it (and I hope you never do, it's awful). Quite literally black magic is the magical equivalent of a war crime. So in practical, non-magical terms, what does this mean "in the nonmagical world"? I can think of several examples. Child abuse. Horrendous medical malpractice. Violent rape. Genocide. You get my point? There are a wide variety of crimes that one can commit and never walk back from, never be salvageable as a human being. We have to kill such people in order for innocent and weak beings to be made safe. There is no other way. So in other words I am saying the death penalty must be looked at more seriously. I'm sure a lot of soft-hearted people would disagree but they have not seen what I have. Have not met the monsters that I have. And all of these monsters wear big, charming human smiles, and look like humans. I tell you once anyone commits a crime at that level of severity there is NO turning back. Putin as a good example.
9/9/22 Consider another couple of examples of real world actions that create the same effects as black magic. Consider that deliberately changing another person's belief systems in such a way that it causes harm to them is effectively the same as black magic. A few real world examples include Chinese reeducation camps, religious brainwashing for kids at summer camps, the Native American boarding schools, all other brainwashing for political or social gain, and even some political or business pitches, such as some advertising, if used with psychological approaches such as hypnosis. In order to determine if any major psychological negative impact happens from a certain institution it is necessary to observe people going in to the place, and then people coming out of the place a few years later; major studies must be run on for instance the public education system. I saw kids full of hope and happiness go into school and emerge from it 12 years later, crushed in spirit, all happiness and ambition gone, all independent thought gone. Is that effectively the same as black magic? You tell me; requires much analysis and observation in my opinion and body cams on the teachers and administrative personnel. A more definite example is QAnon. It's a great example; the people behind that certainly do deserve death. It can be done, brainwashing for negative purposes. And alas, it often is.
9/9/22 Using that notion as a starting point, consider this. Our systems of crime, law, order, government, and punishment are archaic! You wanna know why? Because they allow evil. They even in some cases condone it. People often point to my religion as a good Witch and say "oh you worship an evil being, the devil," which is completely untrue (technical reasons here and here, also thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.) But you know what a lot of religions do? They adore evil. They will gladly cause immense harm to innocent beings because their supposedly sacred texts told them it was necessary or worse, that the universe needs evil in it in order to function. "Can't appreciate the good without the bad," they'll say. "Can't enjoy yourself if you don't suffer first." Wrong! Evil must be destroyed! And causing harm to the innocent deliberately is evil. Forgiving people who have committed war crimes and allowing them to get off scot-free so they can go do more of the same is evil. Is it evil to allow evil to continue to exist? Well, I haven't figured that one out yet. But I do know it's wrong to just let it fester.
10/3/22 A brief list of things that need to permanently stop. Included thanks to the pompous scapegoating of innocent people such as transgender ones and pregnant women. Which really isn't righteous if you look closely at it but is bullying convenient victims, plain and simple. This is not pleasant to talk about or think about but you know what? If you're clutching your pearls about something inconsequential that does not cause harm to anyone innocent, and causing harm to the innocent, you are the bad guy.
Human trafficking. There are a bunch of stickers in bathrooms in Houston where victims can supposedly call help lines. Yeah, cause they have phones on them, smdh
Pedophilia. I'm all for the death penalty on this one but life in prison at least.
People having kids for the tax benefits, social status, or otherwise selfish motivations such as gaining brownie points for a Deity, then using that child as a prop for their parents' ego
Rape. I am also for the death penalty on this one, and life in prison at least. It ruins lives.
Child abuse done by parents of said children. Yeah, because since a child is biologically yours, that means by default you won't abuse them. Bruh what planet are you from if you believe that shit?
All child abuse ever. Again, death penalty or life in prison.
Slavery under any name. Look closely enough and you see that any kind of de facto indentured servitude, such as minimum wage work with overpriced rent and living costs, is in fact slavery. The emperor has no clothes.
Befouling our nest, ruining the biosphere, destroying the environment, global warming causing wildfires and high temperatures and droughts and hurricanes, the tragedy of the commons. Has no one else noticed that we live on one sphere and if we fuck it up, we can't go anywhere else?
Endless -isms covering up a total lack of taking personal accountability for the state of one's own life and the conditions one has the opportunity to change. The more you whine, blame others, and otherwise disempower yourself, the less chances you have to do anything to change things. Dude. Just shut up and get cracking on solving the problems.
Whatever stupidity Russia's army is up to. Just make it stop.
Refusal to take personal accountability for one's actions, self, and life. You can certainly do that all you want, especially if you really love Fascism or Communism, but that does not negate the fact that you do as a matter of fact have free will and are, ethically speaking, responsible for your actions and their consequences no matter what the fuck you believe.
Invasions of someone's privacy, especially as it relates to their medical history, lifestyle, or identity. Unless you've got a valid search warrant. So practically speaking the love life of the neighboring couple is none of your goddamn business, and neither is their religion, their gender, their taste in music, or pretty much anything else. Does anyone actually enjoy having everything about them being put under a microscope for public inspection 24/7? Do you?
Extolling the supposed virtues of willful ignorance and stupidity! Oh my God, I've had it with this! It kills innocents. I don't care how supposedly noble the intentions are. Pure thoughts and prayers don't save lives, but they sure take them if you don't actually do anything in a logical, well-considered, well-educated way.
Evil - like the subtitle of that one infamous subreddit, "you know it when you see it." I am not referring to dubious evil in any sort of debatable religious or cultural sense but in a sense of true evil "holy crap this has crossed the line of any decent kind of behavior ever." As a textbook definition, the bits of the Russian government that support Putin, everyone that supports Russia's invasion of Ukraine including QAnon, and Putin himself. As the old saying goes, the only thing necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.
Torture
War crimes
Atrocities
Spousal and domestic abuse and domestic violence
Anything you'd want to have an international tribunal for, like Eichmann's hearing, or the Nuremberg trials
Anything you'd want to call in the US Marshalls, FBI, or Interpol for
Medical malpractice for profit
Unnecessary harm done to sentient beings
Legal systems and justice systems and political systems that are for-profit
Anything and everything that makes you question whether humanity is salvageable as a species
As you can see, a large array of depraved atrocities get committed daily, by a large amount of human beings. But "oooh skin color, gender, religion, and gender identity are so all important." Blame others so you get to blame all the problems in your life on someone else. Sure, and if you really need a scapegoat that badly I think the rest of us need to take a closer look at you.
More Ideas That Would Help
3/21/23 Make moonshining legal, regulated (to prevent people from getting methanol poisoning), and taxed (to fund the monitoring and regulating). Publish guidelines for making your own gasoline substitute and make it legal to use that to fill up your gas tank, and which vehicles can run on this. That is literally ethanol; it does not have to be made from corn. Fuck you, Russian government, glorified gas station!
3/21/23 Make weed, hemp, and all of its products legal, regulated, and taxed. Prohibition of weed has gone about as well as prohibition of alcohol, and has made the petroleum and wood industry rich. Like prohibition of alcohol it has likely also made an assortment of criminal syndicates rich, though we haven't heard about those yet. However these are destroying the planet. Make weed legal and we get all this back: industrial lubricants from hemp seed oil, hemp rope, hemp clothing (like linen), hemp paper, hemp towels, hemp sheets, hemp cloth, hemp canvas, hemp notebooks, hemp newsprint, and on and on and on. It's a renewable product, unlike trees. Also will boost American manufacturing like nothing else and create a whole lot of jobs. Medical marijuana is also of extreme importance as a substitute for pharmaceutical opiates; it is far less addicting and can still help folks manage extreme pain, even chronic pain. As for weed being considered a gateway drug, that is a sheer myth. It's been the victim of a very successful smear campaign but I have the luxury of being a musician, therefore have seen a whole lot of drug use, and all of us can tell you the same thing: weed is not the gateway drug. (Alcohol though, yeah, and opiates definitely by a mile; I wouldn't be surprised if opiate-producing pharmaceutical companies were behind a lot of the anti-weed campaigning) We have bigger problems drugwise: meth, opiates, tobacco, vaping, and above all demonization of drug users instead of state-funded rehab for them. (Plus having hung around a lot of addicts, I have seen that they often couldn't just go cold turkey, what was the stepping stone back to being sober or what they used when they weren't using heavy stuff? Weed.) You want more crime? That's how you get a lot more crime.
5/9/23 Eliminate felony charges, past and present, for all things classified as crimes that do not cause another person significant harm. For instance, weed as a felony offense, or bootlegging in small amounts, or piracy in small amounts. Get your priorities straight. Sure, they're legally considered crimes, but considering the amount of people who actually did commit felony offenses recently by coughing on total strangers while infected with Covid, or throwing dangerous shit fits whenever service workers denied them service because they refused to mask up, I think it better to have the cops arrest them, not the guy pirating stuff and smoking a joint. I've heard many arguments regarding this kind of thing tbh but use. science. Use logic. If you plan to convince me, or really anyone, with something convincing one way or another, stay away from the emotional arguments because a lot of folks, like me, just ain't listening to that shit anymore.
5/9/23 New Mexico has a law on the books stating that "idiots" are not allowed to vote. This is not enforceable because there is no legal definition of "idiot." However, there is a very handy legal definition that we can use. It's called the felony, and in an ideal world, you'd never be able to get these expunged (except in cases where the original definition of your "felony" was for something stupid like possession of weed or being convicted of a crime you didn't commit), and therefore never be able to vote. We can extend the felony charge to many things that make you, truly, an idiot. Including but not limited to: Anyone in the legal or judicial system that was conned into thinking a previous felony (not including petty crimes misclassified as felonies such as possession of weed or bootlegging DVDs; here I define “felony” as something that causes serious harm to other people) offender would “never do it again,” then let the offender out into the general population, and then the offender did it again. Deadbeat parents, as in, parents that fucked off once the kid was born or at any time after that and were never heard from again. Someone who has a restraining order filed against them for multiple counts of domestic assault and battery (as in, more than one because our legal system’s shitty and sometimes blindly believes convincing “victims”). All of these can and should be felony offenses. I'm sure there are many more examples that people more familiar with the legal, medical, and judicial systems could come up with.
11/3/23 One misdemeanor should make you lose ALL government benefits for your entire life: social security, disability, unemployment, food stamps, everything like that. We should not be rewarding people for gaming the system and then victimizing the people who follow the rules. Bills must be passed like this, with the idea of getting rid of this particular Communist practice. After all, the most successful ones in any Communist system are the ones that game the system the best and are the best at victimizing others while pretending to be super nice and "care about others" the most (which is really a ploy to get benefits from other people by playing them for suckers and playing on the other guy's niceness). Guess who will protest this kind of bill the most? Trump supporters. A lot of them are on some kind of government benefits or directly benefit from them. Or from social benefits, such as the "we are a self-sustaining clique" stuff they're good at nepotistically doing.
3/5/24 Death penalty for all pedos, child abusers that seriously harm a child, terrorists, people who have committed a war crime as defined by US military law, and violent rapists. You want world peace? You want to see this country live up to its full potential? That's the only way. Otherwise, as you can probably tell, both the best and the worst among us rise to positions of power. Unfortunately, for some they consider parenthood a "position of power" with which to terrorize their offspring. Yet people who have never experienced true evil in anoher human being or studied or dealt with disturbing-to-the-core criminal court cases just don't understand. There is no "rehabilitation" from that level of evil. There is nothing right, sane, or good about letting such people serve their time and then somehow get into the general population again. People have gone to war for far less; if you want to limit that level of evil in your society then run a social science study to determine if this idea really does reduce war - and violent crime within said society. You want to see who among the government is so scared by this idea that they would rather tank their political careers than see it go through? Yeah. I'd bet you any amount of money that those would be on both sides of the political divide, but you know you'd lose. Also, this may lose me readers, but if the only way such a law gets put on the books is to water it down, I think Guantanamo for life would be a fair and just choice.
4/16/24 The problem is not just that the rent or mortgage or whatever is too high. The problem is that living conditions are more often than not anti-life, and since there is no federal regulation mandating jail time for people who make those conditions happen, no one stops the problem. Therefore, we are a little distracted away from our full potential by just trying to survive. Struggle less = achieve more, economic growth, better quality of life. This is not rocket science (although passing such a bill will likely get the US to create space colonies quite soon). Therefore, pass a bill nationwide that does the following: 2 years jail time for first offense, 6 years for the second, and 20 for the third, for creating a health hazard substantive enough to seriously interfere with, as defined by a board of excellent doctors and by OSHA, the health or work of a nearby person by any means, including but not limited to hours of loud music for days on end, chain smoking in attached apartments, shining ultrabright floodlights directly into someone's window unexpectedly in the middle of the night, arbitrarily deciding stupid HOA rules like "you can't grow vegetables in your front yard" despite you being too poor to afford groceries, being a landlord that allows any such things in any tenants, being a landlord that is a slumlord who does not provide things like working air conditioning in Texas, etc. (there are many, many ways to tank someone's quality of life and send it straight to Hell, legally, right now in most if not all places in the US, doing this kind of thing). Also include in this list of offenses all actions considered war crimes and torture under U.S. military law, and all actions banned by the Geneva Conventions - except for, notably, the death penalty for convicted war criminals, terrorists, pedos, and all others on my list of "people who need to die." Include in such a bill that the state will provide very well paid legal defenders for people who call the cops on such offenders, and each person who does must be a. kept anonymous by the legal system and b. not billed. And guess who will be paying the bills for the legal defenders? The people convicted of this shit. On top of their jail time. Incidentally, if this becomes law, the terrorists tacitly encouraged by their enablers to cough on people while sick with Covid during the first waves of the pandemic will see a lot of jail time for this (and, I hope, also terrorism charges, but this is a good start at least), schools will no longer be allowed to violate the Geneva Conventions as there will be actual serious consequences, and serious polluters and despoilers of land will also see jail time and fines, so this covers a lot more than just slumlords and shitty neighbors and their prey.
6/26/24 Here's another law on the federal books that makes as little sense as the Statue of Limitations did. Bail. We do not need it and it's a major reason why Trump is not awaiting his trials in prison as opposed to house arrest.
7/6/24 This conviction has only been growing in my mind over the years: religion has absolutely no place in any legal system. Can you imagine how much things would change for the better if science was the only bedrock of law? Because I think it would be extraordinary
10/8/24 End citizenship for all corporations and businesses. They're not people. It's like arguing that AI is people except with that once it gets more sophisticated you actually would have a point. Corporations, businesses, and LLCs ethically speaking are not sentient beings and therefore do not have the same rights that people do by default, what people often call "God-given unalienable rights that you are born with." Yet they are treated as such. Machines or physical items with the same level of complexity (or need for them) that create wealth are not given those rights - a tractor is not given those rights, a ship is not given those rights, a car is not given those rights, a computer is not given those rights. Systems that have that much power are not given those rights - governments are not given those rights, religions are not given those rights. Yet of those, legally speaking a corporation is defined as "a person." Meanwhile, children, and in some countries women, are not. Why? Greed. Evil. Also, this way corporations and wherever they launder money from, including from foreign countries, can bankroll any political campaign as much as they want to further their interests. Thanks to nebulous arguments based on their so-called constitutional rights and also Citizens United. Which see.
10/8/24 The only real education I received from K-12 education was that if someone can get away with something legally, no matter how much of a crime it is or how unethical it is, they will. (And also "shut the hell up, do as you're told, and you will have a good life after school," which is a lie) If they don't, someone else will. Whether it's this year or not, whatever, each and every human interaction is rolling the dice with that, and over a long enough period of time with enough instances of human interaction the probability of tragedy increases until I'd the likelihood is probably 1 in 1. The legal system has not been structured with this in mind. In fact, a lot of laws on the books seem to see humankind as some kind of angelic creature that does no wrong with their free will decisions, unless the human is pushed to the brink. Bold faced lie. Laws must be structured with Murphy's Law in mind with regards to humans doing the right thing or not, and that includes the people enforcing the laws. What I have in mind here is total freedom under the law except for crimes that cause serious harm to the innocent as defined by science, which is what everyone can objectively agree on and which is backed up with evidence unlike other arguments. Yeah, I'm all for free will and freedoms, protected by law, but think about serious crimes here. Are things really set up to prevent those, legally speaking? Or are things set up so that people can pretend to be nice people, fine upstanding citizens, and the more evil they are and the better they are at pretending they're not they get all the money and power?
10/8/24 There should only be a maximum of three levels of corporation before they can't acquire and umbrella no more. They should be allowed to acquire three other corporations or businesses over their lifetime and no more. It should be completely illegal to have corporations be multinational; if they really want the stuff from overseas that badly, too bad! Buy it from allied countries! I understand that most of this information is online, but if it takes two months to fully cover a corporation's parent corporation and grandparent corporation, all affiliated branches and every step of their supply chain as listed online, there's a fucking problem
10/8/24 It needs to be illegal for corporations and all other businesses to have their financial base propped up with shares or other capital in or otherwise linked up to another corporation or business. It artificially keeps these businesses on life support even when their product is crap while better businesses fail. It screws up competition, and in the event of a stock collapse or major downturn, the corporations that rely on one another fall like dominoes! It's insane.
10/8/24 On that note everything a corporation, its people, and who and what they do business with do that makes the whole thing look like the Ginyu Force needs to be made illegal, for the same reason.
10/20/24 On the topic of privacy rights, it's tempting to be cavalier about it. I mean, corporate spying certainly builds profits, and selling user data to the highest bidder doesn't automatically (instantly) mean their information is sold on the black market to their stalkers or invalidate all witness protection. Not necessarily. It doesn't necessarily cause crimes to happen that harm a person's body. It doesn't necessarily mean that person gets targeted with harassment from robocalls and spam emails and spam mailing lists. (If a tree falls in the forest does it make a sound? If a crime happens to someone and there's no evidence, did it really happen?) But here's something you should know about the Middle East. Everyone is always up in each other's business. There are no secrets. Everything and everyone lives really close together, and everyone knows everyone. There's also the interesting fact that almost no one there speaks out in public about what's going on with them. You don't see a lot of websites or blogs or related stuff from the Middle Eastern countries explaining what all those folks did that day. It's mostly just people keeping to themselves and their families as much as possible. See how well that's working for them?
11/8/24 The number one alteration to our country's legal code that needs to happen is that no felon can ever work for the government at any level of it, not even as a city clerk. It needs to happen yesterday. Think about it, felons can't vote, but there's no federal law on the books that says anything against them working in or for the government. That's screwy!
12/3/24 You know how there is a law on the books that says you have the right as a patient to informed consent, where the medical professional has to explain the procedure to you in a way that you completely understand or they run the risk of a malpractice lawsuit, and they have to do this before you agree to anything? Yeah well that needs to be a law on the books for: legal agreements, legal counsel, all law, business transactions, trade and commerce, and politics. And bear in mind that since our education system sucks, much of this country apparently reads at less than a 6th grade level.
12/28/24 You know how by law all products must state exactly what country the country of origin is for each component of the product? We need to have that for each individual state in the U.S. I've heard the reason this isn't the case is "to promote competition in the marketplace," but I'm sorry, clearly that's not working, look at all the megamonopolies we have anyway. Besides, if I want to eat meat only grown in Texas, I want to damn well know it is from Texas. In fact, I only want to eat animal products from Texas as I know people in this state have a culture of not abusing their animals.
1/16/25 There is one reason why I believe a public option for healthcare as well as the current private healthcare melange we have right now is necessary. That is because private health care options in this Capitalist country, due to being captive consumerism, function exactly like mob bosses. It is extortion if you ever dare to get really sick. They punish you for it. You think you pay off a bill, but they sent it to collection without your say so, overcharged you for everything, billed you for stuff you didn't consent to buying, and didn't treat you at all on top of it. Oh, and that's with insurance. That's the way it is. I don't care about any right wing talking points on this matter. That being said, it won't be enough. It's progressed so far that the medical system itself is the cancer and a slew of "malpractice lawsuits," whatever the actual term would be in each case, need to be done on the system itself. By doctors and health care providers as well as patients. They get shafted by the system too. I find it fairly strange that people can delude themselves into thinking that this particular charade of a medical system is functional enough to care for them adequately if they get sick. They better hope the law of Murphy doesn't come calling.
3/21/25 We need to get rid of the legal authority of all executive orders (as in, from the President) except in wartime (as in, the majority of the U.S. military engaged in combat to protect the United States or in some other conflict as involved as World War II was), and even then each and every one should only go through if the current head of the military signs off on it. Maybe Congress, Senate, and the House of Representatives won't step up to the plate here, but we the citizens can demand it right now. I sure do.
4/6/25 A lot of stuff has been allowed under the law because it meets legal definitions under the Constitution. Specifically, religious rights as a justification for over-reproducing or treating women and children like property, right to "freedom of expression" cited as the reason why wearing masks and social distancing in a deadly pandemic is somehow "bad," right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness as a justification for the original Roe vs. Wade decision allowing abortions carte blanche, and probably a lot more. Now here's the deal, I think the Constitution needs another Amendment. I believe this Amendment should specifically state that all the rights and freedoms of the other parts of the Constitution and all of its Amendments are granted but ONLY IF a person does not use any of them to deprive anyone else (who is not a felon or any other country's equivalent - and it has to be an equivalent under the true spirit of the law, namely they have to be an evil sonovabitch) of those same rights. (And the "anyone else" includes non-American citizens because of the rights and freedoms this country has deprived people of due to outsourcing of labor in sweatshop factories.) Would this get complicated fast? Yeah but it's needed regardless. That's a glaring flaw in this founding document. Think about it.
4/6/25 Another edit to the Constitution I think is needed: instead of "all men are created equal," change the language to say "all living beings are created equal." Or as close to that as everyone can agree on. This covers women and children! At the very least the language needs to be changed to "all human beings are created equal." That's the Declaration of Independence. Thanks, me! God, I feel like an idiot. Okay trying that again: an Amendment specifically stating that all human beings are to be treated as equals under the law (and every single portion of it) to all men, including and especially women, and children except for anything to do with sex (namely: if you're under 18 you cannot legally consent, nor can you get married) or bearing arms or other weapons that are likely to be a bad idea for a youngun to wield, until the age of 18. Mainly because I've seen some interesting loopholes about child labor laws, foster care system abuse, parental child abuse, and abuse in the school system exploited to no end.
5/12/25 Hey why exactly are the requirements for getting a GED not federally mandated, fully accessible to all people over the age of 12 at any time and any grade in their school system, whether it's junior high, high school or (if held back) elementary school, and the same in every state? That's bullshit. Not only are you depriving young people of their rights to be emancipated minors and get a job if their parents are horrible, but you're wasting their time if they are stuck in a high school or school system that is not helping them or teaching them. Also, many school systems are abusive hellholes. Also, many people that age don't even have the opportunity to go to a school, being in homeschool or in some other weird situation. These students and young people deserve the right to pursue their futures their own way, and if a GED means they can skip high school and go straight to work or college, everyone benefits. Consider, if you will, the appalling lack of education put on full display by conspiracy theorists and Trumpers. You see? What we've had is not working. People think that you shove a pupil in a school building for more time they'll just "absorb more information." That is not how this works.
5/14/25 There needs to be more transparency of our big players in politics: us. See, if we're having a Government Of The People, and the people aren't actually held accountable for who they voted for in the slightest, such as by having their votes for Presidents, political histories in public office and government offices, and history of stocks and investments made completely public (but not the other stuff about them as that would be a violation of privacy) - you know, the stuff you want to know about your political candidates so you can make an informed decision - we end up with situations like a corporation or private equity firm polluting things and doing human rights violations behind a screen of total anonymity because the entity is legally defined as and held as the "person responsible," legally and socially depriving every person who is actually involved of all personal accountability. Meaning, they just get away with it and no one knows who is responsible. And if you don't like this, consider that most of this data is probably known to every corporation interested in selling you stuff or hiring you thanks to a Trump administration policy that explicitly got rid of any implicit privacy rights of U.S. citizens. My brain is failing to remember what legal decision this was but it does exist. Anyhoo, reason for this policy: we still don't know who is responsible for all the voter fraud and deluded voters that got this human tumor (thanks, Jacob Tomsky for the apt term) called Trump into public office.
5/14/25 We the people. We're the politicians. If you look closely at law and at the way this country is structured, we the people (mostly the rich, but definitely partially everyone else) got all sorts of rights, but precious few responsibilities along with them. Precious little accountability. And as you can see it's cost us. In the immortal words of Marilyn Manson, "I am the animal who will not be himself." (song lyrics here, imho good songs mean lots of different things and this song's got many, many interpretations) Given that now we know not everyone's going to do a great job at making a government of the people when things are going right, because hey, when things are going right who wants to make an effort, we need to start making some changes around here so at least we know who exactly is sleeping on the job or otherwise fucking things up. I'm not sure exactly how to do this on a large and small scale legally, but in person at least you can probably cease to support friends and family who aren't politically doing a damn thing, and cease to support those who are not doing right there.
7/6/25 I believe in universal second amendment rights... with one small concession. You have to pass basic training in our military first. With any modifications required if you happen to be disabled. If you don't do that, you are a danger to others and to yourself. If you don't see the point in this because you'd rather have all the privileges with none of the responsibilities required to effectively bear arms, consider: you are willing to sacrifice the lives of others without the slightest inconvenience to yourself. That makes you unfit to bear arms.
7/8/25 So, as I've said before, democracy is not something you can just imagine elected officials doing for you. It's literally government of the people and by the people, and that means you have to exert effort to keep it going. You want this place to be better you gotta get off your ass. Well here's another thing: the IRS is crushing democracy. Here's how. Firstly by making it next to impossible to open new businesses without plunking down $100K and 3-5 years into a business degree. But also by being so impossible to understand that it is actually impossible to unless you are employed by one of the tax agencies, making it effectively completely untransparent. No one knows what any of the tax code actually is unless they're employed by businesses that make a profit from ensuring that no one knows what the tax code is. And, the IRS also screws us by taxing the heck out of things that make no sense to tax. For instance, bartering. All of this makes it real easy to have a big business but damn near impossible to have a micro, small, medium, or even medium-large one. You know what this has done? Made it so the "you scratch my back I scratch yours" stuff that makes any local community vibrant and fresh simply not exist. I'm not familiar with all the intricacies of the law here but I do know that for instance in lots of places you can't collect rainwater or trade your homegrown tomatoes for the neighbor's bell peppers without it technically being illegal. All the laws have been set up to benefit the rich, but they've actually gone farther than that and restricted rights even for the rich. All of this put together, including and especially the influence of the IRS, makes it so that you get punished for doing business with your neighbors, and also punished for setting up your own business in an environment where worker's rights do not exist (they actually don't, behold the laws that benefits employers only, behold shitty service work jobs, behold how it's actually more expensive in many cases to work a job than to be a bum). Here's how that crushes democracy: wage slaves don't have the energy to fight back. It's too exhausting. I've heard people use this sort of thing as justification for insulting Capitalism, but the truth is that this is one version of Capitalism - the worst possible kind where people do not bother regulating it or fighting wealth inequality, especially with regards to protecting the poor. There are "good" versions of Capitalism. I think we can get there. There are no "good" versions of Communism because it's rape culture (I went into detail explaining this at the entry dated 2/18/25 here.)
7/12/25 My husband actually came up with this idea. We should be able to unelect people as well as elect them. Here's how I think about it. We should have that on the ballot too. Think about it - under our current legal system if an employee is horrible at their job, you can fire them. If someone is convicted of child neglect, that child gets put into the foster care system and taken away from the neglectful person. If a marriage goes sour, you can get a divorce. But there is no legal recourse for when a politician goes bad - they just get to finish up their entire term, pocketing money from whoever bribes them the most all the time. Think about how they can get paid too. "Hey I got paid by the Democrats, but the Republicans are gonna pay more so I am just gonna vote for this issue for the Republican platform... oh wait no, that was outbid by a rich Democrat, ha ha, now I vote thisaway. Hey here's this company or political action group or lobbyist with a fat paycheck telling me to vote for something, I'll just pocket that and not look too closely at their motivations. I win." Anyway when such a person shows their true colors it would really be nice to be able to get rid of them. In fact, not having this option on every ballot at a local, state and national level makes about as much sense as the statute of limitations did - namely, none.
8/11/25 Everyone in our government and everyone eligible to vote needs to be under the age of 75, or they are unable to participate at all. Unless and until we get medical treatments that are verified by good medical science to improve cognition to the extent that a person that old is not as cognitively impaired as someone who is under 75 but totally drunk, and ways of ensuring that said elderly people are actually taking these drugs and doing these treatments exactly as prescribed by their doctors, it makes as much sense to have them vote as it does to have someone who is a known felon vote or be a part of any portion of our government. Namely, none.
8/11/25 Apparently if you are registered as either a Democrat or a Republican in many places in the country, the systems set up for voting will automatically have you vote for the preferred candidate of that party even if you don't personally vote. That should not be a thing. Gerrymandering should also not be a thing.
9/11/25 The "Not Rights" section may not have made this clear so here it is: nobody deserves anything they did not personally earn. Get it? Nobody deserves a single thing that they did not earn themselves. Everybody but felons and war criminals are, however, worthy. Maybe not of everything in existence, especially in obscene quantity and all at once like the Grand Nagus or something (besides, no lobes) but at the very least worthy of the rights listed on this page. Deserve on Dictionary.com and Worthy on Dictionary.com. The difference is entitlement. It's a subtle difference but a critical one for any democracy, if you want the laws to make any sense whatsoever. You can spin this idea however you want and I'll just say this - it is not intended to strip government benefits from say, youth, or the sick, or the disabled.
11/1/25 The Hollywood dramatized "subliminal advertising" method of flashing still images that you can't perceive consciously within advertisements or movies might be illegal. I think it is. But every other kind of subliminal advertising, whether in words, political speeches, colors, anything akin to what I put into Detecting B.S., and anything else that doesn't involve a person's conscious decision but only their subconscious, unconscious, and instincts - that's totally legal. And it shouldn't be. Reason: well, it boils down to consent. And everything that changes a person's mind without their conscious, fully informed consent is a kind of rape. Rape being defined here as "intrusion, usually violent and unpleasant but sometimes not, into a person of something they do not choose and do not want." Now the dictionary definition of rape, here, defines it as sexual activity without consent of one of the persons involved. However, legally there should and must be a new definition, and I define it as both of these: 1. "To not allow a person the conscious, free will, fully informed choice to say yes or no to something that directly and intimately affects the most intimate aspects of their being, specifically: mind, soul, and/or body." 2. "Intrusion, usually violent and unpleasant but sometimes not, into a person of something they do not choose and do not want that affects them significantly enough to result in a significant loss of personal autonomy and free will." That's a huge difference with massive scope and impact and I say it needs to be written into law as the new definition of "rape" right away. In fact, if I am not mistaken entire countries and U.S. states and territories have more rights under the law for personal sovereignty than a person does over their own body, mind, and soul.
11/3/25 This would get rid of a lot of problems: a set of laws for corporate transparency. These are a good start: each corporation and subsidiary corporation must have the same name as the parent corporation, with optional additions, so everyone knows who they're buying from. The corporations must also have each of their CEOs, board of directors, and literally all of their personnel except the people producing the products themselves listed on the product labels. Each person working at the corporation, making decisions for the corporation (including that interesting revolving door of "board of directors," consultants, and financial/tax preparation groups - there are only four major ones btw, really sus - that seems to be present in every corporation listed in each investors' yearly stock investors report), and investing in the corporation must be legally liable for everything that corporation does and creates in direct proportion to how much they have invested in it and/or done stuff with it. For someone working there, the years they've worked there should determine the amount of liability. For someone investing, the total percentage of shares. For someone advising or as part of the group that makes decisions for the corporation, as per the percentage of the decisions they have made for the corporation thus far, as an individual person, out of all the decisions made for it done by each individual (only the higher-ups who actually make corporate decisions mind you, no consumer pressure or "investor pressure," etc. as some kind of flimsy excuse for slimy behavior in the top brass). Repeal Citizens United; let's see how much corporate money goes into political pockets and who's donated it. Require all donations to every political candidate and party to not only list the exact name of each person who invests (and make certain it can only be an individual person who invests, not a business), but to also list their occupation and any businesses they have ever worked for, been a part of, or owned. Plus any corporate governance they are involved in now. At the very least get rid of Citizen's United. It's just as disastrous as No Child Left Behind, which we also should discard completely. I know this isn't perfect. You got any better ideas? - 11/3/25
*inb4 "you're a liberal democrat" ok tell me you haven't read this site without telling me you haven't read this site