Unfuckingbelievable

I'm in a terrible mood today. I'm writing this in what is probably the mistaken belief that the mainstream media does not actually represent the mainstream of human culture right now; and that the United States press, both sides of it, also do not represent the mainstream. This is not going to be a blog post about D&D, or anything that most of my American readers are going to want to read about. I'll keep this as polite as I can and try not to sink the popularity of this blog.

First of all, I do not care about the World Cup. I think many others right now are doing what I'm doing... tolerating the nonsense sham of encouraged enthusiasm, just as the Knicks were shoved down our throats when, likewise, I did not care. I do not care who wins the basketball final because I'm not invested in something I can't do, can't enjoy, can't feel emotions about and which, in essence, assumes that because I happen to live in a given city, I give a rat's ass about how the sports team of that city performs, or what other sports teams from other cities that it beats. I feel the same way about the World Cup. I have played soccer, but I have zero investment in other people playing soccer and I do not care what country they come from. No matter who wins, no matter what arbitrary country boundaries they happen to live in or be from, I'm sure they'll be very good at "football."  That is as far as my concern about the matter lies. I'd be able to forget about it entirely, except that Google has a series of extremely annoying short videos that I'm forced to see every day reminding me about something I'd rather not be reminded about.

As far as Iran goes... and I really shouldn't say this, but... for the sake of my soul. The United States people in the majority elected a bloated, arrogant, ignorant rapist and pedophile, with delusions of role-playing as the world's hockey goon... twice. They had all the opportunities in the world to see to it that this goon could not be elected again, that this goon should have seen the inside of a prison, that this goon should have faced some kind of justice, and instead they all thought about their own careers and their own needs and did fuck-all nothing about Jan 6... so this goon went ahead and attacked a foreign country without provocation, like a tin pot dictator, without any real consequence to himself and his cronies, like Hitler invading Czechoslovakia, except that he got his nose broken and his knees broken and was forced to accept that it was an incredibly stupid, impractical thing to do... not to mention a very BAD thing to do, except that because he's American, the American press won't just repeat that over and over again. The country attacked another country — never mind which one, because the rules are that no one does this, ever, under any auspices, period, done deal. Except that he did, and oh poor, poor, poor, poor, poor America, they lost a fucking war because they got their ass beat by the nominal Czechs in this situation, and now have to eat crow or dirt or whatever they have to shove down their poor sick throats now because it turns out that being the "greatest country in the world" doesn't seem to matter fuck all where the end results occur. And now the big bad other country is going to get a bunch of things that even liberals in America are unhappy about... and seriously... seriously... to everyone taking America's side here, fuck you. Them's the breaks. You let this moron goon off the chain, he did something very stupid, YOU LET HIM, and now here you are. Suck it up, all of you.

Congratulations. I didn't think it was possible, but the long and the short of it is that IRAN are the good guys in this scenario.

Unfuckingbelievable.

There.

My conscience is clear. Hate me as you will.