These disciples of a jewish zombie want you to hate sex

For about the last week and a half campus hereabouts has been bombarded with flyers, posters, and earnest fresh faced kids pushing something called “Porn Nation” and encouraging people to go to My Sex Survey. It’s obnoxious and in your face and supposedly hip and cool but it’s also more than a wee bit deceptive and sketchy as all hell.

To start with Porn Nation is bankrolled by Bravehearts LLC, an organization that seeks to raise awareness of ‘porn addiction’ but also to bring “the gospel of Jesus Christ” to thousands. But the flyers make no mention that this is basically a religious pitch to a sense of guilt and shame using bullshit statistics to coerce people into thinking that they are a) addicted to porn and b) can only be saved by getting down on their knees and praying fervently to some made up dude in the sky.

Just because we both breathe oxygen doesn’t mean we agree

I’ll admit it, I watch politics the way most men watch sports.  Obsessively, with a beer in hand and yelling at the TV.  Hell I even vote, even though I know that makes me a bad anarchist.  If it makes my @ friends fell any better it’s mostly for local stuff and write-ins, but I digress, the rationale behind my voting will (hopefully) be explained in a future post.

Today I’d  like to talk about the most annoying development of the campaign season.  And by annoying I mean mostly for other people. Personally I’ve enjoyed myself quite a bit poking fun at the supporters of Hon. Mr. Dr. Ronald H. Paul Esq. Ph.D. DDS.

Usually I’d give the leader of lock-step drones the benefit of the doubt (with the exception of Ayn Rand and the Pope) but this story today, along with earlier reports of taking money from Stormfront (I’m not going to link to Neo-Nazi sites) pretty much cements his place as a douchebag of the first order to me.

Which is funny because according to some of his supporters I should be voting for him.  Huh?

That’s right, it seems a popular strategy, and one that has apparently won over some ‘leftist’ activists, involves pointing out that Ron Paul supports X, the person being proselytized to supports X so therefore that person should support Paul.  Usually this is an issue such as the Iraq War, or legalizing drugs.  But in my case the person hit upon Paul’s desire to ‘abolish the government’ which I am, apparently, fully in favor of.  The problem with this approach is two-fold.

1.  It assumes the person being spoken to is stupid.  So stupid in fact that they are willing to disregard all of their other beliefs that may be in conflict with Paul’s to embrace this one point of connection.  I like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, but I am not so foolish as to believe that everyone else who likes PB&J is a going to agree with me on everything else.

2.  It grossly simplifies complex issues.  This one may actually be a bit of smart planning on Paul’s part.  Our modern media environment encourages this sort of behavior to a large extent since it’s all about sound bites and 30 second policy statements.  But my reasons for opposing the Iraq War are not Paul’s reasons, my reasons for wanting to end the War on Drugs are not the same either.  And my opposition to large scale federal government has absolutely nothing to do with Dr. Paul’s.  I oppose the state’s institutions because they create inequality, whereas Paul seems to oppose them because they prevent greater inequality.

So next time someone comes at you saying you should vote for Ron Paul (or Clinton, or Obama, Romney, Guiliani, etc) because they have a policy statement approximating yours think about where they’re coming from and where you’re coming from.  Or not.