Contrarian? Anti-authoritarian? Rebellious? Extremist?
I call it Ameri-CAN.
I have always had a rebelious side to me. I despise hearing words of “you have to”, “its mandatory”, or the worse one “you will,,,”. That last one gets my ire up into boiling range RTFN!!!. I’m kinda surprised that I made it through boot camp due to that nature of mine, but I did, and it did teach me discipline, and that there are times where someone has a better idea of the bigger picture, and its time to pay’tention, or get your ass handed to you with interest. (Thats not to say I didn’t spend a goodly portion of my time making sweat stains on the quarterdeck; I’d be willing to bet that 6’x3′ stain in the concrete is still there 30 years later. And I still recall the names and tone of voice of EVERY one of my DIs. )
But I still have that “aw fuck no! You did not just tell me,,,” attitude. And its not prejudiced. Even my current boss gets slap back when his orders aren’t clear or just outright stoopid. And I blow up and quit at least once a month. What can I say, we have an interesting relationship of employer/contractor and it does work to both of our benefits. Personally, I’d have fired my ass a long time ago, but he has a hell of a time finding a replacement for me, even after I have offered to train such a person. It may be the locale ad populace issue, or that he’s pretty tight with cash and many won’t do the job for less than $xxxx and he ain’t paying it. I only do it for what he offer because its very convenient to me and I can take off long term if needed. (Gar-un-damn-teed, I will get a call while away and have to walk someone through troubleshooting something. ) Even so, the benefits suck swamp water.
But. Thats me. Obtuse, callous, contrarian, and the last few years, truthful to a fault with speaking opinion on things. Yes, I know pne should temper wording to be “nice”, but the more I see the world falling into the shit it is, the less I want to be nice. IMO a lot of the issues we face are because we have been TOO nice. Appeasement is just begging to be walked over and I have had enough of letting the slackers and grifters have their way. I call ’em out now. And if someone thinks “its out of character” for me, best get used to it cuz I’m sick of the shit.
Like this meme I posted the other day.
I don’t give a rats ass what you self identify as. I dont give a rats ass what your sexual vice is. There are three genders MALE, FEMALE, HERMAPHRODITE. That last one is a very rare bird in polar species, but does occasionally happen. You can not procreate without a pair of the first two. (And some jackknob argued that lesbians have kids all the time. Yeah, with a sperm donor, QED a male and a female to create!!!) All that other shit, like Buckwheat said, “ya pulled outta Uranus”. You’re gay? Fine, don’t care, don’t wanna see it displayed in public anymore than I wanna see a hetero couple doin’ the deed in public. Gotta thing for little kids? Now we have a problem. And there are more of that shit being passed onto the general pop, as id it were supposed to be normal, and the more disturbing part os that a very small portion of society is playing along with the illness.
Virtue signal much?
Mentally disturbed is NOT normal. Seek help, don’t demand acceptance. In these parts, certain ‘bending of sexual norms’ will get you in shallow grave and ain’t anyone gonna say squat, and its not likely there would be much investigation about it. And that says something because there is a rather large portion of lesbian activity openly displayed around here. (Prolly some activity among the boys as well, but they keep quiet about it,,,)
It still boils down to “pointers” and “setters” as one old timer says.
I don’t give a damn what your self-identity is, so long as you are a functional human being that doesn’t demand I castrate my personal beliefs to accomadate your mental delusions. And Functional in this case means ‘self supporting’. Can your delusions be self-supporting without castrating common beliefs or demanding acceptance?
Mine can.
And my ‘delusion’ is that I’m obstinate ornery old curmudgeon hermit living on a hill.
