Things that make you go, "Hmmm"
By Rod Van Mechelen, March 2015 - Olympia, WA
In this column I pose questions and raise issues. The purpose is to put a slightly different spin on each item, provoke thinking or give you ideas for how to respond to things. Think of them as "sound bite arguments."
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Men can sustain civilization and improve life without feminists telling us how to do it.
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If Rand Paul were to lament about children injured in car crashes, would that make him anti-car?
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Feminist efforts to liberate female sexuality and destroy male sexuality could if successful create a hive society.
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Feminists celebrate women following the progressive herd but condemn men going their own libertarian way.
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Thanks to feminists, the most impoverished men are viewed as the oppressors of upper middle class white women.
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ISIS is Al Qaeda rebranded and both created by the CIA, which has a long and sordid history of replacing democratically-elected leaders with dictators.
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During the past 20 years feminists have turned "accused of rape" into "accused rapist," and an accusation into a presumption of guilt.
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The anti-black racism of a few generations ago has been replaced by the anti-male sexism of today.
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As an American Indian man I'm anti-feminist because I've experienced feminist bigotry.
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In 1991 unwanted attention from a man was sexual harassment, now it's attempted rape.
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None of the snow in Boston is real it's just right-wing propaganda to discredit Al Gore. (For the humor-impaired, that's a joke.)
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Many modern feminists are motivated by self-loathing, envy and glee.
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Instead of "hope and change," President Obama has given us "tenfold more of the same."
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The "dark ages" in Europe were a time of peace and commerce with few wars and no great empires, so what was so "dark" about it?
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Criticizing the government can be patriotic.
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If women can be attracted to the wealthiest men, then men can be attracted to the prettiest women.
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Too big to fail is a fascist scheme to transfer wealth from the middle class to the banksters.
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Are government agencies buying ammunition to undermine the Second Amendment?
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Obama authorizes drones to kill civilians in Yemen and Pakistan but not against ISIS?
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Liquidity is not solvency.
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As the World Congress now views exercise as medicine, will the FDA require us to get prescriptions to exercise?
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"The biggest conspiracy is that there is no conspiracy." -- Gregory Mannarino
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As political leaders are figureheads, who are the members of the powers behind the thrones?
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Will feminists ally with progressive neo-liberal MRAs against libertarians?
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Naomi Wolf asserts that there is no definition for libertarian; she is, therefore, a faux libertarian.
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Greece can recover their economy by becoming a tax haven.
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In 2016 will the Republican mainstream make the same stupid mistake they did in 2012 and give the election to the Democrats?
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Will the Republican mainstream run a Democrat-lite candidate in 2016?
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Why do Republicans continue to believe Mitt Romney is a successful businessman when he bankrupted so many businesses?
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Democrat or Republican makes little difference when most of the politicians are fascists.
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Are efforts to increase minimum wages intended to spur investment in automation?
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Evidence of warring factions among the global elite includes the currency wars.
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How many countries has Russia invaded lately, and how many has the US invaded?
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The US destroyed what government Libya had, and now it is infected with ISIS.
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Judges lie to juries about Jury Nullification.
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American activities in Ukraine are equivalent to Russia's activities during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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In the US, Congress gets first rate health insurance while the rest of us get Obamacare.
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When millions of women violate feminist dogma to embrace 50 Shades of Naughty Thoughts, misandrists blame men.
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By whose standards would the FCC determine what internet content constitutes hate speech?
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The Republican Mainstream attacks big labor but caters to the crony capitalists, who do far more damage.
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Big labor is safer to attack than the banksters and crony capitalists.
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Eliminating unions removes the protections that prevent the progressives from taking punitive, politically motivated action against conservative employees.
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If deflation discourages business growth, then why has the PC market grown despite falling prices?
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Authoritarian thugs resort to force rather than reason to silence their critics.
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Now that the FCC has taken over regulating the Internet, will censorship of political speech follow?
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Climate change is real, anthropogenic global warming is a lie.
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Totalitarian thugs hate freedom of speech.
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If impeachment removed Obama, we would have Biden, who could run in 2016.
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Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan is now warning that the US economy is facing a crisis.
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The decline of men is the fruit of a feminist agenda that began 50 years ago.
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Only an imbecile would believe humans should "fight climate change." What do they want us to fight next, the solar wind?
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