Slashdot | Dealing With Dialup

Slashdot | Dealing With Dialup: Some dumb-ass on Slashdot is wondering how to get faster internet access for his rich-ass parents who live on Cape Cod. One thing he suggested was this:

I also suggested they talk with their senators and local political reps.

Since when is it your god-given right as an American to have high-speed internet access, so much so that you'd feel it appropriate to put pressure on your senators when they have other, more important shit to take care of? You know, shit like a failing economy and a war that has contributed to the failure of that economy?

Seriously, what the hell is wrong with Americans? We live in this massive, United-States-sized vacuum of entitlement and irrationality that disgusts many of the people living within it, and undoubtedly the entirety of the rest of the world. Yet, we believe that the rest of the world is simply 'jealous' and hateful of our 'freedom' rather than simply reacting to our obliviousness and arrogance.

Over one hundred twenty thousand people in Myanmar just died, with up to one hundred thousand more possibly dying due to secondary illness. Over ten thousand have died in the Chinese earthquake. About a half million Iraqis have died as a result of our invasion. There is horrible genocide occurring throughout Africa and Asia. Yet we Americans, people of the richest country in the world, would rather do nothing and sit in our comfy little Victorians worried about whether or not we can download photos of our spoiled and entitled brat grandkids in under ten seconds.

What the fuck, man?!

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