Stupid Internet Trends

            In general, internet trends are bad and the people who do them should feel bad. Sure, some of them do good to people and our society as a whole, like the ALS IceBucket challange. Before that challenge that disease had never been heard of, and it got people to raise money for a good cause even if it was to prevent a bucket of ice cold water being dumped on you. But just like always, I will be focusing on the bad because I'm just that kind of person.
            The genre (if you can even call it that) of "internet trends" consist of two main parts:

1.  The Challenges: These are pretty bad. Again, some of them do some actual good, but then there's stuff like the Gallon of Milk challenge, where you have to drink an entire gallon of milk in one sitting until you throw up. Another is the Cinnamon Challenge, where you have to eat a spoonful of cinnamon without any other toppings or flavors, and most likely gag or, again, throw up. Then you show it to all your Facebook friends and "challenge" them, and the cycle of stupidity continues. What makes it entertaining to see someone gag or throw up after eating/drinking something you know is bad for you, and then doing it yourself? Most likely it's peer pressure, and the challenges are probably started by some insane freak that would like nothing more than to see people suffering on social media, then recommending it to their friends. Nice. 
2. The phrases/sayings/acronyms: Bro, fam, no chill, savage, omg, ermahgerd, fml, and so, so much more. Whenever any of these or more are said it makes me want to cry. Is this what the human race has come to? Calling each other "fam" and whenever someone rudely insults another person we call them "savage" and "no chill" and reward them? Using cutesy acronyms rather than just spelling out an entire word or phrase? It disgusts me. Our language is made so that it doesn't have to be changed; so that we all have a common way of communication rather than trying to decyfer an acronym that people invent just so they don't have to say a couple extra syllables? To be honest, on the internet it sounds okay, simply because I get people would rather shorten their messages than having to type out a whole message. But in real life, it sounds awful. Use our language like it's supposed to be used and we don't have a problem. 

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Politics and All That Stuff- Part 1

          I have some very set opinions about politics, so before I go on a roast fest if you get easily butthurt about that stuff or are a fan of annoying hapless bloggers who do this because we get graded on it weekly, please click away right now.

          Today we will be focused on Presidential Candidate Donald Trump, which is a far more grand and signifigant title than he deserves. And there's a couple issues I have with him that I will be discussing in the following paragraphs.

1. Racism: This guy sure knows how to make people mad. First of all, he calls all Mexican illegal immigrants rapists and murderers. While there may be some rapists and murderers among the population of Mexican illegals, it's not even close to a majority. I get that there are a lot more Mexican illegals than any other race, but he targetted specifically Mexicans out of all the others, therefore making him a racist. He also said he was going to kick out not only all of the millions of illegal immigrants, but their children too, which is unconstitutional seeing as the children of illegals are protected by the 14th amendment. And what's all this "Great Wall of America" stuff, anyways? Building a wall stretching 1,933 miles could take billions of dollars. And where's he going to get that type of money? His own wallet? I doubt it. More likely our taxes will be raised to cover the cost, therefore making a large part of his campaign about lowering taxes irrelevant and hypocritical. And what makes him think a giant wall will keep out illegal immigrants anyways? Even if he was to build a giant wall, immigrants could just sail around via the Pacific Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico. 
2. "I'm the real deal": WEEEOOOOEEEEOOOEEEEOOO! Hear that? That's the sound of someone who has no political skills! Trump claims he isn't a politician, since the word politician in America gives off a bad light. But his "realness" gives way to disrespect to his fellow candidates via Twitter. Now imagine this guy was president. Would you like him to be walking around the United Nations headquarters, insulting all the leaders of the world? If his insults got really bad, it could end up with longtime allies now being enemies, the United Nations being disbanded, maybe even a repeat of the Cold War with Russia (Vladimir Putin is agressive enough without Donald Trump insulting him in front of his entire country). His slogan is "Make America great again", but I think he would make America far, far worse.

       Overall, I frankly don't understand why this guy is even running for prez. But yet he has the vote of the majority of Americans. They believe he'll uphold their freedoms, and he will: for the 1% of the population he actually cares about, the rich. Especially since he is part of that percentage. These people treat the presidential campaign like a game of war, and Trump's winning. The reason why is because Trump tells the Americans what they want to hear. Sadly, a great number of Americans are still intolerant of people who aren't white, Christian, blue eyes/blonde hair, straight and male. Trump preaches to their unlawful desires for our country, and they listen. And this is the guy who is going to be inevitably elected for president. 

Censorship makes zero sense

          Why would we as a society come up with a few words we deemed as "bad" and then forbid anyone to say them? And what makes a "bad" word unacceptable? Is it because most of them are harsh or rude? If so, why is it somewhat acceptable to say "I hate you, you suck" rather than "**** you"? It makes zero sense. First, if bad words were unacceptable, then why would it be created in the first place? Deeming something unacceptable just encourages rebellious, edgy teens to use them as much as possible. There sure are a lot of those.
          And then there's the other part of censorship, censoring human body parts. Again, these certain body parts are deemed unacceptable for the public to see. Which again makes zero sense. What distinguishes these body parts from the others? Is it because they all play a role in the reproductive system? If so, why don't televisions censor your biceps because they have a role in your muscular system?
          The purpose of this wasn't to ask for change. I'm fine living by the weird ways and laws society has invented for itself. In fact, that's why I find history so interesting: you get to see how these weird ways developed into what they are now. But sometimes it's just good to step back and wonder why things are the way they are. It makes you look smarter, too.

Sources: Warning: This video may be pushing the envelope a little bit

Ahmed's Clock

     Racism or not, Ahmed Mohammed did not deserve all the media attention he got. So before I ramble on, a bit of backstory is required. A 14 year old boy, Ahmed Mohammed, brought a strange looking clock to school in Texas, which was believed to be a bomb and the police were called. This was in the days surrounding 9/11, so paranoia about terrorist attacks was increased too. Anyways, the boy was arrested, but then the clock was actually found just to be a clock that he had built. He was released from jail and now media is making a huge deal out of it. Racist or not, Mohammed's teacher was simply doing her job when she called the cops after her student brought this suspicious clock into her classroom. Her job is to protect her students, and so she did. Regardless of race, if ANY human being brought a suspicious device into my classroom (if I was a teacher), I would call the cops immediately. But now the teacher is being accused of racism, and the kid is getting all this attention. Here's a list of all the things he got due to this event:   .

• Scholarship to NASA Space Camp
• Offer to visit Facebook/ Mark Zuckerburg
• A t-shirt worn up in space
• Tours of MIT and Harvard
• Offer to visit General Electronics Headquarters
• An internship from Twitter
• Possible internship from Reddit
• Offer to visit Autodesk
• Free circuit kit
• Scholarship to New European College (business school)
• Tweet from R&B artist asking if Ahmed wanted to join the music business, then he'd help him.
• And so much more attention, trending hashtags on Twitter, news interviews and stories about his "bravery", and so much more

           All of this for a fourteen year old kid. He now basically can go to whatever top achieving college he wants. will get a guaranteed internship and career at his pick of electronics companies, and even gets offers from musicians and business schools if he doesn't want to go into electronics. He never again needs to worry about college, getting a job, or any of these things. And all these things come from a questionably racist act and a homemade clock. Now does this seem fair to you? Even someone who excels in school and is at the top of their class can get about half of these things if they're very lucky. People work their whole life to achieve something like this and Ahmed just gets it handed to him on a silver platter. All this attention may have generated from racism (if it even was that and not just common sense to call the cops over a questionable object) but other racist acts happen every day and gain not even close to this kind of attention. And I'm not denying that he may or may not be a victim, I'm not denying that there may be some questionably racist acts involved here, but this kind of attention is really unneccesary. I almost feel bad for this kid for being suddenly thrust into the spotlight,recieve all this stuff and suddenly being super popular at school and online. But I suppose that's just how the media works, and the average American eats this stuff up and chews it for a couple of weeks before suddenly forgetting about it.                                                                                   ~~~ Ahmed Mohammed~~~