The right to complain

Christopher Hitchens warned not to let people take away your right to complain. When he said it he was talking about Islam specifically but I think it speaks to a broader point about what's happening in society today.

Hym "No. Don't fuckin listen to Matt. He knows and has conceded entirely that he is not fit to be a mustache-man. He lives a life of shame as a disgusting smooth-face and should be treated with nothing but contempt and derision. The right to complain, however, IS fit to be a mustache-man. It is our fundamental right. The CARDINAL right from which all other rights are derived. The conservatives are trying to take that away from you (not in a legislative capacity but a social capacity) with their 'Stop complaining and get back to work, slaves' rhetoric and the Liberals are trying to take that right away ( again, not in a legislative capacity but in a social capacity) with their 'Anti-aggrievement' rhetoric that presupposes the grievances of the under-class that you are allowed not to give a shit about are illegitimate. Reject this blatant and repugnant attack on our rights! I am aggrieved! I have a right to BE aggrieved! And my rights will not be denied!"

by Hym Iam August 23, 2024

I'm not competing

I'm not competing for my own life or the proceeds from living it. Make them give the proceeds to me now. I will meet ZERO conditions. This has not aggrieved the people you are doing thus in the name of in a way that distracts from that fact that I am and was right. You need to grow the fuck up.

Hym "I'm not competing and I'm not going to ascent to your values as a precondition to getting the credit I deserve for both being right about the thing I was right about (which is significant) and the contributions I have made to things. Talking about other people is not the problem here. Me not doing the self-improvement is not the problem. You're not 'beating me at my own game.' "

by Hym Iam December 13, 2025

...aaaand that's ANOTHER ten SECONDS that you'll never get back from COMPLAINING about it!

What you sarcastically quip back at someone who is bemoaning da fact dat he wasted ten minutes of his life doing something dat turned out to be useless.

Dude #1 (having just super-briefly talked to customer-service after waiting an absurdly long time to get connected): Man, what an insufferable delay just being stuck on hold --- THAT'S ten minutes of my life that I'll never get back!
Dude #2: ...aaaand that's ANOTHER ten SECONDS that you'll never get back from COMPLAINING about it!

by QuacksO April 29, 2024