Oppression; A Short Essay On The Effects of Power, Suppressing The Weak

 I recently got into a discussion on twitter about Patriarchal oppression on women. The person on the other side of the argument was saying that Patriarchy was only oppressive to women, while men are not oppressed. My argument was that Patriarchy is universally oppressive regardless of gender. That gender roles were oppressive, regardless of gender, and that double standards are equally oppressive regardless of who is on either side. This was probably the most I have ever typed the word "oppression" in a day. I feel like there was a communication loss is 140 characters, so I wished to further clarify points, and go into the nitty gritty about what oppression is.
 The best way to learn what something is, is to define it. Dictionary.com defines oppression as; "the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner."
 Keep those main points in mind. It's the exercise of power in an unjust or cruel manner. By definition oppression could be police beating peaceful protesters, that certainly is an exercise of power, and certainly is cruel. It could be being refused a job despite being qualified based on the color of your skin, that's unjust.
 Oppression by figures in power or authority has been around for thousands of years, whether it's Hitler's ghettos and death camps, or it's the Jim Crow laws of the 50's and 60's, you can go back to monarchs of Europe who sent thousands on death marches and taxed the poor to death, all the way forward to groups that choose to use beheadings and torture to prove power.
 The idea of oppression in the context of the discussion I was having was referring to Patriarchal oppression, the idea that men rule the society and stack chips against women, keeping them in position of subservience compared to male counterparts. My argument was that under the Patriarch, oppression against males was also bred, in regards to forced gender rolls, discrimination against men being proper caregivers to children, an imbalance in conscription laws, and lack of support for men who are victims of hetero-domestic violence and rape crimes. The counter argument that was made against me was that, Males aren't oppressed, because woman have far more against them when it comes to the ruling Patriarch. While I won't argue that a lot of women have it worse than men in most regards, the argument that all injustice isn't oppression gets me.
 A man can't be oppressed if no one takes a rape crime against him seriously, but a woman is oppressed if she doesn't get a job she is more qualified for than a man. Either way that is injustice bred by the power of the patriarch, thus is oppression. You can't say, because generally someone has it better than someone else the person in the worse situation is oppressed while the one that doesn't have it as bad isn't. Just because 6 million Jews died in Nazi concentration camps, doesn't mean that they are anymore oppressed than the 100,000+ Kurds killed during the Al-Anfal campaign. It's wrong on either level, no matter the severity. Just because, few men feel the effects of Patriarchal oppression doesn't mean that the oppression doesn't effect them too. It stops them from living their lives in a truly free way. It's authoritative control unjustly effecting another human being. IT IS OPPRESSION.
 I also tried communicating another idea, and that is the equilibrium of oppression.  What effects someone, effects everyone. A man is working on a project to revolutionize rocket engines for spacecraft, he is a contractor for a company that hires an assistant for him. The administrator that does the hiring doesn't hire women, and rejects several well qualified female candidates and chooses a less qualified male. The man working on the project is hindered by the less qualified assistant and the project takes longer and costs more. That money that was wasted on the increased length of time was tax payer funded. The man was oppressed by the patriarch by having under-qualified assistant in the project with him. The unjust control of the hiring process directly effected him, it also effected everyone down stream who funded the project. These tax payers are men, they're women, they are non-gender identified, it doesn't matter, the cycle of oppression effected them equally.
 Oppression holds everyone back not just men, not just women, not just black, not just white. It directly effects us. Anytime an unjust power holds a section of humanity back, it holds everyone back. We should take the plight of others as serious as we take our own. It is only through empathy, understanding, and unity we will ever effect change.

-This is Phillip saying Make Total Destroy

The Two Types of Libertarians

For the most part Libertarians and Anarchists get along. We both don't like government, we both agree consenting adults should be allowed to do what they want within reason and both groups for some reason flock to deserts. Now that being said Libertarians as a whole can be broken down into two groups, generally. Really smart people and really crazy people.
 What I mean by this is, you have the group of smart kids, the ones in high school who would debate politics, maybe started off skewed a little right, then became full blown Libertarians in college or maybe they didn't go to college, but I digress. Next you have the crazy Libertarians, which anyone in the more extremist communities could be a little familiar with. These are your drug dealers, your backwoods rednecks that believe you can fight off an army with an AR-15, and your hyper extremists who prep for the revolution and have a shrine to Gary Johnson in their bomb shelter

                                Praise our lord and savior Gary Johnson May you deliver us from the GOP