How to be a complete jerk about it, By Mark Morford
Let me just ask you outright: Are you a bit of a thug? Do you like to shoot very large animals for no real reason and then hug their massive carcasses to your body in what many feel is a rather disturbing and vaguely bestiality-friendly manner as your BFF snaps a photo of your shameless, mile-wide smirk and posts it for all the world to cringe over?
What about women? Do you like to leer at the world's youngish, able-bodied, more sexually charged females -- especially the ones who are smarter, healthier and far less sweaty than you (which, let's be honest, is nearly all of them) -- and flippantly frame the entire gender as an irresponsible harem of gold-digging, liberal sluts looking to have as much reckless, awesome, whore-like sex as they can and then have the government clean up any mistakes?
How about issues and ideas, politics and public debate? Is it your most favorite thing ever to take the most combustible, extremist stance imaginable on nearly every topic, no matter how grotesque or absurd, and then slam your way through the nuances and counterarguments with a sledgehammer made of phlegm and odium just to get attention, gathering enemies and antagonism like a spent nuclear rod gathers imminent doom and wrapping the whole thing in a glorious sheen of brazen douchebaggery?
Is this you? Very good. Let us call you Option One. ...
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