Hess: So what shall we toast to, boys? I can blather on about “To health” or “To success,” but I’d like to do somethin’ a little less rote. Where you from, Brown Eyes?
Migs Mayfield: How ’bout a toast to Operation Cinder?
Hess: Now there’s a man who knows his history.
Mayfield: No, I don’t just know it. I lived it. I was in Burnin Konn.
Hess: Burnin Konn?
Mayfield: Mmm.
Hess: That was a hard day. I had to make many unpleasant decisions.
Mayfield: Yes, you did. Entire city gone in moments, along with everybody in it. We lost our whole division that day. Man, that was like 5-10,000 people.
Hess: Yep. All heroes of the Empire.
Mayfield: Yeah. And all dead.
Hess: Well, it’s a small sacrifice for the greater good, son.
Mayfield: Depends on who you ask, don’t you think?
Hess: [irritated] What you gettin’ at, trooper?
Mayfield: All those people, the ones who died, was it good for them? Hmm? Their families? The guys I served with? Civilians, those poor mud scuffers, died defending their homes, fighting for freedom. Was it good for them?
Hess: But we’ve outlasted them, son. They’re eating themselves alive. The New Republic is in complete disarray, and we grow stronger. You see, with the rhydonium you’ve delivered, we can create havoc that’s gonna make Burnin Konn pale by comparison. And then they’re gonna turn to us once again. You see, boys, everybody thinks they want freedom, but what they really want is order. And when they realize that, they’re gonna welcome us back with open arms. Ah. To the Empire.
[Mayfield chuckles, then fires a blaster at Hess' chest, killing him instantly. He and Mando then shoot their way out of the mess hall] ~From The Mandalorian, Season 2, Ep. 7 "The Believer"
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And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. ~Revelation 13:16:18
So, apparently Texas is trying to target the right to interstate travel now...literally a
core-text right guaranteed by the Federal Constitution...because this is America and nobody says (or can say) that women in Texas have to
stay in Texas for
any reason whatever. And the Right is obsessed with trying to stop women from traveling because somebody might go somewhere where abortion is legal and have one.
I'm going to remind you again, this has not one goddamned thing to do with Christianity or with any alleged "Right" to be alive. Same people could give a fuck if a pregnant woman gets shot by some nut with a gun in a mass shooting...all the more so if she's a teacher in a school or some other category of person they don't "Like" or both.
And let me remind you, abortion is just a pretext. These same assholes actually could give a shit about abortion. They simply have a never-ending need for control, for power and relative status, and an obsession with the idea of screaming their shitty beliefs in someone's face and then hearing them screamed back. It's not actually about forcing submissive obedience...oh, they'll tell you that it is...but if they ever get that their bullshit falls apart.
Without an enemy to fight, without heretics to hunt, without the "Left" or "Liberals" or whatever to endlessly rail against...and to either fight and kill or
endlessly jack off to the idea of fighting and killing...these people's whole "thing" simply
falls apart. They get bored, wander off. Any other collaborative effort at
anything...even something so basic as not catching a goddamn virus, is both
beneath and
beyond them.
You'd think these fucking people's atavistic belief in fascism and fighting would result in endless war at some point, but they had that and they got bored with it...and left Afghanistan to fall to the Taliban because in the end, even the kind of unending war-for-profit that they say they want (when it's somewhere else, at least) was too damned much work for these shitheads, or they weren't making enough money, or something.
They don't like other people...but they don't like each other, either.
Honestly, at this point I'm more than afraid to ask what they actually do like and I'm seriously wondering if whatever it is isn't something so heretical to their alleged belief system that they can't even talk about it at this point. (Case in point, snipped Tweet from yesterday.)
And, fundamentally, they demand to be entertained.
The cruelty is the point.
The debauchery is the point.
Consider the kinds of events that these motherfuckers struck a defiant tone with during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I'm specifically thinking of a beachside Jeep roundup in Texas in the spring of 2020 here.
It might've, on paper, been something like just a Jeep roundup, but there was plenty of drinking and drugs and sexual fuckery and shit going on at the event. I saw the video, shit looked like the official video for "Rump Shaker" by Wrexx-N-Effect, but with Jeeps instead of boats, fuck, even the title of the event; "Go topless" was a double-entendre.
Under
normal circumstances that's
perfectly fine...and harmless enough...but when people bring antisocial attitudes and politics into it, something like that becomes
a whole different animal. When you turn it into saying "Fuck Civilization" or "I don't care if I get sick and spread this virus"
that's not cool.
It's the same way with shit like abortion bans, religion, and targeting interstate travel.
These assholes could give a shit about what's actually happening. They just want a certain perspective on life to win out at all costs...and to be able to enjoy themselves and say "Fuck You, I've got mine " to somebody...all the better if doing so implicitly enables them to hurt somebody else.
Now...how well do you figure that's all going to actually work out if these fucking people have to fight a war??
The only way they might have a shot at winning, is if it's fought by Wagner mercenaries and shit on their behalf.
But they want it, anyway.
If you don't think...should these fucking people get the power they want to have, somewhere...that this won't result in arenas and blood-sport and human sacrifice and people being fed to lions and shit...you have another thing coming.
(And it's not just the far-Right either, I think this is the same reason that the Horseshoe-theory Left loves Communism enough to still be positively Evangelical about it...despite the global power of the Red Hordes having not been much of a thing since 1989.)
These fucking people basically want to cosplay at being an elite of some kind...while knowing that somebody somewhere, preferably with a greater or lesser social status than themselves...is suffering under a Totalitarian Jackboot.
I'm just going to take a moment here and say to the reader...if you're like that about anything: "Fuck You" doesn't even begin to cover it.
Freedom is not zero-sum.
Rights are not zero-sum. If
you have it and
somebody else doesn't...freedom or rights isn't what you have. What you have is
Privilege...and right now, privilege is tearing this country and this world apart and the
Slime of Humanity is taking
full advantage of that to try and make this world
even worse for
everybody.
And if they ever get the power they want, those sons of bitches will put a goddamn computer chip in your head and/or your right hand and say "It's not the Mark Of The Beast when We do it!" while pointing to some alleged anecdote half a continent away and saying "That's what's really going on Over There."
Just saying, it'd be real good right now if at least a third of humanity would stop being c
redulous dipshits, mired in
eternal petulant childhood, or
willfully ignorant on purpose.
And the further places like Florida and Texas go down this Nazi rabbit hole...and keep doing so, even as the Federal government and much of the rest of the country says "Fuck you, No" and literally refuses to cooperate...the stronger my conviction becomes that it's
going to come down to a fight.
In fact, the more America says "No" the more these motherfuckers
will want to destroy it. And if they can't do
that, they will try to break away
with whatever they can get.
And the Right's going to lose, I honestly think they know it. But they don't care. They want "Progress" of any sort to have to be earned in blood. They want resistance to reactionary bullshit to have to be physical force in nature simply because they are determined that their secret altars of Dis Pater and Mammon and Moloch must be spattered with blood for the world to continue...even if the blood splattered all over their temples is their own.
And more to the point, these fucking murderous ass clowns look at anybody who'd recoil in horror from this savage bullshit (even anybody theoretically on their own "side") as "Weak" because they'd gladly worship demons and devils if that's who offered them unfettered Power.
And they regard being Motherfuckers as Strength.
If Abortion or whatever could be framed as part of the Operating System for their Power Ideology, they'd be 100% for it.
If these assholes had total control over Abortion to determine if people they disapproved of could even be born or not...they'd enshrine it as Gospel and fuck whatever they said five minutes before that.
And trust me when I say anybody who points this out, publicly or privately, would be the next motherfucker up against a wall.
These fucking people have decided they
want their Idiocratic, Totalitarian Memeocracy...and they don't give a shit
what they have to burn down to
get it.
You either fight against that shit, or you don't. There's no half-measures, no middle of the road, no neutrality.
"Conservatives" have already decided they want to be the Empire from Star Wars...and they're convinced enough they'll get it somewhere that they're already going around competing to be the guy who's shouting "On Program" in the other prisoners' faces.
And they've made enough of a full-court press that they'll likely get it. Russia is already part of the way there.
If you don't think these evil bastards would basically engineer the Clone Wars in Florida and Texas to get those states the rest of the way and find a way to have them unbound from the rest of America, you're just wrong.
If their 'Empire' becomes a thing it has to have someplace that's a gateway to Western luxury for the Russian oligarchs.
Worse, since too many of these people's beliefs (Despite MBS and Saudi Arabia, etc.) preclude actually including most of the Middle East (mainly excepting secular Syria...and don't forget also-secular Turkey got voted off the island when they sided with Ukraine) in it on any kind of a membership basis...they need someplace besides Russia that's full of Fundamentalist Christian zealots to fling against the Muslims. Rural Texas would serve that purpose just fine (for example.)
Seriously, bro, I've heard some
scary shit from Russians in some of the videos I've seen where just
random people get interviewed...the older ones in particular
really do think themselves the Master Race. But those people...at least the ones who are
like that? They won't want to sacrifice
themselves.
But when you've got a third of Americans that'd burn down their own schools to deny a Black kid or an LGBT kid an education...or wall itself off from the world to prevent a certain kind of woman from getting an abortion...they don't have to, do they??
Republicans have become the very things they said they hated...not because they looked too long into some Abyss or stared into the fire in Plato's Cave for too long...but simply because they got bored and figured it'd hurt the rest of us more. And all their conspiracy theories and moral panics are simply about creating a justification and a pretext for exactly that.
They don't believe Vladimir Putin is their Soviet Jesus because they like him...they believe it because they hate the rest of us, and that hatred is the only core "Value" they recognize as any such thing.
You either believe in Freedom and you're willing to fight for it, or you don't and you aren't.
It's really that simple.
So get after it and do your duty as a citizen and as a free person...or be prepared to live in an eternity of subjugation.
Again, I can't put it any more simply than that
Слава Україна!
[Cassian and Kino Loy have successfully broken out of their cell block and took over the prison complex's command center]
Cassian Andor: Kino. Tell them what to do. It has to be you. Come on, Kino. You do this every day. Tell them what to do.Kino Loy: [presses PA system] My name is Kino Loy. I'm the day shift manager on Level Five. I'm speaking to you from the command center on Level Eight. We are, at this moment, in control of the facility.Andor: Is that the best you got?Loy: How long we hang on, how far we get, how many of us make it out, all of that is now up to us. We have deactivated every floor in the facility. All floors are cold. Wherever you are right now, get up, stop the work. Get out of your cells, take charge and start climbing. They don't have enough guards and they know it. If we wait until they figure that out, it'll be too late. We will never have a better chance than this and [looks at Cassian, knowing he said it] "I would rather die trying to take them down than giving them what they want." We know they fried a hundred men on Level Two. We know that they are making up our sentences as we go along. We know that no one outside here knows what's happening. And now we know, that when they say we are being released, we are being transferred to some other prison to go and die, and that ends today! There is one way out. Right now, the building is ours. You need to run, climb, kill! You need to help each other. You see someone who's confused, someone who is lost, you get them moving and you keep them moving until we put this place behind us. There are 5,000 of us. If we can fight half as hard as we've been working, we will be home in no time. One way out! [repeats it multiple times as he leaves the command center]Andor: Come on! Let's get out of here!
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"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride." ~Volodymyr Zelenskyy, allegedly 25 February 2022, Associated Press
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