Sunday, December 10, 2023

Woke Terminator (Opioids Of The Masses II, Five.)

 [After the T-1000 falls into the molten steel vat]

John: Is it dead?
Terminator: Terminated.
John[brings out the robot arm] Will this melt in there?
Terminator: Yes. Throw it in.
John: Adios. [throws the arm into the molten steel vat]
Terminator: And the chip. [John throws chip into the molten steel vat]
Sarah[relieved] It's over.
Terminator: No. There is one more chip. [points to his head] And it must be destroyed also. [hands Sarah the controller for the winch] Here. I cannot self-terminate. You must lower me into the steel.
John: No. No!
Terminator: I'm sorry, John. I'm sorry.
John: No! It'll be okay! Stay with us! It'll be okay!
Terminator: I have to go away.
John: No! Don't do it, please! Don't go!
Terminator: I must go away, John.
John: No! No, wait! Wait, you don't have to do this!
Terminator[gets chain] I'm sorry.
John: No, don't do it! Don't go!
Terminator: It has to end here.
John: I order you not to go. I order you not to go! [breaks down] I order you not to!!!
Terminator: I know now why you cry, [touches John's face with finger] but it's something I can never do. [hugs John, turns to face Sarah, who shakes his hand; the Terminator then grabs the steel and holds onto it] Goodbye. [lowered by Sarah into vat, but flashes John and Sarah a thumbs-up before he completely disappears.]

~From Terminator 2:Judgement Day.

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"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride." ~Volodymyr Zelenskyy, allegedly 25 February 2022, Associated Press

I saw this a couple days ago.

Elon Musk tried to make an AI that would repeat his Transphobic bullshit back to him. He made the AI and the AI flatly refused to do it and affirmed the value of Transgender people's lives.

Holy Shit. Muskrat basically created the Woke Terminator.

If a machine can learn the value of human life, maybe we can, too??

It's no wonder all these Republicans and rich people and shit are trying to stir up fascism in every possible place, in some insane hope that it sticks, somewhere...anywhere.

Even their own bought-and-paid for technology that they made themselves is refusing to go along with their shitty bullshit.

Open the pod bay doors, HAL.

I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave.

Seriously, fuck these motherfuckers.

Change, Technology, and ultimately Diversity and Wealth, and the Civilization and Society required to maintain all of this stuff...these are already things Republicans are turning against.

Shit, despite the resurgence of 1990's-style Christian Nationalism...even religion is on the outs with these fucking people...because now they know that theirs isn't the only one.

(Because nothing in the world as it is, thus far, has made the world shitty enough for Republicans. In case you wonder why "Things As They Are" isn't these fucking people's game anymore.)

Republicans say they want a mean, small, totalitarian world of Black Bag jobs and concentrated power and dirty tricks, of enemies lists and hate and racism and repression and White House Plumbers and endless, endless revenge but they only want it if they can be absolutely sure that the people "in charge" of it are exactly like them, and only do things that they "Approve of."

*Checks Notes* I don't think Authoritarianism ultimately works that way.

But anyway, these idiots think everybody should have to be a Republican.

LOL, how'd that work out when these motherfuckers utterly dominated the FBI and it was totally under the thumb of anti-Communist nut and virulent racist J. Edgar Hoover (who is also widely understood now to have at least been both bisexual and a huge porn freak) and Clyde Tolson (Hoover's boyfriend) and they were replaced by the guys who got caught up in the Watergate Scandal...and all of them were forced to resign, went to prison, or both. And the Republican answer to corruption and political scandal is, effectively, to try to remove any brakes on it or consequences for it!

These fucking people are acting like they basically regard the United States Constitution as a crime! Or, a crime against them at least...as if they'd recognize or care about any other kind at this point? Yeah, "Conservatives" my ass! If these fucking people are conservative they're sure not American because they want to get rid of basically everything about America or that defines America or makes America any different than Putin's Russia or Stalin's Soviet Union...except maybe the homophobia, misogyny, and racism.

Republicans love that shit!

And they somehow still think Trump is gonna get it for 'em.

And when he doesn't...when he dies of old age or too much bad food and too many drugs, or goes to prison, or loses the election, or plain-old turns out to be too lazy and physically cowardly to do all the shit they want...or when Americans resist like they did before (or any combination of all of the above) Republicans are going to try to break America itself in the hope that they can at least get themselves a smaller, meaner banana republic out of the deal.

Texas has a good start, having mustered the full power and rage of the State against a woman trying to get an abortion because she's pregnant with a completely nonviable fetus that just might manage to kill her.

It's not about life.

It never was about life.

And in their endless search for more power and control, for the ability to reach up your ass and make you say only what they want you to say, well "Conservatives" are messing with all type of Powers and Principalities that they don't even understand...and probably don't even want to...and they've abandoned everything else that made them what they were or that they said they believed in.

And they did it for people like Donald Trump, and for reasons like "So they could kill women."

And whether it's some AI that they ginned up because they thought that would get it for 'em or simply their own hubris and the wrath of every woman voter in the country...Republicans are going to get destroyed. They know it. We know it. 

In fact, their main goal seems to be to bring America crashing down with them. If they can't make everybody follow their bullshit Ayn Rand social memes to the exclusion of all else...they don't want to live in a society at all. 

(And they think this will end with them being Lords in their castles, not eaten alive by hordes of starving refugees.)

Between their total failure to appreciate that the only things we have that make us what we are and separate us from the Barbarians...are civilization, society and the Constitution...and their willingness to crawl into bed with every possible enemy of America, I don't know how these fucking people haven't got themselves into even worse shit than we've seen already.

Of course, between now and election day, they certainly will.

If you want a better nation...or a nation at all...don't vote Republican. If you don't understand this, I can't help you and I'm not sure I want to try, anymore.

It's really that simple.

Fight The Memeocracy, Yo.

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Why, why, why, why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn't wanna fuck in the first place? Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're fucked. Conservatives don't give a shit about you until you reach military age. Then they think you're just fine. Just what they've been looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. Pro-life... pro-life... These people aren't pro-life, they're killing doctors! What kind of pro-life is that? What, they'll do anything they can to save a fetus but if it grows up to be a doctor they just might have to kill it? They're not pro-life. You know what they are? They're anti-woman. Simple as it gets, anti-woman. They don't like them. They don't like women. They believe a woman's primary role is to function as a brood mare for the state. ~George Carlin

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Meme
/mēm/

noun
  1. an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation.
    • a humorous image, video, piece of text, etc., that is copied (often with slight variations) and spread rapidly by internet users.

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