Evil Elder Gods Nationalism (Soylent Red, Two.)

Every one of the thousands at the airport, about to leave for Jeddah, was dressed this way. You could be a king or a peasant and no one would know. Some powerful personages, who were discreetly pointed out to me, had on the same thing I had on. Once thus dressed, we all had begun calling out "Labbayka! (Allahumma) Labbayka!" (Here I come, O Lord!) Packed in the plane were white, black, brown, red, and yellow people, blue eyes and blond hair, and my kinky red hair -- all together, brothers! All honoring the same God, all in turn giving equal honor to each other.

That is when I first began to reappraise the "white man." It was when I first began to perceive that "white man," as commonly used, means complexion only secondarily; primarily it described attitudes and actions. 

In America, "white man" meant specific attitudes and actions toward the black man, and toward all other non-white men. But in the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That morning was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about "white" men. 

~Malcolm X, letter written following the Hajj.

I saw this a couple days ago. At a TPUSA event there were literal Nazis, White Supremacists, out front protesting and talking up a bunch of dumb shit, like saying that "White people kicked Black people's asses in the Rhodesian Bush War."

Bullshit.

Metrically, Provably, Bullshit.

It's provable that this is bullshit simply by looking at a current map and seeing that Zimbabwe is on it, and Rhodesia is not. The only way it could be more obvious bullshit is if it'd actually fallen out of a bull's ass. The ZANU-PF Black Nationalist guerillas won, and the Rhodesian Security Forces lost. A negotiated settlement and reversion to British rule under Margaret Thatcher's Tories to stabilize things before new elections was the best deal they were going to get and they knew it.

Being only one out of the many rather than the rulers beats the shit out of, you know, Death.

Yes, you can argue all day that the Black forces suffered higher casualties (In point of fact the casualty ratio was nearly ten to one.) That's not even close to the point of any war, especially an insurgency. The objective is not to destroy the enemy, so much as it is to break the will to fight. That goes double for an insurgent war like the Rhodesian Bush War In fact, by the end of it, it wasn't an insurgent war anymore. The racists had done so badly at counterinsurgency, at winning hearts and minds, that Both sides had heavy artillery, tanks and shit.

And the Rhodesian security forces would have been outnumbered two-to-one. Against a conventional invasion using Soviet doctrine and likely backed by Mozambique, especially when your own forces are built for highly mobile counterinsurgency rather than massed mechanized combat. That's bad odds even if the other side is using old Soviet cast-off T-34's vs. your own Polish-produced, South African-provided T-55's.

More to the point, though there was a core of professional White soldiers, and some elite units like the Rhodesian SAS and the Selous Scouts were all-white and they had American and other foreign white volunteers (many of whom were anti-Communist, Christian and racist extremists.) the majority of the active-duty Rhodesian Army always consisted of Black soldiers and that only changed in favor of the Blacks...especially by the end of the war.

Change was going to come, anyway, even if they successfully resisted.

It's hard to look a man in the face and tell them they can't have a say in how their country is run when they're both in the majority of the population and bearing a salad bar on their chest full of military decorations and the scars from earning them.

More to the point, despite initial alignment with the East Bloc (and Zimbabwean alignment with China that continues today) Beneath a thin veneer of socialism, Robert Mugabe governed basically as a standard conservative though he of course extended full economic and political rights and freedoms to Black people. I know Zimbabwean people...Zimbabwe is devoutly, massively, overwhelmingly Christian.

None of that matters to These Fucking People, none of it ever really did.

Change came, a lot of the Whites left because they didn't like having to compete on an even playing field with everybody else, they weren't 100% In Charge with a gold-plated certificate from God anymore, and nothing else mattered.

And that's exactly what These Fucking People are afraid of here, even though change has long since come and simply become the new goddamned normal a long time ago, "Conservatives" have only in the last few years caught on to this because they often live in an increasingly radicalized echo chamber, and have done so for a generation.

If you don't think these motherfuckers would try and break off a piece of America for their own shitty little Banana Republic that's beholden to China and Russia and fucking Saudi Arabia, you have another thing coming.

Change is visible to them, now, even in rural areas like where my Mom lives. And that's the real problem. So, suddenly, they want to try to Make It 1953 Again. Fuck all that. Nobody else but you wants to go back, motherfuckers.

And they're starting to figure out that people are a lot less likely to cater to them, now that they bet everything on "Fuck you, I've Got Mine." Relative Status doesn't help anything when you're an old person and you're starving to death and on the street because politicians cut or took away your Social Security which was all you had for retirement because Republican Ayn Rand economics meant you had no pension.

Again, my Mom has a 401(K) and a pension and all that. She still can't make it without Social Security.

Feeling proud because you supported the rich person getting that stupendous mansion at everybody else's expense won't keep you fed or housed. You might get a brief feeling of power out of the idea that "The Black People will get it worse!" But that doesn't do you any good...and chances are they're doing what they have to, to survive, while also fighting for your rights, too.

People should fucking know by now not to expect decency or gratitude from Republicans.

And again, it's worth noting in case any Christians, Libertarians or Reaganite Republicans happen to read this that Ayn Rand was a Russian Jewish Atheist who was on Social Security when she died of lung cancer. It's all bullshit, and even she knew it in the end.

This new "Christian Nationalist" angle is pure bullshit. The Confederacy was Christian Nationalist, the KKK was Christian Nationalist, Rhodesia was Christian Nationalist, Apartheid South Africa was Christian Nationalist, somehow it's never actually about Christ or the Nation. Somehow it's always about packaging racism, right-wing politics and Whiteness as religion in the hope that they'll get away with something more than they would have otherwise. 

You know who some of the most passionately Christian people I've met in my life were? Interracial couples...because very often it's shared faith that brought them together in the first place. I literally owe some of these people my life and the fact that I have any sense of spirituality at all, in the face of all this stupidity in recent years.

It's not about Christ. It never was.

It is, ever and always, about dividing people and these motherfuckers seeing what they can get out of it.

And even more than that, it's about avoiding accountability for Donald Trump, because they all bought into the bullshit and lies. Thus, it's about avoiding accountability and responsibility for themselves.

You think this son of a bitch, this traitorous terrorist, were he still alive and still an American citizen, wouldn't have voted for Donald Trump twice and be arguing for even worse than him today?? 

Some of these fucking people were enough of racist assholes that they were considered edge cases and shitcanned from officer training and prestigious military units and forced into lesser ones in an explicitly racist white state. Why? Because at least some people recognized exactly what kind of war they were fighting and that increased brutality and use of chemical weapons against the enemy would probably make things worse.

But again, for These Fucking People, battlefield valor or even "Defending Western Civilization" aren't really the point. They simply want to abuse and kill people under color of authority.

And when they can't do it to the rest of us, they'll use and abuse the fuck out of their own people. They'll be more than happy to eat their own, as long as there's a pecking order of who will be eaten first.

It's a cult, and while their stated goal seems to be making things so bad that [their version of] Jesus has to show up and save them...I quite wonder if there aren't darker powers at work here. Would these insane assholes even know the difference between Cthulhu and Jesus?

They sure enough don't seem to know the difference between Jesus and Donald Trump...or Vladimir Putin. I wouldn't put Evil Elder Gods Nationalism past these fucking people.

There seem to be few enough darker powers they won't buddy up to, if they think it'll hurt the liberals and people they don't like.

So where the fuck do you think that leaves you or me, people who are just trying to survive without these idiots being up our ass about it?

Vote these motherfuckers out...all of them...kick their Nazi Storm-Trumpers to the curb and then be prepared to defend yourself, because it will come to that.

They won't have it any other way, and they're already telling us this.

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