War Dance! (American Revelation IX, Eight.)

Colonel: Marine, what is that button on your body armor.

Joker: A peace symbol, sir.

Colonel: Where'd you get it?

Joker: I don't remember, sir.

Colonel: What is that you've got written on your helmet?

Joker: "Born to kill", sir.

Colonel: You write "born to kill" on your helmet, and you wear a peace button. What's that supposed to be, some kind of sick joke?

Joker: No, sir.

Colonel: What is it supposed to mean?

Joker: I don't know, sir.

Colonel: You don't know very much, do you?

Joker: No, sir.

Colonel: You better get your head and your ass wired together, or I will take a giant shit on you.

Joker: Yes, sir.

Colonel: Now answer my question, or you'll be standing tall before the man.

Joker: I think I was trying to suggest something about the duality of man, sir.

Colonel: The what?

Joker: The duality of man; The Jungian thing, sir.

Colonel: Whose side are you on, son?

Joker: Our side, sir.

Colonel: Don't you love your country?

Joker: Yes, sir.

Colonel: Then how 'bout getting with the program? Why don't you jump on the team and come on in for the big win?

Joker: Yes, sir.

Colonel: Son, all I've ever asked of my Marines is for them to obey my orders as they would the word of God. We are here to help the Vietnamese, because inside every gook, there is an American trying to get out. It's a hard-ball world, son. We've gotta try to keep our heads until this peace craze blows over.

Joker: [salutes] Aye-aye, sir.

~From the film Full Metal Jacket.

Last night, I saw this.

Various videos of  "Patriot Front" Nazis and others "training" for the Civil War they imagine is coming.

It won't turn out the way they think it will. If the soundtrack is "YMCA" by the Village People, at least it'll be slightly entertaining what happens to them.

Seriously, a bunch of guys dancing around in a field with shields? I didn't know Gilbert And Sullivan did military training on the side.

I am the very model of a modern major general.

I've information vegetable, animal and mineral.

I know the kings of England and can quote the fights historical

From Marathon to Waterloo in order categorical!

(Sorry, song stuck in head.)

Then there was one where these two guys were doing some sort of 'leapfrog' move with the front one shooting, which was kind of funny until the second guy shot the first guy's ballcap right off his head, an act of negligence that could've just as easily blown the top of dude's head off.

That part made me cringe, do something like that in an FTX and you're going to wish you hadn't.

Now, I'm a United States Air Force veteran. I've been through Basic Military Training, Security Forces school, and Military Operations in Urban Terrain training, among other things. I'm not afraid of these fucking people and their "Civil War."

My ferret's weasel war dance is more coherent than these people's "tactical training."

I'm scared shitless of what these idiots will do out of ignorance, negligence, or stupidity...and that's before we get to homophobia, misogyny and racism. 

In the field against trained soldiers, these fucking idiots will get massacred, I mean this, seriously you have no idea.

But they're tailor-made to abuse noncombatants.

Hell, even slightly-disciplined and somewhat-trained civilians will kick these fucking people's ass up between their shoulder-blades.

Sending these fucking people into the field, as they are, is basically a war crime itself, simply because they'll march in thinking they're going to immanentize the eschaton, "Own The Libs," or something something gazpacho and get fucking slaughtered.

Which is exactly why Republicans...the people now letting large cities like Jackson, MS go without potable drinking water...will do it. 

In fact, they'll gleefully send these people into battle just as they are, cackling as they chuck these fools into the meat grinder. I can easily imagine Lindsay Graham and all these other rich old Republicans giggling as they watch their followers get shot down by Army National Guardsmen who are equal parts amused, confused and horrified...until these idiots keep coming or some dumb ass fires a shot and then it's on like Donkey Kong and that only ends one way.

Lots of 5.56mm NATO bullet holes in shields, for one thing. Lots of dead Nazis, and no one will have any sympathy.

And then Republicans will try to craft some media sob story just like they did with the J6 mob. If you can't win the fight, much less the war, try and win the media narrative. 

Hey, It worked for the FLN in Algeria.

Didn't go so well for the poor schmucks humping an AK-47 and a ruck out there in the battlespace, though.

But those trying to sell the "Glorious Revolution" don't care. Hell, they never do.

The cruelty is the fucking point.

These fucking idiots...like ethnic Russians in Putin's New Soviet Union...seem to think they're the ruling class of some kind of a caste system where they can tell other people what to do...but they cannot be told what to do themselves.

(And then these idiots don't know why Eastern Europe hates them, and is so overwhelmingly supporting Ukraine?)

How did that work out for you in 1989, Comrades?

(Hell, how's it working out in Ukraine now?)

Seems to me that everywhere from Stettin on the Baltic to Varna on the Black Sea gave the middle finger to the Ghost of Joe Stalin and the Hammer and Sickle and there wasn't a damn thing you could do about it.

This is America, not Sparta. (And seriously, Patriot Front, those of you that the Spartans didn't kill, they'd use for sexual slaves.)

This is America, not ancient India. (And seriously, didn't white conservatives once upon a time regard caste systems as a sign of backwardness?)

And this sure as hell ain't the Antebellum US South. (And seriously, how did that whole Civil War thing work out for you fuckers the last time?)

This is America, we don't do caste systems or kings or nobles here, you're not supposed to be what you were born as...but what you have it in yourself to be.

And if this is what you are, LOL. Seriously, "Conservatives" you're not going to win any wars this way, civil or otherwise.

You can't just bullshit your way through out in the field. What you are is going to shine through, loud and clear.

Respect is earned, by every action, every day. People aren't going to fight and die for a good bullshit game, but they might for an actual leader.

Remember that part, there's going to be a test later.

Seriously, the point of a war dance is to scare the enemy, not cause them to die from laughing at you.

Seven

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. ~Ronald Reagan

Слава Україна!

Ka mate, ka mate! ka ora! ka ora! Ka mate! ka mate! ka ora! ka ora! Tēnei te tangata pūhuruhuru Nāna nei i tiki mai whakawhiti te rā Ā, upane! ka upane! Ā, upane, ka upane, whiti te ra! ~Ka Mate, Maori Haka (main body)

...
'Tis Death, 'Tis Death, 'Tis Life, 'Tis Life
'Tis Death, 'Tis Death, 'Tis Life, 'Tis Life
This is the hairy man
Who caused the sun to shine again for me
Up the ladder, up the ladder!
Rise! The Sun shines.
~Ka Mate, English translation.

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