The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. ~Darth Sidious AKA Senator Palpatine, Star Wars Episode III, Revenge Of The Sith....
Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
~Daniel 3:14-18
I saw this a couple days ago.
Elon Musk, literally Blaspheming Jesus, in order to make a joke intended to, I don't know, possibly lure Trump back onto Twitter?
(Trump hasn't posted, last I checked.)
I...don't even know what to say about this, honestly. I'm not a born-again anything and haven't even identified as a Christian at all since 2008. At a bare minimum it's vastly disrespectful of Christianity, in my opinion it's outright blasphemous.
Yet, all of the complaints about it that I've seen are from either anti-Trump conservatives or liberals. Not a one from any Republicans that I'm aware of, let alone any of these "Christian Nationalists" I keep hearing about. And no less of a "Western Chauvinist" than Jordan Peterson apparently thinks this shit is funny.
And they're telling on themselves, because for them, none of this crap is really about Jesus or ever was. All this religious talk is just to fool the feeble-minded.
There's literally nothing else to it, it's a goddamn lie.
These fucking people would gladly become atheistic Communists if it got them more power, or enabled them to hurt and kill more people or to justify their hatred of LGBT folk, people of Color, and women....and the attempts to subjugate all those people.
And yet supposedly all these people's "beliefs" stem from Christianity?
I don't think so, bro.
They can't understand "But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up" conceptually, because to do so would require having principles.
You want to know how much these people care about God or religion? Look at how much they ignore the Commandment "Thou Shalt Not Kill."
Look, among other things if I would have threatened my Mom at some point and then got into a standoff with the cops and made bomb threats, she'd wait for her chance, take my ass out and leave me hog-tied on the driveway with a cheery note telling the cops to take me away and make sure that I never showed my fucking face around there ever again. And neither one of us has been a conservative in decades.
As my Grandpa used to say, some things just aren't done in the better places.
I'm used to there being a moral code that has nothing to do with laws, yet it was enforced. If you didn't have shame, you learned it. If not by understanding social disapproval, you learned it from the back of someone's hand. I'm not saying that's right or wrong, I'm simply saying that's how I was taught.
I call it...think of it as...being old-school. Such beliefs are neither Left nor Right, but you have to have some degree of empathy and respect for other people. Elders, the young, people of different races or have different politics or sexuality or whatever. Not because they can do anything for you but simply because they're people.
If you can't understand this, I can't explain it to you and I'm not going to try. Hell, I don't want to.
You figure it out.
This is why I don't...can't...and more importantly don't want to understand people who filter everything through narrative, politics, privilege, religious woo woo, etc.
I can't do it.
I was taught right from wrong.
In these days, sometimes that knowledge can be a curse, I think.
And more to the point, I don't
want to understand somebody who would threaten their mother with a bomb, or who would kill people who had done nothing to them for no damned good reason.
And I sure as hell don't want to understand somebody who would be offended by a thing like the Colorado Springs PD posting photos of the victims of a shooting with their preferred pronouns "As if that is what is most important to their humanity."
Because you know what, bitch?
For some of those people, it absolutely was the most important thing to their humanity, and that is not an exaggeration!
The ability to define yourself, to have sovereignty over your own body and personhood...not in some kook Sovereign Citizen mumbo-jumbo type way but in actual fact, by defining yourself and having that definition backed by law and society.
This isn't just a goddamned human right, these may well be
the most important rights we have. If we cannot be who we are, cannot define what that is, then who makes that call?
These fucking people?? The ravening mob? The State?
Bitch, I was in the military. I sure as fuck don't want the government defining who I am, not least because I'm not the same person as I was 29 years ago.
These fucking people want to live in a world where only certain kinds of people get to do things, where there is no individuality except whatever the mob defines as "Free Thinking" (which is mostly about who they can hate.)
As if we're Carpenter Ants on rage steroids or some shit.
What good is having "Freedom of Speech" if you're only free to say certain things or free to do certain things, or if there are no social consequences for bad behavior or hurting other people?
What maintains actual order in such a society? The people with the guns?
They're often as fucked in the head as anybody else!
The truth is, I'm starting to wonder if people like Donald Trump and Elon Musk and Jenna Ellis and Randy Voepel are so high on the smell of their own farts that they think they could say "Let there be Light" and there would be light.
As if they are gods or some stupid shit like that.
And then these same fucking people, despite their own constant talking stupid about "freedom" and being some kind of "freedom fighters" because they like the idea of avant-garde shitty behavior, can't resist mocking those people who are actually
fighting for their own freedom in Ukraine or those of us who support the Ukrainians over here.
I suppose when you reject the idea of individual rights or personal freedom out of hand, you can't understand why other people would fight for that stuff.
But at the same time, these fucking people are literally obsessed with atavistic talk and made-up existential crises for no better reason that because LGBT people, liberals, and people who are different from them exist and are not in some kind of state of servitude to them.
But the Ukrainians, both their army and all too often the civilians themselves, are literally fighting for their rights to exist as a culture, as a nation, and as individual people!
And they're fighting against an enemy that literally throws the bodies of their own recently-killed soldiers in a fucking garbage dump.
If that's what these motherfuckers do with their own soldiers, what would they do to the Ukrainians, or you, or me??
If they decide they could just unilaterally target Ukraine for Assimilation or Europe for conquest what's to stop them from doing the same thing to America??
Force? Oh please. Weapons are no good without the courage to use them and the knowledge and skills to use them correctly. Modern "Conservatives" are people who see buying an AR-15 as a political statement, or as a means to intimidate people they don't like.
Do you think, if these fucking people are under fire, let alone forced to retreat, that they're going to drag their dead or wounded bros back to their own lines?? Really??
Do you think the cowardice, the learned helplessness, or the sociopathic, self-dealing, self-interested crap is going to stop on the battlefield and all these fake "Conservatives" are just going to buck up and pull together on the battlefield and do what needs to be done?
I want you to stop and think about that for a second. Just do it.
I don't think they will. And I think they look at the Russian way of war and see all the atrocities, sociopathy, self-interested crap and stealing and think that's what they want to be.
And honestly, I think they look at the schlocky way the Russians fight or maintain their gear or how they shove unprepared mobs of men into harm's way gets these idiots off, for cruelty's sake if nothing else.
I'm sorry, but I served in the United States Air Force. I was taught the ethic of 'Leave no one behind' that, alive or dead, we all should get to go home. That no one gets left behind was instilled in me.
When I was in uniform, that I and my personal conduct represented America abroad was a thing I was taught. Endless training, by rote, until you had it down to muscle memory...because that's how you win.
Integrity Above All. Service Before Self. Excellence In All We Do.
Maybe they don't use those exact words, but the Ukrainians get this. I've seen video of whole villages full of people on their knees when a dead Ukrainian Army soldier is brought home, because these people love their country and understand that person died fighting for their freedom.
Somewhere along the way, the Ukrainians learned the Western way of War and internalized the very values that "Conservatives" claim to champion.
But the Ukrainians did it for real, because when they said words like "Revolution of Dignity" they meant it. Not because they thought this or that particular act served as a cudgel to beat their "enemies" with.
And that's why these fucking people hate America, that right there.
Because for some of us...and for some people in the world...Ronald Reagan's dream of America as that shining city on a hill has not died.
Because dreams and aspirations can restrain one's behavior as well as rules and laws can. Because we aren't some ethnic or political monoculture and all we have is what we want to be.
Some people look at that and they see a chance to define themselves, to stand up against Power.
For some people, taking the chance is the only option they have.
But you can't explain that to these fucking privileged people who've never had to fight for one single thing all their lives, yet consider themselves oppressed because Endless Cultural War Grievance Shit.
Instead these fucking people hold up the Russian way of politics, and of war. They
love the idea of every act being politicized (and that means
religion, too) of everyone-who-matters being an oligarch or a politician or a spy or a hanger-on thereof, and of everybody else getting
fucked.
They love the idea of the military being a bastardized afterthought that isn't even properly paid, because they love the cruelty of it. They hate the military, except when it can be used as a stick, either physically or politically, to beat somebody else with. And frankly, to be honest, I think at all levels these motherfuckers love the idea of a culture where everybody is constantly stealing from everybody else and somehow the military gets the worst of it.
The rest of the time, Rudyard Kipling was probably being
optimistic.
Most of all, they love the idea of all this shit being scripted to make so-and-so or such-and-such feel good about themselves...all these fake ass political statements and religious rituals, because all of these idiots think they're going to be the ruling class someday and just sit around and get rich somehow while somebody else does the work.
And these people, who think themselves so holy and religious, are willing to blaspheme God or tolerate somebody who does the same to get it.
Why? Because their idolatry of self and
selfishness and their worship of Power is more important to them than anything else.
These fucking people would worship the Devil if he took them up to a high mountain and showed them all the nations of the world.
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not test the Lord thy God.
Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
~Matthew 4:1-11
And don't you forget it.
If you want a better country, you have to be a better citizen.
What I'm seeing, too much of it isn't that. Not even close.
Too many people look at the Empire from Star Wars and think somehow, they gonna get to be the Emperor. Or they think they gonna be Donald Trump or Vladimir Putin someday, if only they believe in it hard enough.
But that's only one guy.
I think it's realistic to expect that ain't gonna be you.
Be careful what the fuck you aspire to, or think you wanna trade your soul for.
Слава Україна!
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
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