Lost Cause (Reason For The Season, Three.)

We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world, a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us. No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you. Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush? They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us; they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them. ~Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom Of Fear (2004)

I saw this earlier today.

It's worth noting, I think, that the Mario Kart games have been around since 1992. I think the most recent one dropped in early 2020? Either way, the games predate all this right-wing hysteria about all the "Woke" stuff.

Needs to be said, this isn't a thing that people are really 'concerned' about. It's just a different vehicle for the same old bigotry, a rhetorical tactic designed to camouflage the same old hate, and to make it sound like being anti-racist or supporting LGBT rights...or even having Black characters in a TV show or using things that are also symbols of LGBT pride or women's rights or whatever even in completely unrelated fashion...is somehow bad or conspiratorial.

And they tell on themselves when they apply this "filter" I'd guess you could call it, to everything, even things like the Mario Kart games or old movies that were there first.

That shit is no more legitimate than White people regarding Latinos or Native Americans as "invaders" and for the same reason. They or at least some of their ancestors were here before you and yours.

It's the same shit as Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians or racist "Conservatives" thinking their current social mores were the reality of the ancient world, and it's bullshit, easily provable to be bullshit, at that. It's no different than fools trying to say that Black people weren't a part of the Roman Empire.

And this mentality was promoted by bad actors for a goddamned reason.

Note to any and all non-White, not-a-certain-(KKK)kind of Protestant Christian folks who don't have both the "right" bloodlines and the right politics, these motherfuckers don't care about you and you're nothing but a goddamned pawn and when push comes to shove these fucking people will regard keeping you alive as "Insufferably Woke." 

Chaya Raichik AKA "Libs Of Tik Tok," who's made a name for herself supporting and spreading Transphobia and helping these sons of bitches engage in terrorism against medical care for Transgender people, is nothing more to the White Racists than "Just Another Jew." Nick Fuentes is "Just Another Mexican." Kanye West is nothing more to them than another [Racial Expletive Deleted] and if those motherfuckers get the power they want, all these idiots are going to have two choices:

#1 Performatively Accept Slavery and lick the goddamned jackboot.

Or; 

#2 Get Shot In The Face.

They will offer you no other options.

And no, none of these motherfuckers actually support Israel. If I had to guess, one hell of a lot of them don't really believe in the Evangelical End Times Prophecy bullshit anyway.

But it sounds better than the 1945 rationalization by certain European leaders for why they "allowed" Zionism. Which was to openly say "Well, we don't want them here."

Like, seriously, these fucking people aren't even hiding their shitty racist worldview and that people like Elon Musk (willingly or not, but I suspect Musk knows damn well what's going on and at least covertly agrees with this kind of bullshit.)

 

Kanye was just too clownishly open about it and made Elon look bad and was a threat to advertising revenue that's already in free-fall.

And I'm here to tell you, that there's a certain kind of white dudes who are 1488% here for this stuff and think it's hilarious and tremendously validating of their own shitty attitudes.

But there's not enough of them to support a corporation.

And their next move...actually, to a great extent conservatives are there already...is to resent the fuck out of Capitalism and try to undermine it. I mean, they're already coming right out and saying "How Dare that economic system need Black people/LGBT folk/Etc.'s...Money."

They're seriously mad that Capitalism isn't "just for" upper-class white people who are a certain kind of Christian (Mostly Calvinist/Reformed Theology with a Christian Nationalist bent who are involved in destructive/extractive industries) with a disproportionate share of the wealth going to Old White Men and their lackeys.

In other words, literally genetically Elon Musk fits right in, all he has to do to be in the club is mumble something about Jesus now and again.

It may seem crazy...but none of this is really mental illness...it's just hate. Whatever's wrong with Elon or Kanye or Trump functionally exists as a comorbidity with their Hate virus and/or addiction. Hate has been exploited by a certain kind of old White men to funnel more wealth to themselves and to get other people to agree with this by doling dibs and dabs of hate and the acceptability thereof out like drugs. 

There's a reason I say Donald Trump acts like a drug dealer and that he openly idolizes the mafia.

And plenty of White dudes are willing to be foot soldiers for this, just because hate makes them feel powerful and tough, because for them hate is every bit as much of an addiction as Opioids.

And if you don't think these people would happily use an out-of-touch but techy moron who (at least) agrees with some of their bullshit to put computer chips in people's heads and enforce their bullshit on the world that way, you have another thing coming.

You ain't got to be thrilled with or like Joe Biden, but he has the right answer here, to point out that Hitler was demonic and the Holocaust happened and that this bullshit needs to be called out.

That no matter how inoffensive or politically correct or put-upon the haters and the racists try to make this shit sound, no matter how much they try to dress up their bullshit as some avant-garde revolutionary thing, it's still the same old bullshit and hate and lies.

But identifying and naming the problem is just the first step.

I'm old enough to remember when conservatives understood this shit, and if anything saw it more as a threat than liberals and others might...because it was already in the house via the Far-right and was a direct threat to their movement.

The mistake Republicans made was continually trying to use these people and then thinking they'd go away after the election, because eventually the haters got tired of voting and not seeing their hate turned into government policy and started getting elected themselves.

This season is supposed to be about Christ, and Christ was about Love.

But here we are stuck dealing with this ridiculous Hate shit again.

We need to step up and put a stop to this crap once and for all.

If we let it fester, it becomes a cancer at the heart of our society, a social Fentanyl that, if they have to, a certain percentage of us will keep sneaking off and doing it, like scabby addicts injecting heroin in a MacDonald's bathroom, under the radar for decades if need be.

That's what all that "Lost Cause" bullshit about the Civil War even was.

Driving it back under the radar simply isn't enough.

Do that again, and in a few years, decades or generations it'll simply eat the conservative movement from the inside out again and walk around wearing its skin like a suit.

I'm sick of the goddamned hate, and if we don't beat it down and curb stomp it now, and make it clear that the financial or personal cost of hate should damned well be greater than any emotional high or political return would justify, we're going to keep having this problem.

Stop fucking these people, stop giving them money, stop socializing with them and if we have to, beat the shit out of them one way or another until they stop doing it. 

And keep doing that because otherwise it'll just pop up again in a few generations once all the people who beat it down the first time are dead or at least too old to fight anymore.

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The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well, it's a simple answer after all. You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, "There is a price we will not pay." There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning in the phrase of Barry Goldwater's "peace through strength." Winston Churchill said that "the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits — not animals." And he said, "There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty." ~Ronald Reagan