Slaves Of The Caesars, Again (Tyre Nichols Post II.)

When I am dead, bury me

In my beloved Ukraine,

My tomb upon a grave mound high

Amid the spreading plain,

So that the fields, the boundless steppes,

The Dnieper's plunging shore

My eyes could see, my ears could hear

The mighty river roar.

When from Ukraine the Dnieper bears

Into the deep blue sea

The blood of foes ... then will I leave

These hills and fertile fields --I'll leave them all and fly away

To the abode of God,

And then I'll pray .... 

But until that day I know nothing of God

Oh bury me, then rise ye up

And break your heavy chains

And water with the tyrants' blood

The freedom you have gained.

And in the great new family,

The family of the free,

With softly spoken, kindly word

Remember also me.

~Taras Shevchenko

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We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace. There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev...Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
~Ronald Reagan

I posted about the Tyre Nichols killing last night and early this morning. 

Well then, I woke up a little bit ago and I saw this:

The Russians are deporting the families of "Luhansk People's Republic" soldiers who are fighting for them, to Russia.

Sure, they're being promised "benefits" but how is that going to work out, when the Russian Army has mobile crematoria to "Disappear" KIA (Killed In Action) soldiers in the field so that the Russian government has no body to provide and can thus skate on having to pay anything to that soldier's family.

What part of "Literally everything is bad faith with these fucking people" (with this applying to the entire global authoritarian modern "Right" as it is) don't you understand?

And my question is, "America First" people, Republicans and Tankies, what makes you think the Russians would do you any different than they're doing the "Luhansk People's Republic" and its soldiers?

There is no such thing as "Conservative" enough, or "White Enough" and the cruelty is, in fact, the damn point. 

And they don't give a fuck about you. All of humanity is nothing more than puppets on a string to these fucking people, play-toys for their debased urges. Remember that when you hear some chucklefuck repeating conspiracy theories.

That's just somebody who sees themselves as being on the other side of that line from you. Nothing is real to them, there's no morality, there is no God. It's all crap, so why not just do what they want??

I can't spell it out any more plainly than that.

And if you protest, plead for your own life, resist, or anything like that...these motherfuckers will do everything they can to make you sound like the bad guy simply because you "Inconvenienced" them.

And for those people...the sum total of existence is that they see everyone as slaves, and wish only for themselves to be a better class of slave than some of the other slaves.

There's no concept, in their minds, of Truth to serve as a floor to stand on to push back against Power.

They literally don't believe in freedom as a concept.

That might be how they do things in Russia, but that's not what I was taught America was, or conservatism or Christianity for that matter.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

You either accept Christ out of your own free will or you might as well not bother. Same goes for any other religion, too. It's funny how all these "Nationalists" and White Supremacists and shit can never think of anything better to do with the Cross of Jesus Christ than turn it into a flaming lawn ornament.

You either accept America, in all its diversity and freedom, with all its flaws and all its strengths...and believe in our expanding traditions of liberty and individual rights and social change...or what you want isn't really America.

You can slap the Hammer and Sickle on a red, white and blue flag all you want, but it's still the goddamn symbol of Communism and Totalitarianism. 

It pisses me the fuck off that the party of Ronald Reagan has now become the party of Neo-Soviet tankies. They've turned the party of Abraham Lincoln into the party of Nathan Bedford Forrest, with malice aforethought.

Reagan Wept.

Yeah, the Gipper could be a racist asshole, but he never went that far. He generally seemed to understand that "Thou Shalt Not Kill" had to be a thing.

I'm goddamned tired of the fact that so many of us look at the slime of humanity and see a thing they want to emulate.

And not just emulate, but sell their country and their souls to, for rather less than thirty pieces of silver.

For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ~Matthew 24:27

Part One

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