Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
Watch therefore, for Ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
~Matthew 25:1-13
Yesterday, I saw this, evidently these pamphlets were handed out at the Trump rally in Pickens, SC over the weekend.
And then I had trouble finding the shit because Elon's rate-limited Twitter.
Whatever else they may claim, it starts with that. So I'll take any of their claimed demands for political diversity or that any minority's rights will be respected or anything else with a container ship full of salt, thank you very much.
Shit, I know a lady that's a regular customer at my work...tall, Blonde, Blue eyes, security guard at the local Air National Guard station. She as a Vietnamese last name because her husband is Vietnamese-American. They met in the Army. They have kids. Likewise I know quite a few Black men married to or otherwise with white women, and probably just as many Black women with white men. In my experience, this is normal. People are people, that's all.
I don't live in a big city, I live in the BFE middle of nowhere. The freeway is 2 hours in either direction, the closest large urban area, the tri-cities (Bay City, Midland and Saginaw) is 2 hours south. Where I lived before was 45 minutes west of there.
These motherfuckers want to kill innocent people for no reason worth mentioning and then they want to justify it with a scrum of made-up conspiracy theories tinged with Christian Nationalism.
It's Antisemitism, Fascism, Naziism, Racism and the Same Old Right-Wing Anti-Government Shit (As if these idiots wouldn't need a massive government just to keep track of all their murders and clean up the bodies) with the serial numbers filed off, being pitched by a fired Army General out of resentment for his being fired when he was promoted beyond his ability. It's ego and narcissism and vacant stupidity.
It's the sound of anything BUT freedom.
And they're trying to pitch that shit with what'll most likely be another box-office bomb that most of the rest of us laugh at.
But ya know, at my old job I used to work with a guy who constantly sang the praises of the "God's Not Dead" movies (who wasn't actually a bad guy until he started listening to the Stolen Valor wannabe-biker on our crew and fell down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole.)
That's the people this shit is targeting.
That's the people these motherfuckers want to turn into some kind of End Times army of the damned to use against us.
I mean this seriously. I don't know what he was trying to accomplish, besides being seen to do so.
Some of the people in my group saw this dude constantly going through the motions and questioned his "Salvation" (Rightly or wrongly, out of genuine concern) and actively tried to explain shit and minister to him. He in turn insisted that he knew what he needed to know and didn't need the help.
Over the years I tried to talk to him about lots of stuff, I gave him books and shit, I'd ask questions about Christian doctrine or history or conservative politics in the course of trying to show him stuff, and he never knew the answer.
People like him think acting certain ways, going to church, looking all serious, praying, reading (or appearing to read) the Bible and stuff like that is religion.
But then they neither have, nor want to have much of an inner life, nor the discipline to study nor the thought process it might take to have such a thing.
It literally took me days to get this dude to understand that Communism hadn't been a thing since he was like five years old and that there were Evangelicals and Pentecostals just like him in Russia and most of the other former Soviet states.
Motherfucker could hear and internalize a conspiracy theory in a matter of a minute or so, though.
That's the people this "Sound of Unfreedom" Q-Berty shit is meant for.
The people who have their biases, their guns, and their religiosity and who don't want to have anything else.
They might profess America and Christ, often at the same time. But, the truth is bigotry and conspiracy theories are often all that interests them.
All they want is to hate others and feel "Special" like they have some kind of magical insight that the rest of us somehow don't. It's kind of an Idiot Gnosticism, really.
And no, they absolutely don't understand that Gnosticism is considered heretical by most Christians...actually most of these idiots don't know what Gnosticism is. So they really couldn't tell you if they have it or not.
In this way, I'm honestly really surprised (notwithstanding the fact that Meatball is deeply weird) that Ron DeSantis hasn't really managed to get anywhere in terms of his presidential campaigning.
Especially considering that DeSantis is probably more in line with the average doctrinaire Republican than Trump is. I swear these people must beat off to the idea of being concentration camp guards.
Worse, There's about as much thought put into this as the average Russian puts into their Russian nationalism. It's as basic, as painfully stupid, as that.
You can't reason with that bullshit, it's not enough to make people like this turn off the TV and go outside, you have to deprogram them first, as well as removing them from the ability to continue to self-radicalize.
You can't reason with this shit.
You can only fight against it, stop tolerating it, occasionally if all they hear is "Hey, that's wrong" they get it.
And we'd better get after it, because there's even darker things this Christian Nationalist conspiracy theory shit is nothing but a trojan horse for. They get in with that, their next move is going to be to start pitching Medieval Catholic Neo-Feudalism.
And I guarantee you there's Republicans who'd volunteer, thinking they'll be Lords and not Serfs.
Or thinking that they'll be the killers, and not the ones being killed.
They all think conspiracy theories and lies will get them what they want.
Truth is all any of us has as a floor to stand on to even push back against Power.
Remember that.
Слава Україна!
The wind whispers of fear and hate. The war has killed love. And those that confess to the Angkar are punished, and no one dare ask where they go. Here, only the silent survive. ~Dith Pran, The Killing Fields
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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