Joe Miller: The Federal Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibits discrimination against otherwise qualified handicapped persons who are able to perform the duties required by their employment. Although the ruling did not address the specific issue of HIV and AIDS discrimination...Andrew Beckett: Subsequent decisions have held that AIDS is protected as a handicap under law, not only because of the physical limitations it imposes, but because the prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precede... which precedes the actual physical one.
Joe Miller: This is the essence of discrimination: formulating opinions about others not based on their individual merits, but rather on their membership in a group with assumed characteristics. ~From the film Philadelphia.
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Judge Garrett: In this courtroom, Mr. Miller, justice is blind to matters of race, creed, color, religion, and sexual orientation. Joe Miller: With all due respect, your honor, we don't live in this courtroom though, do we? ~From the film Philadelphia. I saw this last night.
Trump yelling about the US Women's National Team on "Truth Social" which is, again, two lies for the price of one.
The shit Trump and the Online Right have been talking about USWNT pisses me off. Sure, OK, they don't like Meghan Rapinoe,
I get that. But at the same time, the team also includes Alyssa Naeher, a devout Evangelical Christian.
Seriously, when you live in a pluralistic society, that'll happen. Find somebody you do like, and support your country's team.
Or maybe these fuckers are just mad that Russia is suspended from FIFA because of the war?
Either way...you're an American or you're not, pick a side.
But the simple truth is, these motherfuckers don't like America.
It's not "They don't like America as it's currently construed, or the way its culture has gone." They'll try to say that, but it's a lie.
No, they just don't like America...because our culture has always been "this way" always changing, always evolving, always welcoming new people as much as some of us don't want to. Indeed, needing them to support our capitalistic society and the unending increases in profits and wealth that corporations...and more importantly their shareholders...demand.
And they're still talking shit about Mike Pence.
Please allow me to translate for those who don't speak the I Hate Spicy Food Brigade's tactical vernacular. Brigitte here...is calling Mike Pence "Gay."
"Plays for the same team" is their passive-aggressive way of saying two dudes are gay. NOTE: I've never heard this particular line applied to women...who seem, in their minds, not to merit that level of "Consideration."
It's not necessarily that these fuckers are so conservative, or religious, or uptight. The same fucking people will cuss up a blue streak peppered freely with ethnic, racial and sexual slurs if and when they think it's "Safe" to do so. They just have that "Public" image of petty moralism and piety to maintain.
And the reason that they like Trump is, he doesn't do that. He doesn't care, and he makes them feel safe not caring.
Not that these motherfuckers even want their moralistic pieties reflected in public policy (or anything else, for that matter) as long as the power structure is "Conserved" and they don't have to see it...the Proles could be illiterate, rabid, and massacring each other in the streets for all they care.
These fucking people simply
don't give a shit. In fact, left to their own devices they'd just cackle in sadistic glee about it...so long as the blood doesn't get on
them and
they don't get shot. Not In My Back-Yard-ism is just what these fucking people
do.
And don't let their saying they believe in the "Former Things" fool you either.
These fucking people don't care about Shakespeare or other "Western" Classics...in fact a fair number of the actions, ideas and ideals expressed therein even as applied at the time would be a threat to these fucking people...and they know it! To a smart or even reasonably literate person in even the start points of modern "Conservatism" once you have even a basic understanding of it, Shakespeare feels cool, fresh, interesting and wonderfully revolutionary and subversive. Not least because you can toss out quotes that'll speak volumes to literati concerning your opinion!
You can say shit that way...that you'd never get away with saying otherwise. Those who know will chuckle, inwardly or not, knowing exactly what you said...those on the other side of this won't get it, and if they do they might not even be able to respond without tipping their own hand...especially to their base, and the more reactionary, the worse this gets...they might well be left inwardly fuming.
It's a rare redneck moron that knows Shakespeare anymore, or approves when introduced. In that way, even the Confederacy was better than these sons of bitches. Even a semi-literate person back in them days stood a reasonable chance of knowing a little of this stuff, and more importantly...of getting it.
I'm not stanning for the Confederates here. Read what
people wrote at the time...on
both sides of the Civil War.
Don't take my word for it! I've got people on my feeds...author and historian Harry Turtledove and I follow each other on Twitter, for example...who can
verify this. The average poor Soldier...Confederate or Union...could quote stuff that wouldn't be allowed in Florida Schools now.
Shit like that is why Shakespeare is still with us after all this time, and why Gene Roddenberry (for example) could confidently make Shakespeare a part of the Star Trek universe and still have it scan. Knowledge of these kinds of things broadens the mind and embiggens the soul.
And I'm here to tell you, if Ron DeSantis doesn't know that...Casey does and that's all that matters.
And these fucking people, who've gotten too far in on their own bad joke these last eight years, see the colossal Karmic bitch-slap building up. They know we figured it out, and don't think it's funny.
Thus...for the next go-round in a couple decades, they're trying to kill Joy, conceptually. They long to stifle the life of the Mind. They want us to be ignorant peasants who will simply buy whatever they're selling. These absolute motherfuckers want to make it so it doesn't even occur to anybody not "Of A Certain Class" to dare to dream...at all.
But if we don't ask questions, if we don't learn how we got here, if we don't support our own country or civilization out of greed or selfish ambition...if you can't at least find the one person on the damn national team that believes or looks or thinks like you do and at least support
them...what the fuck even
are we??
Do
we know?
That is ever and always the question.
Shakespeare had the balls to ask. People like Meghan Rapinoe, they go out and do. Guys like Volydomyr Zelenskyy harness all that and lead.
Shit, even Mike Pence had the knowledge to temper his dreams of Power with either allegiance to reality or enough sense to know to avoid spiraling consequences...and that restraint is what things like conservatism are supposed to be for...to ask not "Can We Do This" but if we should.
Anybody what tries to keep you from any of that isn't your
friend, they're your
enemy.
For far too many, "Conservatism" has become about making the world crueler and smaller so they can feel "Special." Fascists want to keep people from asking, from doing, from knowing, because the only joy they want to have...or want anybody else to have...is that of curb-stomping somebody else.
Not because they're so good at it, but because they think they can cheat enough to stay ahead and they just love the cruelty, hate and negativity of it all. It's funny how they only want "Peace" when their side is losing. See also How the war in Ukraine is going."
I just personally observed that the Russians are paying astrologers to shill for them now. And that's exactly how "Christian" Authoritarianism, Inc. is.
But authority itself is supposed to be earned, those who have it are supposed to be worthy of having it. Things like scripture...or Shakespeare...or sport, for that matter, have authority and meaning and power that transcends space and time and speaks to the human condition.
That's not the world these assholes want to live in, and they could give a shit. But really it's worse. They want
you to not
know enough to know that a shit
should be given.
Hate is easy to manipulate.
Knowledge is actual power.
These Nat-Pop motherfuckers have killed the conservative mind as surely as if it collectively picked up a gun and blew out its own collective brains.
And then replaced it with some weirdo's Groyper meme collection.
For no greater reason than their own personal power.
Guess which side "Conservatives" are on, now.
Not yours.
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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"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride."
~Volodymyr Zelenskyy, allegedly 25 February 2022, Associated Press
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