Listening to the wind of change
An August summer night
Soldiers passing by
The world is closing in
Did you ever think
That we could be so close, like brothers
Can feel it everywhere
Blowing with the wind of change.
I saw this on Threads when I was on break at work last night.
And I'm still like "What the fuck?!?!"
Apparently, in Russia, a bunch of the people who were kids when the Soviet Union was still a thing and went through all that "Young Pioneers" bullshit are establishing...I don't know, the "Old Pioneers" or some shit.
Like what's even the damn point??
I was around in the 1980's. I remember when anybody who could get out of the Soviet Union did...and when anybody who was actually religious (what religion existed in the Soviet Union was heavily infiltrated by the KGB) or held any kind of actual liberal (or what was then considered conservative) political beliefs, or who just plain wanted to be free...wanted to get out.
I've met plenty of former-Soviet immigrants, or their kids, or kids who came over here from those countries to go to college or for work. Hell, when I was in the Air Force, I was deployed to Latvia. Nobody with a brain in their head misses the Soviet Union...or any of the absolute garbage that went with it.
Is this just brain-damaged, mentally-declining Boomers wanted to reenact their childhoods, or what?
I almost can't even imagine it could be anything else.
The Soviet Union wasn't conservative, it wasn't particularly Russian-Nationalist in the way that's popular over there today, and hell the Soviet State was officially Atheist and generally noted (by the rest of the world, anyway) for long bread lines and state-mandated privation and political repression until past the midpoint of the 1980's...and Glasnost and Perestroika didn't really improve things that much because by the end of the decade things fell apart anyway.
The Soviet Union itself finally fell on Christmas of 1991, I graduated from high school the following June.
Within a few years, globally, only backwaters like Cuba and North Korea could still really be considered "Communist" and even Cuba was legit letting things slip, because Soviet aid had ended in 1990-1991 and the Cubans needed money so they could keep on living.
Yet "Conservatives" still fear Communism as the Bogeyman, the Monster Under The Bed, be a good kid or Comrade Stalin is going to eat you...or some shit. Fuck, I don't know. I used to be a Republican and I can't fit my head far enough up my own ass to see these fucking people's point of view.
Mostly, they just seem to think "Communism" is a convenient slur to use against anything they don't like, I think.
While at the same time they're basically up Putin's ass, and he's the guy who's both officially re-Sovietizing Russia and inspiring people to do shit like form the "Old Pioneers" or whatever the fuck they call themselves.
I can't make this shit make sense, except to say that current Republicans no longer believe in freedom, and that as long as Putin's cruel war against Ukraine continues and Russian oligarchs (the ones who remain in good standing with Putin, anyway) get to keep whatever personal property they have, these idiots will tolerate whatever neo-Commie excesses and Soviet-level shenanigans go on over there.
Because to them, totalitarianism is the "Correct" social meme or something something Gazpacho.
In fact, it's gotten worse than I ever imagined; human dignity, individual liberty, rights and small government are now basically anathema to these motherfuckers.
Unless you have Billion$ and even then it only matters if you claim the "right" politics or if you feed these fucking people's delusions and egos...then you can claim all that shit that you want. You don't really get to have it, and it's still subject to the whims of the mob and totally contingent on whether or not you can keep saying dumb-enough edge-lord shit online to titillate all these drooling morons...And you, too, will be elbowed out of the way soon because these fucking people simply don't need you anymore.
In my opinion, Donald Trump should beware, too.
I've noticed that since "MAGA Mike" Johnson to Speaker of the House, all the dumb shit from the last decade or so is dropping off the grid. The YouTube Truck Screamer types are falling out of fashion, even people like Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene have gone from rising stars to on their way out.
And it's the same old Gargamel-looking and Crypt-keeper dusty Church Screamers that are replacing them...effectively, again, if you ask me. In the same way that assholes like Rick Scarborough, having been welcomed into the Republican coalition by Ronald Reagan, displaced us Reaganites in the 1990's and made common cause with adulterous scumbags like Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay.
I'm going to warn you again; Even Donald Trump is disposable.
Don't get me wrong, they want somebody like him, but they want somebody like that who's a bona fide "True Believer" whatever that even means.
Or at least, somebody who can convincingly play the role...and Trump is not that guy.
And I find it vastly suspicious that these fucking people have no problem with the Russians or with what Russia is turning into again...except that I know from studying this shit, that the mess over there was, in fact, largely created by American "Evangelicals" with a smattering of the same Libertarian economic types and "Social Conservatives" who always turn up to enable fascism.
These fucking people have basically consumed Russia, so of course they're not going to have a problem with it. The started eating the Republican Party 30 years ago and just finally shit out Mike Johnson. Hell even Kevin McCarthy is leaving Congress now.
They'd love to assimilate America in the same Borg-like fashion, but about 70% of us are saying "No." It's simply not going to happen. We want to be free? We're going to have to fight for it...but if we do, we'll win.America is a hell of a lot less Christian than it was even 20 years ago, and no small part of that is simply other people have mostly been driven out of the churches by the Political Evangelicals and more recently the MAGA's.
But at the end of the day, even the Evangelicals themselves don't really give a shit about Christianity, either. What they really care about is Power, and it'll be the misfortune of the old Crypt-Keeper looking dudes that they didn't catch on in time. Hell, as far as a lot of these fucking people are concerned if they have to dress up in some Ronald MacDonald-looking "Old Pioneers" costume and sing the praises of Vladimir Putin to get political power, they'll do it.
"Reagan Wept" does not even begin to cover it.
Should add, the only particular social views that American "Evangelicals" and Russian "Old Pioneers" appear to have in common are homophobia and transphobia. How that works with the Three Way "Mom's For Liberty" co-founder, I'll never know, but we need to beware of that shit. You want to see the mess these fuckers would turn the world into? Look at the Republican Party itself, just a bunch of priggish religious fakes, bound together by hypocrisy, and worshiping an Orange Atheist.
Thing is, what they can't do in their own heads is displace the social meme of the "Church" and the Pulpit-Screamer...so what we'll end up with from these fucking people is basically a church dedicated to fetishizing uniformed sameness and screaming at people...and not much else. It's effectively the kind of setup...literally a Church of Hate...that Vladimir Lenin or Joseph Stalin could have only dreamed of to serve as a new "Opiate of the Masses" (I've explicitly warned against this) and both Republicans and Russians are slouching toward that shit on purpose, because they think it's some kind of flex, some kind of "Own" or some way of counting coup against the Rest Of Us.
Fight The Memeocracy, yo.
Fight it like your life depends on it, because it does.
Слава Україна!
"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride."
~Volodymyr Zelenskyy, allegedly 25 February 2022, Associated Press
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