Little Gods (Damn, What's Next?? Three.)

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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Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but MORE merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress towards more pain. The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy — everything. ~George Orwell, 1984.

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Hess: So what shall we toast to, boys? I can blather on about “To health” or “To success,” but I’d like to do somethin’ a little less rote. Where you from, Brown Eyes?

Migs Mayfield: How ’bout a toast to Operation Cinder?

Hess: Now there’s a man who knows his history.

Mayfield: No, I don’t just know it. I lived it. I was in Burnin Konn.

Hess: Burnin Konn?

Mayfield: Mmm.

Hess: That was a hard day. I had to make many unpleasant decisions.

Mayfield: Yes, you did. Entire city gone in moments, along with everybody in it. We lost our whole division that day. Man, that was like 5-10,000 people.

Hess: Yep. All heroes of the Empire.

Mayfield: Yeah. And all dead.

Hess: Well, it’s a small sacrifice for the greater good, son.

Mayfield: Depends on who you ask, don’t you think?

Hess: [irritated] What you gettin’ at, trooper?

Mayfield: All those people, the ones who died, was it good for them? Hmm? Their families? The guys I served with? Civilians, those poor mud scuffers, died defending their homes, fighting for freedom. Was it good for them?

Hess: But we’ve outlasted them, son. They’re eating themselves alive. The New Republic is in complete disarray, and we grow stronger. You see, with the rhydonium you’ve delivered, we can create havoc that’s gonna make Burnin Konn pale by comparison. And then they’re gonna turn to us once again. You see, boys, everybody thinks they want freedom, but what they really want is order. And when they realize that, they’re gonna welcome us back with open arms. Ah. To the Empire.

[Mayfield chuckles, then fires a blaster at Hess' chest, killing him instantly. He and Mando then shoot their way out of the mess hall] ~From The Mandalorian, Season 2, Ep. 7 "The Believer"

I saw this Tuesday night, some idiot Republican from Idaho, blaming "Abortion" and "Low birth rates" for the fact that there aren't enough "Service workers."
We got lots of people that want to come here, who'd gladly do those jobs (Which I'm here to tell you, Americans often simply won't do) and who'd be happy to do them in a place like Idaho. But that's not good enough for Republicans.

In the meantime, Republicans are being shockingly open about the fact that they basically want slavery back.
It's January, 2024, it's an election year.
And Republicans are doing about everything but twirling their mustaches like an old stereotypical movie villain and saying out loud "Why yes, my fellow White People, when we finally get all the power, we're going to enslave you" followed by an overdone evil laugh. 
And damned near half of America willfully refuses to understand that yes, that's actually what they're saying, and it's what they really mean.
These assholes want to have a compliant population of drones and idiots they can work to death for their own debased amusement and profit, and that's all this even is.
Skin color and shit is just an excuse, if that one doesn't work, they'll find something else. Why? Because they think they should be able to just sit around coming up with stupid ideas and have everybody else just obey them. 
If you've watched the downfall of Twitter, you've seen this in action.
But basically, they think they're too good to have to do any actual work. It's so much more fun to shit-post on Social Media all day, or something.

These fucking people are absolute racist scum, they're insane, and they're possessed of the most evil, vile cynicism imaginable, Plus 10%.
And because they have to keep escalating to feel "Edgy" or whatever, they'll get worse.
So, when Black people, Latinos, LGBT folk, "Liberals," people who work in education, a majority of Women, other People of Color, etc. Absolutely refuse to or simply cannot according to reality submit to these fucking people's endless bullshit bigoted demands (not without giving up their own humanity anyway) and their endless worship of the idea of total power...and fight back, who the hell do you think these fucking monsters, as exemplified by Elon Musk, are going to turn that shit on??
(Trust me, they're too cowardly to face people who'll fight back against them and their bullshit, for real.)
They're going to turn it against their fellow White People, the shitty White Conservatives who followed them into the breach and thought it was funny right up until it wasn't.
And how they get these morons to give up their Selves is going to be almost pitifully easy...they'll sell it as "Owning The Libs" or some such horseshit.
And motherfuckers will do it. I don't even know why, it makes no sense, but they will.
After all, it's always worked before, and in far less explicit terms than I've seen lately.

These fucking people seem to think they want to live in the Warhammer 40K Universe...you know, the wargame that's set in a fascist universe, locked in endless war, poverty-stricken and slowly dying at the feet of a God-Emperor who's been dead for twenty thousand years but is kept in a form of Undeath by the golden throne his corpse sits on (which is powered by human sacrifice) because human FTL space travel doesn't work without him.
Dead gods, Fascism, and Forever Wars. No wonder modern Republicans love it...?
Sounds pretty shitty, doesn't it?
Fun fact, the people who actually write this stuff leaven it frequently with disclaimers about how much that kind of reality would suck. The people who actually work at Games Workshop are fairly open about being totally against the beliefs of the Universe they designed.
But people like Chris Rufo and Ian Miles Cheong think it's "Manly" and promotes "Stoicism" or they think it backs up their social beliefs and I'm honestly not sure either of these fucking fools knows what all those words even mean. 
Or much of anything else, for that matter.

Again, these motherfuckers don't really want fascism, it's too regimented, and there's only room for one Caudillo. They want a murderous feudalism where they think they'll all get to be little gods.
Because Fascism cannot give them 76 Million little god-emperors, it only allows for one.
There cannot be only one.

Narcissism doesn't work that way, and the trouble is all of these people are shitty little narcissists, if not solipsists who don't really think other people exist.
They just see fascism as a way speed-run getting there...and they see Donald Trump as a starter-level dead God-Emperor whose relics they can steal and use to declare their power when it all comes crashing down.
They want what they want, and they want it now.
They don't know...or care...what words mean. Indeed, they're at the point of actively wanting to obfuscate such from other people.
Not that a lot of their followers, their voters, are that much better...but I'm here to tell you, if these motherfuckers succeed at breaking off a piece of America for themselves the Evangelicals who think they're going to get something out of the deal are in for a big surprise.
For the record, there has already been a "Conservative Bible Project" and it ended up the subject of mockery, even by conservatives. But that's where this BS is going.
Don't take my word for it, look it up yourself.
This is what the Prosperity Gospel Pentecostal belief that Believers are "Little Gods" leads to.
There simply is nothing in the Bible, Christianity, conservatism-as-previously-defined or hell, Western Civilization as it has traditionally existed that backs up the fascists whack-off fantasy world ideas...but too much of the world seems hell-bent on letting these motherfuckers try it, somewhere...for cheap internet fame, or something.

And when that happens, if not before, it's going to come down to a fight.
Hell, in Ukraine it already has, and the bad guys failed
You either believe in freedom or you don't.
And if you think these fanatics are going to stop somewhere...or, in point of fact, ever going to stop until they are stopped, think again.
Think harder.
Слава Україна!
"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride." ~Volodymyr Zelenskyy, allegedly 25 February 2022, Associated Press
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 Every one of the thousands at the airport, about to leave for Jeddah, was dressed this way. You could be a king or a peasant and no one would know. Some powerful personages, who were discreetly pointed out to me, had on the same thing I had on. Once thus dressed, we all had begun calling out "Labbayka! (Allahumma) Labbayka!" (Here I come, O Lord!) Packed in the plane were white, black, brown, red, and yellow people, blue eyes and blond hair, and my kinky red hair -- all together, brothers! All honoring the same God, all in turn giving equal honor to each other.

That is when I first began to reappraise the "white man." It was when I first began to perceive that "white man," as commonly used, means complexion only secondarily; primarily it described attitudes and actions. 

In America, "white man" meant specific attitudes and actions toward the black man, and toward all other non-white men. But in the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That morning was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about "white" men. 

~Malcolm X, letter written following the Hajj.