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[Cassian Andor and Kino Loy have successfully broken out of their cell block and took over the prison complex's command center]
Cassian Andor: Kino. Tell them what to do. It has to be you. Come on, Kino. You do this every day. Tell them what to do.
Kino Loy: [presses PA system] My name is Kino Loy. I'm the day shift manager on Level Five. I'm speaking to you from the command center on Level Eight. We are, at this moment, in control of the facility.
Andor: Is that the best you got?
Loy: How long we hang on, how far we get, how many of us make it out, all of that is now up to us. We have deactivated every floor in the facility. All floors are cold. Wherever you are right now, get up, stop the work. Get out of your cells, take charge and start climbing. They don't have enough guards and they know it. If we wait until they figure that out, it'll be too late. We will never have a better chance than this and [looks at Cassian, knowing he said it] "I would rather die trying to take them down than giving them what they want." We know they fried a hundred men on Level Two. We know that they are making up our sentences as we go along. We know that no one outside here knows what's happening. And now we know, that when they say we are being released, we are being transferred to some other prison to go and die, and that ends today! There is one way out. Right now, the building is ours. You need to run, climb, kill! You need to help each other. You see someone who's confused, someone who is lost, you get them moving and you keep them moving until we put this place behind us. There are 5,000 of us. If we can fight half as hard as we've been working, we will be home in no time. One way out! [repeats it multiple times as he leaves the command center]
Andor: Come on! Let's get out of here!
~From the series "Andor" S1 E10 "One Way Out."
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I keep seeing stuff like this lately.
And yeah, I admit it, I follow a whole bunch of accounts that post dumb weird shit that right-wing idiot dudes say on social media. Well, mostly right-wing idiots, at least.But I also used to work in food service, in a casino, and "The Man's penis is that powerful, worship it!" is not exactly a sentiment confined to a few low-brow moronic edge-cases on social media.
Plenty of real-life low-brow, moronic edge cases believe stupid shit like that, too, and not all of them are conservative. In fact, a lot of them aren't. Misogyny is hardly confined to the Right.
(For the record: Miley Cyrus's first sexual experience was with a girl, she's been pretty open about this.)
For these guys, none of this crap is about God...unless that god is Priapus, a minor Roman god of dicks and male fertility (among other things.)
I mean, I'm honestly starting to wonder how many of these dudes insecurity issues and mental problems could possibly be solved...or at least salved a little bit...by Polytheism? Insecure about your schlong? Pray to the god of dicks, yo.
(Not that I think most of these idiots would last five minutes under a Roman-style system.)
But of course, there's more to this kind of foolishness than that. It's not (necessarily) just about dicks and shit like that.
(Dicks can also very much be a metaphor for ego.)
I mean, if you have a better explanation for why there's even such a thing as a Clitoris Denier, I'm listening. I mean, as far as I'm concerned there's no excuse for an adult to not know this stuff, and acting like this on purpose deserves only the harshest possible mockery, otherwise being beneath contempt.
I mean, I was younger than average when I had my first girlfriend, we were in the same age-group, but all else follows from that. Obviously, I have an ex-wife (and managed to keep her pretty happy at least that way) and for quite a few years there, I was pretty active.
If you haven't had sex, But you're literate or if not, can at least understand pictures and have ever so much as seen a biology textbook, a dictionary or an encyclopedia...or looked at any sort of porn involving women...this really, I mean really should not be that fucking hard, guys.
At least when I was coming up, by the time somebody was in like middle school, they'd at least know what most of the words meant...as much as anything else, simply from paying attention when older people talked.
For fuck's sake when I was a young person, I remember being curious about the world. Did these fucking people just manage to turn that switch off at some point??
(And for the record, it was conservatives who taught me this. They were not always what they have become now. This was a choice they made, and this kind of willful ignorance was a thing that was marketed to people.)
Of course, I knew people like that, almost entirely through church stuff. Those people have always been around, it's just more obvious now.
I also knew that those people were acidly held in a vast amount of contempt by the majority of the people around me. I'd get told not to talk to them, But, they were usually tolerated for some reason, maybe they gave money to the church or they had a bunch of kids whom their overall shitty behavior hadn't worn off on, or whatever.
In all too many cases, their bullshit was excused by somebody simply because their ass showed up every Sunday and Wednesday night.
That was, very often, the reason cited by a lot of Pastors back when I was in Church...at least as recently as 20 years ago; "They always show up."
As if that was a good reason, by itself, for often-disruptive, problematic or toxic people being there.
And now? Now those fucking people are MAGA and the Pastors are very often afraid to call them out or kick them out. I've seen more than one church go belly up just because of regular fanatics in my lifetime and that's way more of a thing now than it was 20-25 years ago (But now the nuts are MAGA and Trump is the reason.)
I've written about it. This happened to a friend of mine who was a Pastor. A bunch of Trump supporters didn't like that he wouldn't preach about politics or (favorably) about Trump, so they bullied and harassed until the whole organization fell apart. But then, he wouldn't sell the building (which he owned) to that clique.
There's not even a church there anymore, it's something else now.
And the media has shackled themselves into a doom-loop with Trump and with Republicans more generally...for the base and simple reason that crazy-stupid and constant shenanigans makes them more money than decent government or a modicum of intelligence or wisdom on the part of politicians and various other public figures.
I mean, these people functionally destroyed Joe Biden for simply trying to go by the old-school way where the President wasn't on TV every goddamned day and it was supposed to be a big deal when he gave a speech or something.
And now they're hella mad that the general public doesn't trust them, both conservatives and liberals hate them...one for them not gargling Trump's balls enough, and the other for constantly trying to make themselves the story and/or trying to undermine Democrats. So of course, the Democrats got Influencers to do most of the convention coverage...and goddamn, but the media's mad about that too and refuses to see why it went down that way.
I get it, everybody was trying to be FOX News for money and ratings...but that didn't even work out for FOX News for the above specified reasons.
They couldn't blow Trump enough.
It's literally not possible to gargle Trump's junk enough that MAGA is going to like you.
MAGA themselves is gonna find out that they should've stopped blowing the narcissist a long time ago, because he's sure not going to appreciate it now. Trump is a narcissist. He has a personality disorder, nothing is ever going to be good enough for him by definition and he can't be "fixed."
Like, I know this from experience, the only way to win with people like that is not to play, to cut them off completely, to get the fuck out.
Which is exactly why both Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are as effective as they are. They never got on the Narcissist's Doom Loop.
And they're not weird, their personal awkwardness in certain ways and various quirks are things most of us can at least relate to, which is why none of the attacks are sticking.
Republicans are gonna find out that they could pour the whole damn world down that hole where Trump's soul was supposed to be and he'll still be thirsty for more.
And they set themselves up so that they'd get eaten first...because somehow something something Gazpacho, in their heads they thought he'd never do that to them.
That's what all this bullshit really is, just plain old hubris and narcissism.
And at the end of the day the reason Trump became these fucking people's "God" is simply that he jacks off their narcissism and makes them feel like they're in some sort of club with him, and they never even notice how much of their energy and time he consumes or how much of their money ends up in his pockets.
At this point, if you don't know any of this bullshit, you deserve what you're very likely going to get.
This shit's all been out there, forever, and actively in politics of over a decade now. It's a sign of our times that people don't want to see what is plainly obvious, even when it's trying to kill them.
Get with the fucking program.
As for the rest of you?
You either believe in freedom, or you don't.
So you better show up...'cause they sure will.
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