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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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Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism.
Peace is generosity.
It is right and it is duty. ~Saint Oscar Romero.
I saw this last night.
There was a time when, if the King or the Bishop or some random courtier or official or whatever didn't like you, or was bored, or without any reason whatever, they could throw whoever they liked in jail or simply have them executed just because it was Wednesday. People got tired of that kind of shit for reasons that should be entirely obvious. But, apparently a lot of Republicans worship the idea of dictatorial power or monarchy (and kissing Power's ass for profit) or some bullshit.
Reagan Motherfucking Wept.
This is the very kind of stuff that America was founded to be against.
Hell, it's what Jesus preached against too, if you think about it. These motherfucker calling Empathy a sin? What the fuck is wrong with you??
And on that note...
Today is the start of RFK Jr's confirmation hearings, and evidently it's not going well.
Democrats keep hitting back at his bullshit with *Checks Notes* official transcripts of his own words. I mean it, seriously, this guy is just an egotistical flimflam artist who has the time and wealth to basically be a professional conspiracy theorist. I wouldn't trust this motherfucker to make me a goddamned ham sandwich!
This shit right now, isn't American politics as it traditionally has been.
This is foreign billionaires and rich American kooks trying to immanentize their bullshit Eschaton.
If you're not able-bodied, rich and the right specific kind of White, socially "Conservative" "Man" who presents as vaguely Christian or as whatever kind of religious or spiritualistic Bunga Bunga crap is in vogue at the moment (and don't let anybody fool you, Christianity has little or nothing to do with this current shit!) these assholes basically think you can serve them or you can die. Perhaps more accurately, that you can serve them and then you can die...with a big side of Eugenics and "Fuck You, I Got Mine."
The vast majority of these Antivax creeps are fuckin' vaccinated. They are entirely sponging off the very things they claim to hate.
This is literally an attempt by the rich to get the rest of us (or at least our future generations) to stop protecting ourselves so we can die off in the name of "Population Control" and they can take our stuff while living out various bullshit medieval cosplays.
They think the Black Death part of that is for other people, though.
Except that historically, it absolutely wasn't, and upwards of half the population of Europe died. Civilization broke down, that's what these assholes thought they could do with COVID-19, use it as a bioweapon against all the people that they didn't like, turns out, more of their own people died than just about anybody else.
It's probably in our favor that so many of these motherfuckers think an incompetent, weak man like Trump is their god.
We let these motherfuckers try and take the kind of power they say they want? It's literally going to take a war to get rid of these assholes.
There's a very good chance it's gonna come down to that no matter what. When people get this arrogant and entitled, it usually comes down to a fight and you knocking their block off in order to make the shit stop.
Again, and I'm going to keep saying this for as long as it takes; You either believe in freedom or you don't.
These people are trying to break America. You want to keep America, or at least make some kind of a soft landing with a breakup where there's robust enough polities that they cannot simply be bought by somebody like Elon Musk, you're going to have to fight for that.
Freedom ain't free.
Civilization takes effort.
You're going to have to stand up.
Get used to the idea and start preparing for it now.
We have the Right to life and to be free from people bothering us with this shit.
What these assholes want is the privilege to conduct their Death Rites atop the ashes of our civilization using the bones of people they thought undeserving of life.
And they think Trump is the guy who's gonna get it for 'em.
Think about that for a second.
If you can't stand up against that, what the fuck is wrong with you??
Слава Україна!
Franklin Roosevelt once said, "Too many who prate about saving democracy are really only interested in saving things as they were. Democracy should concern itself also with things as they should be." So in this campaign we face those who are interested in destroying things as they are. These fellows are not conservatives in the American tradition. They are just interested in tearing down institutions, not in preserving them. They are dedicated to extreme ideas, not to old values. They advocate aggressive interference with other nations, not increased reliance on others to order their own affairs. This is not a conservative philosophy. This is not even a Republican philosophy. This is not a philosophy ever embraced by any major American leader. "Conservative" may be written on their banner and in their books, but "radical" is in their hearts. ~Lyndon B. Johnson
hiding inside the black granite.
I said I wouldn't
dammit: No tears.
I'm stone. I'm flesh.
My clouded reflection eyes me
like a bird of prey, the profile of night slanted against morning.
I turn this way—the stone lets me go.
I turn that way—I'm inside
the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
again, depending on the light
to make a difference.
I go down the 58,022 names,
half-expecting to find
my own in letters like smoke.
I touch the name Andrew Johnson; I see the booby trap's white flash.
Names shimmer on a woman's blouse
but when she walks away
the names stay on the wall.
Brushstrokes flash, a red bird's
wings cutting across my stare.
The sky. A plane in the sky.
A white vet's image floats
closer to me, then his pale eyes
look through mine. I'm a window.
He's lost his right arm
inside the stone. In the black mirror
a woman’s trying to erase names:
No, she's brushing a boy's hair.
~Facing It, by Yusef Komunyakaa, US Army Veteran
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