Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone
These wounds won't seem to heal, this pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me
You used to captivate me by your resonating light
Now, I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away all the sanity in me
There's just too much that time cannot erase
...
[The Mandalorian and Cara Dune board an Imperial Shuttle carrying Dr Pershing]
~The Mandalorian, Episode 2, Chapter Eight, "The Rescue."
It's the Last Day.
And of course all the TikTok kids signing up for a Chinese app literally named Red-Note is probably going to trigger the usual dishonest "Conservative" moral panic about "Communism" never mind that Communism hasn't been a thing since 1989.
Kind of feels like the clock is running down on America, to be honest. I'm sure the Chinese are enjoying themselves watching us run our own shit right into the ground at full speed, too.
Democrats won't be much help, at least not at first. Figure it'll be a few months at least before they shake off collaborationist loser mode and react to their own people screaming at them to do something, if 2017 is any kind of a guide.
We really need a new political party, or two, or three.
But, I think the debased boredom that caused people to either vote for Trump or not vote and let this happen is starting to clear, what with the belated realization that this isn't going to be any fun at all and the only people going to be "Entertained" by this crap are rich white "Conservatives" and the same old MAGA idiots who have thought this shit was funny the whole time.
But here's the thing: It's human nature to resist.
The Revolution will not be televised, it won't be Facebooked or Insta-d or Twittered...it'll be Blue-Sky-ed and Red-Noted and seen with your own eyes.
Somehow all these authoritarian creepers and rich weirdos never manage to figure that shit out.
And that's actually why rich people like Elon Musk want to run America into the ground like he did with Twitter, I'm sure he figures a smaller territory and user base that might be more ideologically friendly will be easier to control when Blue States and a bunch of the people who don't like this bullshit pick up and leave, and yeah, he in particular will let that happen. People like him profit either way.
But more-so from destruction, actually.
Their ideology doesn't build things, it wrecks them, then they skate before the next quarter's numbers come in and leave somebody else holding the bag. Yes, America is about to get Corporate-raider-ed.
More to the point, the resistance to this crap will create new ideals, and reinvigorate old ones.
Submission to this kind of bullshit...won't. When has a vapid "Faith" in faith itself, or empty religiosity ever created anything except for when people get tired of it and new movements rise up?? I mean, that's literally not the nature of the beast!
Nobody wants to go back to the 15th goddamned century except a few reactionaries and religious nuts. The Christ-less "Christianity" of MAGA is already legit starting to damage the actual Christian church here in America, in the same way that playing fuck fuck games with fascists and Nazis wrecked their shit in Europe almost 80 years ago.
People are tired of a lot of shit right now, and sooner or later simply checking out won't be an option because Republicans will come for that, too, like an AI or a subscription reminder that insists on bugging you when you're simply trying to restart your device.
Like a goddamn computer, these motherfuckers are quite simply not programmed to leave shit well enough alone, and to keep going well past any point where it's appropriate.
I mean this seriously, and this was a thing I commented on more than once 20+ years ago, as well. Far too many people literally do not know the goddamned difference between "Conservative" politics, religion and Whiteness. And they think they'll go to hell if they don't go all Fatal Attraction trying to get you to buy in...even if you can't, really.
And yes, they want the Apocalypse, End Times, Last Days, whatever, so bad that they're willing to become the goddamned Beast of Revelations their own damn selves if that's what it takes. They know how it ends, they just don't care.
All the Left Behind apocalyptic crap is a lie. Not that it ever really mattered to them. The Rapture was just marketing, now that it's become inconvenient to their desire to fight pretty much everybody, they've discarded it.
Because it was never about God for so many of them, but about worldly power.
Because most of this horseshit is really just about power and relative status. Money is just the current metric of the day. (And while I'm at it, that's why these clowns hate young people...because these fuckers have bogarted up enough of the goddamn money that younger folks simply have found other metrics by which to find happiness.)
Just in case you were still wondering why they hate LGBT people in general, and transgender people in particular, so much. God forbid somebody be their authentic self by literally physically defying these fucking people's "beliefs."
Shit, they'd pick on kids born from IVF if there was a reliable way to identify such.
And don't be surprised when they start going after biracial people and any woman that can't or doesn't or simply won't play their goddamn gender-role bullshit. These people are fucking narcissistic racist-sexists, each one of them individually does not understand why the whole rest of the world doesn't want to stand in their shadow and bask in the reflected glory of their presence.
And it only gets worse when these creeps have billions of dollars. Like, I guess Venture Capitalist weirdo Marc Andreessen went like, full Bunny Boiler crazy on Taylor Lorenz with a raging shitload of creepy bullshit and stupid stereotypes recently.
Among other things, these fucking people literally don't believe anybody else is any different from them, they utterly lack that level of imagination. A lot of these chuckle-fucks basically think that Atheism or Liberalism or whatever is just an inversion of their own bullshit belief system that others cling to for the same "Opposite Day" bullshit reasons that they won't do stuff like get vaccinated.
Everything is (or they think, should be) ideological or political. A Cigar is never just a goddamned Cigar. Fuck, even when I was a conservative, I couldn't live like that. Sometimes, it's good to just be human. If you cannot unbend...well, sooner or later you end up doing shit like creepily writing about some random reporter, or worse.
(Why do you think these fucking people have such high rates of addiction and certain kinds of criminal acts?)
And in case you wonder why I think it'll literally come down to a fight and the rest of us simply won't be able to live with these fucking people, that's my own goddamned life experience...and yes, motherfuckers like this always seem to manage to suck you back in at least once and it's invariably worse the second time around.
When this country comes flying apart because the population is no longer unified enough to bear the pressures being inflicted upon it, or worse when some disaster strikes (See also, Bird Flu, Russia, and a host of other threats) a hell of a lot of the rest of us are gonna be starting over with pretty much fuck all, still paying off bills and cleaning up the fucking damage.
I've been there, I know how that works.
But here's the fucking thing...we'll still be living better than these motherfuckers and the people who stay locked in their bullshit rich-guy Never Never Land with them are!
And we'll have to fight to stay that way, too.
My ex-wife pulled every manipulative trick in the book to try to get me back, for literally years. I had to move three hours away to make it stop! Yes, among other things even without a civil war, Blue states can likely expect a refugee crisis as any people in an "Other" category who can, leave Red states. Fuck, when push comes to shove anybody with the will is going to end up just walking away.
I've seen that happen, too, in the context of relationships going bad from this kind of shit.
But now the whole country is gonna go that way??
And just remember, when Trump doesn't instantly give these fucking people what they thought they wanted...they're going to be mad, too. I give it about Two Weeks before that happens, like I said.
There's a reason I keep saying you either believe in freedom or you don't.
Слава Україна!
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same. And if you and I don't do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in America when men were free. ~Ronald Reagan
For that second chance
For a break that would make it okay
To feel not good enough
And it's hard at the end of the day
Oh, beautiful release
Memories seep from my veins
Oh, and weightless, and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight
Fly away from here
From this dark, cold, hotel room
And the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage
Of your silent reverie
You're in the arms of the angel
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