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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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
I saw this last night, when I got up.
Apparently these Tech Bro idiots think they're just going to indiscriminately murder people all over the world with suicide drones for being "Woke."
Uh, A few things about that:
Like I said, they try this crap, even a little bit, they're going to find out the hard way not only that America has half a billion guns in the hands of We The People, but that other countries have their own Air Forces, Armies and Navies...and that a Canadian CF-18 Hornet piloted by a White Dude, a Portuguese F-16AM piloted by a Woman, and South African Air Force Saab Gripen piloted by a Zulu all can shoot that shit down the same way. If that's 2026, well, there'll be War Crimes trials in 2027 and the whole world will get to see some Broligarch cry like a bitch in the courtroom.
The thing about Other People's Countries is, well, they're other countries, and it's their sky, too. You have to get permission to be there. I highly doubt Canada or the European Union, let alone China, Iran, North Korea, Russia and especially security-obsessed places like Israel and Singapore would be as accommodating as, say, Pakistan to these idiots and their plan to Drone-strike the world.
America, you're fast wearing out your welcome on the world stage with this garbage.
It's like the Terminator movies, but with idiots instead of cyborgs met all those dipshit Evangelical End Times movies and had some kind of mutant love-child where the Antichrist was the hero??
And he caused all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. ~Revelation 13:16-17
Also, it's March, I'm not seeing some WWII-scale drone production ramp-up going on. I suppose they think if they just WILL it hard enough, fleets upon fleets of Bullet Drones and the logistics and all of the technology to deploy them (not to mention trained operators somehow proofed against getting PTSD or switching sides?) will simply appear?? It's like Magic!
Gee, why didn't every autocrat, dictator and petty monarch going all the way back to Hammurabi think of that?? You just have to wish for it hard enough!
LOL, fuck you, NO. None of this works that way.
Guys, stick to coding and money, you suck at everything else.
Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which fills up faster.
I'm a United States Air Force Security Police veteran, and I'm a Bomb Wing veteran specifically. I can't really say much all that specific about the security end of this stuff but I do know what a Permissive Action Link (PAL) is and that they do not work that way. Suffice it to say that an AK-47 or and M16A2 is not fired electrically or networked via SATCOM and aimed at a set of coordinates like an AGM-86B ALCM nor would there be a cheap or easy way to slap an electronic lockout on every gun in circulation...if you could even find them all, if the owners of such said anything other than "Fuck you, No" while bringing their weapons to bear.
And even if all that shit was true, well, I have basic counterinsurgency and MOUT training thanks to a couple of deployments and I'm here to tell you, if this was true? It isn't, but let's say it was: People are, in fact, people. Motherfuckers get drugs and weapons every day in every prison in the world.
You think these fucking idiots are going to somehow put the final kibosh on the Human tendency to resist??
Among other things, it's like these Jabronis have never seen any of the Star Wars movies.
There'd be a booming trade in 19th Century Muskets, AK-47's made in 1965 and Unlocked modern firearms (not to mention knives, Samurai swords and worn boards full of rusty nails) in a hot minute, they'd sell hotter than drugs or porn, and I'd bet you money Moldbug his own damn self would find some way to get his own ass in on that action, all the while cheerfully fucking over all his co-conspirators.
There will, indeed, be blood.
Your opposition out there in the real world ain't gonna be Chuck Schumer.
That's the thing with these guys, they have no leadership skills, loyalty, principles, self-respect or souls. Otherwise, they wouldn't be this way.
And say they got their "Sovereign Corporation." Okay, what's to stop King's Holdings, Ltd. or Tsarprom or Princess Peaches from doing the usual corporate Venture Capital fuckery and ending up owning their ass??
These fucking dudes melt like the Wicked Witch Of The West in a room full of water buckets at the least bit of resistance to their bullshit! Elon is bent all out of shape because his Trans daughter gave an interview yesterday or something.
The revolution will be short, and not in their favor.
You guys are really telling me y'all think you're gonna take on the world with knockoff Shahed drones manufactured out of Fascist Willpower, fairy dust and magic beans that've somehow (inexpensively?) been rigged to read people's minds?? (How would that even work?)
These fucking people think they've found some kind of a cheat code to World Domination but they're apparently unwilling to even do the work of typing it in, if that would reduce the amount of time they get to spend spanking the monkey while fantasizing about having totalitarian Power to protect their Venture Capital.
There's just one problem:
Well, other than they think their Cheat Code is gonna be Donald Trump.
Smoking marijuana, eating Cheetos, and masturbating do not constitute plans in my book. ~Walter White, Breaking Bad.
Again, you either believe in freedom or you don't.
You're either willing to fight for it or not.
You're going to have to pick one, 'cause these dudes ain't gonna give the rest of us a choice.
These fucking people are morons.
But the thing is, you're still going to have to stand up.
Otherwise, it really is gonna be Dumbpocalypse Now.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything. ~Umberto Eco
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
~United States Declaration Of Independence.
...
My black face fades,
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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