And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. ~Revelation 6:7-8
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The wind whispers of fear and hate. The war has killed love. And those that confess to the Angkar are punished, and no one dare ask where they go. Here, only the silent survive. ~Dith Pran, The Killing Fields
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I saw this the other day.
RFK Jr. talking stupid about the Measles outbreak in Texas.
#1 I never got Measles but I did get a couple other childhood diseases, Chickenpox being the one I remember having, none of that shit was any fun, for anybody.
#2 People still got Measles when I was a kid, which is one of the reasons *I* got vaccinated for it. It doesn't give you super powers or make you special if you beat that shit without being vaccinated...but if you didn't, you died or ended up screwed up for life. It seems to me like getting vaccinated is probably a good idea.
#2a I was in the military, I'm vaccinated for all type of shit as a result, and there was no opt-out at the time that wouldn't have instantly ended my career.
#3 All these Antivaxxer motherfuckers are vaccinated. Don't forget that part. They wanna play their eugenicist Master-Race games 100% at other people's expense. All of it, for their own (imagined, ideological) profit.
When the goddamned Federal Worker Unions are telling Congress to vote no on this thing, my dude, that should start telling you something.
Also, Kash Patel and some of these other goddamn nuts are trying to prosecute various agencies and NGO's for accepting Climate Change-related grants from the Biden administration, you know, shit that was done completely legally according to the various and assorted structures existing *Checks Notes* A couple months ago.
Thing is, this is America and you cannot make Ex-Post-Facto laws here. You cannot prosecute people based off of conspiracy theories and hokum. The facts of the case are that this was legally done and Climate Change is established science.
If Trump tried to say that the Moon was made of Cheese or the sky was green, though, some of these fucking moronic ass clowns would at least try and look like they believed it.
But the thing is, reality is a thing. It doesn't care who you think you are. Science is what it is. It doesn't give a shit whether you "Believe" in it or not. You cannot say to a virus "You're being unreasonable" because a virus cannot reason.
And the thing is, by trying to push the Diktat of Sinful Man over basic, knowable, testable reality, these fucking people could kill millions of us.
The Pale Horse of Revelations doesn't give a fuck about you.
I know y'all remember COVID-19 because I just saw an article about it in the local paper this morning. Trump and company tried like hell to use that shit as a biological weapon against America, but enough of us protected ourselves that it didn't work.
Conspiracy theories didn't prevent anyone from getting sick, masking and social distancing did, a vaccine did. It wasn't a lot of fun there for awhile, but all anyone was asking the vast majority of us to do is simply give a shit about other people.
And that right there is the problem, about half of us don't want to and half of us are Okay with the idea.
Most of this stuff shouldn't be politicized or treated according to privilege.
Anybody can get sick, there are no Supermen.
These fucking people are on track to crash the country, which will probably cause it to split up. The economy is crashing and the weather is warming up at about the same time. Fuck, there's already people in the streets on a regular basis, it can and will get worse.
It's not a Just world out there, nobody cares who you are unless you come together with a lot of other people and stand up. We have to make our own justice.
Donald Trump, DOGE and Elon Musk don't give a fuck about you.
Neither does Bird Flu, Measles, or any of the many other contagions that could easily spread in the wake of destruction and war.
And the people we'll need to rebuild shit are starting to leave, because other countries need their services and hell, half of America doesn't even want those people right now.
So other countries are starting to expedite processes to get those people, because they have to think ahead now.
But don't worry, if they have to come and save us from ourselves it's a safe bet that you, basic American Idiot, ain't gonna like how that turns out either. We'd be treated like Germany after WWII, broken up to dilute our power, at least partially disarmed, and very likely culturally, educationally and electorally revamped down to very local levels with it not being a choice...to make sure this bullshit never happens again.
Remember when we were all saying "Never Again?"
So stand up your own damn self, instead of letting other people do it for you. Elon and Trump don't wanna Make America Great Again, they're robbing us blind while using half the country as throwaway pawns even as the cult fever starts to wear off.
And there's a certain segment of Republicans that are perfectly fine with kissing the King's ring, the Pope's Toe, or Donald Trump's stinky ass, just so long as they think whoever it is is "their" guy and will advance their shitty ideological goals. They don't even seem to care if it costs them money, at this point.
I don't know how anyone, no matter how allegedly-conservative, is cool with this.
You're going to have to get off the couch, America.
It's really that damn simple.
And you either believe in freedom or you don't.
So get after it, like, as much as the Democrats suck at this point, we've got about a year to assemble a different political movement. Think about that for a second.
But don't think too long, get after it.
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You were just babies then!" she said.
"What?" I said.
"You were just babies in the war— like the ones upstairs!"
I nodded that this was true. We had been foolish virgins in the war, right at the end of childhood.
"But you're not going to write it that way, are you." This wasn't a question. It was an accusation.
"I — I don't know," I said.
"Well I know," she said. "You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be portrayed in the movies by Frank Sinatra and John Wayne or some of those other glamorous, war-loving, dirty old men. And war will look just wonderful, so we'll have a lot more of them. And they'll be fought by babies like the babies upstairs." So then I understood. It was war that made her so angry. She didn't want her babies or anybody else's babies killed in wars. And she thought wars were partly encouraged by books and movies.
So I held up my right hand and I made her a promise: "Mary," I said, "I don't think this book of mine is ever going to be finished. I must have written five thousand pages by now, and thrown them all away. If I ever do finish it, though, I give you my word of honor: there won't be a part for Frank Sinatra or John Wayne.
"I tell you what," I said, "I'll call it The Children's Crusade." She was my friend after that.
~From the novel Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride." ~Volodymyr Zelenskyy, allegedly 25 February 2022, Associated Press
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