And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she said in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judges her.
And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. ~Revelation 18:1-10
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Migs Mayfield: How ’bout a toast to Operation Cinder?
Hess: Now there’s a man who knows his history.
Mayfield: No, I don’t just know it. I lived it. I was in Burnin Konn.
Hess: Burnin Konn?
Mayfield: Mmm.
Hess: That was a hard day. I had to make many unpleasant decisions.
Mayfield: Yes, you did. Entire city gone in moments, along with everybody in it. We lost our whole division that day. Man, that was like 5-10,000 people.
Hess: Yep. All heroes of the Empire.
Mayfield: Yeah. And all dead.
Hess: Well, it’s a small sacrifice for the greater good, son.
Mayfield: Depends on who you ask, don’t you think?
Hess: [irritated] What you gettin’ at, trooper?
Mayfield: All those people, the ones who died, was it good for them? Hmm? Their families? The guys I served with? Civilians, those poor mud scuffers, died defending their homes, fighting for freedom. Was it good for them?
Hess: But we’ve outlasted them, son. They’re eating themselves alive. The New Republic is in complete disarray, and we grow stronger. You see, with the rhydonium you’ve delivered, we can create havoc that’s gonna make Burnin Konn pale by comparison. And then they’re gonna turn to us once again. You see, boys, everybody thinks they want freedom, but what they really want is order. And when they realize that, they’re gonna welcome us back with open arms. Ah. To the Empire.
[Mayfield chuckles, then fires a blaster at Hess' chest, killing him instantly. He and Mando then shoot their way out of the mess hall] ~From The Mandalorian, Season 2, Ep. 7 "The Believer"
Which, considering that I've seen what happens when regular people get too far into all this Crypto bullshit and lose their ass, something tells me none of this shit works that way.
Seems like it's just a retread of Ayn Rand's 1950's-era "Galt's Gulch" horseshit right out of the 1950's, if you ask me. It's just been slightly updated to account for technology and the increasing selfishness of people.
Of course, these fucking people, Libertarians, Republicans or whatever they claim to be now, have coupled this whole idea to Donald Trump...which of course means, in the end it won't work...but the idea isn't for it to work in the first place, but simply for it to throw another wrench into the gears of the existing system and break shit even more.
And the truth is, not a damned one of these fucking people wants to work for a living.
Not even when their job basically consists of wearing a suit and going to meetings all day, which is something I've never considered to be real work.
They think they're gonna have wealth without work and some version of slaves to do their goddamned work for them. Like, what the fuck do you think either this whole craze about AI and robots on the Right is about, not to mention making the lives of poor people even harder than usual or traumatizing immigrants and migrant workers and people of Color??
And lets not forget about all the sexual abuse that's going on. It's not just the Epstein List, I'm rather sure there's many more such lists at this point.
These Fucking People look at Babylon or Rome or any other ancient empire of debauchery and slavery and they don't see a terrible past, they see something to emulate in the present.
Like, I guess I thought humanity was supposed to have learned something in the last couple of thousand years??
Like pretty much the only things modern "Conservatives" seem to believe in these days are "Ideals" of Monarchy and Slavery (and most alleged "Conservatives" fail to understand they ain't gonna be the King.) I'm sorry, but my grasp of history tells me all that kind of shit was ever good for was soaking the world in the blood of the innocent undeserving and you'd fucking think people...especially in America, which the entire point of was that we were the Nation Against Monarchy...have had enough of this fucking bullshit.
Especially with the effects of climate change and various Republican policies at this point being as goddamned obvious as they are.
Of course, I get it, half the fucking problem is that the United States of America is overrun with narcissists who don't give a shit about other people.
Until the problems they've created come for them, that is, then it's a fucking problem.
Politics, collectively, is how we treat each other.
It's no wonder America is a goddamned train wreck, and then These Fucking People want to further parasitize the USA and anywhere else that'll let them with some kind of bullshit "Network State" arglebargle?
Who cuts the grass in the Network State? Who collects the taxes, defends it, fixes the plumbing?
These dipshits want all the benefits of civilization, but none of the responsibilities.
Like These Fucking People think they're gonna be the Technocracy out of the White Wolf roleplaying games, but the truth is they're more like the Borg in Star Trek: First Contact where that shit was like the Star Trek version of Zombies or something, but it's the Borg, programmed by the Carl's Jr. computer from Idiocracy. Extra Big Ass Taco, now with more molecules!
Or something.
While I'm at it, I saw that Elon Musk has a *Checks Notes* guy in a robot suit that he pays to pretend to be a robot at his "Tesla Diner" like some kind of retread of the extras in circa-1979 Cylon costumes that they had back at the Universal Studios theme park back in the 1980's and goddamn but if he's all that he says he is you'd think Elon could do better than that shit.
The truth is all this crap is gonna come tumbling down simply because these fucking people are stupid, and us regular people are gonna get stuck with cleaning up the mess and footing the bill and the assholes will be waiting in the wings to worm their ways back in the second anybody makes a mistake or, well, does pretty much anything they can scream about.
Like, maybe the human race should just stop platforming these fucking assholes??
You either believe in freedom or you don't.
You're either willing to fight for it or you're not.
And if you don't believe everybody should have it, what you believe in isn't freedom.
I know that much.
You have been warned.
People were warned and they didn't listen.
And now it's going to end up coming down to a fight to make this bullshit stop.
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