Wildfire (American Abominations, Five.)

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires. ~Susan B. Anthony

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When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats:
And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
For I hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
For I hungered, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. 

~Matthew 25:31-45

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[Mando visits the Armorer at the Mandalorian enclave on Nevarro, bringing the camtono of Beskar bars he got as bounty from The Client]

Armorer: [looks at Beskar bars as the other Mandalorians witness] This amount can be shaped in many ways.

The Mandalorian AKA Mando: My armor has lost its integrity. I may need to begin again.

Armorer: Indeed. I can form a full cuirass. This would be in order for your station.

Mando: That would be a great honor.

Armorer: I must warn you, it will draw many eyes.

Paz Vizsla: [grabs one Beskar bar and snorts at seeing the Imperial logo] These were cast in an Imperial smelter. These are the spoils of the Great Purge. The reason we live hidden like sand rats. [tosses the bar back on the table]

Armorer: Our secrecy is our survival. Our survival is our strength.

Vizsla: Our strength was once in our numbers. Now we live in the shadows and only come above ground one at a time. Our world was shattered by the Empire with whom this coward shares tables. [reaches for Mando's helmet to remove it but they fight until they come to knifepoint]

Armorer: [stands up to stop the fight]  The Empire is no longer, and the Beskar has returned. When one chooses to walk the Way of the Mandalore, you are both hunter and prey. How can one be a coward if one chooses this way of life? Have you ever removed your helmet?

Mando: No.

Armorer: Has it ever been removed by others?

Mando: Never.

Armorer: This is the Way.

Mandalorians: This is the Way. [Vizsla and Mando let off each other]

Vizsla: This is the Way.

Armorer: What caused this damage?

Mando: A mudhorn.

Armorer: Then you have earned the mudhorn as your signet. I shall craft it. [The Mandalorian and the Armorer sit back down]

Mando: I can't accept. It... wasn't a noble kill. I was... helped by an enemy.

Armorer: Why would an enemy help you in battle?

Mando: It... did not know it was my enemy.

Armorer: Since you forego a signet I shall use the excess to forge Whistling Birds.

Mando: Whistling Birds will do well. Reserve some for the Foundlings.

Armorer: As it should always be. The Foundlings are the future. This is the Way.

Mandalorians: This is the Way.

Mando: This is the Way.

~From The Mandalorian, S1 E3 "The Sin."

I've been seeing this kind of crap a lot the last few days.

So-called "Men" celebrating the pause on SNAP, and demanding that things like basic health care, human rights or even the fucking vote be taken away from women.

I've got news for you, bros.

If you're talking about, or to women like this, as far as I'm concerned you ain't a man.

You're basically saying you can't get the girl if you have to treat her like a person or unless she is stripped of basic needs and the capability to provide for herself and (you think) she'll have to come crawling to you.

News flash: She Won't.

And if that's the case that you can't get the girl without the deck being so massively stacked in your favor that you're the only one with any cards?? 

That's specifically a you problem and there's something wrong with you.

If you don't love the women in your life enough to treat them with a little respect, why bother??

You don't deserve women.

Or gay dudes for that matter.

And you deserve to contract some virulent medical condition that's both exceptionally hard to get rid of and that makes jerking off painful.

It should burn when you pee, for fuck's sake.

I keep hearing about this "Male loneliness epidemic" shit.

Well, "Men" acting like this ain't near lonely enough and I say that as a Man.

These motherfuckers ain't lonely, they're assholes and women don't have to put up with it.

This crap isn't loneliness, it's narcissism and it's reached Zombie Apocalypse-like epidemic levels.

[Dr. Jenner is speaking to a recording camera.]

Edwin Jenner: Jenner here. It's Day 394 since Wildfire was declared and 63 days since the disease abruptly went global. There's no clinical progress to report. Item: I finally got the scrubbers in the east sector shut down to save power. Wish I could have done it a month ago, but it took me how long to figure it out. Too bad I never studied engineering. Could have saved a lot of amps. Item: Still not sleeping well. Can't seem to keep regular hours. Living underground doesn't help; not knowing if it's day or night. Just...feeling very...off. ~From The Walking Dead, S1 E5 "Wildfire."

Most of them can find the company of other assholes just fine. Socially, they ain't lonely. I imagine eventually, they'll give up on women and just do it to each other...until they figure out they don't like each other either.

Yeah, I realize that's not very politically correct or "Woke" to say. Too bad.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it. 

Fuck you.

I'm tired of cruelty, hate, misogyny and selfishness.

I'm tired of These Fucking People even trying to make God in their own image!

Literally the only way we're going to get out of this mess is solidarity and people coming together.

But some people just don't want to do that, not unless they get to dominate and hurt some other person in the process for no reason.

They'd literally rather die alone and miserable and reject God Himself than have to give a shit about other people.

And somehow they always manage to take it out on women first.

Like, bro, you do not hold all Truth or get to be the arbiter of other people's rights simply because of what you have in your pants.

I don't give a damn.

It really is that simple. If you don't like it, too bad!

And I'm honestly tired of so many people missing the point on purpose.

Sure, we were unprepared, our tools, our training, everything I just talked about, all one class-A, gold-standard clusterfuck, but the weapon that really failed wasn’t something that rolled off an assembly line. It’s as old as…I don’t know, I guess as old as war. It’s fear, dude, just fear and you don’t have to be Sun freaking Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy, it’s about scaring him enough to call it a day... “Shock and Awe”? Perfect name, “Shock and Awe”! But what if the enemy can’t be shocked and awed? Not just won’t, but biologically can’t! That’s what happened that day outside New York City, that’s the failure that almost lost us the whole damn war. The fact that we couldn’t shock and awe Zack boomeranged right back in our faces and actually allowed Zack to shock and awe us! They’re not afraid! No matter what we do, no matter how many we kill, they will never, ever be afraid! ~Todd Waino, World War Z (Novel by Max Brooks)

This shit is weaponized incompetence and willful stupidity on the part of institutions, media, and yes, men (and a few women hangers-on, in the case of idiots like Kasie Hunt.)

Like, I don't even know what these fucking people think they're getting out of this bullshit at this point.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

If you don't stand up and fight, it'll get worse.

If you think all these narcissists will stop at any recognizable point short of everybody either bowing down or fighting against them (and note that either will fuel their narcissism, and they don't care if they get destroyed) you're flat-out wrong.

These fucking people want rights without responsibilities, wealth without work, and Salvation without either belief or sacrifice.

They want the world handed to them on a golden platter without them having to fucking do anything.

None of this is sustainable or works that way, and continuing to try this shit is wrecking pretty much everything.

And when people realize what they've done, everything is gonna suck by then and everybody is gonna be mad about it.

And honestly, part of why I believe so strongly that this bullshit is going to come down to a fight is that a hell of a lot of people...especially but not exclusively "Conservatives"...will rather lash out at other people than sit in it and think about what they've done.

When that happens?

Guess what? We're going to find that liberals, LGBT folk, People of Color and women will have figured it out that they don't do as well unsupported in war zones and they'll have started working together and defending themselves.

People are getting sick of this bullshit.

Sooner or later, that's going to have an effect.

Think about that, for a second.

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When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (who so readeth, let him understand:)

Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains:
Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. ~Matthew 24:15-18

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Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profits me nothing.

Charity suffers long, and is kind; charity envies not; charity vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

Rejoice not in iniquity, but rejoice in the truth;

Bear all things, believeth all things, hope all things, endure all things.

Charity never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

And now abides faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

~1 Corinthians 13 (KJV)