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.
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...
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!
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Andor: Come on! Let's get out of here!~From the series "Andor" S1 E10 "One Way Out."
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I don't preach a social Gospel I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person. When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread. ~Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
I keep seeing this.
Erika Kirk and JD Vance, all over each other at some TPUSA conference or some shit.
Except then I saw she was the same way with Jesse Waters.
Something strikes me as wrong here.
Like, I've mourned the end of relationships that lasted a month for longer than she appears to have mourned her husband.
And here she is behaving
romantically with a bunch of right-wing political dudes.
Something doesn't add up. Something didn't add up from the start of all this.
And no matter how bad you think it is or how bad it looks, I guarantee you that we'll find out it's worse than that.
Not least because these fucking people can't even keep their
own damn mouths shut when it would benefit them.
They have to do all type of evil, immoral, stupid shit and then try to rub everybody else's nose in it, just so they can feel powerful or whatever bullshit.
And of course the trouble is that there's a subsection of MAGA/Republicans that'll cheer them on no matter what they actually do.
A problem, this is.
The whole mess seems designed to mass-produce Narcissists at scale.
That takes the whole dynamic of "Self On The Throne" and turns it into the freaking Imperial Senate from
Star Wars.
You end up with thousands, or even
millions, of competing voices, each screaming "
I Am God!!" in each other's faces. And the
only thing they sort-of can agree on is
Donald Trump.
And this, on the side that loudly claims to be the "Christian" political party in America.
And every last one of these dumbass narcissistic idiots thinks they know better than anybody, what's good or "pure" or "right" for other people.
While at least some of them at the top get to flout the laws of God and Man and even the most basic common decency but the rest of us can just eat shit.
No, fuck all that.
You don't get to make those kind of decisions for other people, you didn't create them, you may or may not even understand their circumstances at all. It's often none of your business, also.
I'm tired of this crap.
We've got people who don't even want to take the most basic responsibility for themselves trying to tell
everybody else what to do and partying it up while food aid runs out for like 40 million people.
(Including my partner and her kid, by the way.)
It seems to me like this is a recipe for an especially bloody and nasty revolution.
More to the point, that's what These Fucking People want, and what they're trying to provoke. Never mind that I don't think a Civil War against them is necessarily gonna go the way they want.
Not, I think, because they think they'll win...but because these nuts crave Apocalypse and self-destruction.
This is just the leftover dregs of the End Times Prophecy movement.
It's basically a combination of These Fucking People spent 50 years spanking the monkey to the idea of the End of the World, already being soaked in a Calvinistic ideal that Heaven isn't Heaven if everybody gets to go and then throw in conspiracy theories, the Prosperity Gospel and all type of other shit.
Keep it up long enough, and eventually even the idea of Truth becomes laughable.
And some combination of that and following after every vaguely-spiritualist fad some dipshit preacher...and doing that for years on end...comes up with is exactly how you go to Hell.
And that's
before you even get to these fucking people's behavior, which is of course the point. When everything and nothing is true all at once, pretty much
anything becomes justifiable.
Look, I don't know if I could hack living like that, not without going bananas anyway.
This crap has got to stop. It's unsustainable.
It's not just a matter of ripping the copper wire out of the walls of civilization to sell for drug money. Not just that, anyway. It's that they think whatever combination of chump change and drugs they come up with will make them Gods or some bullshit.
And when it doesn't work out like that, the only thing they'll be able to think of in response is more self-destruction and rampant destruction of the lives of other people.
Worse, these depraved assholes think that's some kind of right that they have, just to fuck with people.
You either believe in freedom or you don't.
And either you're willing to fight for it or you're not.
Most of us don't get the option to party it up in some gold-plated ballroom while the world burns.
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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
Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord. Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. ~Joel 3:9-14
