Man Of Sin (Babylon, Nine.)

Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name:

That strengthens the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.

They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.

Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentation to wailing.

And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the Lord.

Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.

As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.

Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. ~Amos 5:7-26

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[Cassian plays Nemik's audio diary]

Karis Nemik: There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try. ~From the Star Wars series Andor, S1.E12 "Rix Road."

I saw all this shit last night.

Trump, basically fanboying Zohran Mamdani at his desk right in the fucking Oval Office. I swear if Z would have dropped his pants Trump might've tried to blow him.

Not just that, but Trump was pretty much acting like Ass-Clown Bill from Custodial at my old job the one time Alice Cooper came in the breakroom for some coffee and talked to a bunch of the guys for a minute.

The reactions of various right-wing bigots to Trump sitting there grinning like a fool were...something.

I get it, I really do.

I mean, for a couple reasons Trump's reaction totally doesn't surprise me. First, Of course he's gonna try and leech off from anybody else that's even kind-of famous right now.

But more than that, secondly, Trump actively seeks to betray basically everybody sooner or later.

And These Fucking People keep missing that fact.

They don't know or care who Trump is, they just like the idea of what they think Trump represents in their heads, and most of them are the type of gullible marks that just repeatedly fall for his endless self-promoting salesman-pitch because they want to.

Seriously, yo, read the Bible. The Man Of Sin does not give a fuck about you. The Beast of American Revelation could give a shit about you or your claimed ideology. He just wants money, power, sexual gratification and to enjoy himself. He doesn't care what happens to you.

Of course, the actual hard-core racists don't really give a shit, they just want to hurt people or see Other People get hurt, and they're either not thinking that far ahead or simply nihilistic enough to not care as long as they think somebody else is also affected or gets it worse.

Like, among other things, Native Americans were here first. 

This has been an actual conservative point of view and is also basic reality. 

Like even the most far-right person I've ever damned met has not tried to argue that fact. Says it right in that bullshit song about Christopher Columbus, even.

Not that these assholes give a shit about that, either, they're too stupid.

And this same bullshit seems to go whether it's LGBT folk, various People Of Color or women.

Without fail, the "Master Race" turns out to not be so masterful. Like, almost especially when its the ladies getting this crap it's always some chuckle-fuck that looks like they haven't got off without having to pay for it since 1975 and haven't gotten it up since like Y2K.

It's always washed up dudes trying to dunk on beautiful women when the truth is if a woman, ANY woman, that was under 40 even talked dirty to them in a husky voice? Well, all the sudden that one Lonely Island song starts playing and dude needs a towel, no matter what she looks like.

Ya know, if you treat her with a little respect, maybe she'll stick around?

And trust me, my partner is 40 but still looks pretty damn good and I feel like I scored with the Prom Queen. All I had to do was treat her like a person, yo. I'm honestly just glad to have her in my life.

These dudes ain't lonely enough.

And I swear their behavior is getting worse.

Sooner or later, guys, the ladies are going to stop putting up with your bullshit.

These fucking people, all the Manosphere bros and religious nuts and Trump ass-kissers and lackeys and simps don't care what happens to you. 

All they know is they're living large until they aren't and when they aren't?? Well, that was what that 40 BILLION dollar bailout to Argentina in the middle of our government shutdown was actually for.

It's us regular folks that are gonna have to stand up and end this bullshit.

Trust me, if we can't get to the motherfuckers currently catting around on private jets on the taxpayer dime? Yeah, we're gonna take out our anger, frustration and generalized vengeance on somebody.

And then when there's a new government that's not down with this horseshit, then we're gonna go after the private jets and special events set, too.

Which is also, functionally, why These Fucking People want to leave America broke and drained like the British Empire after WWII, having to resort to socialism so people can have health care and a life and raise families and shit.

Because they know it'll be harder for the rest of us to come after them if that's the case.

We'll do it anyway, because you either believe in freedom or you don't.

But like with the Nazis they figure somebody's gonna set up ratlines to somewhere for them, or they'll make some themselves. I'm not sure where they think they're gonna go even matters.

Yes, these fucking people don't care if they die alone or surrounded by sycophants so long as they think they're gonna get to keep their money and shit. They think they'd rather put shock collars on their remaining people or upload themselves into a computer, simply to escape accountability for being assholes.

And of course, literally ANYTHING but "Love Thy Neighbor."

Also, what happens when the power goes out?? 

I mean, there really is a non-zero chance that Elon Musk could end his days living in a can on Mars with nothing for company but an AI and some computer with a voice hookup that tells him he's better than Jesus.

And that, too, is Antichrist, the Man Of Sin, the Son of Perdition. If you need me to tell you why?? Well, I humbly suggest you go pick up a copy of the Lord's Word and look it up for yourself.

In fact, in Biblical terms that fits the chapter and verse about the Antichrist more than anything Trump has done.

And while the Rapture itself is a bullshit man-made doctrine, it's almost certain that the opposite is achievable; That these men, given how they conduct themselves and what they do...and more, increasingly how they imagine their own ends to be...will find a way to go to Hell without actually dying first.

The worst part is, they don't care.

But somebody's gonna have to.

Think on that.

Think about what it's gonna be like for the people who have to analyze this mess much less pick up the pieces and put something remotely resembling one or more societies back together out of this goddamned mess!

Or is that past our two-week span for collective effort or memory, now??

You better hope it isn't.

Like I said, think about it.

'Cause you either believe in civilization or you don't.

And it's the same way with the Lord's Word and all the other stuff these assholes throw around to manipulate people with.

Remember that.

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Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

And now ye know what withholds that he might be revealed in his time.

For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now lets will let, until he be taken out of the way.

And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. ~2 Thessalonians 2:3-10

Eight

You take a drug, right? The chemicals, they rush through your body, rush through your brain. And the sensations, you want the sensations again and again and again, but let me tell you, you can also get addicted to grief, to guilt, to hate. Because when you feel dead inside, even bad sensations make you feel like you're alive! ~Augustus Hill, from the HBO series Oz, S1.E5 "The Straight Life."

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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