Elisabet Sobeck: I remember yelling that I didn’t care. And that’s when my mother took my face in her hands and…spoke.
GAIA: Query: What did she say?
Elisabet Sobeck: She said I had to care. She said, “Elisabet, being smart will count for nothing if you don’t make the world a better place. You have to use your smarts to count for something, to serve life, not death.”
~From the video game Horizon Zero Dawn.
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You can take a lot of things away from a man. Cigarettes, the gym. You can take his freedom, his legs, but not his feelings. Not his feelings. A man loves a woman. Don't matter what kind of man he is, if he loves her, he wants her. He wants her body. He wants her to want his. So you say to him, "you can never make love again. You will never touch her in that way again. This is the last time. The last time. Forever." If that's not cruel and unusual punishment, I don't know what is. ~Augustus Hill, from the HBO series Oz, S1.E2 "Visits, Conjugal and otherwise."
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I saw this in the thread about the no people DHS post that I wrote about this morning.
And like I say every time this dog-breeder bullshit comes up, fuck you, you will take my Mom's or my Partner's franchise away or force any woman to have some white Chud's babies over my dead body, our ancestors decided this over 100 years ago and this has been a conservative point of view.
And I say that as a veteran, specifically. plenty of the officers I had were women.
Conservatism means "Things as they are."
And like I keep saying, that's not the world These Fucking People wanna live in.
I went to Christian schools and was actually educated in a lot of this stuff, that's not what these fucking people want either.
Conservatism is not what these idiots want.
Likewise for most of my life, Russia was either considered our enemy or at best an unfriendly competitor (and honestly for most of the time, a Third-World soup sandwich barely worth thinking about except for their nuclear arsenal.) So I really don't understand why Republicans went all in on supporting Putin's Russia.
Except of course they all wanna be Vladimir Putin and at the head of some bullshit totalitarian neo-Communist regime that's been misbranded as "Conservative" because it hates Gay people and anybody outside of the dominant ethnicity.
Yes, if These Fucking People get their way, most White people and certainly anybody who has to work for a living or who doesn't have inherited billions will be just a lighter shade of expendable N****r to the people really pulling the strings, like Elon Musk, too.
There's a reason their latest flagship poster don't have no people in it.
There's a reason these monsters are just fine with the Red Army's idea of a strategy being "Just throw waves of meat at the Ukrainians like it's a damned Zombie Apocalypse."
This current brand of "Conservatism" is anti-Human.
It's not just profits over people, it's that they think money should get a vote and people shouldn't.
It's not just beliefs, ideas, or religion over human dignity, life and rights, it's that these nut-bags, out of mental illness or rabid self-hatred, actually desire the Apocalypse.
Not because they really want to be judged or meet God, but because they're basically so debased that, in effect, total self-destruction is the one thing they haven't, er, done before. And yeah, think of that in a sexual sense, more or less.
Cuz these dudes are that gross.
And not just that, but they're getting worse.
Like happens in a lot of backward supposedly-patriarchal places like Russia or the Taliban's Afghanistan it's not just that they want to sexually abuse women and force them to have kids...they want to sexually assault boys and other men, too.
Why do you think they're really doing their damnedest to try and hide or drag ass on releasing the Epstein files??
Why you think these bitches crash Grindr every chance they get??
It's not about sex, it's not even technically about ethnicity or race, it's about Power. And it's about exercising that "Power" as transgressively as possible, even to the point of mocking the Lord.In fact, I'd argue, especially to that point.
And it's less about trying to redefine shit from the past like Norman Rockwell or famously-progressive Republican president Teddy Roosevelt in some way that benefits their "cause" than it's about them making themselves the "gods" or some post-Apocalyptic HELLSCAPE where the dominant "faith" is dancing around a fire and shouting "Unga Bunga" (and actual religions like Christianity or Islam or Judaism only exist in the pockets of Civilization that have survived) when they aren't dodging the resource-collection robots or the Terminators left behind by long-dead billionaires and Corporations now remembered only from faded logos and serial numbers on the oldest Machines.
As long as the profits are only going to some 900-year-old brain-broken demented Quadrillionaire who cannot survive outside of their Torment Nexus of "Life Support" equipment that's the only thing keeping them alive, some Republican that broke out of a Stasis pod like the guy in Idiocracy into this world would just shrug and have no problem with it all.
And that is what truly is These Fucking People's idea of "Eternal Life."
Stop and think about that for a second.
Like I said the Republican idea of the Future is the Killing Fields of Khmer Rouge Kampuchea but with a mall.
Only difference is they want to make it so there's not enough left over for Cambodia to rebuild itself into anything after the rest of the world steps up and drives the remnants of the Khmer Rouge into the deepest darkest jungles and brings their leaders up on war crimes charges and puts them on trial.
Except they want that to be America and any other country they can get ahold of, too.
And they seem to be particularly targeting rich, white countries for this bullshit. They wanna colonize the White People now.
A hell of a lot of White "Conservatives" seem just fine with that, so long as they get to be the local Imperial lackeys.
And all these weird little narcissistic fascists are just hella mad that anyone, anywhere, would tell them "No."
This is going to come down to a fight.
You either believe in freedom or you don't.
Слава Україна!
hiding inside the black granite.
I said I wouldn't
dammit: No tears.
I'm stone. I'm flesh.
My clouded reflection eyes me
like a bird of prey, the profile of night slanted against morning.
I turn that way—I'm inside
the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
again, depending on the light
to make a difference.
I go down the 58,022 names,
half-expecting to find
my own in letters like smoke.
Names shimmer on a woman's blouse
but when she walks away
the names stay on the wall.
Brushstrokes flash, a red bird's
wings cutting across my stare.
The sky. A plane in the sky.
A white vet's image floats
closer to me, then his pale eyes
look through mine. I'm a window.
He's lost his right arm
inside the stone. In the black mirror
a woman’s trying to erase names:
No, she's brushing a boy's hair.
[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."
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.
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.
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.
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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