~Hunter S. Thompson
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The wind whispers of fear and hate. The war has killed love. And those that confess to the Angkar are punished, and no one dare ask where they go. Here, only the silent survive. ~Dith Pran, The Killing Fields
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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
Like anyone's surprised?
"Moms For Liberty" seems to be dedicated solely to the elimination of all mention or records of LGBT people, People of Color, or damned near anything else other than specifically Christian Whiteness from education, and then wreck the entire concept so that nobody else can even get one.
(And they call this shit "freedom?")
And they've since doubled down on it. (Again, Like anybody who's been paying attention is surprised?)
Nazi bitches gonna be Nazi bitches, I guess.
I wonder if they realize what the men intend for them later?
The question that always needs to be asked when some group has "Freedom" or "Liberty" in its overamped rhetoric or in its title is "Freedom for whom?" and "Liberty to do what?"
Such groups these days are almost always "Conservative" and not the least bit concerned with anybody's actual freedom or liberty at all.
Except for the "rights" of White People to dominate others and their "freedom" and "liberty" to control, hate, and hurt other people.
I just say this yesterday, some idiot personal trainer and "Human potential extractor" calling NASCAR "RINO's" because they contributed some racetrack jet-drying gadget to keeping I-95 in Pennsylvania dry when rain was in the forecast.
I mean, what the fuck??
You're a "RINO" because you want to get the freeway finished?? You're a "RINO" because you contributed to the maintenance of a (federal) Interstate highway in a state with a Democratic governor??
This shit is asinine.
They'd rather have endless traffic tie ups than see a Democrat get some kind of a win?
Shapiro isn't even taking credit, but rather giving it directly to the NASCAR people!
If there's a "win" here, Josh Shapiro gives it to the people. He's not interested in taking credit himself.
Either you want to live in a society or you don't.
One of these things is not like the other one.
And again, for those in the back, Doug Mastriano (Who Shapiro defeated in the 2022 elections) is a Christian Nationalist, a Dominionist Pentecostal freak who was hated by his own soldiers when he was an Army officer because he was always pushing Christian Nationalist beliefs on them.
This is, by the way, against regulations...but of course it is a pervasive problem, for reasons that are entirely political, rather than religious.
It's not about Christianity, or "The Family" or any such thing, except insofar as it's about promoting only one specific kind of Christianity and one type of family for entirely political purposes, because if you walk into most people's houses anywhere in the world preaching this kind patriarchal, racist, sexist bullshit, they're going to throw you out.
They might even beat you up, or call the cops.
So these nuts think they're going to just hoard guns and political power and eventually force this shit on everybody else.
Except how did that work during the Trump administration? How does that work in Orban's Hungary or Putin's Russia??
It doesn't, Trump's government was a soup sandwich and did nothing but cut taxes for the wealthy.
Hungary and Russia have famously low levels of religious observance, but high levels of corruption and theft in their governments (especially theft by those leaders and by people who support such leaders) and of course, there's the war in Ukraine, atrocity, mass theft and mass murder all rolled into one...and it's still a goddamn failure.
But this is the future that "Conservatives" have decided that they want.
Reagan Wept.
Because conservatism and Republicanism have come a long way since then.
A long way down.
These idiots think nobody else has beliefs, guns, power of their own to use or willingness to fight, and they tend to act in accordance with their own stereotypes of everybody else rather than even checking to see what might be true.
These sons of bitches routinely mistake bigotry for truth and confirmation bias for intelligence.
They simply don't want to know anything.
Least of all anything that contradicts what they already want to believe.
Oh, wait, these fucking people's own fascist lackeys are telling on them now.
The war in Ukraine wasn't about much more than an excuse to plunder and steal. It sure wasn't about bringing back the old Soviet Union. At least, not really.
The fucking Wagner Group guy is the one fucking telling on Putin and his oligarchs. Motherfucker whose tactics are straight out of The Walking Dead and shit like that...and he says Russian elites got too greedy, and overreached??Dude, what the fuck??
Of course, historically that's what "Empire" all too often is, plunder and theft, done on the cheap.
Why? Because the populations of the countries that did it, didn't want it otherwise.
(And then these people have the balls to wonder why anti-colonialism is a thing?)
And of course, those who see sucking up to wannabe Emperors as a valid strategy will, sooner or later, find some spoiled useless ass "liberal" asshole who'll carry water for them.
Because some people just cannot resist giving the rest of the world the goddamn middle finger out of pure, privileged spite.
Seriously fuck this motherfucker, sideways. I'm tired of seeing RFK Jr.'s stupid face already, motherfucker is a textbook case of why we shouldn't let spoiled scions of rich families do much of anything.
If we let ourselves and the rest of the world get destroyed by these fucking people, then what the hell are we?? Is this bullshit from debased privilege, or just stupidity??
Why the hell are there so many of us who fall under the spell of any wannabe Ozymandias that comes along??
Think on that, will ya?Слава Україна!
I met a traveler from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
