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To everyone who doesn't believe in punching Nazis: Like Malcolm X said, non-violence only works if your enemy has a conscience. MLK Junior realized Malcolm X was right about this, and since the FBI was spying on him, they murdered him for it. This was proven in the FBI's own files, discovered by his family suing for the information's release.

So you punch that Nazi. You take soup for your family to protests where fascist cops will be. Clobber Proud Boys. Curbstomp the KKK. Make racists too afraid to express their views, too afraid to let anyone know they're racist. Make them feel lonely and afraid and scared all the time. It's what they deserve for trying to kill people just for existing.
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September of 2022 and the ICE concentration camps are still going. The US has become Nazi Germany and nobody cares. The Democrats and the Republicans are virtually indistinguishable from each other now, and both are fascists. But because their victims aren't white, most people don't give a single solitary fuck.
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OP: [Posting about the DS9 episode S03 E11, the one with the Bell Riots in it. They posted a picture of Julian Bashir asking Sisko "How could they have let it get so bad?" OP then says "god damn, it hits hard. I work for non-profit organization, helping homeless people and I ask myself this question a lot"]

Me: Turns out that episode was being highly optimistic. Can you imagine our modern government actually trying to help poor people? LOL, I can't! The idea that things might be as GOOD in the real world as they were in that era of Trek history is laughable now.

At least they had shelter, in the slums of the episode. (Our own government actively harasses and steals from homeless people on a regular basis, forcing them to constantly relocate and buy replacements for the things stolen from them.)

At least their government was trying to help, even if they were failing miserably. (Our government is actively trying to kill as many poor people as they can.)

In the episode, people were angry enough to actually riot. (In our real-world nation, most people are either too exhausted to riot from the constant struggle to survive or are too privileged to give a fuck.)

Yeah. Even when Star Trek was trying its hardest to be as dark in its predictions of the near future as possible, they were still being extremely naive and optimistic.

Someone else: Shit. You're right.

Me: Yeah. And I hate it. Also that's bad enough without also mentioning that fascism is on the rise (anti-trans laws, anti-abortion laws, anti-birth control laws, etc) and the Democrats (who have the House, Senate, AND the Presidency, thus all the power to stop it in its tracks) are doing fucking zilch to try to stop it. They're just sitting there twiddling their thumbs, proving their complicity through their inaction. We're on the road to another Holocaust and they don't care. I wish I was exaggerating.

PSA

May. 15th, 2022 07:33 pm
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Stop comparing Western religious extremism to sharia law or the Taliban or other Muslim extremist groups. It's racist to do so, and abortion is legal under sharia law. Western extremism is WORSE. Western extremism is fascism. Compare them to Nazis if you must, since they literally ARE Nazis.

Also while I have your attention, abortion bans violate Jewish people's freedom of religion since the Jewish people actually READ their holy book, and under Jewish rules a fetus isn't a person until after it takes its first three breaths after birth.
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Laws banning abortions, restricting what trans people can do, and laws against people of color are all forms of systemic violence.

If you are not enraged about systemic violence against trans people, you ARE transphobic!
(Even if you are trans.)

If you are not enraged about systemic violence against women, you ARE a misogynist!
(Even if you are a woman.)

If you are not enraged about systemic violence against people of color, you ARE a racist!
(Even if you are a person of color.)

An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. An attack on anyone's rights is an attack on EVERYONE'S rights. The US is rapidly becoming fascist, the Democrats are as usual NOT DOING A SINGLE FUCKING THING ABOUT IT, and we need to fight HARD against fascism or we're going to end up replaying WW2 with the US as the Nazis this time.

Fuck the US

May. 3rd, 2022 09:04 pm
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So they struck down Roe vs Wade. Fuck this fascist country. Y'all realize we leftists told you this was going to happen, right? This is what we get for not going after Trump and all his cronies hard from the start. It's what we get for voting Biden instead of Bernie Sanders. It's what we get for not expelling the supreme court justice that stole Obama's justice, and letting Bernie replace them. We let the treasonous criminals get away and now they're making the fascism of this country worse.

Time to check if our politicians are made of cake.
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My thoughts on the infamous "slap" at the Oscars where Will Smith supposedly assaulted Chris Rock: The whole thing was staged. Security did nothing to try to slow Smith down or stop him, when decades ago they had to restrain John Wayne from the stage when he was trying to assault the Native American woman standing in for DeNiro. Smith and Rock were clearly paid to create a fake scene that would have everyone talking, as a distraction from who knows how much fascist bullshit going on. Like how a sitting United States Senator, in an interview today, said plainly that states should be able to ban interracial marriage. Or climate change. Or scores of other things. The US is not a democracy, it is a crypto-fascist oligarchy owned and run by billionaires.

Smith also never made any actual contact, and the sound everyone heard upon the "contact" was his foot on the stage. Don't buy the hype. Ignore the bullshit perpetrated by those wealthy assholes and pay attention to the bullshit perpetrated by the wealthy assholes who are running our country.

Panem et circenses, without the panem.
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School is such a waste of time. If I ever have kids, they're getting homeschooled cuz public schools can't teach anything at all.

And it's all because schools were designed to be places to educate the masses just enough to run the machines in factories during the industrial revolution, and be obedient little workers and slaves to the state. Except now we're reaping the consequences of that in the form of a government that, even under the Democrats, is just a fascism masquerading (badly) as a democracy. Also, the robots run the factories now, so we need to scrap that approach to education and thus the entire education system, and design something completely from scratch to meet the new needs of modern society. We need an education system that encourages creativity rather than actively destroying it; a system that encourages questioning and critical thinking.

Sadly, though, as long as our government continues to be Mussolini's Italy wearing plastic glasses frames with a glued on mustache, we're not going to get that education system we need. And at this rate, with the concentration camps being literally common knowledge and absolutely nothing at all is being done about it even under Biden, I think we have a better chance of spontaneously sprouting wings and flying to the moon than we have of pushing the masses into overthrowing our "fascism lite" government.
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I am so fucking tired of dipshit soldiers or veterans claiming they risked their lives for my freedom. No the FUCK you did not, you dipshit! And you are NOT a good person. If you're okay with signing up to murder foreign people, you're not a good person. I don't care how much you got pressured, how desperate you were, or anything like that. You knew when you signed on you would have to murder people, and you were okay with that, so you're automatically a bad person for joining the military.

Back in WW2 or earlier, things would have been different. But there hasn't been a just war or a purely defensive war that the US was involved in since WW2. All the wars since then have been unconstitutional, and have been either to fight the imaginary enemy of "communism" or to profit greedy parasitic wealthy evil people. So the idea that you, as a soldier, are "risking your life for your country" or for my freedom, is a twenty-mile high pile of horse crap. You risked your life and became a murderer for someone else's war profiteering. Accept the fact that you're a bad person and a dupe, and then get angry at the wealthy a-holes that duped you into that BS with their pretty lies.

It's especially laughable to claim you fought for my freedom when even under a Democratic administration, the US is still a fascist oligarchy masquerading as a democracy.

Yeah

Sep. 1st, 2021 06:01 pm
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"Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker."
C. S. Lewis

Yes, but let them also hear of the power of individuals who are not trained as heroes to be heroes, fighting against oppressive enemies without expectation of backup coming, for far too often the world's knights in shining armor work for the villains. Let them hear of the brave men and women who fought against their employers for employee rights and were murdered for it and yet still won. Let them hear about people who rose up against oppressive governments and died to defeat fascism and other especially evil forms of government. Or at least let them hear stories that veil these ideals in metaphor, though probably that veil of metaphor should be so sheer it's almost not there because nobody seems to be able to connect the dots anymore.
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Transcript under the cut )

My response:

Also parents these days are so afraid of strangers kidnapping their kids that they won't let them play outside. Which is absurd, because statistically they're FAR more likely to be kidnapped by a family member than by a stranger. Same goes for child molestation.

I probably sound like a boomer, but in my day my parents let me wander around all over the neighborhood. My one rule was I was to either stay within shouting distance or come back by dinnertime. My ADHD ass couldn't follow that rule since I couldn't remember the rule in the heat of the moment and also still can't keep track of time, so Mom and Dad would go from shouting to using a bicycle horn. If that didn't work, Dad would get in the car and look for me. I think the fact I never really got in trouble for that added to my unlikliness to follow those particular rules. (Most that ever happened was Dad was highly annoyed about having to put pants and shoes on.)

All of that was preamble to the following: If someone from the future went back and told kid me that in 15 years mobile phones would be so cheap that even homeless people could buy one with spare change, I would have been so jealous of future kids as I imagined they could go anywhere they wanted and have their mom call them to say "Hey, dinner is in 20 minutes, start hiking your ass home," on a device that had a built in clock as well.

Instead, kids had their freedoms restricted to an insane degree. Which, now I think of it, is just a microcosm of the macrocosm, as the country shuffles ever closer to permanent fascism enabled by big tech companies spying on everyone.
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All politicians for the last 30 or so years have been basically fascist. The Dems feign being the good guys and then put up about as much fight against Republican fascist nonsense as a sub puts up against being dominated by his dom. When the Dems get back in power they do maybe 2 or 3 cosmetic law changes for good PR but leave the rest of the GOP's fascist BS intact.

If the Dems weren't closet fascists, then why is Homeland Security still a thing? Why is the Patriot Act still in effect? (Obama even RENEWED the gods-damned thing!) Why is Guantanamo Bay still torturing people? Why is Biden still keeping kids and their families in cages for the "crime" of wanting a better life in a wealthy country? Why is Biden still using Trump era immigration policies? Biden McClownFace has been in office for almost 8 months now and he's done basically DIDDLY FUCKING SQUAT that whole bloody time!

Jesus frack, at least the conservatives don't even pretend to not give a shit. Damned liberals are just as heartless as the conservatives, but they virtue signal like mad to trick people into thinking they're decent human beings.
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Okay I admit it, I fell for the Democrats' bullshit again. Now Biden still hasn't freed any of the people in Trump's concentration camps and is still using Trump era immigration policies. Ultimate proof that the Dems are just as fascist as the GOP, they just let the GOP do all the heavy lifting.

I have decided I no longer care what others say, the only way I'm voting Democrat again is if Bernie runs as a Democrat. If the choices are between the GOP flavor of fascism and the Democrat flavor of fascism, I'm voting third party. Anyone who tries to blame me for costing their side the win can go chug a gallon of rancid tuna salad that's been sitting in the summer sun for a week first.
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TW again for cynical talk about Biden.

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Today I learned about something called minarchy. A minarchist wants as small a government as will work.

Minarchy sounds cool on the surface. But then the US tried the same thing in the early years, where the federal government existed almost entirely to mediate disputes between the states. Then the North and South couldn't agree on slavery and all that flew out the window. Once the minarchy model was tossed out, it all went downhill from there and we've now been living in a crypto-fascist country for the last 30 years at least.

Crypto-fascism is fascism that disguises itself as a democracy. It does this by strictly controlling the choices of candidates to ones that are in the pockets of billionaires, ones that will keep up the status quo of committing war crimes on other countries for oil and other interests, while slowly ramping up police presence and militarism domestically to take away more and more rights from the people. Trump was an experiment - they wanted to see if the people of the US were ready to accept full fascism, and they found out that not enough of us were, so they replaced openly-fascist Trump with crypto-fascist Joe Biden and his bastard cop running mate Harris. You mark my words, they're gunning to turn this into a police state. They're already working on domestic terrorism laws that are going to be Homeland Security Two: Electric Boogaloo, and they're going to use those laws more against anarchists than white supremecists, Biden actually said as much some time back.

Biden is a racist who pretends to be not one by partnering with race-traitors like Obama and Harris. We know this to be true by his decades of pushing for more and harsher sentences for people of color. He has been aided and abetted by the Democrats as well, like Bill Clinton. Biden also helped form I.C.E. and helped build the concentration camps innocent immigrants are being held in. I predict Biden is going to do not a single fucking thing about those concentration camps, except maybe some slight changes to make the conditions inside a little better, but otherwise it's going to be business as usual. After all, Obama had the chance to repeal the fascist Patriot Act and disband Homeland Security but didn't because as I said, he's a traitor to his race, just as fascist as all the other Presidents before and since. But he's charming so people excuse it.

Literally, I am not kidding. Every US President since WWII -- including Obama and Jimmy Carter -- would be a war criminal if the UN had any fucking spine to enforce the Geneva Convention. And the war on drugs is also a crypto-fascist tool as well. If the US government really didn't want drugs to get into the country, then they would be able to keep the drugs from getting into the country. The fact that drugs keep getting in is just proof that the government wants the drugs to be here, so they have an excuse to keep using people of color as slaves. Because Lincoln didn't end slavery, he just ended private slavery... prison slavery is still legal. Which is why the racist assholes in the government throw people of color into prison for years and even decades for the same crimes white people get away with all the time. And now the cops routinely carry more military gear than the military does, and their reaction to being asked to stop killing people of color has been and continues to be doing even more murdering and violence. Even white protesters aren't safe anymore from rubber bullets (used improperly - they're supposed to be fired at the ground so they can bounce and hit people, and these assholes are shooting people point-blank with the fucking things, doing fucktons of damage to people.)

So again, none of this is going to change until we have a violent revolution. Because the system is built to serve the fascists.
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(Trigger warning for... I dunno how to word this... for talk about me having no faith in the system? Apparently my attitude about Biden was triggering some friends of mine.)

Hope is great and all but it's useless if it's not directed properly. Anyone who still has faith in the system is deluded at this point. If we don't all come to recognize how bad the Democrats have gotten and do something to replace Biden with someone actually progressive, we're just going to see another Trump running in 2024 and probably winning. Whole reason I hated Biden as a candidate is because even then it was obvious he's too far Right to ever pressure to the left. Then he chose a cop as his running mate and I realized he's just another racist, but he's one that tries to disguise his racism by partnering up with black people who are traitors to their race, like Kamala Harris and Obama.

We need to replace Biden with someone like Bernie. Someone who will get money out of politics. As long as the billionaire class owns the politicians (and they own most politicians on both sides), we're going to be in at least a crypto-fascist government.
So I'm not saying it's hopeless. I'm saying the only hope is getting rid of Biden - who nobody really wanted to begin with - and replacing him with someone truly progressive. Now whether we do that through some legal means or we have the violent revolution that's been long overdue, well... whatever works. But I say let's break out the guillotines.
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On someone's FB, they made the comment "the entitled generation" in response to the fascist shit-stain from the Capitol invasion who was wearing a "Viking" hat. I was like "Ok boomer" and they got pissy about that, so I responded:

Don't conflate this dickwaffle's cuntistry for some generational thing. "Entitled generation," LOL. It's boomers who are the entitled generation, raised in a world of cheap education, cheap housing, and high wages. Millennials and gen Z have inherited a capitalist hellscape even worse in many ways than the days of the robber barons and child labor and sweatshops, where we have to work two full time jobs and sign up for food stamps to afford both rent and food, with the caveat that more and more companies are ditching full time jobs in favor of part time jobs so they don't have to pay for health insurance for their workers. Wages haven't adjusted for inflation since like, the 50's or 60's or maybe 70's. And it's all the fault of the boomer generation. But it's not a generational issue, it's a class issue, because it's the wealthy motherfuckers who are guilty of making things this way.

It's boomers that have all the Karens and Chads yelling at stressed out, underpaid workers and trying to get people fired just for a chance at free food despite the fact they live in their own houses that they own and drove there in their own cars they fully own while the Millennials and gen Z kids are kind and compassionate to those poor workers because they've been in that position before.

Do I hate all baby boomers? No. I have plenty of friends in that age bracket. Like you (Brooke) and others. But it pisses me off when any of them make unfounded accusations against younger generations like claiming they're "entitled" or some shit, when A. People saying that shit are projecting their own crap onto others, and B. Y'ALL EMEFFERS RAISED THOSE KIDS, so if y'all've got complaints about them, you've only got yourselves to blame.

Also, it's really fucking fucked up when someone's reaction to fascism is to blame the younger generation. Fascism was invented in the 20's and 30's, that shit ain't on us. Older people invented that particular memetic disease, and if it's spread to the younger generation that's nothing to do with generation and everything to do with the fact that these neo-fascists are rich, privileged shitstains.

Oh and lastly, you're misusing the word "entitled" like so many people these days do. An entitlement is something you legitimately deserve because you actually fucking earned it. The attitude of this fascist fuckwaffle is the opposite of entitlement, because he doesn't deserve his privilege and he sure as fuck did nothing to earn it. He's got the privilege to where he can take the Nazi route solely from an accident of birth, and your misuse of the term "entitled" just feeds into his delusions of superiority.
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This is from his FB:

Ok.....let me just put out a personal statement.....
ACAB is imo, a bad moniker for the problem that exists.
I will not condone a statement of absolute.
Yes, there is a very serious flaw in the foundation of our law enforcement agencies.
Please don’t start spitting fire and media splashes that hyperfocus on specific points without balancing it in the bigger picture. There is always two opposing sides to any thing. Both must be equally respected and then compromised with honour.
My friends here are starting to glow in anger and there is a rise in unskilled language. Stop it. Stay in the greater perspective, stay above the battle to see where the push and yield actually happen. Most of us have to rely on outside sources for info. Always remember, if you truly can’t see it for yourself, then what you hear is another’s interpretation.
This whole thing is horrific, but we must stay unified in a desire for truth and repair for all. Please, my friends, let’s stay gentle and honourable as we argue.


I am supremely disappointed. But not entirely surprised. Alexander James Adams is one of those people you find in paganism and elsewhere that can get very annoyingly "love everyone," an attitude that should fall apart the instant one runs across Nazis, but these sorts of people tend to be idealistic to a fault. Even Lily had more than a touch of that. As much as I love her, a part of me is almost glad she's not around to spout cold takes like the above.

Anyway, my response follows:

People with that kind of wishy-washy fence-sitting attitude are a large part of how we got into this whole Trump fascism mess in the first place. People who say things like "both sides make good points" or "there's two sides to every conflict" in this kind of context are people I want to donkey-kick in the teeth.

The bigger picture is that white supremacist terrorists and fascists are a problem. And if you don't recognize that, then you are a fucking moron. When it comes to fascism and white supremacy, you are either a fascist/white supremacist or you aren't. There is no common ground. There can be no compromise. There can be zero tolerance for the kind of genocidal hatred white supremacists and fascists represent. These people don't just hate white people, after all. They hate gays and trans people too. As a trans man, you should be opposed to them. I really don't understand how you can be this fucking blind and/or stupid.

The fact is that the cops helped the terrorists into the capitol because they're on the same side. The system ensures all good cops get quickly fired or killed for opposing white supremacy. So all cops that last more than a few weeks on the job are, in fact, bastards in addition to being white supremecists, terrorists, and general all around bastards.

You can either wise up and drop this "let's hold hands with the Nazis and sing kumbaya" attitude, or you can fuck off forever. One thing is for sure, until you wise up, I will not be supporting you in any way, shape, or form. Because when it comes to a fight against people who want to murder people for things they have no control over, you are either with us or against us. A lot of things are shades of gray, but the topic of fascism and white supremacy is entirely black and white. Either you oppose violence and genocide against people of color, LGBT people, and others, or you are siding with evil. And if you decide to continue with this dumbass fucking attitude of yours, then you are worthless scum right along with the Nazis you want to hold hands with.
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The Trump Twitter ban is great and all, but they only banned him after he'd been voted out, as a token gesture to save face for giving him a platform for the last 4 years or more. An utterly meaningless gesture on their part. If they really gave a shit about opposing fascism, they would ban Rowling and her little terf gang too. Twitter has proven that they will tolerate fascism on their platform as long as the fascists appear to be winning. When fascism returns again in 4 or 8 years or so, they will permit it. They will be partly responsible for it.

The only way to avoid this return of fascism is to come down HARD on Trump and everyone who aided and abetted him; and by that I mean "convict them all of treason and sedition." Which is, incidentally, a capital offense. I'm praying as hard as I can for them all to get executed for their crimes. It really is the only way to send the most effective message that fascism will not be tolerated.

It occurs to me that by giving him a platform for so long, Twitter's management could also be said to be guilty of aiding and abetting Trump's fascism. Perhaps taking that seriously and adding them to the treason convictions will teach these social network people to treat fascism as harshly as they treat child pornography.
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It dismays and disappoints me that we've had Hitler, Mussolini, Pol Pot, Kim Jung Un and his son, Saddam Hussein, Trump, and a bunch of other nasties, and yet most people still think governments are a good idea.

Not to mention the fact that every US president since WWII would have been a war criminal if the UN weren't a bunch of spineless cowards.
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Copied from here on FB but it's not written by Sorcha, she lifted it from somewhere else.

People have been saying that, when dealing with Trump (and the GOP), we have to maintain our civility, our dignity, our sense of discourse. And it occurs to me that there's something they don't know about the situation that's key.

Trump is a narcissist. (Is there anyone other than a Trump supporter that doesn't know this by now?) But what a lot of these let's-stay-civil types don't know is how narcissists work. (Chances are they've never had to deal with one up close and personal before.)

Narcissists don't see anyone else as real. We're not important. What's important to them is winning. There is no honor, no civility, nothing; it's all about them. This is why there's all the lying that we've already seen, much of which takes the "who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes" form of gaslighting. ("No, I didn't make fun of a disabled reporter," for example.) And when caught in one lie, they'll lie again, frequently within seconds of the first lie. I've experienced this personally and you can watch the orange shitgibbon do the same thing.

More under the cut )

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My own additional comment: Trump is literally a neo-Nazi fascist. He's literally hiring neo-Nazis, which makes him one, and makes anyone who supports him one as well. I am genuinely terrified of a second Holocaust and a WWIII. People like him and Pence and everyone else working for them want to kill anyone who isn't their idea of normal. The only rational response to an attitude like that is being prepared to kill them in self defense and the defense of others. Or put more succinctly: FUCK CIVILITY, BASH THE FASH!

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