I always think of Metallica’s Saint Anger:
🎶 Medallion noose, I hang myself
Saint Anger 'round my neck
I feel my world shake
Like an earthquake
Hard to see clear
Is it me? Is it fear?
I’m not even angry with you
I’m not even angry with you
I’m not even angry with you
I’m not even angry with you
🎶
Yet the real lyrics are:
I’m madly in anger with you
I’m madly in anger with you
I’m madly in anger with you
I’m madly in anger with you
… sigh…
Ya’ll trolls make me not want to post here either. Its already as bad as reddit and sometimes worse.
You went into a thread titled 'Gen Z are over having their work ethic questioned: ‘Most boomers don’t know what it’s like to work 40+ hours a week and still not be able to afford a house’ and then you made this comment:
The point being if you want something, you work for it, not condemn the economy and give up.
The economy is fucked, provably, it’s the worst time ever in history to buy a house. Your patronizing parroting of the mocked comment in the damn title didn’t go over well? What a shock.
and bought a 3 bedroom with a 2 stall garage on a half acre at an auction for $38k cash.
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Apologies, I mentally did percentage of population, not percentage of adults/voters. The Fascists got 29% of voting-aged adults. I will say there is still a massive percentage of the population just watching this happen–voting against it is not enough. in Nazi Germany, saving children from torture was illegal. People are still talking about this like there’s some sort of holiness to the legal system: there isn’t. It’s not a justice system, it’s a highly corruptible legal system. Enough people can rise up and easily stop this, they’re just too scared to do it, because man, one thing I’ve learned since 2016 is just how terrified the average American is most of the time. Then actual things to be afraid of arrive, and they freeze up.
It’s not half that want them, it’s like 20%. 80% are allowing them to do these things.
Sure, civil war, civil disobedience, call it whatever you want. They’re putting children in camps, at what point do ‘you’ (the people of the US) stand up to it? Do they need to create death camps with ovens before you all react, or are you going to ‘aww geez’ at not wanting to stand up to them? The nazi’s made it illegal to save children from being tortured to death, at what point do you say ‘law’ be damned, I won’t watch this happen?
So we went from “pelase vote in November” to “some of you may die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make”? Holy dystopian nightmare, batman.
When people didn’t vote against Fascists? Yes.
And it’s not about what people being ‘willing’ to watch others die, it’s about people standing up and being willing to die for their less powerful neighbours. I’m middle aged, male (AMAB, anyway) and white. I’ll stand between any cops, military, whatever and my fellow citizens. My grandmother (moms side) was in the Dutch resistance and was caught helping people escape the Nazi’s and spend 1941-1945 in a camp; she never fully recovered and converted to Atheism from Catholicism on her death bed, stating ‘no just God would allow what I have seen and lived through.’ My grandfather (dads side) served in the Canadian army from 1939 to 1945, and went to every country we fought in. He never slept in the same bed as my grandmother because he had screaming, wake-up-fighting nightmares from what he saw. He drove a motorcycle, delivering orders, moving supplies, etc. He was driving in a ditch beside a convoy just before dawn, for hours, and the ditch was so bumpy he had to keep slowing down because the motorcycle kept slipping. When the light broke, they were finally able to see, and he realised he was driving over the bodies of women and children from nearby villages. The ‘slipping’ was because the bodies were decaying and the motorcycle couldn’t grip, and he and his partner in the side-car took turns holding the handle bars while the other vomited over the side. They couldn’t turn around because beside the ditch was a cliff, and the convoy was bumper to bumper; they drove for six hours, at maybe 5 km/h, sobbing and vomiting. He never told me the story, he refused to talk about the war with me or my brothers, but in a drunken stupor my father told us my grandfathers war stories.
We pretend it’s somehow going to be different this time, like this time fascists can be appeased, this time they won’t invade other countries, or take away all of your rights. 30,000 people are already in camps. We all know what is coming next. You can stand aside like the German people did, watch and wring your hands, tell yourselves lies about the ‘clean Wehrmacht,’ yet everyone knows what’s happening. If we don’t stand up to them, we encourage it to happen.
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The thing is you have to force them to do it illegally, brutally, while people can see it. If you give in, if you agree to things, it’s too easy for them.
Yes, many people who stand up to them will die. It’s already been allowed to get to that point. Yet if you sit back and give in, it happens so much more quickly, and much more brutally.
This is especially true if you’re white, or at least not openly a minority. If you’re a middle aged white male, make them go through you. It’s dangerous, you might not make it, so make sure you’re ready. White men standing up to them, constantly, is cognitive dissonance to them. They’ll expect you to always be on your side, and when everyone isn’t, they stumble.
If people constantly resist them at every angle they will fail. We will lose good people doing it, and we have to.
One of my family members was immune to the vaccine, and couldn’t achieve the required percentage of it to actively fight off the measels. So doctors told his parents to have him avoid any large gathering that they could (fairs, pools, etc). So until he was finally able to get his vaccine % above (I don’t remember the number) he didn’t get to go to those things, and it was because there was an anti-vaxx group in his area. So this poor kid had two options: Risk the terrifying symptoms and side effects you mentioned, and be social, or never go to those events to make sure he doesn’t, you know, die.
Fuck those other parents, selfish fucking cruel anti-vaxx morons.
Not trying to bring down the party, but Ford is an absolute monster. This is definitely a ‘broken clock’ situation, and sadly will probably lead to him winning yet again.
Most of the guys i played with are dead now.
My friend, I am so, so sorry to hear this. I choked up reading it, I cannot imagine living it. If you want to share stories about them I would love to hear them.
I forget the term, but there’s an ideological theory where you only follow laws you think are moral (it’s not Moral Law, but close to that, it doesn’t need divine/etc meanings behind it). So you don’t kill people, because you feel murder is amoral, but you would ‘jay walk’, or steal from a mega-corporation. If fascists stop following laws, there’s an argument that letting them be protected by laws is going to keep them motivated to keep not following them.
Can’t remember what it’s called, I’m sure someone here will know.
I blame women.
For not murdering enough. The streets would be safer if men had the same fear.
Oh you said it. I am still struggling with the fact Covid lockdown began six years ago. Or that my kids are almost the age I was when they were born.
The LANs I went to tended to be Rainbow Six, Unreal Tournament, and Quake 3, and then Aliens vs. Predator 2000. That fuckin’ ping sound, before we all had headsets, coming out of three speakers at once, was wild.
I feel ancient that I was an adult when this was happening.
She really was. The war changed her forever, though. On her death bed she disavowed her lifelong Roman Catholicism, saying “No God would allow what I have seen and lived.”
Before that she was an absolute badass and had many dalliances with a man of the clergy, causing his expulsion from the order.
Don’t blame the Russian for what the US is doing
Я сделаю все, что захочу, товарищ.
Fuck you for the title, now that goddamn song is stuck in my head.