Timsup2nothin
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Fascism always starts out looking so good; a little national pride, a lot of we just want to be left in peace, and a fair sprinkle of safety and security.
Even as it starts to be revealed in some 'peace through strength' sloganeering and an occasional question about just how much of a threat was that that we just stomped out it seems to do okay for itself.
But as of today, times are hard.
Israel is basically beating the snot out of the Palestinians in Gaza, and people trying to justify their actions as anything beyond 'might makes right and they clearly can beat the snot out of them so why not' are forced into such backflips of logic that they could double as a circus act.
Law enforcement is run so far amok in the US that apologists for the cops are pitching 'no the cops would not shoot you if you were pointing an assault rifle at people's heads and yelling that you were going to kill them'... a line that PT Barnum would tell them can't be marketed because there is only one born every minute and that would call for waaaaaaay more.
And then they have on their side a guy who is so far gone that he thinks 'no we don't want to rule them, just killing any dissenters to a puppet government that allows us to exploit all their resources' is a cleaner approach, and openly says so in his own defense. They must feel like they've walked into Judge Roy Bean's court and found out their public defender doesn't speak English.
In sympathy for our local fascists, and because I have some real life things on for this weekend that require my fullest concentration, I will be off for a couple days. I count on the vast number of sensible people hereabouts to remember...the lurkers are always watching, so no matter how many times the fascists demonstrate that their position is indefensible it still has to be refuted when they express it again, as they always do. Carry on.
Even as it starts to be revealed in some 'peace through strength' sloganeering and an occasional question about just how much of a threat was that that we just stomped out it seems to do okay for itself.
But as of today, times are hard.
Israel is basically beating the snot out of the Palestinians in Gaza, and people trying to justify their actions as anything beyond 'might makes right and they clearly can beat the snot out of them so why not' are forced into such backflips of logic that they could double as a circus act.
Law enforcement is run so far amok in the US that apologists for the cops are pitching 'no the cops would not shoot you if you were pointing an assault rifle at people's heads and yelling that you were going to kill them'... a line that PT Barnum would tell them can't be marketed because there is only one born every minute and that would call for waaaaaaay more.
And then they have on their side a guy who is so far gone that he thinks 'no we don't want to rule them, just killing any dissenters to a puppet government that allows us to exploit all their resources' is a cleaner approach, and openly says so in his own defense. They must feel like they've walked into Judge Roy Bean's court and found out their public defender doesn't speak English.
In sympathy for our local fascists, and because I have some real life things on for this weekend that require my fullest concentration, I will be off for a couple days. I count on the vast number of sensible people hereabouts to remember...the lurkers are always watching, so no matter how many times the fascists demonstrate that their position is indefensible it still has to be refuted when they express it again, as they always do. Carry on.
