by achrilock
Suicide – Dream Baby Dream
It’s not all gloom and doom, though, I’m certain. Biden probably has the pro-Palestinian-genocide Israeli vote in the bag 😃. He can ban assault weapons here at home to bolster his numbers with the fascist-oligarch-ear-piercing community, and then send tactical nukes to the Israeli government so they can destroy Hamas. Get your dead brown child body count up, Joe. That’s the key. That’s proper Democratic politicking. Only a few months left until game time!
| Police fatally shoot man near site of Republican national convention | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/16/republican-convention-shooting |
[…] “Neighbors said the person killed was a regular at a homeless encampment in the neighborhood. It is not clear whether the man had any connection to the convention, or any plans to go closer.”
Glass Animals – A Tear In Space
Here’s what people, both libs and lefty radicals, aren’t getting. This time won’t be like last time. Last time you had three things on your side: belief in a ‘normal,’ mass shock and revulsion, and the courts at least pretending at continuity of legal process. You had hope for a correction. Hope’s over. Now you get a genuine dictatorship, of indeterminate length and severity.
Normal’s been over for years, shock’s gone because Blue MAGA spent four years pounding on reform and dissent and expanding the police state and the previous administration’s policies, even after Trump and his goons no longer had authority, and the courts are stacked with people working some personal angle or with outright fascists. People aren’t going to resist, this time. They’re just going to try and keep quiet and survive it or leave, either of which is the intelligent move, frankly.
Even the pretend politically rhetorical TV version of America that we lie to children, and to the rest of the world, about is over. It’s done. As someone who wasted years trying to prevent the moment in which we all presently find ourselves, I would suggest people just keep their heads low and try to ride it out or escape. Let it die, because it’s going to try and kill you whether you’re trying to save it or not.
You try and play hero without enough swagger, cunning, and organization this time around and the nightmare state that’s coming will squash you. You haven’t seen anything in your sheltered lifetime like what’s coming. And you’ll receive no thanks for your sacrifices. When people discover there’s nothing more they can use or get from you, when your ideas and ways become inconvenient, they’ll let you die, and your efforts will be forgotten. If I were you guys, I’d start looking out for number one.
I just find it shocking how quickly normies forget bad things, bad times, and bad people, how easily they rewrite the narrative of history, even very recent history, and of their own individual and collective experiences to better match some contrived idealized liberal dogma that never existed and will never exist and that only serves to protect and enshrine the violent artificial supremacy and machinations of the oligarchy.
I don’t expect anything different, of course. Human psychology is built to paint over horrific stuff in our lives, so that we don’t go insane, and the political and state machines are built around class solidarity among rulers and higher functionaries. But watching it play out in real time is always jarring. America isn’t different. It isn’t special. Whatever you’d say about history, or about other places, or the people found there, you should say it about this one too.
It is good for everyone when bad things happen to fascists. It is bad for everyone when power works overtime to defend awful people, especially fascists, because their awful ideas have life and death consequences for those the beautiful people never cared about. Why is it that peace and the law are only really practically sacred when their absence becomes a problem for the popular or the powerful?
As I’ve said so many times before, most of you out there are disgusting and fake and you don’t know your asses from a hole in the ground and any ‘democracy’ where you even get to pick the restaurant, let alone the people who are granted almost absolute authority over others, is doomed to failure and ruin. You have the memory of goldfish and the moral reasoning of toddlers.
You all are playing with fire, here (yes, as in Reichstag fire…). You forget too easy, and you listen to, and empathize with, the wrong people and ideas.
The second city proceeds well. Finally got that bus system that the stream suggested last evening. WE PAY OUR BILLS FIRST, CHAT! Got a couple of gimmie achievements. Also, can I just say, as a gamer of many decades, NVIDIA DLSS technology is absolutely amazing. Also, here is a video game television of city-building.