I’ll f ur sixteen lool
by achrilock
by achrilock
I’ll f ur sixteen lool
by achrilock
Peldor joi, motherfuckers.
by achrilock
The state tribe cannot be controlled or won by anti-authoritarians. It can be used, nudged, or channeled, but its only allies are its members, and only so long as they serve its ends. Its only imperative is its own survival and growth. Its only master is capital. Factional politics is simply its amoral mechanism of legitimacy, not the key to real change. You cannot use machines built to use and destroy to heal the world. Systems are at the core of our problems, and new systems are the solution.
by achrilock
Beyond love, beyond happiness, beyond law, beyond politics, beyond war, beyond justice, beyond goodness, beyond hatred, beyond sin, beyond evil. When all hope of hope is lost, when all possible futures are exhausted by darkened realities. There is the desolate land of spite. It is the solace and satisfaction of the grave, true, but, as they say, misery loves company, and that grave shall not be lonely. And there are many hands to reach from below. Choose to live, my friends. Choose to live.
by achrilock
The three now see. Yahu, Pooty, and Bunker King. From recent windward to past’s lee. They have made their beds and they must now wake in them. How are those poll numbers, guys? Is there a lot of winning? Glad to hear it. I’ll find a drink in any apocalypse. And it’s even better alone because I don’t have to share with anyone. Good luck, supermen 🍿
by achrilock
This is actually an excellent teachable moment. Attend.
Politicians will not pay to rebuild the bridge. They will simply take the credit. The people will pay to do it, and the people will do the work. Politicians will induce its reconstruction by exchanging fiat currency, which came from the people, for expertise and labor, also from the people. Fine and dandy. Nothing wrong with a little give and take. Bridges, labor, and expertise all have social utility.
Where societies get into trouble is when they start believing that wealth creates more wealth, which creates more utility. That is magical thinking. Magical thinking does not create expertise, does not compensate labor, and does not rebuild bridges. Only items or actions that create or sustain utility have real, lasting economic value. All economics is an energy exchange matrix, and as we know, energy cannot be created from nothing. This will remain true when all politicians have turned to dust.
by achrilock
‘Empire‘ by achrilock | 2020
by achrilock
Also, well-wishes and good vibes to the people of Palestine suffering at the hands of Palestine’s US-backed breakaway province of Israel, whose fascist gang of militants, led by the man who calls himself ‘Yahu,’ have spread lawlessness and extrajudicial murders across the land. The UN resolution is welcome but will likely be ignored. Airstrikes on the breakaway region likely required. Civilians can move to the south, or, if they wish, relocate to Europe, or perhaps New York State.
by achrilock
There is a layer of humanity for which consequences do not exist. Its privileged membership would have you believe this is due to some intrinsic personal qualities or to the fundamental nature of the universe. Untrue. It is an amoral, stateless, self-perpetuating mechanism of wealth, influence, and violence that protects itself first, which means protecting its own. Additional legal, economic, and sociopolitical space is made where systems would simply crush others. Voting will not change this.
Each time you defer to these people or their systems and rely upon them for justice, each time you internally acknowledge any form of state or economic or religious authority, you strengthen, not diminish, this unjust and disproportionate order. Each time you give someone with power the benefit of the doubt and assume that they are working on your behalf, you contribute to your own destruction, to that of your neighbors, and ultimately to the destruction of the Earth.
Power does not simply corrupt itself or its practitioners absolutely. It corrupts everything and everyone, and turns all into extremities of its self-absorbed, self-perpetuating avatar. Power is the hegemony of thought and feeling. The all-seeing eye in the mind of the weak, that the strong may take as they wish and rest easy. Being part of something larger than yourself means being a horizontal part, a stakeholder, having agency. Any other form is simply someone using you for their own ends.
by achrilock
Of course, I could just make fun of your legal problems. Or the fact that any army you create won’t have proper equipment, will have low morale, and will be promptly destroyed by drones or shelling as soon as they reach the front line. Any recruiting that is done will be paid with suffering and death, and that will, of course, have political consequences. You’re both the same person. Everyone I fight is the same person. Except the women. At least they were interesting. Miss y’all <3
by achrilock
What if I told you that IS built a time machine, and went back in time, and fucked both Trump’s and Putin’s mothers, in order to build their empire of sorrow and destruction? And that if either were wanted dead, it would have happened several years ago? And that the first lesson that noobs learn when they arrive in Hell is that everything happens for a reason, and that, often, being the reason isn’t as cool as the interwebs make it seem. Hell keeps excellent records, boys ^^
In every timeline.
by achrilock
I suppose I should address the Muton in the room. There’s no such thing as “terrorism.” That’s a word contrived by power, to separate the violence of suits, skirts, and uniforms from that of the ordinary or the ‘other.’ All violence is inherently coercive. The only difference is that some violence is necessary or beneficial, and some is simply cruel and self-serving. Knowing the difference is one practical line between good and evil. If only the world felt so strongly when states get it wrong.
by achrilock
Playing FF made me wanna play XCOM (which is FF with tactical positioning and a strategic layer). Started up XCOM2 last night and, you know how it goes, one of those ‘up at 2pm’ situations. Did about ten missions, only lost two operatives thus far. One was a specialist in a bad position who took a lucky mag round to the face. The other was an anarchist ranger last to the transport while trying to rescue Mox. About to hit the Blacksite. No mag weapons ‘cause no alloys. “That’s XCOM, baby!”