I haven't paid attention to Star Wars in years because they fed this super fan too much garbage and it's hard to give a shit anymore. It's actually really gratifying to not recognize that cartoon character on the left. Maybe that's the point of this post? Idk
Yeah it's the cowardice that really pisses me off the most, that really gets to me. If we truly were so strong and proud we would've plugged the holes in airplane security quick and easy, sent in some special ops to capture Bin Laden, and most importantly, simply rebuild the towers exactly as they were before but updated and better, as a big fuck you to the terrorists. But instead..well, you know the rest.
I'm pretty sure when they say small government they just mean they want a gov that isn't strong enough to keep them from being the assholes they really are.
Yeah guarantee that fat fuck will pull a Milosevic or Ken Lay* and die before we can get any sense of closure.
*I read a somewhat credible conspiracy theory that Lay faked his death, wouldn't surprise me. I'm not worried about trump doing that though because he'd never be able to lay low with his mouth shut lol
A lot of these gun nuts actually believe the only thing holding China back from invading us is the fact that we're heavily armed. Don't get me wrong, in the event of a foreign invasion I can see how a heavily armed population could deter or thwart the enemy. But Americans don't understand how insanely fucking overpowered the US military is. The ability to project power to the other side of the planet on MULTIPLE FRONTS is uniquely American, and it is the US military's principle objective since WWII. The only way to do that is with countless trillions of dollars which only the US has been willing and able to do for decades.
The idea of Russia, China, or literally anyone, packing hundreds of thousands or millions of troops into boats, sailing across the Atlantic or the Pacific, landing ground troops in our cities, taking out the air force, navy, coast guard, army, and national guard, to the point where friggin Bubba and his Meal Team 6 commandos need to grab their guns and start shooting commies in the streets...it would be funny if it weren't their core political ideology...
My god man I completely forgot about those stupid fucking terror alerts. "Today's terror alert level is Orange, just like it was yesterday and just it'll be tomorrow. Slightly elevated. Be afraid, but don't be too afraid to go to work, and make sure to vote for Bush again to protect you."
Remember leading up to the Iraq invasion, people were walking around unironically saying "I'd rather fight them over there than over here" as if Iraq could actually project power to the other side of the planet.
You ever watch movies from the 90's to 2001? Notice how they are so damn light, jovial, inconsequential, happy, and just plain old fun? I'm talking American Pie, peak 90's humor, plus like Adam Sandler movies that were actually funny like Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison, Dumb and Dumber, Road Trip, Dude Where's My Car, things like that. They really capture the spirit of the 90's. There was this sense of optimism and joy that the cold war was over, technology is taking off, maybe we're about to enter this utopian future that Star Trek is always talking about.
Then boom, 9/11. Those first few days and weeks were something else. Unity like I'd never experienced before, it was incredible, absolutely dominated every conversation like nothing I've experienced since until Covid.
Then we started to fundamentally change in horrible ways. The Patriot act. Warrantless wiretapping. Torture. Illegal aggressive wars. The Bush Doctrine of preemptive first strikes. "You're either with us or you're against us." Free speech zones. Military WORSHIP where if you said a single fucking word against the military you are basically a treasonous bastard who should be shot. It was so fucking terrifying.
America is basically a textbook example of someone who went through a major trauma, had everyone's support almost universally, and then instead of getting therapy and working through it and resolving the issues that caused the trauma, it started spiraling out of control. Pushed away friends and allies, started fights it couldn't win, got more and more aggressive and closed minded. Radicalized.
It's a shame you didn't get to know America before 9/11. I was 19 on 9/11 and I barely got to know the country. It was far from perfect and everyone knew it, but the place we are at now is DIRECTLY related to 9/11 and I fucking hate it.
Still feels like it would violate the 9th or 10th amendment. I suppose if you could convince two thirds of the house and senate and 3/4 of the states, and if nobody challenged it and the USSC didn't shoot it down, then maybe you've got a chance.
I was sort of getting it until I noticed the months are all jumbled up too, they're not in any coherent order or anything. What a mess. It's so over engineered it actually makes me just a tad bit angry.
This is one of the best examples of over engineering something that nobody asked for, to solve a problem that nobody has, in the most complicated useless way possible. It's funny but irritating that it's presented with a straight face.
Tens of millions of heavily armed uneducated morons pissed off who've been ordered to burn the place down by their Messiah, yeah, no way that wouldn't fuck our shit up real good.
I mean I'm definitely for moving forward prosecuting all of these cases and hopefully putting this asshole in jail. But we should be very aware that this could easily slide out of control and prepare accordingly.
Lolita is quite good, as is All Quiet on the Western Front. There are so many amazing books out there about awful things. And yet every religious text is just absolutely dreadful, horribly poorly written, incoherent plot and structure, no character development, and don't even get me started about the dialogue. And I'm really not kidding just make a point, they just straight up fucking suck. Idk how anyone can possibly read that shit. They should be burned for being horrible books, let alone the religious connotation.
If you're in a solid blue state maybe think about joining us in a purple or red state and fight the good fight here. Tons of states are won by the slimmest of margins, and even the reddest states are like 20-30% blue. I'm not ready to give up on them yet.
I haven't paid attention to Star Wars in years because they fed this super fan too much garbage and it's hard to give a shit anymore. It's actually really gratifying to not recognize that cartoon character on the left. Maybe that's the point of this post? Idk