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Michael Varian Daly • 3 days ago
The overall non-response of the majority of the American public to these events brought this quote to mind:
"They were so weak; they allowed everything to happen, to be done to them. They were people with whom there was no common ground, no possibility of communication - that is how contempt is born. I could never understand how they could just give in as they did." ~Hauptsturmführer Franz Stangl, commandant of Sobibor and Treblinka
John Kurman • 3 hours ago
No, they get bent out of shape over 2nd Amendment Rights, the most useless right available when it comes to combating tyranny, especially when the Intelligence-Marketing Complex can ruin your reputation and livelihood faster than you can load an AR-15. Guns? Bombs? How quaint!
But the important rights, the ones that actually work? The First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Twenty-Fourth? Feh! That's way too much reading to do.
Michael Varian Daly • 8 minutes ago
If one has gotten to the point of resorting to Revolutionary Violence, I suspect 'reputation and livelihood' will have gone past the board. But this type of bourgeois knee-jerk Hoplophobia is why I have given up on American Progressives. Nearly all of them have reduced themselves to impotence with exactly the above strain of defeatist thinking. Without the 2nd Amendment, The People have no recourse left to demand their Rights regarding any of the other Amendments. [Can you say "Free Speech Zones"?]
And so we find ourselves in a condition where only the most reactionary and racist elements in The Republic maintain any faith the 2nd Amendment while happily accepting the gutting of all the rest. This is not accidental. It is part and parcel of The Southern Strategy, the cynical political ploy that has moved us steadily toward Fascism since it got Nixon into the Oval Office in 1968.
The White Middle Class is still the financial and ideological core of the thin soup that passes for 'The Left' in this country. And they tend to be utterly oblivious to the real history of Gun Control in America, which has largely been about disarming non-Whites. They are also fake pacifists in that they are more than happy to let America's military and militarized police brutalize and murder The Other, both here and abroad, in order to 'keep our [fill in the blank] safe'.
The overall non-response of the majority of the American public to these events brought this quote to mind:
"They were so weak; they allowed everything to happen, to be done to them. They were people with whom there was no common ground, no possibility of communication - that is how contempt is born. I could never understand how they could just give in as they did." ~Hauptsturmführer Franz Stangl, commandant of Sobibor and Treblinka
John Kurman • 3 hours ago
No, they get bent out of shape over 2nd Amendment Rights, the most useless right available when it comes to combating tyranny, especially when the Intelligence-Marketing Complex can ruin your reputation and livelihood faster than you can load an AR-15. Guns? Bombs? How quaint!
But the important rights, the ones that actually work? The First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Twenty-Fourth? Feh! That's way too much reading to do.
Michael Varian Daly • 8 minutes ago
If one has gotten to the point of resorting to Revolutionary Violence, I suspect 'reputation and livelihood' will have gone past the board. But this type of bourgeois knee-jerk Hoplophobia is why I have given up on American Progressives. Nearly all of them have reduced themselves to impotence with exactly the above strain of defeatist thinking. Without the 2nd Amendment, The People have no recourse left to demand their Rights regarding any of the other Amendments. [Can you say "Free Speech Zones"?]
And so we find ourselves in a condition where only the most reactionary and racist elements in The Republic maintain any faith the 2nd Amendment while happily accepting the gutting of all the rest. This is not accidental. It is part and parcel of The Southern Strategy, the cynical political ploy that has moved us steadily toward Fascism since it got Nixon into the Oval Office in 1968.
The White Middle Class is still the financial and ideological core of the thin soup that passes for 'The Left' in this country. And they tend to be utterly oblivious to the real history of Gun Control in America, which has largely been about disarming non-Whites. They are also fake pacifists in that they are more than happy to let America's military and militarized police brutalize and murder The Other, both here and abroad, in order to 'keep our [fill in the blank] safe'.