Even while you regard conservatives/fascists as your bitter enemies and threatening to your life liberty and happiness, it is useful to not transform them in your imagination into supernatural monsters, alien from you and all you know. They are human and we have to live with them, because much like how gay and trans and disabled people will always exist in a given population of humans, so will people with deficits of compassion, and people with the malevolence and greed to manipulate those people into granting them power and wealth.
I say to the idea of genocide against gay people and atheists, even if it was magically 100% successful, it would be undone within one generation, and sadly the same is true of fascist thought – and at this point the odds of that being expunged are basically nil. On the plus side, ditto for lgbt people, etc.
That’s all getting way off topic. What I meant to say is this: we have a rare opportunity right now, and one we should relish, to feel bonhomie and kinship with our fascist family members. It is but one fleeting moment and soon to disappear, so hold it up and marvel.
Left right and center, if you aren’t a billionaire or a saint, you liked seeing a health insurance CEO gunned down with a smile. Even fascists suffer and die under capitalist medicine, and have reason to enjoy this. And they have! On facebook, of all platforms, his death announcement got tens of thousands of laughing face emojis.
Now they’ll probably be assuming he’s jewish, or daydreaming that immigrants are the reason the system exists like it does. I dunno, I’m not them. But we have, in this one moment, correctly identified the enemy, and taken pleasure in this one random action against them. It’s a miracle.
You won’t see this on the corporate news, except in some politically slanted form, scoring points for the establishment. But it’s real. It happened. Appreciate it.
Then resume your watch for face-eating leopards with grim resolve, and resume your caution around the hateful fools that voted for them. As you were.
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If you wanna say murder is always wrong in the comments here, congrats, you might be one of those saints I mentioned. Keep being you; the world is a better place with you in it. But understand, if you will, where the rest of us are coming from. In America.
Huh. Well I know for sure I ain’t a saint. Good riddance to human garbage.
As for fascist family members, I’ve learned to view my cantankerous old coot of a father as a *
mental defective. So I cut him some slack. Twenty years ago I woulda just estranged the shit out of him, had I known. He has but few years left now, I bite my tongue. Whatever you say, pops. Good luck with all that.*censored per GAS policy on ableism
Have you ever read the Assassin trilogy by Robert Ferrigno?
I really liked it.
thanks for the comments, fellas. sorry about markin’ yours up, dennis. understandable biz.
chigau, i looked it up, that sounds like a hoot.
My apologies. Re-reading it now, yeah, that wasn’t a good thing to say. Emo overload. I’ll be more careful.
it’s a hard policy to keep, especially when so many people have what, to our point of view, looks like wildly sub-par powers of reasoning, of common sense. i got my reasons for the policy and am sticking with it, but i definitely understand people messing up with it – especially these days.