Loud cars, decals showing a character pissing on this or that, aggressive driving and big pickups and Jeeps with aggressive looking front ends, all kinds of craziness on TV and in every variety offered on so many channels you can see anything at any time, the difficulty of finding a quiet place, homes with a huge flat screen and no books, fierce pride in being ignorant, rage against any and all authority, and to top it off commercial advertising that constantly tells the viewer to "have it YOUR way!"
I've concluded that I live in a country of children, regardless of age, and to top it off all are in a big rush all the time while, for even more of a rush caffeine loaded drinks can be purchased. The rash of "Student Driver - Please Be Patient" bumper stickers are not deployed by student drivers but by the fearful who daily observe crazy driving.
And now the country stands by protecting a slaughter that all the world is watching with a commonly heard phrase about an aggressive nation in full aggressive mode against a helpless people denied their land being that it "has a right to defend itself" while our President declares (in our name!) that he stands with the aggressor and has deployed our mighty forces to support that aggressor in all that it may do.
Amen! It is indeed very difficult to find a quiet place, even where it should be quiet. The new bane of my existence are industrial lawn mowers and leaf blowers, as my affluent neighbors pummel nature into submission. Not a leaf on my perfect lawn!
not just at this nexus, clif; the world has always been 'upside down'. we dildos and donnards weren't paying attention in earlier generations b/c most were struggling to put provender on the family salver, maintain jobs in precarious circumstances, educate their children, keep from falling asleep at their mind-benumbing factory jobs, preparing for yet another war... even hunters and gatherers were perpetually battling against their neighbouring tribes. w/ telephones, telegraphs, TVs, global communication networks, the internet, and notional cyberspace, we have moved well beyond smoke signals and the pony express. now we are overwhelmed w/ info 'bombardments' that benumb us.... to the degree that the violent sports spectacles which you so argutely describe are necessary distractions we greedily devour to relieve our benumbments... not so different from the roman gladiator spectacles or bullfights, the latter of which are now proscribed in several spanish cities, but remain extant in several latino countries. blood and visceral gore... our distractions of choice.... tho' no longer a requisite for survival in most countries. war is not just a racket [thank you, smedley], it is another distraction, like sports spectacles, TV, and other electronic drugs.
Where was she when I was 15 skeet shooting 40 years ago? My grandfathers pacemaker would have shut down...... Boy, how things have changed. Small bore or large bore semi?
Very sexy, Dennis... Check out the Scene in the Original "James Caan" "Rollerball Movie when the Ultra- Rich Partygoers are outside on a Mansion's Manicured Grounds shooting and blowing up Trees for kicks with a Futuristic Hand-Gun!!!
thank you, toma. you induce sentiments of teamwork, solidarity, and unwavering commitment to the besieged, beleaguered, and israeli-disdained palestinians, particularly in this present manifestation of their endlessly endured dystopia in gaza, the west bank, jerusalem, and beyond.
Jeanie McEachern- thanks, for your comment. It means a lot to me. It's actually Good Kitty who has shown me the way. I'll be sharing tuna with them (Henry and Ford as well) today for Thanksgiving.
I wonder if we took all the billionaires who are running things , locked them up together, gave them 100 pennies each and a deck of cards and let them play penny poker for food and luxuries , if it would change their minds about capitalist and political philosophy. I'd include political leaders also. Somehow they were never properly potty trained and this might be good therapy for them. Let them arrive at their own solutions.
Good Kitty and Cindy in '24! For the Feral Feline Federation! Humanities best hope!
US television is no longer a sesame street or mr. rogers or howdy doody zeitgeist. however, altho' we never had a TV in our home nor access to a TV channel, there were violent films being produced in the 1950's, 1960's, and 1970's which, despite their being proscribed, 2 or 3 of our 5 sons were keen to watch them at their friends' houses. i had to conclude it was endemic to their DNA . the other sons, including our 2 daughters, never demonstrated the remotest interest in them, particularly the films glorifying war or the white slaughterers of our indigenous 1st-nations people. how does one explain this? same biological parents, same nurturers, same foreign ambits of developing countries in which we raised them... i can't fathom why? is it all about testosterone levels which are indelibly prescribed in their respective DNA replications from conception? help me here, bill; you are the military guy.
as a marine biologist, i should know the answer, as it became obvious early in my research career that individual reef inhabitants, vertebrate and invertebrate, birthed from the same set of progenitors, endemic to the same reef system, reliant on the same resources, the same provender, were remarkably different in their aggressor/non-aggressor behaviours. can it all be conferred to genetics? it cannot be attributed to sex/ genders; my2 sisters are even more aggressive and bellicose than my 3 brothers. biochemical markers do not elucidate convincing answers. perhaps your readers have a few clues.
Wow, Jeanie, that's a big question. We humans are attracted to spectacle. Chris Hedges, "War is a force that gives us meaning," has something to say here. And we're attracted to powerful stories; think of all the tragedies of Greece. Combine story telling with shocking visuals and you have a powerful combination that attracts our attention.
My life has been enriched by some movies and TV shows, but I've also wasted a lot of time watching pure dreck. Why? Laziness, I guess. I should have been out fishing!
a consociate canadian and i were discussing war-as-a-distraction recently. it triggered the memory of obama-the-bomber, by whom millions of US-ers felt betrayed. he was expected to be a beacon of illuminating veracity, of non-racist compassion... a peace-making globalist, and a defender of the dispossessed, disenfranchised, disdained, and victimized. it never happened. he and his esurient enablers, corporate thieves, military thugs, and media dissemblers gave all of those millions who voted for him due to his ‘hope-and-change’ agenda, the flying finger-fuck.
obama filled the welkin w/ drones, demolished several environmental controls but feigned not to, and allowed the 'business' of govt to proceed as usual. as well, our former prime minister harper and justin trudeau screwed the canadians, just as obama screwed the americans.
nothing will change until we have the courage and visceral gore to launch a revolution, as the eminent and inestimable chris hedges has opined. there are too many fat, sassy, TV-addicted, electronic-gaming addicted, drugged, and craven poltroons among us to effectively carry out an epiphanic revolution. my husband and i vellicate in anxiety for our grandbantlings and their generational ken.
one bends in supine recognition that, becoming an inveterate pyrrhonist rather than a mindlessly optative optimist, is the only option. it is why i'm convinced that israeli zionists will not terminate their complete devastation of gaza until every gazan home, every hospital, every school, and all the infrastructure on which they depend have been demolished. nor until every single surviving gazan is banished to the deserts of the sinai... this, DESPITE the egyptian govt’s proscription against their being tented on egypt's sinai sands.
the israel genocide against palestinians is more calamitous than the ottoman turks' genocide against the armenians of 1915, or the white north americans' genocide against our 1st-nations populations, or the US-perpetrated genocide against iraqis and afghans, or the US-supported charles-taylor genocide against the sierra leoneans. the israeli zionists and their complicit illegal settlers have already initiated the destruction of the west bank. it will not end until all palestinians are dead or banished to sinai desert tents or drowned at sea in the waters off the mediterranean and red sea coasts.
mark miller is a mealy-mouthed monster, just like his masters in the US state dept. his recent grandiloquent declamations are naught but bumptious bombast that, unveiled, should be scattered to the zephyrs.
And let's not forget Obama the constitutional lawyer who did nothing about the Patriot Act which effectively eliminates the constitution and calls Edward Snowden a "hacker" for revealing the atrocities the US government is doing to the American people and banishing him from America.
"Yes we can"? Can what?
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"there are too many fat, sassy, TV-addicted, electronic-gaming addicted, drugged, and craven poltroons among us to effectively carry out an epiphanic revolution"
and tnx as well for my morning chortles, toma. you are to be congratulated and consecrated for your attentions and devotions to good kitty, cindy, henry, and ford. as a veterinarian's daughter, i preferred spending my disposable time in my father's veterinary hospital w/ the non-human animals than amongst the human animals. smart bombs should be dropped on the captured corporate troglodytes and political thesmothetes [legislators] in their respective lockups you mentioned whilst in the middle of those penny-poker games. better yet, they should all be made to suffer the ignominy of vivisepulture [being buried alive]. as the 'radix malorum' of life on this exploited planet, sumptuary laws, at the least, should be enacted to limit the luxuries they and their families are allowed to purchase for themselves and their excessive espiegleries. am i being too judgemental?
hail to the courageous edward snowdens and julian assanges! we need 'avoir dupois's of them, but most are too terrified of being imprisoned, losing their incomes, or being forced to disappear into the ether.
The DOD, MIC, and Major Defense Contractors like Raytheon, Northrup Grumman, etc. would have it no other way. A War Machine quite literally. On this the 60th. Anniv. of JFK being murdered still rem. being dismissed from 3rd. Grade that beautiful Nov. Afternoon-- a man of Peace. I wonder how he'd feel about our Warrior Nation @ present... R.I.P. Camelot.
The leaf blowing got so bad here a city ordinance was passed limiting the hours and the season during which it can be done. One good thing about northern winters is that things get very quiet, and very pretty after a snowstorm. Of course that doesn't stop the grousing, but as the masses leave to retire in hurricane prone Florida and water short Arizona I wave goodbye.
I’ve got it turned up to 10, but I’m still not feeling it.
The hate. The murderous, self-righteous hate. The mindlessly fanatical hate.
I set the dial to “Palestinians.” Nothing. No reaction whatsoever. So, I set it to “Israelis.” Again, nothing. I just can’t seem to get my hate up. It’s embarrassing. Maybe there are some pills that would help.
Seriously, this is interfering with both my social and professional life. I need to get my hate up somehow. I’ve tried everything I could possibly think of.
I tried reading nothing but news about Israel’s ongoing liquidation of Gaza. I stared at pictures of dead and horribly mutilated Palestinian children. Thousands of them. Killed. Torn to pieces. Residential neighborhoods reduced to rubble. Whole families crushed under tons of concrete.
I told myself, over and over, that they were “terrorists.” Or the children of “terrorists.” Or that they had “voted for terrorists.” Or they were “anti-Semites.” “Human animals.” “The Children of Darkness.”
It didn’t work.
I tried reading nothing but news about the Hamas attack on October 7. The murder of families. The wanton slaughter. I stared at the pictures of the blood-smeared bedrooms. The footage of the executions. I read the messages that people sent to their loved ones before they were shot to death.
I told myself, over and over, that they were “fascists,” “occupiers,” “colonizers,” “Zionazis.” I told myself that they deserved what they got.
Nothing. No arousal whatsoever.
I checked the connections on my Hate Machine. They all seemed fine. So, I tried rebooting it. Twice. Nope. That didn’t work either.
So, finally, I called the Hate Corporation, but I couldn’t get through to a Hate representative, because of “an unusually high volume of callers.”
So, apparently, I’m not the only one with this dysfunction.
That was kind of reassuring. Because, frankly, I’ve been feeling so left out. All the really cool people are grooving on hate. Seriously, check the Internet. It’s like a 24-hour Roman orgy of hate, in which I’m unable to participate, apparently.
I’m sorry for whining. It’s unseemly, I know. And I am fairly sure my inability to achieve and maintain a satisfactory tumescence or protuberance of hate is not my Hate Machine’s fault. I have the latest model, with all the new features.
And other people’s Hate Machines are working just fine.
How is yours doing?
Are you feeling the hate? Are those you hate the embodiment of Evil? They are liars, aren’t they? Liars and murderers. Genociders. Nazis. Subhuman scum. Everything they say is a lie. Everything they do, and are, is wicked. They cannot help it. They were born that way. They need to be wiped off the face of the Earth. They need to be eradicated, don’t they? They are never going to change their ways. Making peace with them is not an option. It’s us or them. They, the others, and all their issue, need to be defeated, vanquished, erased, exterminated.
This is no time for compassion or pity. They, the others, have no morals or ethics, or simple human empathy, so we can’t afford to have any either. None of them are innocent. None of them are civilians. All of them, men, women, and children, are soldiers in the Army of Evil! They’re murderers, so we have to be murderers! They are liars, so we need to become liars! Truth is for children! This is war! We need to kill and kill and kill, and celebrate killing, and swim in their blood, and defile their corpses … the others … our enemies!
Well, what do you know? It appears my Hate Machine is functioning properly after all! Yes, wow, that feels so much better! I guess I just needed to relax, let go, stop thinking so much about what’s right and wrong, and let my hate do what it wants.
Seriously, I’m not kidding, folks … I haven’t had a hate-on like this for years!
Well let's take it to the next step. How about we take all the Hamas and Russian POWs , put them in the Superdome dressed only in loincloths with the old Roman gladiator weapons and fight to the death and make lots and lots of money! We could also include political dissidents in the US! Wonder how much the Romans charged for admission? Any idea Bill?
Good question. Short answer: I don't know! I bet the Romans made money in ways similar to ours: on concessions, food, betting, and the like. Did they sell clothing with your favorite gladiator's name on them? I'm sure someone's done a study on the economics of the gladiatorial games.
Loud cars, decals showing a character pissing on this or that, aggressive driving and big pickups and Jeeps with aggressive looking front ends, all kinds of craziness on TV and in every variety offered on so many channels you can see anything at any time, the difficulty of finding a quiet place, homes with a huge flat screen and no books, fierce pride in being ignorant, rage against any and all authority, and to top it off commercial advertising that constantly tells the viewer to "have it YOUR way!"
I've concluded that I live in a country of children, regardless of age, and to top it off all are in a big rush all the time while, for even more of a rush caffeine loaded drinks can be purchased. The rash of "Student Driver - Please Be Patient" bumper stickers are not deployed by student drivers but by the fearful who daily observe crazy driving.
And now the country stands by protecting a slaughter that all the world is watching with a commonly heard phrase about an aggressive nation in full aggressive mode against a helpless people denied their land being that it "has a right to defend itself" while our President declares (in our name!) that he stands with the aggressor and has deployed our mighty forces to support that aggressor in all that it may do.
Is the world upside down? America is!
Amen! It is indeed very difficult to find a quiet place, even where it should be quiet. The new bane of my existence are industrial lawn mowers and leaf blowers, as my affluent neighbors pummel nature into submission. Not a leaf on my perfect lawn!
not just at this nexus, clif; the world has always been 'upside down'. we dildos and donnards weren't paying attention in earlier generations b/c most were struggling to put provender on the family salver, maintain jobs in precarious circumstances, educate their children, keep from falling asleep at their mind-benumbing factory jobs, preparing for yet another war... even hunters and gatherers were perpetually battling against their neighbouring tribes. w/ telephones, telegraphs, TVs, global communication networks, the internet, and notional cyberspace, we have moved well beyond smoke signals and the pony express. now we are overwhelmed w/ info 'bombardments' that benumb us.... to the degree that the violent sports spectacles which you so argutely describe are necessary distractions we greedily devour to relieve our benumbments... not so different from the roman gladiator spectacles or bullfights, the latter of which are now proscribed in several spanish cities, but remain extant in several latino countries. blood and visceral gore... our distractions of choice.... tho' no longer a requisite for survival in most countries. war is not just a racket [thank you, smedley], it is another distraction, like sports spectacles, TV, and other electronic drugs.
At a gun show in WA State. A huge crowd of grown men. Many in fake military attire.
All gathered around watching this voluptuous semi-glad young almost naked woman.
Firing a mini-machine gun in long burst!
My visiting Kiwi buddy and his wife's first introduction to the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.
Semi-clad, semi-glad, firing a semi-automatic. Or perhaps a fully automatic?
Amerika!
Was she wearing safety glasses?
ahahahahahah! Nope!
She was wearing very little LOL
Where was she when I was 15 skeet shooting 40 years ago? My grandfathers pacemaker would have shut down...... Boy, how things have changed. Small bore or large bore semi?
Very sexy, Dennis... Check out the Scene in the Original "James Caan" "Rollerball Movie when the Ultra- Rich Partygoers are outside on a Mansion's Manicured Grounds shooting and blowing up Trees for kicks with a Futuristic Hand-Gun!!!
thank you, toma. you induce sentiments of teamwork, solidarity, and unwavering commitment to the besieged, beleaguered, and israeli-disdained palestinians, particularly in this present manifestation of their endlessly endured dystopia in gaza, the west bank, jerusalem, and beyond.
Jeanie McEachern- thanks, for your comment. It means a lot to me. It's actually Good Kitty who has shown me the way. I'll be sharing tuna with them (Henry and Ford as well) today for Thanksgiving.
I wonder if we took all the billionaires who are running things , locked them up together, gave them 100 pennies each and a deck of cards and let them play penny poker for food and luxuries , if it would change their minds about capitalist and political philosophy. I'd include political leaders also. Somehow they were never properly potty trained and this might be good therapy for them. Let them arrive at their own solutions.
Good Kitty and Cindy in '24! For the Feral Feline Federation! Humanities best hope!
US television is no longer a sesame street or mr. rogers or howdy doody zeitgeist. however, altho' we never had a TV in our home nor access to a TV channel, there were violent films being produced in the 1950's, 1960's, and 1970's which, despite their being proscribed, 2 or 3 of our 5 sons were keen to watch them at their friends' houses. i had to conclude it was endemic to their DNA . the other sons, including our 2 daughters, never demonstrated the remotest interest in them, particularly the films glorifying war or the white slaughterers of our indigenous 1st-nations people. how does one explain this? same biological parents, same nurturers, same foreign ambits of developing countries in which we raised them... i can't fathom why? is it all about testosterone levels which are indelibly prescribed in their respective DNA replications from conception? help me here, bill; you are the military guy.
as a marine biologist, i should know the answer, as it became obvious early in my research career that individual reef inhabitants, vertebrate and invertebrate, birthed from the same set of progenitors, endemic to the same reef system, reliant on the same resources, the same provender, were remarkably different in their aggressor/non-aggressor behaviours. can it all be conferred to genetics? it cannot be attributed to sex/ genders; my2 sisters are even more aggressive and bellicose than my 3 brothers. biochemical markers do not elucidate convincing answers. perhaps your readers have a few clues.
Wow, Jeanie, that's a big question. We humans are attracted to spectacle. Chris Hedges, "War is a force that gives us meaning," has something to say here. And we're attracted to powerful stories; think of all the tragedies of Greece. Combine story telling with shocking visuals and you have a powerful combination that attracts our attention.
My life has been enriched by some movies and TV shows, but I've also wasted a lot of time watching pure dreck. Why? Laziness, I guess. I should have been out fishing!
a consociate canadian and i were discussing war-as-a-distraction recently. it triggered the memory of obama-the-bomber, by whom millions of US-ers felt betrayed. he was expected to be a beacon of illuminating veracity, of non-racist compassion... a peace-making globalist, and a defender of the dispossessed, disenfranchised, disdained, and victimized. it never happened. he and his esurient enablers, corporate thieves, military thugs, and media dissemblers gave all of those millions who voted for him due to his ‘hope-and-change’ agenda, the flying finger-fuck.
obama filled the welkin w/ drones, demolished several environmental controls but feigned not to, and allowed the 'business' of govt to proceed as usual. as well, our former prime minister harper and justin trudeau screwed the canadians, just as obama screwed the americans.
nothing will change until we have the courage and visceral gore to launch a revolution, as the eminent and inestimable chris hedges has opined. there are too many fat, sassy, TV-addicted, electronic-gaming addicted, drugged, and craven poltroons among us to effectively carry out an epiphanic revolution. my husband and i vellicate in anxiety for our grandbantlings and their generational ken.
one bends in supine recognition that, becoming an inveterate pyrrhonist rather than a mindlessly optative optimist, is the only option. it is why i'm convinced that israeli zionists will not terminate their complete devastation of gaza until every gazan home, every hospital, every school, and all the infrastructure on which they depend have been demolished. nor until every single surviving gazan is banished to the deserts of the sinai... this, DESPITE the egyptian govt’s proscription against their being tented on egypt's sinai sands.
the israel genocide against palestinians is more calamitous than the ottoman turks' genocide against the armenians of 1915, or the white north americans' genocide against our 1st-nations populations, or the US-perpetrated genocide against iraqis and afghans, or the US-supported charles-taylor genocide against the sierra leoneans. the israeli zionists and their complicit illegal settlers have already initiated the destruction of the west bank. it will not end until all palestinians are dead or banished to sinai desert tents or drowned at sea in the waters off the mediterranean and red sea coasts.
mark miller is a mealy-mouthed monster, just like his masters in the US state dept. his recent grandiloquent declamations are naught but bumptious bombast that, unveiled, should be scattered to the zephyrs.
And let's not forget Obama the constitutional lawyer who did nothing about the Patriot Act which effectively eliminates the constitution and calls Edward Snowden a "hacker" for revealing the atrocities the US government is doing to the American people and banishing him from America.
"Yes we can"? Can what?
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"there are too many fat, sassy, TV-addicted, electronic-gaming addicted, drugged, and craven poltroons among us to effectively carry out an epiphanic revolution"
Beautifully and succinctly said.
Please DARE say that, from the highest satellite link, Bill.
Because that is exactly a very significant part of exactly what needs to happen: a National De-Programming.
and tnx as well for my morning chortles, toma. you are to be congratulated and consecrated for your attentions and devotions to good kitty, cindy, henry, and ford. as a veterinarian's daughter, i preferred spending my disposable time in my father's veterinary hospital w/ the non-human animals than amongst the human animals. smart bombs should be dropped on the captured corporate troglodytes and political thesmothetes [legislators] in their respective lockups you mentioned whilst in the middle of those penny-poker games. better yet, they should all be made to suffer the ignominy of vivisepulture [being buried alive]. as the 'radix malorum' of life on this exploited planet, sumptuary laws, at the least, should be enacted to limit the luxuries they and their families are allowed to purchase for themselves and their excessive espiegleries. am i being too judgemental?
hail to the courageous edward snowdens and julian assanges! we need 'avoir dupois's of them, but most are too terrified of being imprisoned, losing their incomes, or being forced to disappear into the ether.
The DOD, MIC, and Major Defense Contractors like Raytheon, Northrup Grumman, etc. would have it no other way. A War Machine quite literally. On this the 60th. Anniv. of JFK being murdered still rem. being dismissed from 3rd. Grade that beautiful Nov. Afternoon-- a man of Peace. I wonder how he'd feel about our Warrior Nation @ present... R.I.P. Camelot.
The leaf blowing got so bad here a city ordinance was passed limiting the hours and the season during which it can be done. One good thing about northern winters is that things get very quiet, and very pretty after a snowstorm. Of course that doesn't stop the grousing, but as the masses leave to retire in hurricane prone Florida and water short Arizona I wave goodbye.
'The Hate Machine'
I think something’s wrong with my Hate Machine.
I’ve got it turned up to 10, but I’m still not feeling it.
The hate. The murderous, self-righteous hate. The mindlessly fanatical hate.
I set the dial to “Palestinians.” Nothing. No reaction whatsoever. So, I set it to “Israelis.” Again, nothing. I just can’t seem to get my hate up. It’s embarrassing. Maybe there are some pills that would help.
Seriously, this is interfering with both my social and professional life. I need to get my hate up somehow. I’ve tried everything I could possibly think of.
I tried reading nothing but news about Israel’s ongoing liquidation of Gaza. I stared at pictures of dead and horribly mutilated Palestinian children. Thousands of them. Killed. Torn to pieces. Residential neighborhoods reduced to rubble. Whole families crushed under tons of concrete.
I told myself, over and over, that they were “terrorists.” Or the children of “terrorists.” Or that they had “voted for terrorists.” Or they were “anti-Semites.” “Human animals.” “The Children of Darkness.”
It didn’t work.
I tried reading nothing but news about the Hamas attack on October 7. The murder of families. The wanton slaughter. I stared at the pictures of the blood-smeared bedrooms. The footage of the executions. I read the messages that people sent to their loved ones before they were shot to death.
I told myself, over and over, that they were “fascists,” “occupiers,” “colonizers,” “Zionazis.” I told myself that they deserved what they got.
Nothing. No arousal whatsoever.
I checked the connections on my Hate Machine. They all seemed fine. So, I tried rebooting it. Twice. Nope. That didn’t work either.
So, finally, I called the Hate Corporation, but I couldn’t get through to a Hate representative, because of “an unusually high volume of callers.”
So, apparently, I’m not the only one with this dysfunction.
That was kind of reassuring. Because, frankly, I’ve been feeling so left out. All the really cool people are grooving on hate. Seriously, check the Internet. It’s like a 24-hour Roman orgy of hate, in which I’m unable to participate, apparently.
I’m sorry for whining. It’s unseemly, I know. And I am fairly sure my inability to achieve and maintain a satisfactory tumescence or protuberance of hate is not my Hate Machine’s fault. I have the latest model, with all the new features.
And other people’s Hate Machines are working just fine.
How is yours doing?
Are you feeling the hate? Are those you hate the embodiment of Evil? They are liars, aren’t they? Liars and murderers. Genociders. Nazis. Subhuman scum. Everything they say is a lie. Everything they do, and are, is wicked. They cannot help it. They were born that way. They need to be wiped off the face of the Earth. They need to be eradicated, don’t they? They are never going to change their ways. Making peace with them is not an option. It’s us or them. They, the others, and all their issue, need to be defeated, vanquished, erased, exterminated.
This is no time for compassion or pity. They, the others, have no morals or ethics, or simple human empathy, so we can’t afford to have any either. None of them are innocent. None of them are civilians. All of them, men, women, and children, are soldiers in the Army of Evil! They’re murderers, so we have to be murderers! They are liars, so we need to become liars! Truth is for children! This is war! We need to kill and kill and kill, and celebrate killing, and swim in their blood, and defile their corpses … the others … our enemies!
Well, what do you know? It appears my Hate Machine is functioning properly after all! Yes, wow, that feels so much better! I guess I just needed to relax, let go, stop thinking so much about what’s right and wrong, and let my hate do what it wants.
Seriously, I’m not kidding, folks … I haven’t had a hate-on like this for years!
I’m ready to join that Roman Orgy of Hatred!
All I need to do now is pick a side.
https://off-guardian.org/2023/11/22/the-hate-machine/
Jonathan E.-- "Jonathan, Jonathan, Jonathan...!!!" "Roller Ball" Lives! What do you know about the Corporate Wars?
Well let's take it to the next step. How about we take all the Hamas and Russian POWs , put them in the Superdome dressed only in loincloths with the old Roman gladiator weapons and fight to the death and make lots and lots of money! We could also include political dissidents in the US! Wonder how much the Romans charged for admission? Any idea Bill?
Your the historian.
Good question. Short answer: I don't know! I bet the Romans made money in ways similar to ours: on concessions, food, betting, and the like. Did they sell clothing with your favorite gladiator's name on them? I'm sure someone's done a study on the economics of the gladiatorial games.
See? And that's all he had to say about it.
Deep thinker, eh?
Real activist.
Leader amongst men.
Totally representative of the USA I think.