RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread
January 8, 2021 at 1:10 pm
(This post was last modified: January 8, 2021 at 1:17 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Giving fascists their monument to fascism is not getting one over on them. It's not using some ineffectual thing they want to get something that we need.
It's just giving them something that they want, and they will sweep away whatever you've gotten that we need at their earliest convenience - as they've been doing. As you've seen, something can be the law of the land, on the books, and that won't exactly matter to fascists. They'll get their wall, you'll get another law they ignore, subvert, repeal, or best of all..actively use to suppress the hated other. Left leaning lawmakers are consistently unimaginative when it comes to how a law supposedly about protecting this or that freedom or group can, instead, be used to exterminate them. This is not a problem that the stephen millers of the world suffer under, for all the other problems they might be suffering under.
I was recently discussing how rfra is being used to further christian dominionism in the armed forces. That was a bill chuck schumer and ted kennedy sponsored. Whats the harm in protecting a little religious freedom if the other guys work with us, we might have asked ourselves. Well, in word, this.
It's just giving them something that they want, and they will sweep away whatever you've gotten that we need at their earliest convenience - as they've been doing. As you've seen, something can be the law of the land, on the books, and that won't exactly matter to fascists. They'll get their wall, you'll get another law they ignore, subvert, repeal, or best of all..actively use to suppress the hated other. Left leaning lawmakers are consistently unimaginative when it comes to how a law supposedly about protecting this or that freedom or group can, instead, be used to exterminate them. This is not a problem that the stephen millers of the world suffer under, for all the other problems they might be suffering under.
I was recently discussing how rfra is being used to further christian dominionism in the armed forces. That was a bill chuck schumer and ted kennedy sponsored. Whats the harm in protecting a little religious freedom if the other guys work with us, we might have asked ourselves. Well, in word, this.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!