Executions
Nov. 27th, 2014 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaThis is just a collection of thoughts, rather than some sort of narrative.
Samantha delivered an impassioned rant about Ferguson. Basically, the gist of it is that the system is broken and it's too bloody hard to actually change the system and the world is interconnected now. I added "we're turning into a puppet of Assad and Rouhani" and "digging up corpses and putting them on trial might fly in the Vatican, but not here," and "look, the reason black turnout was so low is because the Democrats tried way too hard to appeal to moderate non-ethnic white men."
I'm not an anarchist and the reason for that is because I don't trust the free market and private sectors to provide for the people.
I'm not angry or upset, I'm just kinda resigned. This is the way things are and the only way to really fix things is go back in time to kill Otto Skorzeny and William Joseph Simmons and create a new world, and maybe it won't be a perfect one but it will be a far sight better than the one that Skorzeny gave us.
Rachel doesn't agree that the KKK should be used for forced labor, but we do agree that the KKK should be marginalized as far as possible and brought out into the light and purged from public office and any other places they can do damage. Definitely ban them from the military and law enforcement.
***
I don't think splitting Afghanistan amongst its neighbors is a good idea. I may have jokingly said it about the Ustasa once but then I realized that the Ustasa is surrounded by basket cases. Let's look at Afghanistan, which is less a country and more the places where the Russians, British, and Iranians were forced to turn back when empire-building.
Iran: Even under reformists, women were banned from singing to an audience. Probably because Iranians think diseases could be spread by music. I imagine Iranian women tattooing themselves with musical notation to protect themselves from unwanted sexual advances and that priests and bankers guard their holy places carve notes into tiles.
Tajikistan: I know nothing about this country aside from the Arab Spring style civil war with a secular and repressive dictatorship along with Russia and Uzbekistan on one side and a blend of Islamists and democracy activists on the other side a decade ago and a village called Dalyon, which is the name of a country in Paula Volsky's novels. I've heard that children as young as seven are imprisoned for crimes against the state, and dissidents are tortured with boiling water, electrocution, and beatings.
Uzbekistan: There's an album called Lullabies from the Axis of Evil, which includes a song by Sevara Nazarkhan. However, Uzbekistan isn't on the Axis of Evil, as Karimov successfully portrayed himself as an ally in the War on Terror. Oh, it's evil all right (read up on the Cotton Harvest), it just happens to be next to the horror of
Turkmenistan: While the Central* Asian dictatorships are all inept, cash-poor, and brutal, Turkmenbashi took things to the next level by changing the words for bread and April to his mother's name, building a giant golden statue of himself that rotates with the sun and an ice palace in the middle of a desert, banning opera and ballet for not being Turkmen, closing all hospitals outside Ashgabat because sick people could just go there for treatment, despite being in a country the size of California. In other words, it's one of North Korea's few rivals. Somehow, I have Turkmenistan on my last.fm FlagCounter.
China: They'd end up with the Wakhan Corridor, which is that dangly thing that has a population rivaling a small town and very, very harsh terrain. It was a buffer zone between Russia and Britain.
Pakistan: Despite what DemocraticUnderground believes, it's better than the rest of them. There's an attitude amongst very many political worldviews that poverty and political and social repression are a solution for terrorism rather than a cause of terrorism, and that just isn't true.
*I added "central" here because there are many Asian dictatorships and authoritarian quasi-republics that are simply brutal, or occasionally simply inept and cash-poor. You know who you are.
There are transsexual people in Iran who aren't transgendered because the moment someone comes out as gay, they're forced to have a sex change so Ayatollah Assahola can continue to claim there's no gays in Iran.
Not to be outdone, Shadowdancer Duskstar, who draws creepy sexualized things and seems to hate certain ethnic groups vicariously through her brother's experiences in tech support or something, said Africans are selfish, self-centered, and savage, and thinks she's not actually racist because that has nothing to do with skin color.
RES believes in kidnapping children in conquered lands. That's not without precedent, I suppose. I'd link but Thanksgiving has a magical soporific effect on everyone. Kirk suggested large-scale massacres against Muslims to keep them afraid of us.
Also, see the burning question.
***
Samantha downplayed the war on Christmas. Whatever that is. It probably stems from people not wanting to hear about the war on Christmas the day after Saint Ajora's Day.
***
I said I was thankful I don't have any right wing relatives. I feel like either we're hard left (especially myself, Samantha, Carolyn) or apolitical.
Rachel is thankful for dogs.
***
Emily goes to a really leftwing school, however, Rachel's school trends conservative. All my friends are left wing. Well, most of them, anyway. I have a few moderates in there, but I honestly try to avoid people who claim they move out to the ass end of nowhere, 50 miles from any public transit, in 98% white towns, like that one guy on twitter who was retweeted by some idiot saying she'll cut Fios if they cut FOX.
***
Rachel recommends the Turn of the Screw. I think she brought up The Drowned Giant by J.G. Ballard, in which a giant washes up on a beach and kids play on the corpse.
Rachel said that American horror starts as weird shit happening and the characters are like "we have to figure out how this works" and I added "and I would have gotten away for it, if it weren't for you meddling kids!" while Japanese horror makes sense at first and then it starts getting weird.
***
Emily forgot the words to Linda's thanksgiving carol. So she sang the theme to Too Many Cooks.
***
I hope my throat only hurts because I screamed when I shut the door on my finger (I am thankful that it wasn't the hand I use for writing), because of impassioned ranting and singing Linda's thanksgiving carol.
***
Emily says because it's 2014, we need an instant cure for nausea and also hoverboards. I think scopolamine helps but scopolamine does other things too.
***
Rachel stopped believing in ghosts when she stopped to think about how nobody sees dinosaur ghosts.
while Lauren says that Nessie is a ghost and that's why nobody can take pictures of her. However, she's not a dinosaur, she's a plesiosaur, so Rachel's point still stands.
***
burning question: is that Mad Genius™ aware of the irony of calling leftists cliqueish? Because he's posting on a website where the jackals tore at someone because, despite being every bit as racist as Drow or RES or William O'Blivion or Peter Grant or whatever, he said that taking up the white man's burden was misguided at best and actually admitted that it made things worse in some situations.
Spoiler alert: Canada, the US, Australia, Singapore, and Hong Kong aren't the only colonies Britain had. You've got Burma, where the government consults with astrologers and the ordinary people use syringes as currency because the kyat is pretty much toilet paper, you've got Sri Lanka, which is sort of North Korea with better public relationships, you've got Kenya and Belize and Nigeria and Iraq and Sierra Leone and Fiji and Yemen and South Sudan.
Please take note that in all the "good" ex-British colonies, the indigenous population have been marginalized, removed, or exterminated.
Samantha delivered an impassioned rant about Ferguson. Basically, the gist of it is that the system is broken and it's too bloody hard to actually change the system and the world is interconnected now. I added "we're turning into a puppet of Assad and Rouhani" and "digging up corpses and putting them on trial might fly in the Vatican, but not here," and "look, the reason black turnout was so low is because the Democrats tried way too hard to appeal to moderate non-ethnic white men."
I'm not an anarchist and the reason for that is because I don't trust the free market and private sectors to provide for the people.
I'm not angry or upset, I'm just kinda resigned. This is the way things are and the only way to really fix things is go back in time to kill Otto Skorzeny and William Joseph Simmons and create a new world, and maybe it won't be a perfect one but it will be a far sight better than the one that Skorzeny gave us.
Rachel doesn't agree that the KKK should be used for forced labor, but we do agree that the KKK should be marginalized as far as possible and brought out into the light and purged from public office and any other places they can do damage. Definitely ban them from the military and law enforcement.
***
I don't think splitting Afghanistan amongst its neighbors is a good idea. I may have jokingly said it about the Ustasa once but then I realized that the Ustasa is surrounded by basket cases. Let's look at Afghanistan, which is less a country and more the places where the Russians, British, and Iranians were forced to turn back when empire-building.
Iran: Even under reformists, women were banned from singing to an audience. Probably because Iranians think diseases could be spread by music. I imagine Iranian women tattooing themselves with musical notation to protect themselves from unwanted sexual advances and that priests and bankers guard their holy places carve notes into tiles.
Tajikistan: I know nothing about this country aside from the Arab Spring style civil war with a secular and repressive dictatorship along with Russia and Uzbekistan on one side and a blend of Islamists and democracy activists on the other side a decade ago and a village called Dalyon, which is the name of a country in Paula Volsky's novels. I've heard that children as young as seven are imprisoned for crimes against the state, and dissidents are tortured with boiling water, electrocution, and beatings.
Uzbekistan: There's an album called Lullabies from the Axis of Evil, which includes a song by Sevara Nazarkhan. However, Uzbekistan isn't on the Axis of Evil, as Karimov successfully portrayed himself as an ally in the War on Terror. Oh, it's evil all right (read up on the Cotton Harvest), it just happens to be next to the horror of
Turkmenistan: While the Central* Asian dictatorships are all inept, cash-poor, and brutal, Turkmenbashi took things to the next level by changing the words for bread and April to his mother's name, building a giant golden statue of himself that rotates with the sun and an ice palace in the middle of a desert, banning opera and ballet for not being Turkmen, closing all hospitals outside Ashgabat because sick people could just go there for treatment, despite being in a country the size of California. In other words, it's one of North Korea's few rivals. Somehow, I have Turkmenistan on my last.fm FlagCounter.
China: They'd end up with the Wakhan Corridor, which is that dangly thing that has a population rivaling a small town and very, very harsh terrain. It was a buffer zone between Russia and Britain.
Pakistan: Despite what DemocraticUnderground believes, it's better than the rest of them. There's an attitude amongst very many political worldviews that poverty and political and social repression are a solution for terrorism rather than a cause of terrorism, and that just isn't true.
*I added "central" here because there are many Asian dictatorships and authoritarian quasi-republics that are simply brutal, or occasionally simply inept and cash-poor. You know who you are.
There are transsexual people in Iran who aren't transgendered because the moment someone comes out as gay, they're forced to have a sex change so Ayatollah Assahola can continue to claim there's no gays in Iran.
Not to be outdone, Shadowdancer Duskstar, who draws creepy sexualized things and seems to hate certain ethnic groups vicariously through her brother's experiences in tech support or something, said Africans are selfish, self-centered, and savage, and thinks she's not actually racist because that has nothing to do with skin color.
RES believes in kidnapping children in conquered lands. That's not without precedent, I suppose. I'd link but Thanksgiving has a magical soporific effect on everyone. Kirk suggested large-scale massacres against Muslims to keep them afraid of us.
Also, see the burning question.
***
Samantha downplayed the war on Christmas. Whatever that is. It probably stems from people not wanting to hear about the war on Christmas the day after Saint Ajora's Day.
***
I said I was thankful I don't have any right wing relatives. I feel like either we're hard left (especially myself, Samantha, Carolyn) or apolitical.
Rachel is thankful for dogs.
***
Emily goes to a really leftwing school, however, Rachel's school trends conservative. All my friends are left wing. Well, most of them, anyway. I have a few moderates in there, but I honestly try to avoid people who claim they move out to the ass end of nowhere, 50 miles from any public transit, in 98% white towns, like that one guy on twitter who was retweeted by some idiot saying she'll cut Fios if they cut FOX.
***
Rachel recommends the Turn of the Screw. I think she brought up The Drowned Giant by J.G. Ballard, in which a giant washes up on a beach and kids play on the corpse.
Rachel said that American horror starts as weird shit happening and the characters are like "we have to figure out how this works" and I added "and I would have gotten away for it, if it weren't for you meddling kids!" while Japanese horror makes sense at first and then it starts getting weird.
***
Emily forgot the words to Linda's thanksgiving carol. So she sang the theme to Too Many Cooks.
***
I hope my throat only hurts because I screamed when I shut the door on my finger (I am thankful that it wasn't the hand I use for writing), because of impassioned ranting and singing Linda's thanksgiving carol.
***
Emily says because it's 2014, we need an instant cure for nausea and also hoverboards. I think scopolamine helps but scopolamine does other things too.
***
Rachel stopped believing in ghosts when she stopped to think about how nobody sees dinosaur ghosts.
while Lauren says that Nessie is a ghost and that's why nobody can take pictures of her. However, she's not a dinosaur, she's a plesiosaur, so Rachel's point still stands.
***
burning question: is that Mad Genius™ aware of the irony of calling leftists cliqueish? Because he's posting on a website where the jackals tore at someone because, despite being every bit as racist as Drow or RES or William O'Blivion or Peter Grant or whatever, he said that taking up the white man's burden was misguided at best and actually admitted that it made things worse in some situations.
Spoiler alert: Canada, the US, Australia, Singapore, and Hong Kong aren't the only colonies Britain had. You've got Burma, where the government consults with astrologers and the ordinary people use syringes as currency because the kyat is pretty much toilet paper, you've got Sri Lanka, which is sort of North Korea with better public relationships, you've got Kenya and Belize and Nigeria and Iraq and Sierra Leone and Fiji and Yemen and South Sudan.
Please take note that in all the "good" ex-British colonies, the indigenous population have been marginalized, removed, or exterminated.
