The Happening World: USSR Edition
Oct. 27th, 2020 10:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaThis is it. A lot of dreams died to get us here, and we can't let it be for nothing.
It's not just our future we're fighting for.
If you're eligible, VOTE.
I'm no longer confident that we'll win the popular vote by 5 million. Actually, I'm no longer confident about anything. I was expecting Trump to gain votes in Colorado and California due to Q and their Save The Children bullshit, but then he not only gets infected with pangovirus and/or Jenova cells but he tries to infect the people around him (it is my hypothesis that the virus spreads by altering the brain chemistry, giving its victims the need to spread it as far and as wide as humanly possible) and I just don't know. There are many people that will vote Pence but not Trump but I assume they're not in swing states. There are also people who distrust Pence, like Sarah Hoyt, for instance. Because he listens to experts, apparently. And not a clique of 4th rate (at best) science fiction authors. It's like the Sigma Forum but dumber.
I've said it before, the only Mad Genius, Hoyden, or Hoyt I'd be willing to read is Boykin, not for political reasons because Boykin has some of the worst politics of the authors clique, but becuase in a way, they remind me of Silverberg. If Silverberg's novels were written by Larry Niven after several brain aneurysms and a semi-related religious epiphany, anyway.
Worst case scenario, Trump makes it through somewhat unscathed or at least he can pretend to be unscathed, and his idiot followers as well as every single asshole behind Q Anon use this as an excuse to start not wearing masks and holding rallies and getting in everyone's face.
(I wrote that when Trump became ill)
They're either ignoring the happening world or they're formulating plans to keep the Republican party in power until the sun goes red and bloated. Probably some kind of non-elected nominally non-partisan electoral committee so that any opposition to the Republicans has to walk on eggshells lest they rule them invalid and ban them from politics for years.
You know, like Thailand.
The world hasn’t stopped. Armenia and Azerbaijan are currently having a flareup in their war. Israel and Palestine both side with Azerbaijan. I’m assuming Israel wants to bring Russia down a few pegs. Actually, I think they’re both still pissed at Russia for the Six Day War and Yom Kippur War. Azerbaijan is winning and Artsakh will most likely cease to be a political entity by the time I post next.
The weirdest thing is that Belarus and Kazakhstan are siding with Azerbaijan. Okay, I can understand Belarus because Lukashenko and Putin had a falling out. Kazakhstan, though? Turkic solidarity, maybe, or maybe Kazakhstan is moving away from Russia.
Kiwi Farms is siding with Armenia. That's not actually surprising if you haven't been living in a cave on Mars with your eyes shut and your fingers in your ears and your head chopped off. There's a hierarchy, see. A tangle of threads, anyway. Don't try to apply logic to people who support Armenia because they're in the Orthodox fold and Russia is the great defender of conservatism but hate Anita Sarkeesian for being Armenian.
That’s the thing with Armenia. They’re the only country that has actually benefited from Russia’s efforts to carve up the rest of the USSR. Ukraine lost Crimea and Donetsk/Luhansk. Moldova lost Transnistria. Georgia lost Abkhazia and Ossetia, and Azerbaijan not only lost Armenian enclaves, but also Azeri territory that was then ethnically cleansed by Armenians.
Protestors seized the White House. No, not that White House, the one in Bishkek.
France is caught in a tug of war between a political system that discourages extremism of any ideology and institutionalized soft nationalism.
The moral of the story is if you have a leader with no political experience, you get a leader who is even more beholden to special interest groups like The Federalist Society.
I ganked this from Resetera.
burning question: Most of the time he's willing to say whatever it takes to grab the PR spotlight, regardless of how he personally feels. He'll say he loves African Americans and the LGBTQ+ community despite not actually thinking that. He'll be one of the first to attend a mass and talk about how much he loves God, even though he thinks religious people are suckers. He'll bash China one day if it benefits him, then praise China the next day if that benefits him.
So why is it, when it's an easy PR win to bash white supremacists, this is the ONE time, he decides to show a spine and say "No, I won't compromise my ethics and lie about this. I have principles that I will not, under any circumstances, betray"?
burning question 2: Just who are these debates for? Everyone's already decided by now and I'm 90% sure that "undecided" at this point means "undecided about whether to vote or stay home."
It's not just our future we're fighting for.
If you're eligible, VOTE.
I'm no longer confident that we'll win the popular vote by 5 million. Actually, I'm no longer confident about anything. I was expecting Trump to gain votes in Colorado and California due to Q and their Save The Children bullshit, but then he not only gets infected with pangovirus and/or Jenova cells but he tries to infect the people around him (it is my hypothesis that the virus spreads by altering the brain chemistry, giving its victims the need to spread it as far and as wide as humanly possible) and I just don't know. There are many people that will vote Pence but not Trump but I assume they're not in swing states. There are also people who distrust Pence, like Sarah Hoyt, for instance. Because he listens to experts, apparently. And not a clique of 4th rate (at best) science fiction authors. It's like the Sigma Forum but dumber.
I've said it before, the only Mad Genius, Hoyden, or Hoyt I'd be willing to read is Boykin, not for political reasons because Boykin has some of the worst politics of the authors clique, but becuase in a way, they remind me of Silverberg. If Silverberg's novels were written by Larry Niven after several brain aneurysms and a semi-related religious epiphany, anyway.
Worst case scenario, Trump makes it through somewhat unscathed or at least he can pretend to be unscathed, and his idiot followers as well as every single asshole behind Q Anon use this as an excuse to start not wearing masks and holding rallies and getting in everyone's face.
(I wrote that when Trump became ill)
They're either ignoring the happening world or they're formulating plans to keep the Republican party in power until the sun goes red and bloated. Probably some kind of non-elected nominally non-partisan electoral committee so that any opposition to the Republicans has to walk on eggshells lest they rule them invalid and ban them from politics for years.
You know, like Thailand.
The world hasn’t stopped. Armenia and Azerbaijan are currently having a flareup in their war. Israel and Palestine both side with Azerbaijan. I’m assuming Israel wants to bring Russia down a few pegs. Actually, I think they’re both still pissed at Russia for the Six Day War and Yom Kippur War. Azerbaijan is winning and Artsakh will most likely cease to be a political entity by the time I post next.
The weirdest thing is that Belarus and Kazakhstan are siding with Azerbaijan. Okay, I can understand Belarus because Lukashenko and Putin had a falling out. Kazakhstan, though? Turkic solidarity, maybe, or maybe Kazakhstan is moving away from Russia.
Kiwi Farms is siding with Armenia. That's not actually surprising if you haven't been living in a cave on Mars with your eyes shut and your fingers in your ears and your head chopped off. There's a hierarchy, see. A tangle of threads, anyway. Don't try to apply logic to people who support Armenia because they're in the Orthodox fold and Russia is the great defender of conservatism but hate Anita Sarkeesian for being Armenian.
That’s the thing with Armenia. They’re the only country that has actually benefited from Russia’s efforts to carve up the rest of the USSR. Ukraine lost Crimea and Donetsk/Luhansk. Moldova lost Transnistria. Georgia lost Abkhazia and Ossetia, and Azerbaijan not only lost Armenian enclaves, but also Azeri territory that was then ethnically cleansed by Armenians.
Protestors seized the White House. No, not that White House, the one in Bishkek.
France is caught in a tug of war between a political system that discourages extremism of any ideology and institutionalized soft nationalism.
The moral of the story is if you have a leader with no political experience, you get a leader who is even more beholden to special interest groups like The Federalist Society.
I ganked this from Resetera.
burning question: Most of the time he's willing to say whatever it takes to grab the PR spotlight, regardless of how he personally feels. He'll say he loves African Americans and the LGBTQ+ community despite not actually thinking that. He'll be one of the first to attend a mass and talk about how much he loves God, even though he thinks religious people are suckers. He'll bash China one day if it benefits him, then praise China the next day if that benefits him.
So why is it, when it's an easy PR win to bash white supremacists, this is the ONE time, he decides to show a spine and say "No, I won't compromise my ethics and lie about this. I have principles that I will not, under any circumstances, betray"?
burning question 2: Just who are these debates for? Everyone's already decided by now and I'm 90% sure that "undecided" at this point means "undecided about whether to vote or stay home."
