Wartime

Danke, liebe Kleingangster und Assis in den Großstädten, dass jetzt wieder ein genrerelles Feuerwerksverbot auf den Tisch kommt, nur weil ihr zu dumm und zu dreist seid, verantwortungsvoll und wie Erwachsene damit umzugehen!!
Am Ende wird es nämlich wieder so kommen wie immer - der gemeine Bürger gibt eine weitere Freiheit ab, im Glauben, das Versprechen von Sicherheit möge davon Realität werden, schließlich wird es aber doch nicht kommen, weil es solche Leute gibt wie euch, die wissen, wo sie sich ihr Spielzeug auch weiterhin besorgt kriegen, und die Politik ist wieder mal zu dumm, das in ihren Schädel hineinzukriegen - wenn nicht sogar, dass man es ihnen unterstellen möge, dass sie das auch gar nicht beabsichten, sondern dass es nur darum geht, der Bürger, der sich korrekt verhält und und an die Gesetze, darf mal wieder ein Stück weniger.
Weil Politik inzwischen damit ein Problem hat, dass der Bürger überhaupt noch was anderes darf, außer Beifall zu klatschen, der vorgeschriebenen Einheitsmeinung zu folgen und jeden Tag fleißig Geld anschaffen zu gehen wie die Nutten auf dem Strich.
(Anbei, wer sich hat von der Medienhysterie um die "Kugelbomben" vereinnahmen lassen: Das Zeug ist keine illegale Hexenmagie, sondern Profifeuerwerk, was sonst üblicherweise in die Höhe geschossen wird. In mehreren hundert Metern Luft und von nichts weiter umgeben als solcher richten sie keinen Schaden an - wer schon mal bei Feuerwerk bei Veranstaltungen laute Kanonenschläge gehört hat, recht wahrscheinlich wird das genau so eine gewesen sein, weil das eine typische Geräuschkulise von ihnen ist. - Solches Profifeurwerk gehört natürlich nicht in die Fußgängerzone oder in die Hände von irgendwelchen Vagabunden und Kleingangstern, die es "lustig" finden, ihr Viertel damit zu terrorisieren und in ein Schlachtfeld zu verwandeln, dass dem Einschlag von Kriegsmunition danach in nichts nachsteht. - Wenn solche Feuerwerkskörper es in die Hände von Amateuren und Kriminellen schaffen, sollte man weniger die Frage nach einem Verbot von allem privaten Feuerwerk stellen, sondern wo bekommen diese Figuren diese her - und ist man mittlerweile schon längst nicht mehr Herr seiner Unterwelt in den größeren Städten. Können die, die sich daneben benehmen und an keine Regeln außer ihren eigenen halten wollen, mittlerweile dort machen, was sie wollen, es interessiert keinen und es hält sie auch keiner auf? Oder beim Aufhalten - stehen diejenigen, die das auch von Gesetzes wegen machen wollten, ziemlich allein und schutzlos dabei da, sodass sie es aus eigener Bedrohungslage nicht machen?)

...Is there something meaningful to say during these days where the events of today also progress on their way tomorrow? Unimpressed and not impacted by personal opinions of anyone outside of circles of power and public influence?

There's a lot of words that you could voice and drop about the state the world it is in and what and who is responsible for it - but, will it matter? Will it matter anything? Outside of maybe getting into personal trouble? And having to fight that out alone?

Not only that it's war again in Europe - and one of the most devastating times after WWII; unlike in the war over Yugoslavia where NATO came to drop bombs and anytime they won with their orgy of violence -, meanwhile whole NATO discusses and fantasizes about sending weapons into a combat zone headlessly and without safety guarantees which hands these are gonna end up in, while at the same time every time it denies that WWIII has broken out and that its member countries play a very lively part in that. And that Ukraine, their investment proxy in this endeavor, is winning all the time for 11 months, although if it truly did, the war would already been over for a long time.
What kind of world has this become? - Or was it ever any different? Has it only been smart enough in covering its true nature with enough glitter and gold in order to make most of the population believe in its harmlessness and goodwill, being not worth a critical thought about it?

The Western world which calls itself "democractic" and still keeps on spreading its curses on a former president of the United States Trump, using acting and verbal expressions like #NotMyPresident, just because he didn't function according to the usual wishes of the economic and political establishment, seriously shows up and wants to make believe like its whole population supports these political decisions while the reality actually is that there would already be enough people out there to support a national #NotMyPresident campaign in every damn coutry against these so-called "democratic" current leaders. If it wouldn't entail the possibility of becoming subject to repressions or being publicly thrown into the camp of the political right (or whatever kind of zeitgeisty "public enemy"-image) and maybe losing your job and seeing your private life going down the drain through these unfounded mere accusations.

In which point do these policymakers pose anything different than this clown? Making decisions all the time that at least half of the country opposes over its ridiculousness and the danger they create?

The Western world keps reassuring itself over and over again that they're the good guys, the righteous ones - those with all the virtues and values worth fighting for.
But, seen from the prespective of the rest of the world, and seen from the viewpoint of a sober mind, it much more eventually turns into the Death Star from Star Wars. Destroying everything it disapproves of and enslaving everything it can for the profit of the Empire. While leaving behind the trash, the blood and the scattered body parts in the landscape to those who live in the ruins of its acting.

Long story short: Go the hell and make your war alone! Go and have a seat in your own tanks and go to the frontline!
The earlier the warmongering lobbyists and politicians are gone, including their obedient fanboys and fangirls, the better for everyone else who just want to live in peace and quiet.

Just a critical question: US gun control activists - where are you if it's about the countless US foreign military aid and the guns it sells to the rest of the world? On top, to partly dubious and shady places, organizations and groups?
You also just stand ready for action if it's about your precious kids who could get shot at school or at their college by some weirdo or a kid from their own ranks that was bullied for all its life! If this shit can affect yourself, you feel the urgent need to do something against it - for example, to call for laws that are unrealistic that don't solve any problem.
But if the dying happens thousands of kilometers away from you, if it's not your kids who die, not your spouses, friends and relatives, you're nowhere to be seen, like you don't give a damn.
You know what? In your case, it stinks of typical narrow-mindedness, the usual US-centrism and it reeks of paid activism.
You just only care about something if it happens next door or the people who could be affected by it could be someone you personally know. If it could be somebody you hold dear.
You don't care a single bit about the general concept and anything else outside of your narrow ken that you have picked for yourself to act outraged!

Fuck you, people, FUCK YOU!
And fuck your stupid claims to care about people who die through firearms!
You're just a bunch of clowns in town!

The path of the warrior can be quite dreadful.
You see a lot of ugly things, experience a lot of betrayal, witness many changes and storms, and you get to feel humans from their various sides. Positive and negative.
Also... you lose a lot of comrades along the way.
People who fight with you for a similar objective or believe in the word you spread, whether they do that for virtuous reasons or for the same shady ones that originally brought you to the battlefield.
They die in battle, they change sides, they split off from your horde because you don’t fight for the right subjects anymore, or they leave because they themselves have abandoned the path of honesty, or they get so severely wounded during the war, so that they can’t go on with the road they have chosen. Also, they might meet a guy/girl in between and settle down because that fulfills them with something that feels larger than continuing a fight whose end cannot be foreseen.

Continuously, along the way, depending on how well it goes, how bad the losses are and who leaves you while carrying on, you keep asking yourself the question whether the path is worth it.
Whether the target of the path is truly worth all you sacrifice for it.
Whether the efforts all pay off, judged by the results you get.
And if it’s practically and morally justified what you do.

Weren’t there other means to achieve the same goal - or something comparable?
Was it necessary to agree to such an ascetic lifestyle?
Could the same ideals be won with fewer losses?
Was everything that had to be done, from your point of view, necessary?
And, at all... do you still continue with the path because of the origins you started it with or did your motives change in between - change into something that more has to do with habit and playing a role voluntarily? Because, meanwhile, you know nothing else what to do with your life?

All that for justifying a continuation before yourself and in front of other people who pose that question to you... For telling you, you’re on a path that feels right to you.

Looking down on the graves of those that have been lost during the war - comrades, civilians, enemy soldiers, innocent victims of the violence, children, even villains -, through the many numbers of them, points the fork whether it’s been enough dead people already or whether their deaths shall not have been in vain...

The path of the warrior itself can be the warning memorial to this mass of devastation - to these existences ended, to the lives spun and twisted along it, to human madness and all the worst abilities and character features mankind can display, to the austerity you have to endure and force upon yourself for it, and to the lasting loss of trust other than in yourself.

A smugly pharisaic cult that calls itself “progressive”, but which doesn’t have anything to do with the traditional left, and which even highly contradicts itself, so that it neither makes sense, nor does it firmly tell what it wants the world to turn into, goes viral during those years, trying to take over the public discourse and police everybody’s thoughts, everybody’s words, fill everybody’s sane feeling of “doing nothing wrong” arbitrarily with fear and shame of possibly doing the wrong with their every move (and that being the fault of their lives). It researches internet histories for just the smallest in violations of a mindset/ideology which barely anyone outside of its circles understands and supports.
They do that in order to be able to appeal to the mob to “hang the perpetrator higher”, much less like leftists, but more like just ordinary egomaniacs whose world circulates entirely around themselves and which can’t let anybody live anything else that they don’t understand or approve.
Meanwhile, even former allies don’t seem safe from that self-righteous method, once they take a single stance which the “cult” mob disapproves. Everything that they don’t agree with becomes a fatal lashing out against everyone to ruin their lives because they deem it “legitimate” to do so.

This... isn’t leftist. It’s the classic strategy from the right to ban everything they don’t approve. To cleanse the world from material, ideas and thought which they arbitrarily deem “a sin” out of whatever conservative or religious mindset. Or out of fear from anything which can become dangerous to their power inside the political system.
This isn’t even progressive ‘cause it downright paralyzes progress. You can see it its effects: People shut their mouths or censor their own speech in advance in order to not become victim of the all-destroying lash that outlaws you and calls for making your life miserable as long as you live (calling straight down for your suicide would be illegal), necessary debates disappear from the screen, unpopular as well as factually wrong or controversial stances move to the underground and develop themselves further in the darkness where barely anyone gets to know how their stories continue, people shy away from making public speeches or actually enter practicing an activity in the public and the public culture turns into a one-sided mash of monoculture which doesn’t reflect peoples’ everyday life nor the reality overall.

That is the very nature of what one knows from dogmatic theocracies as well as totalitarian dictatorships - only this time, there’s a different bunch of people sitting in the seats who command it. Not old white heterosexual men, but old and young, heterosexual as well as homo- and bisexual, binary and nonbinary, gender-reaffirmed as well as cis, black, brown and white men, women and neutrois. Who, instead of working with the gun and the threat of physical execution, work with brutal shaming and outlawing, leaving it either to the victim itself to beat itself up over its “misbehavior” or to someone unassociated and anonymous who wants to to carry out the dirty work, letting it appear like an accident, an overshoot or something else which they can’t be held responsible for because that “was an individual’s decision we disassociate from”.

“Let me tell you something about hate.
If you let it become the golden thread of your life - if you let it take control of you and occupy every corner of your mind, then you’ll get blind to what life has else to offer. There will be no sense left inside of you that knows joy, that knows tears, sadness, relaxation or empathy for anyone. Additionally, everyone around you who doesn’t agree with your stance, you’ll regard them as just another enemy. - Expendable and unworthy of even just breathing.
You gonna be the slave to your hate, serving it like a dark Draconian lord - executing his will blindfold, never questioning his motivations and never questioning the legitimation of his judgment.
Therefore, beware of getting drawn into this dark hole! Untameable wrath coupled with resentment has the power to make you become willing to sacrifice yourself for shit and the life of innocent people - to commit quasi-religious hocus pocus blood-sacrifices just for the sake of a bubble that only exists in your own head and that only matters to you in regard of the course of the world.
In other words: You can hate something as much as you want, still it’s not gonna matter to more than just a few folks at most and guaranteed it’s not gonna make the earth stop spinning. You’re trapped in your own cosmos and you’re still stuck with your personal insignificance to the rest of all existence.”

Wisst ihr, was die eigentliche, wirkliche Ursache dafür ist, dass solche Großbrände wie gerade in Mecklenburg auf früheren Truppenübungsgeländen entstehen und außer Kontrolle geraten?
Auch das ist ein Nebeneffekt der jahrelangen Sparpolitik bezüglich der Bundeswehr.

Überall, wo Liegenschaften aufgegeben wurden, um den Wehretat zu schmälern, wurden die Ländereien an die umliegenden Gemeinden zurückgegeben und in deren Verantwortung übergeben.
Dass viele Kommunen ein schmales Haushaltsbudget haben, und darunter Dinge wie die zivilen Feuerwehren leiden, sei noch mal dahingestellt. Ist lange bekannt und kann man ausführlich betrachten, wenn die Dorffeuerwehr immer noch mit ihrem W50 kommen muss, weil das das leistungsstärkste Fahrzeug ist, was sie haben.

Das viel größere Problem an dieser Taktik des Bundes ist: Dadurch wurden Liegenschaften an das zivile Leben zurückübergeben, die munitionsversucht sind, die seit Jahrzehnten für Schießübungen genutzt wurden, manchmal sogar seit Jahrhunderten - es wurden Gelände zurückübergeben, die sogar im zweiten Weltkrieg Munition und Handgranaten produziert haben, deren Überreste auch heute noch in irgendeiner Form im Erdboden liegen und man nicht einschätzen kann wie reaktionsfreudig diese noch sind.
Um es kurz zu machen: Wenn es dort einmal brennen sollte, hat das zivile Leben, die zivile Feuerwehr, gar nicht die nötige Ausrüstung, um sich um solche Gebiete zu kümmern.
Die örtlichen Berufsfeuerwehren der Bundeswehr - diese konnten im Ernstfall über ganz andere Mittel und Nachschubmöglichkeiten verfügen um bei solchen Fällen gegen Brände auf frühren Armeegeländen vorzugehen. (Dazu zählen auch die sogenannten "Löschpanzer", die meist nur eine Umrüstung eines konventionellen Panzers sind.)
Mit dem Rückgabe der Liegenschaften der Bundeswehr an die örtlichem Kommunen wurden diese aber aufgelöst - man brauchte sie ja schließlich nicht mehr, wenn es keinen Standort gab, zu dem sie gehörten.

Und genau diese Konstellation rächt sich nun.
Eigentlich muss man sogar davon sprechen, dass es von Seiten des Staates unverantwortlich war, was sie getan haben.
Ob sie nun ihre Einrichtungen noch nutzen, sei völlig egal - es hätte unbeinträchtigt davon mindestens eine organisierte Nachsorge für diese Gebiete geben müssen, sodass diese nicht nach dem Weggang der Bundeswehr aus dem Gebiet zu einer tickenden Zeitbombe für das zivile Leben werden.
Das genau ist das, was jetzt passiert ist.
Was auch schon letzten Sommer passiert ist.

Es ist keine gute Idee, eine Handgranate heiraten zu wollen...


It's not a good idea to want to marry a grenade...

Strange how things make their turn - even before anyone knows the real motive of a shooter who kills people, the agenda machinery of crying for harder (gun) laws starts rolling again.
You know what, people? It gets boring and it gets too obvious. No matter if it's 10 or 20 or even 30 years ago, it's always the same. Anyone wants take advantage politically of a scenario, regardless of what the facts of it are. Just wants to push his desired political agenda and make people believe, when they let this or that come true, all problems are going to be solved. The safe cheese cover continues to exist...
Tell you what. No matter how much you try to keep up your dreamworld where you can go on with the show until the very day, something will always keep invading your artificial peace and put you before the task to take things on - for so long until you finally get yourself some courage to do it!
Running away and denying the facts just only prolongs it for another short while. With each time doing so, your mountain of problems only grows like a pile of garbage - just until you're unable as a society to get rid of it!
Fuck you, society! Fuck you for mistaking your dreamworld with reality!
And fuck you very much for your cowardice to deal with problems!
For the dogmatism you always answer them with!

"I'm not afraid...!"
"So then, what is it that you do the next time a guy with an assault rifle in his arms appears somewhere near you?! Staying there and trying to stop him?!
No, you run away like the last time and all other times before!
That's what is called FEAR!
So, don't try to tell me shit!"