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Hopefully those countries which now file their applications for becoming a member of the NATO don't forget that membership doesn't only mean getting "safe from a Russian invasion", but also, whenever the United States are up in a war again with anyone, they're firmly part of the cleanup squad then after that skirmish.
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!
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 sacrifices of resistance
20 November 2021 01:44 amThe 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.
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.
As much as the Afghanistan war remained an apple of discord throughout the whole time of the 20 years the occupation of the Western troops lasted because of the shady reasons it was started with, it also simultaneously and silently became a train you couldn’t just jump off anymore and quit tomorrow.
Now with their departure, the tactical and political changes of the coming weeks and months will be a proof of that - and, at the same time, it will lay down the sad record of that the two biggest and strongest armies in modern history - the US army + its NATO associates and the Soviet Army - couldn’t rip out the root of exaggerated Islamic religion in this region and create a united country called “Afghanistan” that can claim its rank in the modern world order.
Be that that the religious extremism was just started and about to be strengthened (the Afghanistan war of the Soviet Union) or that it is a result of past foreign engagements gone wrong (the support of the US for the mujaheddin fighters in the 80s to make the Soviet Union fall; the support of the Syrian rebels, which were mostly if not entirely Islamic extremists as well, and by that helping creating the Islamic State, strengthening Islamic religious motivated terrorism and systematic violence on the whole and in the whole Middle East area) and that it outgrows one’s own powers and finances that one was originally willing to sacrifice for this endeavor (the Afghanistan war of the US and the NATO troops that were still deployed there).
It’s hard to guess how much the decay inside these big players make out a share in their respective defeat...
As a question to those two wars you can leave behind if how war itself is being led in these modern times hasn’t changed too much from the scheme of firm organized and equipped armies fighting each other on the battlefield, as it still was the case in WWII and its later offshoots around the world.
For this specific case, you can put on the record - as bitter, brutal and cynical it may sound: As long as the residents of this country who aren’t involved in religious extremism aren’t willing themselves to take a different path, to organize and do something to drive this out of their country, to rip this root of war and violence out in their society once and for all and harshly sanction it, as long as they rather flee abroad or to Europe, giving in to the order that a guerrilla army imposes on them - as long as that remains the case, this country won’t ever be peaceful and “free” again (whatever anyone wants to imagine under the term “free”).
That Afghanistan which even received a seat in the Intercosmos program and could see one of their citizens fly into space to the Mir station will be missing for a very, very long time now...
Now with their departure, the tactical and political changes of the coming weeks and months will be a proof of that - and, at the same time, it will lay down the sad record of that the two biggest and strongest armies in modern history - the US army + its NATO associates and the Soviet Army - couldn’t rip out the root of exaggerated Islamic religion in this region and create a united country called “Afghanistan” that can claim its rank in the modern world order.
Be that that the religious extremism was just started and about to be strengthened (the Afghanistan war of the Soviet Union) or that it is a result of past foreign engagements gone wrong (the support of the US for the mujaheddin fighters in the 80s to make the Soviet Union fall; the support of the Syrian rebels, which were mostly if not entirely Islamic extremists as well, and by that helping creating the Islamic State, strengthening Islamic religious motivated terrorism and systematic violence on the whole and in the whole Middle East area) and that it outgrows one’s own powers and finances that one was originally willing to sacrifice for this endeavor (the Afghanistan war of the US and the NATO troops that were still deployed there).
It’s hard to guess how much the decay inside these big players make out a share in their respective defeat...
As a question to those two wars you can leave behind if how war itself is being led in these modern times hasn’t changed too much from the scheme of firm organized and equipped armies fighting each other on the battlefield, as it still was the case in WWII and its later offshoots around the world.
For this specific case, you can put on the record - as bitter, brutal and cynical it may sound: As long as the residents of this country who aren’t involved in religious extremism aren’t willing themselves to take a different path, to organize and do something to drive this out of their country, to rip this root of war and violence out in their society once and for all and harshly sanction it, as long as they rather flee abroad or to Europe, giving in to the order that a guerrilla army imposes on them - as long as that remains the case, this country won’t ever be peaceful and “free” again (whatever anyone wants to imagine under the term “free”).
That Afghanistan which even received a seat in the Intercosmos program and could see one of their citizens fly into space to the Mir station will be missing for a very, very long time now...
Ganz Berlin - hasst die Polizei?
2 May 2021 01:51 amGut, dann schaffen wir sie ab und ab morgen regiert der mit der größten Baseball-Keule den Straßenabschnitt vor seinem Haus! Oder irgendwer anders, der mehr Mittel und bessere Waffen hat!
Ihr schreit den lieben langen Tag auf eurer Demo den Polizisten die Ohren zu und bewerft sie dann noch mit Steinen und Flaschen, einfach so, weil ihr Bock darauf habt, wenn sie sich in ‘ner Traube notgedrungen zusammenziehen, und beschwert euch dann, warum sie auf eure “Verpisst euch!”-Rufe nicht endlich reagieren, danach grob gegen euch vorgehen?
Denkt mal ‘ne Runde nach, was ihr denen zumutet!
Wie würde es euch gehen, wenn um euch herum verschiedene johlende und skandierenden Gruppen stehen, und auf euch die Wurfgeschosse fliegen?! Ob Schutzausrüstung oder nicht, ihr würdet freiwillig anfangen zu beten, dass ihr bei dieser abgebrühten Scheiße keinen ernsthaften Schaden erleidet! Dass euch eine Bierflasche nicht doch mal an der falschen Stelle trefft und ihr danach im Krankenhaus als Tomate wieder aufwacht, bei der eure Familie nur noch den Stecker ziehen kann, weil ihr nie wieder gesund werdet!
Habt ihr schon mal in einer Situation dagestanden, euch umzingelt gesehen und es mit der Todesangst zu tun gekriegt, weil sie um euch herum außer Kontrolle zu geraten droht?!
Eure Agenda von “Bullen sind scheiße” und “Polizisten sind keine Menschen, sie sind wie Robocop” passt sehr gut zusammen mit den Bestrebungen der Klasse, die euch bis zum Sankt-Nimmerleins-Tag zu Niedriglöhnen ausbeuten will - wisst ihr das?!
Ihr steht für die Einführung einer Herrschaft der Willkür - jeder, der eine Waffe hat, regelt ab jetzt seine Angelegenheiten allein, wie ein Raubtier. Und der, der am meisten Waffen hat, kontrolliert die Straßen, herrscht nach seinem Gutdünken, verprügelt und tötet Leute, stiehlt und macht Sachen kaputt, weil es ihm gefällt.
Das soll eure Form einer “besseren Welt” sein?! So soll es aussehen?!
Man merkt nur eines - ihr habt nicht den geringsten Schimmer davon, wie man regiert, wie man Sicherheit schafft, wie man eine Umgebung schafft, in der niemand Angst haben muss, wenn er vor die Tür geht. Alles, was ihr könnt, ist zerstören und die Ordnung anderer Scheiße finden, weil sie euch Grenzen setzt!
Der Mensch ist nicht vom Baum heruntergeklettert, nur um weiterhin unter der Bedrohung von Raubtieren zu leben! Deswegen gibt es Militär, deswegen gibt es Polizei, auch Rechtsanwälte und Richter!
Wenn ihr ohne all das leben wollt, sucht euch bitte eine unbewohnte Insel, zieht einen riesengroßen Zaun darum und lasst die Welt in Ruhe! Geht euch ruhig dann abgeschirmt gegenseitig an die Gurgel, damit der Rest gut ohne euch und euer Chaos und eure Gewalt leben kann!!
Ihr schreit den lieben langen Tag auf eurer Demo den Polizisten die Ohren zu und bewerft sie dann noch mit Steinen und Flaschen, einfach so, weil ihr Bock darauf habt, wenn sie sich in ‘ner Traube notgedrungen zusammenziehen, und beschwert euch dann, warum sie auf eure “Verpisst euch!”-Rufe nicht endlich reagieren, danach grob gegen euch vorgehen?
Denkt mal ‘ne Runde nach, was ihr denen zumutet!
Wie würde es euch gehen, wenn um euch herum verschiedene johlende und skandierenden Gruppen stehen, und auf euch die Wurfgeschosse fliegen?! Ob Schutzausrüstung oder nicht, ihr würdet freiwillig anfangen zu beten, dass ihr bei dieser abgebrühten Scheiße keinen ernsthaften Schaden erleidet! Dass euch eine Bierflasche nicht doch mal an der falschen Stelle trefft und ihr danach im Krankenhaus als Tomate wieder aufwacht, bei der eure Familie nur noch den Stecker ziehen kann, weil ihr nie wieder gesund werdet!
Habt ihr schon mal in einer Situation dagestanden, euch umzingelt gesehen und es mit der Todesangst zu tun gekriegt, weil sie um euch herum außer Kontrolle zu geraten droht?!
Eure Agenda von “Bullen sind scheiße” und “Polizisten sind keine Menschen, sie sind wie Robocop” passt sehr gut zusammen mit den Bestrebungen der Klasse, die euch bis zum Sankt-Nimmerleins-Tag zu Niedriglöhnen ausbeuten will - wisst ihr das?!
Ihr steht für die Einführung einer Herrschaft der Willkür - jeder, der eine Waffe hat, regelt ab jetzt seine Angelegenheiten allein, wie ein Raubtier. Und der, der am meisten Waffen hat, kontrolliert die Straßen, herrscht nach seinem Gutdünken, verprügelt und tötet Leute, stiehlt und macht Sachen kaputt, weil es ihm gefällt.
Das soll eure Form einer “besseren Welt” sein?! So soll es aussehen?!
Man merkt nur eines - ihr habt nicht den geringsten Schimmer davon, wie man regiert, wie man Sicherheit schafft, wie man eine Umgebung schafft, in der niemand Angst haben muss, wenn er vor die Tür geht. Alles, was ihr könnt, ist zerstören und die Ordnung anderer Scheiße finden, weil sie euch Grenzen setzt!
Der Mensch ist nicht vom Baum heruntergeklettert, nur um weiterhin unter der Bedrohung von Raubtieren zu leben! Deswegen gibt es Militär, deswegen gibt es Polizei, auch Rechtsanwälte und Richter!
Wenn ihr ohne all das leben wollt, sucht euch bitte eine unbewohnte Insel, zieht einen riesengroßen Zaun darum und lasst die Welt in Ruhe! Geht euch ruhig dann abgeschirmt gegenseitig an die Gurgel, damit der Rest gut ohne euch und euer Chaos und eure Gewalt leben kann!!
Actually, the charge of the Capitol is just the tip of the ice berg of a development that's been going on for longer in the United States.
It's an event displaying the deep split within the US society and its political system, as well it's an expression of two very sharply opposing forces which both firmly believe to have found the Holy Grail and be on a mission from the Lord itself, while they're just both streams trying to force their understanding of how the world works upon the rest of the society governed by them.
In other words, to the people lesser educated about the US: Intersectionality is just radical racism and sexism through the backdoor, it doesn't change anything, and violent anti-racist protests and arbitrary juristic accusations against whoever is in the wrong place at the wrong time aren't going to fix your country (neither they bake you a loaf of bread) - just like a drifting back to nostalgia, glorifying golden economic ages which are no more, displaying one's guns in public all the time, disregarding the rules what one's country is made of and governed by, believing in bullshit theories about getting younger and 150 years old through the blood of children, stepping on the lesser financially fortunate and steadily disputing over if the poor deserve to get any handouts like social benefits and a general health insurance (because they're supposedly "of no use to anyone") isn't going to make anything turn to the better.
Each side needs to take a step back from their replacement religion and recognize it for what it is: Something that only takes places in their heads. Imagination.
And then take a precise pragmatic look at what the problems are - facts, not faith.
(It isn't called "theory" for nothing... "Theory" means "explanation pattern lacking scientific proof for it".)
In the case of US society drifting apart and being shortly before fighting each other physically, all supporters of both fractions can take a good look at themselves, if they search someone to blame.
It's your fault altogether!
Just so you heard it for once...
It's an event displaying the deep split within the US society and its political system, as well it's an expression of two very sharply opposing forces which both firmly believe to have found the Holy Grail and be on a mission from the Lord itself, while they're just both streams trying to force their understanding of how the world works upon the rest of the society governed by them.
In other words, to the people lesser educated about the US: Intersectionality is just radical racism and sexism through the backdoor, it doesn't change anything, and violent anti-racist protests and arbitrary juristic accusations against whoever is in the wrong place at the wrong time aren't going to fix your country (neither they bake you a loaf of bread) - just like a drifting back to nostalgia, glorifying golden economic ages which are no more, displaying one's guns in public all the time, disregarding the rules what one's country is made of and governed by, believing in bullshit theories about getting younger and 150 years old through the blood of children, stepping on the lesser financially fortunate and steadily disputing over if the poor deserve to get any handouts like social benefits and a general health insurance (because they're supposedly "of no use to anyone") isn't going to make anything turn to the better.
Each side needs to take a step back from their replacement religion and recognize it for what it is: Something that only takes places in their heads. Imagination.
And then take a precise pragmatic look at what the problems are - facts, not faith.
(It isn't called "theory" for nothing... "Theory" means "explanation pattern lacking scientific proof for it".)
In the case of US society drifting apart and being shortly before fighting each other physically, all supporters of both fractions can take a good look at themselves, if they search someone to blame.
It's your fault altogether!
Just so you heard it for once...
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”.
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”.
Policed freedom
17 November 2019 04:37 pmWhat reality developed into maybe is a much worse picture of dystopia than anyone who ever tried his hand at drawing it imagined: Nearly everything is free to access, but making use of that opportunity may end you up with any kind of punishment.
Because there are many things considered as “undesired” even though and because there is quite a bunch of things out there which makes a paranoid sensitive fragile security apparatus shiver with fear for no solid reason.
Because there are many things considered as “undesired” even though and because there is quite a bunch of things out there which makes a paranoid sensitive fragile security apparatus shiver with fear for no solid reason.
Partners, not enemies
5 November 2019 10:33 amPerhaps a controversial thing to say these days, regarding all the abuse of power and one’s position that takes place, but it should be noted unconditionally:
Be solidary with your cops which are fair to the people, which behave competent and try to help as best as they can - which take their job serious.
Don’t go blanket down on them and beat them up. They’re people too, they have families too.
They also get exploited of their time and health by being employed in too small numbers and getting called to guard a demonstration or a soccer game every few weekends, much too often than is good for them and their lives, never making it to take their time off for the overtime they worked throughout the year.
So... as long as you’re not facing an individual which tries to achieve his promotion through you, or which intentionally behaves like an asshole to you, be kind to them and don’t blame them for failures and errors which actually politicians are responsible for.
In case of need or danger, rather regard them as your potential allies - as people to work together with to make the good things happen.
Be solidary with your cops which are fair to the people, which behave competent and try to help as best as they can - which take their job serious.
Don’t go blanket down on them and beat them up. They’re people too, they have families too.
They also get exploited of their time and health by being employed in too small numbers and getting called to guard a demonstration or a soccer game every few weekends, much too often than is good for them and their lives, never making it to take their time off for the overtime they worked throughout the year.
So... as long as you’re not facing an individual which tries to achieve his promotion through you, or which intentionally behaves like an asshole to you, be kind to them and don’t blame them for failures and errors which actually politicians are responsible for.
In case of need or danger, rather regard them as your potential allies - as people to work together with to make the good things happen.
Emanzipation of fighting
10 September 2019 12:33 pmTo link "going to war" with "dying for one’s country" is so much last century thinking...
You don’t need to get down onto such abstract emotional bullshit to find a reason to fight actively.
Better think of it as "I don’t care about the flag I go to war for, they gonna lie to me anyway - I fight so that me, my loved ones and my neighbor can go on living in peace".
You don’t need to get down onto such abstract emotional bullshit to find a reason to fight actively.
Better think of it as "I don’t care about the flag I go to war for, they gonna lie to me anyway - I fight so that me, my loved ones and my neighbor can go on living in peace".
Policy of deterrence
21 August 2019 03:54 pmOne thing for the record of those likes which think of encouraging policemen and soldiers to walk around some more in their service uniforms in their free time: Uniforms won’t make it any safer. They’re just pieces of clothes. It’s deeds that count.
Of course there will be some people who, on average, will shrink back from doing anything improperly - but, don’t get that fooled to think that the heavy criminals will get scared enough of punishment to abstain from their usual business only because they deem a person dressed in a martial uniform near them.
More likely it’ll be those people which harbor an established respect towards uniform carriers, despite doing something improper, who cease to do these things in proximity to their eyes.
What have you won then? Nothing.
It’s just a cosmetic issue to pretend an image of safety which doesn’t exist still.
(Technically, even everyone could slip into a martial uniform-like dress giving people that psychological impression.)
Of course there will be some people who, on average, will shrink back from doing anything improperly - but, don’t get that fooled to think that the heavy criminals will get scared enough of punishment to abstain from their usual business only because they deem a person dressed in a martial uniform near them.
More likely it’ll be those people which harbor an established respect towards uniform carriers, despite doing something improper, who cease to do these things in proximity to their eyes.
What have you won then? Nothing.
It’s just a cosmetic issue to pretend an image of safety which doesn’t exist still.
(Technically, even everyone could slip into a martial uniform-like dress giving people that psychological impression.)
Gerade wie die Alpenregion und Mittelgebirge wie der Harz im Schnee versinken, und manch einer dazu gewillt sein möge, gleich wieder lauthals "Klimawandel!" zu schreien, hier eine kleine Erinnerung an etwas, was bereits schon wegen seinem runden Geburtstag durch die Medien ging:
Der Winter 1978 zu '79.
Zu einer Zeit, als man das Wort "Klimawandel" noch nicht einmal öffentlich in den Mund nahm, kam es, dass sich in einem Winter die Großwetterlage in Mitteleuropa einmal so entwickelte, dass Temperaturen quasi über Nacht um 20 Grad fielen. Zusätzlich gab es noch jede Menge Niederschlag in Form von Schnee und Regen und dazu Sturm im Norden an den Küsten.
Sowohl Ost- als auch West-Deutschland hatten ihre Schwierigkeiten mit diesen Bedingungen fertig zu werden; Verkehrsinfrastruktur wurde unbenutzbar, Strom fiel aus, Versorgung mit Lebensmitteln und Fernwärme wurde prekär. Selbst sogar mit beideseitig gut funktionierenden Armeen war es beschwerlich, die zivile Ordnung am Leben zu erhalten...
Zu allem Überfluss folgte eine ähnliche Welle an Wetterphänomenen später im Februar erneut.
...Also, wenn hier einer gern wieder "Klimawandel!" schreien will, dann bliebe zu bemerken, dabei muss es sich wohl um ein Langzeitprojekt handeln. Abnorme und extreme Wetterphänomene sind nicht erst eine Erfindung der Neuzeit. Allerhöchstens treten sie in gehäufter Frequenz auf.
Der Winter 1978 zu '79.
Zu einer Zeit, als man das Wort "Klimawandel" noch nicht einmal öffentlich in den Mund nahm, kam es, dass sich in einem Winter die Großwetterlage in Mitteleuropa einmal so entwickelte, dass Temperaturen quasi über Nacht um 20 Grad fielen. Zusätzlich gab es noch jede Menge Niederschlag in Form von Schnee und Regen und dazu Sturm im Norden an den Küsten.
Sowohl Ost- als auch West-Deutschland hatten ihre Schwierigkeiten mit diesen Bedingungen fertig zu werden; Verkehrsinfrastruktur wurde unbenutzbar, Strom fiel aus, Versorgung mit Lebensmitteln und Fernwärme wurde prekär. Selbst sogar mit beideseitig gut funktionierenden Armeen war es beschwerlich, die zivile Ordnung am Leben zu erhalten...
Zu allem Überfluss folgte eine ähnliche Welle an Wetterphänomenen später im Februar erneut.
...Also, wenn hier einer gern wieder "Klimawandel!" schreien will, dann bliebe zu bemerken, dabei muss es sich wohl um ein Langzeitprojekt handeln. Abnorme und extreme Wetterphänomene sind nicht erst eine Erfindung der Neuzeit. Allerhöchstens treten sie in gehäufter Frequenz auf.
"Liberal" and "Open Society" once were fight terms in Cold War times, which practically meant "Nazis walking around freely and shaping society too".
The creation of these two terms and turning their meanings into something that people, without trace, feel connoted as "positive" until today, while what they practically meant was morally questionable, is like an absolute standard from a political propaganda handbook.
These days barely anyone would remember their original meanings and what they truly stood for in practical circumstances...
Take this into account the text time you describe yourself and your personal viewpoint with this.
The creation of these two terms and turning their meanings into something that people, without trace, feel connoted as "positive" until today, while what they practically meant was morally questionable, is like an absolute standard from a political propaganda handbook.
These days barely anyone would remember their original meanings and what they truly stood for in practical circumstances...
Take this into account the text time you describe yourself and your personal viewpoint with this.
Strange to see that people start talking about a war only because they're reminded by a certain one's 100th anniversary - and if it wasn't for that, they'd be ignorant about the topic in general like they are all over the rest of the year... Posting about entertainment and stuff.
Heroes of our time
1 June 2018 10:30 pmIn times of scapegoats and strong enemy images, everyone can become a hero through catching one.
Catch one, deliver him, receive your medal or your star on your jacket.
You're a fucking hero! You saved society from somebody!
Although we don't know if he's really a threat or if it's just us who don't want to understand him...
Gone with the shit we can't calculate, gone with it what appears threatening to us! Even though the only one who scares anyone is ourselves...
So, brave soldier, be smug about your action! Flatter yourself all day long about your trophies and show them to everyone!
Now that's what you call a "valuable member of society"!
People smarming over the rules which the top class of the hierarchy decides on - in this reign, in that reign, like a weather vane!
Who said that you can't sleep with someone for the promotion with even no need to touch a centimeter of his skin?
Catch one, deliver him, receive your medal or your star on your jacket.
You're a fucking hero! You saved society from somebody!
Although we don't know if he's really a threat or if it's just us who don't want to understand him...
Gone with the shit we can't calculate, gone with it what appears threatening to us! Even though the only one who scares anyone is ourselves...
So, brave soldier, be smug about your action! Flatter yourself all day long about your trophies and show them to everyone!
Now that's what you call a "valuable member of society"!
People smarming over the rules which the top class of the hierarchy decides on - in this reign, in that reign, like a weather vane!
Who said that you can't sleep with someone for the promotion with even no need to touch a centimeter of his skin?
You know something that can really make you desperate about the internet these days?
It has become so rare that you can talk to somebody about a topic from politics, social sciences or other humanities in a manner with the niveau that a normally educated person can have.
Mostly you run into activists or people which keep blogging excessively about one single topic and their view is as narrowed as a cat’s pupil in broad daylight. Also, the atmosphere is constantly a little aggressive and you keep feeling like you’re really stupid about that topic, although there might be not much reason to think so.
It’s... somehow a time episode and a development state of culture where those who consider themselves as “the fallen”, “the suppressed” or “the lesser heard voices” (be it that it factually is partly true or completely based on personal imagination) all draw back to their lonely islands, form groups of frustration and anger, and specialize themselves in the one and only topic which they see themselves disadvantaged in, additionally emphasizing all the time, to outsiders as well as in the group, what throws them into this state.
But, important thing that totally goes lost on them is: They lose the view about what happens left or right from them. What happens outside their established and closed group. What takes place outside of their narrow focus and their war for being not so disadvantaged anymore.
Even the more, they even tend to forget there are other people too which are disadvantaged, but through a totally different aspect. It would never come to mind for these to form alliances with those other underprivileged people in order to create something that erases this suppressed state from both of them, partly or completely (what is realistic to be turned into living conditions).
And that is what just makes it so frustrating...
Lonely islands taking a bath in their own frustration, each for itself, everyone thinks he’s the most suppressed and disadvantaged, and all through the while they even create the strangest personal views that all non-insiders can’t follow or even support anymore - ‘cause they’re so far from the reality that takes place and they even seem to make a step back again from the course of an advanced society.
Speaking: Everyone who doesn’t agree is part of the arch enemy. New input not allowed. Even if it is due, even if it has a grounded factual base, even if it might be correct. “Don’t you dare to disturb the purity of our belief! Leave us the hell alone, we want to keep grumbling in unity... ‘Cause grumbling is our everyday legitimation to be alive.” And the grumbling goes on and on for all eternity, never changing anything on the origins what makes those people grumble, and steadily keeping on being locked to the solution patterns the group suggests to overcome the problems. Never checking out if they still suit, if time didn’t overcome them, prove them wrong, or they were correct and not short-sighted in the first place.
In short: “All other people are dumb and we found the Holy Grail.”
For every corner that exists in the internet, you find groups behaving like that - all behaving the same style, like someone hooked up their brains to a machine and now controls how these people dance.
Previous writing, some other aspect: https://matrixmann.dreamwidth.org/171682.html
It has become so rare that you can talk to somebody about a topic from politics, social sciences or other humanities in a manner with the niveau that a normally educated person can have.
Mostly you run into activists or people which keep blogging excessively about one single topic and their view is as narrowed as a cat’s pupil in broad daylight. Also, the atmosphere is constantly a little aggressive and you keep feeling like you’re really stupid about that topic, although there might be not much reason to think so.
It’s... somehow a time episode and a development state of culture where those who consider themselves as “the fallen”, “the suppressed” or “the lesser heard voices” (be it that it factually is partly true or completely based on personal imagination) all draw back to their lonely islands, form groups of frustration and anger, and specialize themselves in the one and only topic which they see themselves disadvantaged in, additionally emphasizing all the time, to outsiders as well as in the group, what throws them into this state.
But, important thing that totally goes lost on them is: They lose the view about what happens left or right from them. What happens outside their established and closed group. What takes place outside of their narrow focus and their war for being not so disadvantaged anymore.
Even the more, they even tend to forget there are other people too which are disadvantaged, but through a totally different aspect. It would never come to mind for these to form alliances with those other underprivileged people in order to create something that erases this suppressed state from both of them, partly or completely (what is realistic to be turned into living conditions).
And that is what just makes it so frustrating...
Lonely islands taking a bath in their own frustration, each for itself, everyone thinks he’s the most suppressed and disadvantaged, and all through the while they even create the strangest personal views that all non-insiders can’t follow or even support anymore - ‘cause they’re so far from the reality that takes place and they even seem to make a step back again from the course of an advanced society.
Speaking: Everyone who doesn’t agree is part of the arch enemy. New input not allowed. Even if it is due, even if it has a grounded factual base, even if it might be correct. “Don’t you dare to disturb the purity of our belief! Leave us the hell alone, we want to keep grumbling in unity... ‘Cause grumbling is our everyday legitimation to be alive.” And the grumbling goes on and on for all eternity, never changing anything on the origins what makes those people grumble, and steadily keeping on being locked to the solution patterns the group suggests to overcome the problems. Never checking out if they still suit, if time didn’t overcome them, prove them wrong, or they were correct and not short-sighted in the first place.
In short: “All other people are dumb and we found the Holy Grail.”
For every corner that exists in the internet, you find groups behaving like that - all behaving the same style, like someone hooked up their brains to a machine and now controls how these people dance.
Previous writing, some other aspect: https://matrixmann.dreamwidth.org/171682.html
New training and regulations for police officers in case of a terror attack - well, nice and neat.
And when does somebody start education for the civilians to behave in such a situation or how to help others? When does the schooling start to mentally prepare civilians for stressful situations like this, so they'll be able to handle them better than just running around aimlessly and screaming?
I know, the only place where people train this in any kind of related way, and this again by own efforts, is in paintball parks and airsoft compounds - and then it'll be loudly called "paramilitary education" with a fat negative judgment attached to it, like what monsters these people are and how morally condemnable it is what they do. Some self-asserted anti-gun and anti-violence activists for sure gonna add their reproaches to it too and come around the corner again with their typical acting "Oh, we all don't need this! Let's hug and sing songs! Terrorists gonna join too, if we beg them long enough!" and whoever doesn't join their choir, that one will be bullied even more hostilely than people play violently with fake guns on these closed farms.
And when does somebody start education for the civilians to behave in such a situation or how to help others? When does the schooling start to mentally prepare civilians for stressful situations like this, so they'll be able to handle them better than just running around aimlessly and screaming?
I know, the only place where people train this in any kind of related way, and this again by own efforts, is in paintball parks and airsoft compounds - and then it'll be loudly called "paramilitary education" with a fat negative judgment attached to it, like what monsters these people are and how morally condemnable it is what they do. Some self-asserted anti-gun and anti-violence activists for sure gonna add their reproaches to it too and come around the corner again with their typical acting "Oh, we all don't need this! Let's hug and sing songs! Terrorists gonna join too, if we beg them long enough!" and whoever doesn't join their choir, that one will be bullied even more hostilely than people play violently with fake guns on these closed farms.
Sacrificial lamb
25 February 2018 01:27 am"Capitalism always needs someone to trample on. If there is no-one to exploit, no-one to do extralegal experiments on, no-one to abuse by promising him pay and then sending him home with nothing, it makes no progress.
Literally, it needs to outlaw some people to treat them like shit in order to generate the pleasures that it sells to the rest of the population. It needs them as guinea pigs, as people who work all day and all night with low or no pay, it needs them to commit all possible kinds of cruelties of humans against humans and not be held accountable for it legally."
Literally, it needs to outlaw some people to treat them like shit in order to generate the pleasures that it sells to the rest of the population. It needs them as guinea pigs, as people who work all day and all night with low or no pay, it needs them to commit all possible kinds of cruelties of humans against humans and not be held accountable for it legally."
It's not as simple as that...
31 January 2018 12:36 pm"We need to stop fascism...!"
"You know what? Fascism is already there again. The seed has been sown. And you know why?
Because the real moneybags of this world are paying to get it back, just like last century - like all the other times when fascism appeared out of nowhere.
Let me tell you why they make it happen: Their own vassals are failing to deliver them more profit - seemingly, the border to achieve some by the usual means of reducing production costs and costs for personnel just gets hit. There's no more big space to get lower anymore. Call it "the wisdom of the current reigning system has met its end". The scheme doesn't drop it anymore.
But these people still want profit, like they're used to get it, because it's their way of life, it's their imagination how things should be like.
So - when one vassal doesn't make it anymore, get some other.
Or, better do it that way: Don't just choose another right away. Create some competition. This looks less like a coup d'état and also it lends wings to the efforts being undertaken to please you. Nothing better than a vassal for fearing for his privileges to fade away...
So let it come slowly. Let it look like "still anything's possible for all of you", that is the best fuel for letting humans work their ass off.
The competition is also needed because the current vassals slowly start to ask questions. Not all of them, but quite enough. Seemingly, they seem to get the scheme that it's not about prosperity for all, but just for a limited amount of individuals among mankind. More than that, maybe they even see how disposable they are themselves. And that's not the contract some signed to personally when they entered those businesses they are active in.
They start asking questions and they also see how much they fail more and more often to sell this scheme to the rest of the world outside that seems to put even their lives on the line.
Of course, these questions are not desired, and here it comes where the competition with other vassals comes into play. "Do as we say or even your privileges are gonna be taken away!", that's what it is.
And when you fail to find vassals who do it for money and little favors, then get some which are deeply convinced of the nonsense they do. That's what fascists are.
Besides, they also have no problem with torturing anyone and even lowering the borderline of making profit happen one more time at other peoples' cost.
The current vassals got the choice: You wanna do as we want or you wanna be dropped out of the upper class and sit on the other side of the table - on the side which is losing meat?
Some will subscribe to it one more time of doing as demanded in order to keep their own privileges - that's what you see happen when suddenly even people in high offices who are not famous for talking far right ideology start to talk and even more start to act the same way.
It's fear of losing one's own position as well as, in some cases, having signed to the new scheme that the moneybags are preparing.
And those, who already feel it coming, they greatly underestimate the power of manipulation, of mass psychology and of media, especially their own minds, so they fail to get it they're already being presented and their ideas promoted in a way that makes people be opposed to them. Which is part of the scheme of introducing fascism in a broader manner and creating competition among the potential vassals.
So to say, it all is made to run in a certain way to make it look like fascism is the only way of practicing political opposition, but that exactly is what the big moneybags want in order to push their plans to get the last bit of profit out of society.
In other words: Fascism doesn't take over because people have become far right, it's because fascism is getting provoked as a reaction from the people because all other political players on the field do their best to ignore the essential problems that small man has (in order to deliver the moneybags what they demand), so it makes the fascists appear like they're the only people who care about those problems (which they only do in exchange for power and for sitting on the other side of the wealth table, not because they really do care, but this is something that doesn't interest someone in desperate need). It's a thing attacking from two sides, so that all except for the moneybags lose - more than that, the moneybags win this way or that way, no matter how the story ends. In the end, they'll have some loyal vassals at the top positions anyway which will bring through their agendas they want to have realized.
Small man will be the one to suffer both ways - either in the form of those ones pursued by the Nazi regime or through being crushed by crime throwing him to the dogs and nobody doing anything against it."
"You know what? Fascism is already there again. The seed has been sown. And you know why?
Because the real moneybags of this world are paying to get it back, just like last century - like all the other times when fascism appeared out of nowhere.
Let me tell you why they make it happen: Their own vassals are failing to deliver them more profit - seemingly, the border to achieve some by the usual means of reducing production costs and costs for personnel just gets hit. There's no more big space to get lower anymore. Call it "the wisdom of the current reigning system has met its end". The scheme doesn't drop it anymore.
But these people still want profit, like they're used to get it, because it's their way of life, it's their imagination how things should be like.
So - when one vassal doesn't make it anymore, get some other.
Or, better do it that way: Don't just choose another right away. Create some competition. This looks less like a coup d'état and also it lends wings to the efforts being undertaken to please you. Nothing better than a vassal for fearing for his privileges to fade away...
So let it come slowly. Let it look like "still anything's possible for all of you", that is the best fuel for letting humans work their ass off.
The competition is also needed because the current vassals slowly start to ask questions. Not all of them, but quite enough. Seemingly, they seem to get the scheme that it's not about prosperity for all, but just for a limited amount of individuals among mankind. More than that, maybe they even see how disposable they are themselves. And that's not the contract some signed to personally when they entered those businesses they are active in.
They start asking questions and they also see how much they fail more and more often to sell this scheme to the rest of the world outside that seems to put even their lives on the line.
Of course, these questions are not desired, and here it comes where the competition with other vassals comes into play. "Do as we say or even your privileges are gonna be taken away!", that's what it is.
And when you fail to find vassals who do it for money and little favors, then get some which are deeply convinced of the nonsense they do. That's what fascists are.
Besides, they also have no problem with torturing anyone and even lowering the borderline of making profit happen one more time at other peoples' cost.
The current vassals got the choice: You wanna do as we want or you wanna be dropped out of the upper class and sit on the other side of the table - on the side which is losing meat?
Some will subscribe to it one more time of doing as demanded in order to keep their own privileges - that's what you see happen when suddenly even people in high offices who are not famous for talking far right ideology start to talk and even more start to act the same way.
It's fear of losing one's own position as well as, in some cases, having signed to the new scheme that the moneybags are preparing.
And those, who already feel it coming, they greatly underestimate the power of manipulation, of mass psychology and of media, especially their own minds, so they fail to get it they're already being presented and their ideas promoted in a way that makes people be opposed to them. Which is part of the scheme of introducing fascism in a broader manner and creating competition among the potential vassals.
So to say, it all is made to run in a certain way to make it look like fascism is the only way of practicing political opposition, but that exactly is what the big moneybags want in order to push their plans to get the last bit of profit out of society.
In other words: Fascism doesn't take over because people have become far right, it's because fascism is getting provoked as a reaction from the people because all other political players on the field do their best to ignore the essential problems that small man has (in order to deliver the moneybags what they demand), so it makes the fascists appear like they're the only people who care about those problems (which they only do in exchange for power and for sitting on the other side of the wealth table, not because they really do care, but this is something that doesn't interest someone in desperate need). It's a thing attacking from two sides, so that all except for the moneybags lose - more than that, the moneybags win this way or that way, no matter how the story ends. In the end, they'll have some loyal vassals at the top positions anyway which will bring through their agendas they want to have realized.
Small man will be the one to suffer both ways - either in the form of those ones pursued by the Nazi regime or through being crushed by crime throwing him to the dogs and nobody doing anything against it."
Age of hate, big noises made, positions unalterable.
Fraction against fraction - the incarnation of the plebs fighting against itself.
The enemy is not out there, it already is in your own ranks...
It's symptoms are indoctrination, manipulation, confusion and narrowmindedness.
Sometimes, its accomplices are need and lack of personal honor. Paid jobs, done for a higher agenda... Which each party will even label as "noble".
Opinion is the currency to let peasants sacrifice their lives. For whatever meaninglessness they shall dive into the cold water.
Many people jump on that train, ready to throw everything away for something they heard somewhere through a chain letter.
The mind fades away and primitive emotions reign...
Let's hope, one fine day, brains rain from the sky and end this time of foolishness and revolving around oneself.
Fraction against fraction - the incarnation of the plebs fighting against itself.
The enemy is not out there, it already is in your own ranks...
It's symptoms are indoctrination, manipulation, confusion and narrowmindedness.
Sometimes, its accomplices are need and lack of personal honor. Paid jobs, done for a higher agenda... Which each party will even label as "noble".
Opinion is the currency to let peasants sacrifice their lives. For whatever meaninglessness they shall dive into the cold water.
Many people jump on that train, ready to throw everything away for something they heard somewhere through a chain letter.
The mind fades away and primitive emotions reign...
Let's hope, one fine day, brains rain from the sky and end this time of foolishness and revolving around oneself.
