“I’ve always just felt that as a Christian, my only job is to love on others,” Desi said. “God gave us free will, and God gave us the ability to choose, and my belief system doesn’t get to take away that choice of someone else.”

That doesn’t sound very Christian to me.

The statement attributed to Jesus “I come not to bring peace, but to bring a sword” has been interpreted by some as a call to arms for Christians. Mark Juergensmeyer argues that “despite its central tenets of love and peace, Christianity—like most traditions—has always had a violent side. The bloody history of the tradition has provided disturbing images and violent conflict is vividly portrayed in the Bible. This history and these biblical images have provided the raw material for theologically justifying the violence of contemporary Christian groups. For example, attacks on abortion clinics have been viewed not only as assaults on a practice that Christians regard as immoral, but also as skirmishes in a grand confrontation between forces of evil and good that has social and political implications”, sometimes referred to as spiritual warfare. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_violence

anyone who voted for the orange cancer is complicit.

As is anyone who failed to vote against him. I’m not talking about stay-at-home Democrats either. I know Ayn Rand-ish “libertarian” old-time Republicans who always toed the old-school Republican lines on healthcare, social spending, global warming, taxes, offense spending &etc, who KNEW that Trump was a fraud and a nascent dictator, and who refused to vote against him because “my vote doesn’t matter, the Whole System is a charade, there are People in power who control everything including elections and who just pretend to give us the illusion of choice every few years at the polls”. Basically a stupid excuse to avoid admitting that they’ve spent a lifetime wallowing in the deep end of the conservative bullshit pool only to have it end in a dystopia that will drown them too. Anything is better than admitting to having been wrong with their whole ideology for their whole lives. Wrong = weak, and I suspect too that they’re thinking “anyway, I donated $100 to a Trump election PAC, surely I’ll be OK, they won’t be coming for me.”

The Democratic Party controls both the New Mexico state government and the city of Albuquerque. The deployment of troops by a Democratic governor is another part of the alignment of the national Democratic party with Trump since his election, and makes clear that the Democrats will not conduct a fight against Trump and his plans for dictatorship.

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?.. The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation… We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

You can just do a web search on the title. Example result: https://www.yahoo.com/news/outrage-builds-video-shows-idaho-185811760.html

And here I am directly under the final approach path to our airport. It sounds like “blue ice” is soon to be the least of my air industry worries.

I recently re-read vol 1. of the Gulag Archipelago and it’s striking how similar MAGA-ism and Stalinism is. I’ve known a fair number of Republicunt and MAGA types who cheer on all the tough-guy orange stuff being applied to other people. They don’t read books and certainly not history books, and don’t understand that Stalin didn’t just terrorize the Other, he intentionally wrought terror on the entire society, from top to bottom. Nobody was safe. The Terror might have started with the peasantry (not sure) but it certainly didn’t end there. The “intelligentsia” was one target, but so was the military (which Stalin purged) and veterans and scientists and engineers and religious bodies. If you looked like you had the slightest bit of potential power or potential influence in society (or were just too damn educated), and if you seemed to be even slightly uncommitted to the Great Leader, then he or his lackeys would see to it that your door was kicked down in the middle of the night and you dragged off for torture until you “confessed”. Then a “tribunal” (not judges) would sentence you and it was off to the gulag and to a life of slavery in the Arctic cold, for decades or until you died. Or just a bullet to the head.

Separately, there was the mass-starvation (for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor) inflicted on certain Soviets - a byproduct of Stalin’s ideologically-driven re-engineering of the economy. I’ve read some opinions that starvation was the intent - a genocide against a potentially non-loyal segment of the citizenry.

This is where we’re heading.

I haven’t bought from or through Amazon in at least a decade, and that’s mainly because of their sweatshops and overall anti-union orientation. If I can’t find something locally at a thrift shop or at some locally-owned not-quite-big-box shop, then I’ve bought via eBay. Am I still a Collaborator … does eBay deserve a boycott too, and if so why [based on corporate shittiness, not product shittiness]?

I haven’t given a cent to Target in at least 5 years since they F-d me over on a return - a return that was 100% due to a mistake on their part, but that’s a personal grudge. Still nice to see the boycott as Target shareholders and management deserve it.

And then he woke up, having slept in his Kia in the city park, thankful that he wasn’t beaten up by cops again last night. An auspicious start to another day in Amerika.

Medium sized city in a very red part of a blue state: turnout was estimated to be 5000+ and huge amounts of support from honking drivers in the busy, adjacent multilane street, for 2 hours straight. Great energy/vibe, lots of outrage and creativity, and a very multi-generational turnout that shows that not just one age group hates MAGA, they ALL do.

Counter-demonstrators were next to none and getting shouted down. One Christofascist was dressed up like the Christ he’s seen in picturebooks and was dragging around a replica of a full-sized cross and getting laughs and sneers for his efforts.

We’re driving the Trump citizen-fascists underground, lets keep it up.

24-Year-Old Who Miscarried After Massive Public Pressure

Women need to “just say ‘no’” to pressure campaigns. And Massive Public needs to get a different hobby.

The proposed changes to Georgia’s Open Records Act were tacked onto another bill, Senate Bill 12, late in the day Wednesday in the gatekeeping House Rules Committee, bypassing the usual legislative committee process and shortcutting public debate on the measure.

Under the new proposal, police departments would be able to shield almost all information about officers’ stops, arrests and incident responses, says Sarah Brewerton-Palmer, president of the Georgia First Amendment Foundation.

Additionally, the bill would create broad new exemptions to prevent public disclosure of the General Assembly’s activities, including communication with other parts of state government, she said.

I had the Covid shots too. They all had powerful side-effects. My whole life, I’ve never been able to catch measles. I didn’t get sick from Covid. I probably won’t die from measles now either. That’s right, they took away muh Freedumb!

Yep, had my 1st measles shot in the mid-60s, a booster in '74, and now this year found (via a blood test) that my immunity had waned to a point that another shot was needed. Got it. Five stars, no pain, highly recommended.

How well would US Xian nationalists (Christofascists) get along with the CoE? Is the latter, like the former, actively attempting to acquire absolute power over social matters in their country? Would the two be of like minds w/respect to doctrine?

Slightly related perhaps, at least if you’re an HBS grad.

Portion of job-seeking Harvard Business School students who were unemployed three months after graduation

• in 2022 : 1/10
• In 2024 : 1/4

From Harper’s Index 4/2025

I wonder how long it will be before the Amateur Radio (ham) spectrum allocations are deleted? After all, that allotment is a set-aside for the good of the public, and we can’t give handouts like that to the commoners any more. Loafers and degenerates, make them PAY for their bandwidth, make them earn it.

With enforcement deleted and existing public-use bands sold off to the highest-paying (or best-politically-connected) grifter, I hope high-power, not-exactly-legal mesh networks can get a foothold.

legal residents are abducted from their houses for saying genocide is a bad thing

And tortured, with impunity, by government agents.

All right out of Stalin’s playbook. First you arrest them, then you hold them indefinitely in jail without contact with the outside world. During this time you torture them until they confess to whatever made-up “crime” you accuse them of, and preferably falsely rat out others who the torturers want to give the same treatment to. Then you sentence them to decades of “hard labor” in a remote camp, and to more torture. Sentencing done by a non-judicial, non-accountable administrative tribunal whose primary job is producing “guilty” verdicts in order to meet their quotas.

Apply this method to the weakest first, and then to the working classes (including veterans) and then to the middle- and upper-classes (administrators and engineers and military leaders and especially “intellectuals”), rinse and repeat, until you’ve got yourself a society composed of individuals who live in utter terror of Uncle Elon and Tusk, and of being arrested themselves. Members of that society will never step out of line, will never be a threat to the regime.

Here’s a first-hand description of how it works : https://archive.org/details/TheGulagArchipelago-Threevolumes/The-Gulag-Archipelago__vol1__I-II__Solzhenitsyn/

The memo also proposed IRS detail a dedicated group of several dozen senior IRS auditors to launch investigations into companies suspected of hiring undocumented immigrants.

I guess I better step on the gas and get work done on my house right now, before the (mostly-MAGA-voting) contractors can no longer get any workers. Probably a good time to stockpile food too, before crops are rotting in the fields because of a lack of workers.

I guess I’d better put a halt to getting old too, before long-term care facilities run out of staff and shut their doors.

Within minutes of showing up, a twenty-something software engineer dispatched from DOGE began demanding access

I’m in software and I can guarantee you these punks are absolutely reveling in the feeling that they’re the “elite” because Leon likes them and picked them to do all this world-shattering demolition work. He wouldn’t have tapped them if they weren’t elite, if they weren’t 1% hackers, right? Oh and they’ll surely be in charge of the design and implementation of the Leon-approved Government 2.0 systems, work that only they, the best of the best, could possibly do! Incel no more!

The new IT stuff, assuming it’s ever implemented, will all collapse. I can’t wait for MAGA/Leon to kick them to the curb once he’s done using them for wrecking and intimidation and they get to go back to unemployment and incel-hood.