03-03-2025, 08:01 PM
Once upon a time, I steadfastly believed that at some point, desperate people in the west would unite to fend off a common foe. The deep state of course. Now, unfortunately, I no longer harbor such pipe dreams. Not that this is any kind of sudden revelation no, it's been years in the making, all really I'm making mention of is that even though for some time I've realized this was one of the delusions that I've been forced to release to the four winds as the journey continued.
And since that time of release, real world evidence only continues to mount in favor of that life altering, moment in time decision. You know once I had gotten a good long look at what Zionism really is post October 7 and how that sickness permeates our culture, I was (yet again) mistaken in assuming I was beholding our lowest of lows.
But no, almost like witnessing the opening of Pandora's Box, the hits just keep on coming. Now I'm seeing large swats of my home culture recoil in horror over an attempt to end a horrible war in Ukraine. It's like we just can't get enough of seeing other people's children die on the altar of us feeling better about ourselves. It truly sickens me all over again, the old one two punch.
Was a time when the (so called) left in this country protested against war, now its protesting for it. There's a quote by the self educated former slave Fredrick Douglas that I like:
"I would unite with anybody to do right and nobody to do wrong"
Look I don't harbor any illusions that Trump is somehow being altruistic in trying to wind this thing down, in fact I feel fairly certain that the only real reason is the leadership of this new faction in charge has made the final assessment that this attempt to weaken a rival great power has failed, that continuing on will only make matters worse, and they're cutting their losses. It's a business decision. Obviously this faction has an even bigger hate boner for China than the preceding faction had, and they're looking to truly pivot there, but Russia still stands in the way, and I fully expect them to re-address this loose end at the earliest opportunity. Just not now, as their figurehead states "they don't have the cards".
But for now, whether for the wrong reasons or not, and coming from an administration I despise just as much as the last one, a broken clock is still right twice a day and I'll fully support an end to the carnage if we can get there.
So coming back full circle on how this post began. If we can never even agree to basic facts about a terrible war, much less never agree that it needs to end like 5 minutes ago, then I see no hope for us. We have the MAGA cult on one side cheering on anything dear leader does even when it's not in their own interest, and a resistance cult on the other side so full of blind rage that they'd just assume see a terrible war kept going, just because their enemy wants it to end.
Never the two shall meet, and between them that makes up just about all of us. And I believe that's by design, but knowing about it does nothing to change it. Just like watching a slow motion train wreck.
And since that time of release, real world evidence only continues to mount in favor of that life altering, moment in time decision. You know once I had gotten a good long look at what Zionism really is post October 7 and how that sickness permeates our culture, I was (yet again) mistaken in assuming I was beholding our lowest of lows.
But no, almost like witnessing the opening of Pandora's Box, the hits just keep on coming. Now I'm seeing large swats of my home culture recoil in horror over an attempt to end a horrible war in Ukraine. It's like we just can't get enough of seeing other people's children die on the altar of us feeling better about ourselves. It truly sickens me all over again, the old one two punch.
Was a time when the (so called) left in this country protested against war, now its protesting for it. There's a quote by the self educated former slave Fredrick Douglas that I like:
"I would unite with anybody to do right and nobody to do wrong"
Look I don't harbor any illusions that Trump is somehow being altruistic in trying to wind this thing down, in fact I feel fairly certain that the only real reason is the leadership of this new faction in charge has made the final assessment that this attempt to weaken a rival great power has failed, that continuing on will only make matters worse, and they're cutting their losses. It's a business decision. Obviously this faction has an even bigger hate boner for China than the preceding faction had, and they're looking to truly pivot there, but Russia still stands in the way, and I fully expect them to re-address this loose end at the earliest opportunity. Just not now, as their figurehead states "they don't have the cards".
But for now, whether for the wrong reasons or not, and coming from an administration I despise just as much as the last one, a broken clock is still right twice a day and I'll fully support an end to the carnage if we can get there.
So coming back full circle on how this post began. If we can never even agree to basic facts about a terrible war, much less never agree that it needs to end like 5 minutes ago, then I see no hope for us. We have the MAGA cult on one side cheering on anything dear leader does even when it's not in their own interest, and a resistance cult on the other side so full of blind rage that they'd just assume see a terrible war kept going, just because their enemy wants it to end.
Never the two shall meet, and between them that makes up just about all of us. And I believe that's by design, but knowing about it does nothing to change it. Just like watching a slow motion train wreck.
"FOLLOW THE EVIDENCE, WHEREVER IT LEADS" SOCRATES