{"id":9928,"date":"2016-11-16T08:30:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T16:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=9928"},"modified":"2016-11-16T08:48:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T16:48:10","slug":"oh-and-yes-this-is-going-to-be-a-thing-for-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/16\/oh-and-yes-this-is-going-to-be-a-thing-for-a-while\/","title":{"rendered":"oh and yes, this is going to be a thing for a while"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like everyone else, I wanted all this to go away for a while after this hellhouse of an election was over. And historically, I’ve kept most<\/em> of my political stuff off the band blog, only getting into it when it was specifically within and about geek culture.<\/p>\n

But given the fundamentalist policy influx I’ve already discussed<\/a>, now supplemented by newer and creepier moves like ideological tests for higher education<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I actually have something I would use the Department of Education to do,” Carson explained. “It would be to monitor our institutions of higher education for extreme political bias and deny federal funding if it exists.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

…and bringing in people like Peter Thiel<\/a>, who famously kinda hates elections and democracy and thinks everything has gone to hell since women started voting<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I must confess that over the last two decades, I have changed radically on the question of how to achieve these goals. Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible. … Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women \u2014 two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians \u2014 have rendered the notion of \u201ccapitalist democracy\u201d into an oxymoron.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

…and the inclusion of white nationalist anti-semitic misogynists like Steve Bannon at the top level of the new administration<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Now, you may be asking what I would have women replace the [birth control] Pill with, since it\u2019s obviously so awful. Condoms? Vasectomies? The answer is: nothing. We need the kids if we\u2019re to breed enough to keep the Muslim invaders at bay.<\/p>\n

The solution to online ‘harassment’ is simple: women should log off. Given that men built the internet, along with the rest of modern civilisation, I think it\u2019s only fair that they get to keep it. I, Donald Trump and the rest of the alpha males will continue to dominate the internet without feminist whining.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

…that’s not really an option anymore.<\/p>\n

I mean, Mr. Bannon in particular is a vicious piece of work. It’s not just that he made Breitbart a propaganda vehicle for the “~~alt-right~~” clusterfuck of racism, anti-Semitism, and misogyny<\/a>, but if that wasn’t cartoonish enough, he literally has the endorsement of the literal fucking American Nazi Party<\/a>, NO, REALLY:<\/p>\n

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Chairman of the American Nazi Party, Rocky J. Suhayda, who wrote a post after Trump’s election night victory celebrating it as a call to action, said he was surprised at the pick of Bannon, but said it showed him Trump could follow through on his campaign promises.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And it’s not like Trump and Bannon don’t know the arc of this path either. Bannon in particular wants to destroy everything so they can take over<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Trump<\/a>: \u201cYou know what solves it?\u201d [Mr. Trump] said of America\u2019s sorry state. \u201cWhen the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell and everything is a disaster. Then you\u2019ll have a [chuckles], you know, you\u2019ll have riots to go back to where we used to be when we were great.\u201d
 
Bannon<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019m a Leninist,\u201d Bannon proudly proclaimed… \u201cLenin,\u201d he answered, \u201cwanted to destroy the state, and that\u2019s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today\u2019s establishment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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I should’ve paid more attention when the fundamentalist right started quoting Stalin without irony a few years ago. That should’ve twigged me more than it did. I thought it would marginalise them completely, and talked about it like that, saying, “wow, they’ve really gone off into the woods,” but goddammit, instead they’ve found their white supremacist leadership cadre, have allied with actual fucking Nazis<\/em>, have taken the offer the devil offered Jesus<\/a> (by 81% – they didn’t even hesitate), and are going for it<\/em>.<\/p>\n

DON’T NORMALISE THIS. DON’T LET THIS BE NORMALISED. THAT WILL BE TRIED, DON’T LET IT HAPPEN. THIS IS NOT NORMAL, THIS WAS A DECLARATION OF WAR<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And unless you’re heading overseas, you don’t get to opt out. And maybe not even then.<\/p>\n

Am I scaring you? WRONG.<\/b> I’m<\/eM> not scaring you, the facts<\/em> are scaring you. The situation<\/em> is scaring you. And go ahead, be scared. That’s fine.<\/p>\n

But do not be intimidated<\/em>. Do not be paralysed<\/em>. Fear is a great<\/em> motivator if you don’t let it control you, and now is the time when you need to control it<\/em> – and translate that energy into action.<\/p>\n

I’ll talk more about that soon. We need to go after media that tries to pretend this is normal, and provide “balanced” coverage of THE ACTUAL FASCISTS, like they’re already doing with Bannon. We need to go after politicians who try to deny the white supremacy, the misogyny, the anti-Semitism, like Trump transition team leader Reince Priebus, who says, “I haven’t seen any of these things” out of Mr. Bannon. (HEY REINCE, I’VE GOT A HANDY LIST.) When they start the sweeps going after people<\/a>, don’t call that normal<\/eM> either.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf [Mr. Trump] wants to deport two to three million people, he\u2019s got to rely on tactics that will divide communities and create fear throughout the country,\u201d said Kevin Appleby, the senior director of international migration policy at the Center for Migration Studies of New York. \u201cHe would have to conduct a sweep, or raids or tactics such as those, to reach the numbers he wants to reach. It would create a police state, in which they would have to be aggressively looking for people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Fight this police state bullshit; completely refuse to co-operate on any level<\/em>, and tell your cities and states and schools to do the same. Fight it, fight everything like<\/em> it, fight everyone who is for<\/eM> it, because in the end there is no<\/eM> middle ground with fascists, with white supremacists, with proud misogynists, because there is no<\/em> civil discourse with people who have decided that you are not people<\/em>. In dispensing with the idea of ‘loyal opposition,’<\/a> they’ve run themselves all the way to the brink, so far along the crumbling edge of the cliff that they’ve made their with-us-or-against-us vision of the world actually come true.<\/p>\n


this is the neofascist “alt-right”‘s vision for you<\/a><\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

Ally with anyone who backs off that precipice. Try to peel off the underinformed, the automatic party-identify voters, the low-information, the unaware. Pull back everyone you can. But the true believers, the Trumpian alt-right base?<\/p>\n

It’s them, and it’s everybody else. If they can fling us to our deaths off that cliff, they will. And they’ll enjoy it.<\/p>\n

Fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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