Great Darkness Foretold
A tightly-wound progressive gentleman offers lifestyle advice:
It all sounds terribly exciting.
Leftist shares his plan if Trump wins this election. This is a whole new level of delusion… pic.twitter.com/BYYqVAL8T9
— Amala Ekpunobi (@amalaekpunobi) October 26, 2024
Update, via the comments:
Martin D adds, not unfairly,
Ah, yes, but there’s a sweet role to play, a self-flattering psychodrama to enact. Or as Mr Muldoon puts it,
And regarding the prospect of Our Betters being forced into some terrified silence, Eagle quips,
That was, I think, the bit that really strained credulity. The idea that Agitated Chappie and his radical comrades could ever inhibit their compulsion to announce their own superiority at every opportunity. It was a stretch, even compared to the implication that the streets would soon be patrolled by some Trumpian Sturmabteilung.
I mean, despite the alleged peril, the risk of being chased into the sea or imprisoned in a camp, Agitated Chappie couldn’t resist videoing his latest commands and then posting them on social media, where his oppressors might discover them. And should Mr Trump win the election, do we think Agitated Chappie will follow his own advice – his emphatic advice – and delete all of his social media accounts?
How would he signal his superiority then? How would we know how much better than us he is?
Via Protein Wisdom.
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@aelfheld, who said:
They always do.
Right up until they have what I’ve christened their “Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin moment”, and find themselves “saying the words”: “There they go, and I must follow them, for I am their leader…”
Ya start things, you have precisely zero guarantees for where they’re gonna go, or how it will all end up. I do believe that the rocket scientists of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge thought they were in charge of it all, until they found themselves joining the glasses-wearing class in the prisons. I haven’t seen the stats on it, but from what I’ve heard, the Khmer Rouge cadre wound up contributing heavily to the death toll, quite the same way that Robespierre did.
Revolutions always, always eat their young. A lesson that few revolutionaries ever recognize…
Oh hey. That was me.
I’m not near as forceful in my prose since I got my glucose under control. Funny, that.
Regarding leadership, I just re-ran across this from a book by Eisenhower on his WWII leadership experiences.
Obvious two-tier “justice” doesn’t help things, either.
Kate Steinle was murdered; her killer walks free, acquitted of murder.
The man who invaded the home of Nancy Pelosi and beat her husband with a hammer, under questionable circumstances? He’s been sentenced to life imprisonment.
Lesson’s clear, folks… Murder a prole, get set free after less than a decade. Beat a connected man up, of the wrong sort? Life in prison, no parole.
The clear signal is sent: The life of Kate Steinle is valueless; the life of an illegal alien and a criminal is not to be blighted, but if you dare to lay hands on someone of the elite, you’re going to rot behind bars for the rest of your life. He should count himself lucky that it wasn’t a capital sentence.
You have to marvel at their utter lack of self-awareness, their oblivious attitude towards how it all looks to the normies. Watch this space; you won’t like what happens here.
They. Know. And. They. Don’t. Care.
They’re Cluster B nightmares — sociopaths and malignant narcissists — who thrive on power and domination. Having a two-tier system of justice is thrilling to them, because they know exactly how badly they’re screwing us and how well-protected they are. They luxuriate in it. They drink our tears and find them delicious.
Heh. We really gave the assumptions of Star Trek a good chewing.
The cases that scare the living snot out of me are the ones like you often find in Central America, where some idjit starts a rumor of something, like “They’re kidnaping kids for organ donation!!!”, and then go looking for some stranger to kill
How do you mean “Central America”? Recall from the prior thread the entire police force of a major Canadian city conspired to destroy the lives of 50 citizens for crimes that hadn’t actually happened, driving two of them to suicide. And got away with it for four years, because anyone who so much as peeped was accused in the press of being at least an apologist for p*d*ph*les.
Part of the reason the p*d* hunter videos are concerning is that the accusation alone is enough to cause people’s brains to fall out the back of their head and react violently. People have (and should have) a visceral reaction to threats against children; that can be weaponized, and has been.
Heh. For a second there I thought you were about to reference the many churches that were burned in Canada because someone interpreted tree root images as a mass graveyard of Native American victims.
Yet they aren’t the problem. As numerous as they are they themselves have little power without a whole lot of others supporting them. These people have plenty of assistance both directly via their aides and sycophants, and especially indirectly from the brainwashed masses who vote for them.
That’s why it’s so important that the justice system is seen to effectively catch these people and deal with them harshly. If that happens these videos will be less popular, and vigilantism would be unnecessary.
@Daniel Ream
McMartin Preschool anyone?
@Daniel Ream, who said:
Different sort of thing than what I’m referring to. The case you’re talking about happened under the color of law, and served to tear down the judicial system once it got out.
In Central America, it was more a traditional mob-action sort of affair; the people involved were not involved in the judicial system, and acted mostly because they perceived the absence of such a thing.
Injustice in both cases, but the one stemmed from a system-sanctified action and the other was people acting in the absence of a system. Very different things, in that regard.
In the case that I think you’re referring to, eventual end-states meant that people were prosecuted for malfeasance and innocents released. When the mob acts, as in Central America, you don’t generally have survivors. When the system breaks down here, it’ll be the same, with minor differences of execution.
I think that an astute social scientist could likely make a study of it, with equations, demonstrating that once a certain amount of faith in the social structure is reached, it’s all over but the burials. We’re getting damn close; you’ll know we are there when stores start putting in security guards that kill shoplifters with effective impunity. See “Brazil” for examples of where we’re going.
Oh, and thank a Democrat for me, while you’re at it. Along with the odd collaborationist Republican that’s been going along to get along for the last few generations. They are the authors, here; they should get proper attribution. And, precisely zero approbation along with it.
Has the world always been *this* full of absolute twats?
I mean, people used to have serious lives, did they not? Even annoying fucksticks had something real to complain about….right?
Cuz, DAMN, this is some weak-ass shit right here.
If you solve the real problems, fucksticks must complain about unreal problems.
In the case that I think you’re referring to, eventual end-states meant that people were prosecuted for malfeasance and innocents released
No. The OIC was forced to resign and the constables in the unit were re-assigned. That was it. I don’t even know if any lawsuits were filed by the families of the men who committed suicide.
Not one of the convictions was voided, not a single police officer was so much as charged. I was somewhat adjacent to these cases, assisting a lawyer with some of the technical/computer aspects, and he said repeatedly that the cases were so transparently flimsy that they could not have proceeded without the knowing complicity of at least the Crown Attorneys and multiple judges (he caused quite a kerfuffle in court defending one of the cases by accusing the Crown Attorney of committing perjury to influence the sentencing and provided incontrovertible proof on the spot. Want to guess what happened to the Crown Attorney?) Like the Satanic Ritual Abuse hoax, it was simply too big for justice to ever be done. And two men are dead.