Today's Fellow Travelers

There's gotta be a Poe's Law probability here, but I can't find it.

Here's a bit from the website of Jayme Liardi (the guy in the video):

Ragnarök Now
Ragnarök
The Twilight of the Gods
The End of Times
Or perhaps
Just the beginning
It was prophesied by the ancestors, by our ancestors
That our world would indeed end;
But
What they also have said, is that our world would indeed be reborn
Better than before
This is Ragnarök Now
Mother Europe stands at her darkest hour
Sons of Odin
Warriors of Christ
This is indeed your battle
You can embrace your destiny
And become a part of the greatest battle the world has ever seen
We must become that which our enemies hate
We must become united
We must become clean
We must become strong
And formidable
That is your duty

It goes on, but it doesn't get any better, which is to say it doesn't get any less Nazi-ish.

And here's a nice retweet from this guy:

White Children Deserve A Future Free From #WhiteGenocide. #WhiteMothersAreMagic #MothersDay #MothersDayWeekend pic.twitter.com/9EbEIPPdgC

— Ann Kelly (@LadyAodh) May 8, 2016

I won't call that one typical, but it ain't exactly rare either.

Questions?

hat tip = Mock Paper Scissors

Today's Tweet

UPDATE: DeKalb officer, indicted in shooting death of unarmed, naked vet, booked into jail. https://t.co/5X1IeozbqG pic.twitter.com/XgdsnJ7YV2

— AJC (@ajc) January 22, 2016

So which way do we go on this one?  

Blue Lives Matter? 
Khaki Lives Matter?  
Support The Troops?
Save Our Vets?

One faction of Uber-Patriots fighting against other factions of Uber-Patriots, and all of a sudden, it's like we don't even have a fucking country anymore.

VICE

Doing god's work, the folks at VICE are trying to show us all something that at least has some faint ring of truth to it.



Quick aside:
Isn't it interesting that so many of these Rebel Patriots crow about "both sides" being rotten, but their little militia-ness always seem to be in full flower only when the Dems hold power?

It's never about what they tell you it's about - "they" being Government or Business or Media or Political Activists.

The first corollary is that it's also never about what you think it's about.

All we can do is look at what information we can find - or whatever "they" allow us to see - and then gun it through our filters of experience and reason, trying to assess the probability that what we're observing is true or false or somewhere in between.

A couple of the smartest things I've heard anybody say in a while (Chris Hedges):

"Language is not benign - You have to get people to talk in the language of violence before they commit violence."

--and--

"Violence isn't gonna work.  Violence is a mistake.  The machine wants violence - it justifies further repression."

Also interesting is the view from inside this piece that there's a thread of truth that ties all of us together - the feeling of being alienated, used and abused, and disposable.  The trick now is to remember that most of us really do want the same things - in a broad and general sense - but we do; we want the same things.

Of course, we have to work out the details of how we go about getting what we want, and that's gonna take some serious attention to our absolute #1 Principle; the thing that lies at the very root of American Exceptionalism...compromise.

Figure it out, guys.  The only way you always get everything you want is to shoot everybody who disagrees with you, and that's not just rude, it's counterproductive, which makes it ineffective.  People have been trying to conquer the world in exactly that way for more than 500 centuries, and guess what - the world remains undefeated.

Ya sit down.  Ya have a drink.  Maybe a nosh.  And you work it the fuck out.