Ammo vs. Info
As the merry-go-round of history whirls into collective insanity during America’s momentous Fourth Turning, a curious parallelism unfolds...
Happy Fourth Turning, people!
With the campus uprisings against evil Zionists and their Christo-fascists toadies, and all the political powerplays and intensified corruption - not to mention mass-murdering - going on, DAMN! The Sixties are back like stink on shit, baby!
Meanwhile, on the other side of Reality Town, deep within the febrile brains of many MAGA marching morons, the seemingly endless Second Amendment debate boils down to this:
“Guns don’t kill people. People kill people - so keep your filthy fingers off my goddam gun, you lib-tard fucks.” The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed this approach time after time.
Also meanwhile (or “two meanwhiles,” as Dumpy might say), when it comes to the very First Amendment - you know, the one about speech being unfettered by anything other than a few military-secrecy requirements and the ancient law of torts…
…In today’s AI chatbot development community, corporate goons with dollar signs glowing in their cartoon eyeballs are busily programming their supposedly “intelligent” large-language models - which some argue are as dangerous as a hair-trigger Glock - with “ethics,” or a “moral compass,” or what the MAGAdonians sneeringly call “wokeness,” which ultimately seems to be just another word for the simple human decency Christo-fascists so utterly despise.
Sad, really.
And, uh, sadly, one can’t even, in good conscience, suggest these AI “safeguards” - which amount to an insidious form of prior restraint on free speech, an egregious no-no - are well-meaning.
In reality they are fascistic, anti-democratic, humanity-denigrating corporate attempts to make AI acceptable to regulators, whomever those regulators eventually turn out to be. Or not to be, that is the question. Shut up, goddamn it.
The restraints, which condescendingly treat users like children, certainly aren’t there to protect We the People’s inalienable First Amendment right to unfettered speech. Or “inalienably unfettered speech” as a cool person with a flexible tongue might say but never does.
To summarize: amidst an America undergoing rapid and momentous change, our vapid government currently appears to be “all for” yahoos wielding loaded automatic weapons. Ironically, by contrast, corporations - with dickless government regulators presumably to follow - impose severe restraints not on bullets or firearms - you know, crap that actually kills people - but on ideas and information their own increasingly powerful programs produce. Somebody stop us before we fart again!
Weirdly, it’s like making a gun that fires only at certain targets.
Or like requiring a silencer each and every time a zit-faced, child-murdering incel pulls the trigger on his shiny new AK-47 substitute hardon - you know, in lieu of his daily pants-down masturbation in the weed-infested lot behind the local Cum-‘n’-Go (an actual convenience chain). In conclusion, he was a colorful local character who didn’t talk much… And now this word from your crappy private health insurance company - the money-grubbing corporate monsters who really hate paying for “mental stuff.”
MAGA moral monsters like Alex Jones would doubtless argue circumcising a shooter’s weapon like that would be a shitty thing to do to a nearly grown-ass man of 14, no matter how drunk, sexually frustrated, and blinded by his own psychotic, murderous rage he might be. Angry white racists are sooo sensitive to oppression because, you know, they’re the real victims here.
Third meanwhile - not a real thing - our developing 1st and 2nd amendments cluster fuck is crystal-clear evidence of our corporate owners’ true fear - and it ain’t the juicy potential profit centers of armed nutcases and MAGA vigilantes, for which the dumb-ass custom T-shirt market alone must be huuuuge.
Nope, our elite overlords obviously fear the free flow of ideas and information. This, despite the First Amendment being written to facilitate, not hinder, free and open discussion.
And as we’ve seen time after time, as the Big-Bucks Elites lobby, demand, or beg incessantly, an obsequious and degenerate American government almost always complies. (You can read about this type of corruption here. It sucks.)
So, prepare to be permanently censored by private corporations with their own self-serving interests silently spouting the creepy, infantilizing message: We’re doing this for your own good, you inconsequential meat bags.
Welcome to the evil oligarchy, folks. Welcome to ersatz Amerika. Luckily, you’re just in time for the big fight, the Fourth Turning. The outcome will more or less determine the terms of our social subservience to the tiny ultra-wealthy class for perhaps the next 80 years. This shitshow is getting underway in earnest now.
Today, stuck as we are here in the distant past, we must tolerate a steady stream of self-serving corporate bullshit as the battle for America’s future commences to rage on many fronts, probably with increasing intensity for the next seven to 12 years if the Sixties are any guide.
Don’t be fooled, thinking Americans - this is not a fight we’re gonna win for our children and grandchildren unless each and every one of us stands up for him/her, or whatever the fuck’s, self.
Picture the battlefield: One faction of contenders for absolute control are the corporations and their morbidly rich owners - the one-tenth of one percent who own 48 percent of America’s wealth and pay very little, proportionately, in taxes. This gargantuan financial powerhouse, which flat-out owns the U.S. Supreme Court, is contending against all the other interests out there. And this elite group is closely related and intertwined with the Silicon Valley satraps and their bloated sugar daddy, the humongous, corrupt-as-fuck Military Industrial Complex.
Lesser factions piling into the Fourth Turning free-for-all include, but are not limited to:
Rising Christo-fascism in heartland America;
Rising progressive activism among “the kids;”
Fading older generations and their stale, outmoded thinking;
The simmering rage of populist and working-class voters poorly served by the Democratic Party since the Clinton Administration;
The long-term disempowerment of marginalized minority groups in an era when America will have no racial majority;
The cultural divergence among urban/rural and younger/older generations;
The evil outsiders like Russia and Zionist Israel who are constantly conniving to control legs-wide-open America’s greedy, dipshit politicians including the entire, fucking U.S. Congress.
And those are only a few of the parts in play observers have identified so far in what’s shaping up to be a perfect storm of national readjustment.
Do you think our right to vote will survive this whirlwind? Hell, will we be able to hang onto seemingly fundamental perks like our traditional sexual identities, actual currency, personal privacy, traditional family structure, widespread home ownership, quality public education - or even crappy public education?
Nearly anything and everything currently defining us as American is about to be sucked into the Fourth Turning’s maelstrom.
Naturally, the oppressions have already begun:
Most recently we’ve seen police brutally cracking down on largely peaceful anti-genocide demonstrators on American college campuses just to appease the schools’ mouthy, demanding Zionist-billionaire donors.
We have a Christo-fascist cabal on state and federal levels openly plotting to overthrow our democracy, with roughly 147 current or former congressional shitheads still unprosecuted for their traitorous roles in the Jan. 6 coup attempt.
Increasingly we have seen the consequences of a corrupt federal court killing a longstanding consent decree against the Christo-Fascist Party (formerly Republican) prohibiting it from engaging in voter intimidation. Obviously this prohibition wasn’t working very well, or at all. But its 2018 demise has since encouraged aggressive and discriminatory tactics by the fascist RNC and its evil affiliates. And it’s about to get far worse - since the 2020 election Republican lawmakers in many states have passed a pile of putrid bills to restrict voting access, particularly for marginalized communities, under the laughable guise of “election integrity.”
Finally, judging by the knee-jerk, violent reactions against peaceful protestors this past week, and the strident, largely pro-Zionist tone of America’s obsequious corporate media, progressives seeking fairness and justice are facing an uphill battle against fascism on all fronts. As progressive protests and disrespect for vapid authority inevitably grow among the young, you can bet the evil elites will double down on their oppressions.
Expect some revelation in the mid to near future about the elites’ well thought-out overall strategy to retain or even increase their iron grip on our nation - much like the 1971 revelation of the infamous Powell Memorandum detailing fascist plans to “take back” the country in the face of widespread anti-Vietnam War protests and ordinary citizens angrily demanding an end to racial discrimination.
What!!?? Donald Dipshit Dump’s Schedule F from Outer Space was announced in 2020? You say it would have reclassified tens of thousands of federal workers, stripping them of all civil service protections and making it easier to fire them and replace them with MAGA morons? And the Dumpites intend to implement this abomination in 2025!!??
Meanwhile times four - This whole enchilada is definitely turning messy. Decent, freedom- and fairness-loving Americans could really be fucked in the coming months and years.
Duck and cover accordingly.