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ONE POSSIBLE WWIII OUTCOME: THE DESTRUCTION OF THE UNITED STATES???

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The Destruction of the United States

Projected by our Computer

I have often been asked why the media never runs a story on our computer, the ONLY Artificial Intelligence computer with a real track record of over 40 years, predicting every major shift in the world economy and even targeting Ukraine years in advance. The truth? The media is bought and paid for. They aren't interested in actually helping society or seeking the truth. They are pawns for the agenda.

The media refuses to discuss Socrates because it goes against their narrative. I’ve warned those in power about the impending chaos, but they ignore it. I have to accept the future and prepare. The truth is, the American Neocons always want war. They've taken control of the Democratic Party, which explains why Republican Neocons are endorsing Kamala Harris, including figures like Dick Cheney. Make no mistake, this isn’t about party politics—it's about power and control.

The West will lose this war. Just as WWI moved the financial capital from Britain to New York, WWIII will move it to Beijing. The United States will shatter into regions because the media has driven such hatred between the LEFT and the RIGHT. There is no longer any unity.

Biden has consulted with Israel about attacking Iran's nuclear facilities—a move that could spark a catastrophe far beyond expectations. Russia and China will respond, and if you needed any more proof that war is imminent, just look at Dick Cheney endorsing Kamala. These people want war and they have lost every single one since WWII. Washington is too corrupt; nobody will stop them because they’re all lining their pockets with blood money.

The Neocons belong on trial for their crimes. These so-called Republicans have no qualms about sending Americans to die for their vendettas. The 2024 election isn’t about leadership—it’s about World War III. Adam Kinzinger, who was kicked out of office, endorsing Kamala Harris only confirms it. This is a power play, and it will be the last true election. They will do anything to keep control—open borders, lawsuits against Trump, keeping RFK Jr. off the ticket. This is the endgame.

Biden was never going to be the candidate. The media put on a show to prove his incompetence, paving the way for Kamala. For the first time, we have a candidate who was never elected by the people. Kamala is a puppet, the Neocons’ choice to sign whatever they put in front of her.

We’ve already seen two assassination attempts on Trump. The second would-be assassin survived, but the government will ensure no trial ever happens. Just like JFK, secrets buried forever. The media has sold our country down the tubes, dividing the population to the point where nothing can be salvaged. This country has crossed the red line.

The LEFT always paints themselves as victims, but they are out for total control. History shows that when they seize power, they use it to destroy their enemies. They don’t run countries for the people, they run them for power. That’s why civilizations rise and fall. We can never have extended peace under these conditions.

The LEFT wants to change everything—the courts, the laws, the very foundations of our country. They hate capitalism but don’t mind using corporate power to crush dissent. They are anti-religion, and their obsession with abortion and control shows their rejection of any higher morality.

The media has poisoned this country. They have created such hatred between both sides that there’s no resolution. This isn’t just politics—this is the collapse of America. It’s happening before our eyes, and the Marxist ideas that are being pushed will destroy us from within. There is no uniting this country anymore. Prepare for what's coming.

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an update on what the fuck is going on in ukraine, for the ignorant [24feb22]

[part 1, 23feb22 here]

Mere hours after I posted the above part 1, it was made out of date. Putin ordered a further invasion of Ukrainian sovereign soil, launching at least 100 missiles from Russia, Belarus, and the water to various points in Ukraine.

[map below from NYTimes]

Using Crimea as a launching point, Russian forces have pushed into Ukraine near Kherson. Amphibious troops landed at the port city of Odesa. From Russia, troops have fought outside of Kharkiv and are moving toward the capital, Kyiv. You can see from this map that there are airstrikes or attacks as far west as Lviv. While Putin claims that only military installations are being targeted, at least one apartment building in/near Kharkiv was destroyed. Airfields and airports were targeted by strikes, presumably to make it easier to transport infantry further inside the borders.

For expanded reasons, it is also worrying that Russian troops have gained control of the entirety of the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

It is clear, with movement toward Kyiv, that Putin's purpose is decapitation of the Ukrainian government and replacement with a Russian puppet ruler.

So what has the West done in retaliation? Here is a list of actions taken (not complete, probably):

The UN Security Council plans to vote tomorrow [25Feb22] on a resolution condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine and calling for an immediate and unconditional withdrawal of its troops. [source]

Next week, the UN General Assembly is expected to vote on a resolution condemning Russia's aggression. This is a non-binding resolution. [ibid]

Economic sanctions, including collective and individual sanctions by a variety of countries targeting Russian institutions, enterprises, and people. [ibid]

From the US: United States will cut off Russia's 5 largest banks and largest companies from western financial markets, restrict exports of technology to Russia, freeze trillions of dollars in Russian assets (including those of oligarchs and their families), and send more troops to Eastern European countries in the NATO alliance. [source]

These are not the most aggressive sanctions, which leaves room to apply more pressure if Putin does not back down. [ibid]

Please remember, this is Putin's war, not the war of the Russian people. The people of Russia will suffer because of this war. Over six hundred Russians have been arrested for protesting the war. At least 40 Ukrainians have been killed, this number a mixture of civilians and military. We are in early days yet and so this number will grow if it hasn't already.

What will happen next? We do not know, except that Putin is not likely to stop until he has captured his target(s). Beware of Russian propaganda. Please see my pinned post for two reliable Twitter lists.

I've posted this at 5:46pm EST.

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My #1 post of 2022

"the fuck is happening in ukraine??" for the ignorant [23feb22]

THIS IS NOT EXHAUSTIVE. I have left out happenings. As I typed this more movement was reported. This is happening NOW.

Here is a map of Ukrainian oblasts (regions)

Direct your eyeballs to the eastern (that's on the right of the map) oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk. These two oblasts make up the Donets Coal Basin, or Donbas region, of Ukraine. coal coal coal.

Hold them in your mind.

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samedmunds · 3 years ago

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My litany thoughts on 1999 cult classic strategy video game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

Alpha Centauri is a game of the early Civilization variety from the EA golden age and ranks very highly in my top ten. While you probably heard of it if you were playing video games around the turn of the century, I've found members of my age cohort to be tragically unfamiliar with this masterpiece.

Alpha Centauri is an unofficial sequel to Civilization II, a game where the only way to way to win is either completely eliminate all competitors to the last city or, rather more easily, send a spaceship loaded with colonists to the title star system. Shortly after leaving home, the ship loses contact with Earth, which would make sense to a player of Civilization II where the bonuses to science and trade from democracies evaporate when technology ends, upon which point all the AIs revolt and become militant fundamentalist theocracies and climate change rapidly destroys the planet, leaving the player with an endgame that is literally 1984. Either way, when the already strained ship arrives at the Alpha Centauri system an unknown partisan assassinates the captain of the UNS Unity and the population fractures into seven opposing factions before firing the colony pods and exploring an inconveniently hostile planet.

The player starts here, in typical Civ fashion: a scout, settler, and absolutely no technology to speak of. That isn't to say you are a bunch of primitives, all your units start out with some approximation to modern guns and judging by the amazing quotes and wonder videos your society is well beyond the 21st century--more on the story later. The gameplay is incredibly well-balanced in spite of its age and quirks (with the exception of the freight-train progression of Yang). Rapid early expansion as the bountiful Peacekeepers may leave you at serious risk to the relentlessly martial Spartans, who are in turn threatened by the uber-specialized technocratic University--but be careful to underestimate the backwards Lord's Believers, their probe teams will just as quickly rob you of your gains. The Morganites can afford to sparsely defend their home if they're willing to pay off their aggressors, but they'll struggle expand over great swaths of territory without irking civil unrest drone riots from corruption. Meanwhile the Gaian Acolytes can harness the permanently-dangerous mindworms to great effect from the beginning of the game. Yang just... builds. And keeps building, and next thing you know he's conquered the Peacekeepers and turned Miriam into nothing more than a puppet and where are all these cruise missiles are coming from?

In short, the strategic design of this game is nothing less than a work of art, but that isn't to say it doesn't have its anachronisms. The User Interface has taken its inspiration from early versions of Microsoft Word and it rapidly pays off to know the hotkeys. The wonder videos are resolution locked and can sometimes cause problems depending on your display configuration. The unit creation system is simultaneously wonderful and horrendous. It allows me to create special long-range nerve gas bombers that eradicate cities shortly before orbitally-dropping specially-trained garrisons to quash all resistance. On the other hand, if you do not accept the cumbersome slew of computer-generated options, keeping your new weapons systems up to date with your latest technology (especially when playing as Zakharov) rapidly becomes a chore.

That said, there are a variety of features in the game that I think deserve to make a reappearance in the Civ Games. The pick-your-government system is incredibly balanced and fun to roleplay. You can't get away with crimes against humanity when solar storms hit in Civilization VI, nor can you weaponise climate change to flood your rivals cities, or strategically terraform to alter weather patterns and deny your neighbors arable land. At the bare minimum, we should be given the option to nerve staple rebelling cities when our control runs out!

All that said, there is also the story to contend with. One is at first tempted to think that a 4x strategy game with a marked emphasis on replayability would necessarily have a tacked-on story, if one at all. After all, the point is for the player to create it through their actions, not have it spoonfed to them. The majority of what you learn about your world that isn't printed in numbers and small pictures on the mapscreen is through blurbs that accompany each discovered technology or new building. The aforementioned wonders even have their adorable early-CG renderings, sometimes mixed in with some experimental film footage. There are occasional interludes that describe the mindworms and machinations of Planet, but the bulk of the wordage comes from epigrams of the faction leaders and the occasional bit of Nietzsche or Plato. It's so good that I can't help but stop and listen to CEO Nbwadibuke Morgan ramble on about supply chain economics or Sister Miriam's apocalyptic warnings every single time. Take some examples.

Proper care and education for our children remains a cornerstone of our entire colonization effort. Children not only shape our future; they determine in many ways our present. Men and women work harder knowing their children are safe and close at hand, and never forget that, with children present, parents will defend their home to the death!

--Col. Corazon Santiago, "Planet: A Survivalist's Guide"

Or perhaps, a more on the nose one:

"The Academician's private residences shall remain off-limits to the Genetic Inspectors. We possess no retroviral capability, we are not researching retroviral engineering, and we shall not allow this Council to violate faction privileges in the name of this ridiculous witch hunt!

--Fedor Petrov, Vice Provost for University Affairs Accompanies the Retroviral Engineering technology

The game often doesn't directly tell you what Retroviral engineering is, nor does it labor to explain just what having someone nerve stapled means, or the precise function of the Recycling Tanks, but through its quotation it beautifully circumlocutes the world you are shaping--and being shaped by. It really never pulls any of its punches, even if its just on Organic Superlube--great stuff--and I still catch muself quoting it regularly.

Ursula LeGuin once wrote

"Science fiction is often described, and even defined, as extrapolative. The science fiction writer is supposed to take a trend or phenomenon of the here-and-now, purify and intensify it for dramatic effect, and extend it into the future. 'If this goes on, this is what will happen.' [...] This may explain why many people who read science fiction describe it as 'escapist,' but when questioned further, admit they do not read it because 'it's so depressing.'"

Alpha Centauri is absolutely extrapolative fiction and very firmly rooted in the 1990s and I love it. It was released in the Aaron Sorkin TV, pre-9/11 days where the word Internet was more often than not followed by the words, "is like an information superhighway" and it absolutely no efforts are made to cover it up. The main factions are a cross-section of the New Millenium's hopes and anxieties. A New Russia that went a very different path before Putin took over, a cheerful clan of ruthless Western capitalists hellbent on putting Morganvision on every network set, a group of vaguely Scottish free-love peaceniks hellbent on defending the most-of-the-time incredibly hostile environment. There's the Second-Amendment preaching Spartans or the optimistically-influential UN which, judging by its naming scheme for its bases, seems to dedicate entire cities to bureaucratic agencies. The All-American Christian fundamentalists don't entirely butt heads with the frighteningly powerful Human-Hive (if your country calls their cities names like "Huddling of the People" and "Paradise Swarming" you might not be the good guys). The expansion also brings in more dynamic characters like the Information Wants to be Free! data angels Brian Reynolds very clearly came up with after watching Swordfish and Hackers back to back or the Nautilus Pirates who have no right to be as fun as they are.

The visions of the future are at once both anachronistic and prophetic; while elements may come off as cheese, I see it as a sort of window to the past, a way to examine what was once (and sometimes still is) on our mind. All in all, I give Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri 4 out of 5 stars and a definite all-time favorite, warts and all. You can pick it and its expansion up for $6 on Gog.com and play it through a built-in emulator that works for most systems. If you're willing to brave a dated interface and an older-fashioned gameplay style, I would definitely recommend it.

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96thdayofrage · 3 years ago

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During the 1960s, local police departments conspired with the FBI to create disunity and undermine the organizations of Black radical groups including the Nation of Islam. The Covert Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) was created by the FBI to surveil and disrupt left political organizations. FBI agents would send letters forging signatures to create rifts or exacerbate internal rifts in organizations.

In the FBI’s own words:

COINTELPRO—short for Counterintelligence Program—in 1956 to disrupt the activities of the Communist Party of the United States. In the 1960s, it was expanded to include a number of other domestic groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Socialist Workers Party, and the Black Panther Party. All COINTELPRO operations ended in 1971. Although limited in scope (about two-tenths of one percent of the FBI’s workload over a 15-year period), COINTELPRO was later rightfully criticized by Congress and the American people for abridging first amendment rights and for other reasons.

Malcolm X did not simply advocate for Black people to be self sufficient in their own communities and to support the NOI financially. Malcolm X preached against the bedrock of US capitalism: the philosophy of white supremacy. He challenged the belief that white people were “superior,” revealing in fact the horrific, violent, and hypocritical acts white people and a white-run government took against Black people, in particular Black people protesting in the Civil Rights Movement. He denounced pacifism because it was ineffective against attack dogs and murderous bigots. He advocated for Black people to demand their democratic rights “by any means necessary.” The FBI was determined to take him down and use the rift between him and NOI leader Elijah Muhammad to kill him. The film makes clear what many Black revolutionaries already knew: the NOI was a willing puppet of the FBI in the murder of Malcolm X. Their disagreement was used to kill Malcolm X and undermine their organization’s ability to radicalize outside the system.

This tactic would become commonplace for the FBI, CIA, and local police departments in destroying Black, left and socialist revolutionary organizations. FOIA files reveal systemic lies, misinformation, and even direct assassination of leaders to break revolutionary organizations like the Black Panthers, Black Liberation Army, American Indian Movement, Socialist Worker’s Party, Young Lords, Communist Party-USA, and many others. As revealed in the documentary, Malcolm X’s personal bodyguard was an informant for the police. The informant, Gene Roberts, gave Malcolm CPR as he lay dying on the floor of the ballroom.

“Leave Well Enough Alone”

The film is also about history, and if a person is redemptive, why tarnish their history? William Bradley, aka Al-Mustafa Shabazz, was allegedly discovered to be the actual lone gunman of Malcolm X. As the film maker Abdur Rahman Muhammad prepares to confront him face-to-face, he is suddenly informed that Al-Mustafa Shabazz is dead. Before he died, after leading a life of crimes, he converted to Islam and became a pillar in his community, setting up a boxing gym to train low income at risk youth. Local politicians came to his funeral. Even former Presidential hopeful Cory Booker spoke highly of him. Does that then absolve him of being questioned about his past?

The filmmaker suggests not only that Al-Mustafa Shabazz killed Malcolm X, but that elected officials suspected he was the murderer and allowed him to live freely as a “open secret.” Muslims interviewed in Newark also stated that because Shabazz had reformed his life, becoming a devout Muslim and contributing positively to the community, he should be absolved of his crime. Although it is clear in the documentary Abdur Rahman Muhammad is not satisfied with that reasoning, he leaves the question open-ended.

Malcolm X was an individual who went through personal and political changes in his life. His father, Earl Little, was run over by a trolley because he stood up to white supremacists. His mother was placed in a psychiatric hospital after her husband was murdered. Malcolm was split from his six brothers and sisters, growing up in foster homes. After being discouraged by a racist white teacher from becoming a lawyer (“An (n word) can’t be a lawyer. Become a carpenter”), Malcolm turned to a life of crime. After being in and out of jail, Malcolm Little was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison for burglary. While in prison, he was recruited and then joined the Nation of Islam. Often, the NOI has recruited and targeted people like Malcolm who are incarcerated.

Malcolm Little became Malcolm X, stating he did not know his ancestors’ actual last name because it was taken from them during enslavement. While in the NOI, Malcolm X denounced the racist US government and called for Black people to defend themselves against the Klan, bigots and police attacking Black people. He specifically polemicized to the youth of the Civil Rights Movement. Most of the movement agreed with pacifism. Malcolm X strongly denounced pacifism as a tool of oppressors, arguing that Black people were taught pacifism specifically to keep us from revolting from being enslaved to resisting segregation. Malcolm X’s political agitation grew the NOI membership. It also directly challenged the US government’s racist policies. There began to develop a rift between Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X. With COINTELPRO, the FBI infiltrated and exacerbated the division. Malcolm X had already begun to drift from the NOI when a long time friend and NOI member Ronald Stokes was murdered by the Los Angeles Police Department. Malcolm X called for revenge against the police, but he was told by the Nation of Islam not to strike back against the LAPD.

The division became an unofficial break when Malcolm X called the assassination of John F. Kennedy “Chickens Coming Home to Roost,” defying an order from Elijah Muhammad to be silent on the issue.

Malcolm X’s life went from reactionary, to radical, to revolutionary. When he stood alone from the organization that “rescued him from the wilderness,” he went further to Pan-Africanism and was even influenced by socialist groups like the Trotskyist Socialist Workers’ Party. Malcolm X spoke several times at the Militant Labor Forum organized in part by the SWP, stating that the Militant “was one of the best papers in New York City.” He also gave an interview to the SWP weeks before his death stating, “It is impossible for capitalism to survive… it is only a matter of time in my opinion before it will collapse completely.”Malcolm’s life parallels Trotsky’s life. Building an organization only to be betrayed by it. Working furiously knowing his days were numbered. The sharp speeches of dead men walking.

Malcolm X was assassinated because he was growing and gaining a following among the Black youth and working class. He was growing internationally. From religious to secular, from separatist to internationalist. The US capitalist, imperialist was determined to assassinate him.

Seeking Resolution

Film maker Abdur Rahman Muhammad did not stop at discovering who was the alleged killer of Malcolm. He also linked up with Muhammad Abdul Aziz, one of the three people charged with Malcolm’s murder who is still alive. The assassin who confessed waited until after Elijah Muhammad’s death and revealed the names of the four others. This also meant two people went to jail for crimes they didn’t commit. Further still, that the FBI knew these men were innocent and allowed them to spend most of their lives in jail. The other accused man, Khalil Islam but then known as Thomas 15X Johnson, died before he could be released and his name cleared.

Film maker Abdur Rahman Muhammad’s meeting with Abdul Aziz discussed filing a appeal for he and the late Khalil Islam to the exonerated. It was a sad reality when Aziz said the filmmaker could do what he wanted, but that he had no hope in anything coming of it. Why would he? The U.S. government knowingly stole 20 years of his life. Because he was in prison, it ruined relations with his family and estranged him from generations of his children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren because he “wasn’t there.” It seems to this author rather naive to believe that this government that routinely ruins lives and ends lives with sadistic glee is capable of “justice.” The system itself is based on injustice.

In a surprise twist, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office has decided to reopen the case of Malcolm X’s murder, possibly exonerating two of the three men convicted of his death. There are still dozens of political prisoners locked up behind trumped up charges. There are still millions locked up because they are poor, Black or Brown, and use illegal substances. Around the world, US imperialism continues to bomb, maime and terrorize people and their democratically elected governments for not towing the line. Even if because of pressure from this film, these men are exonerated (one posthumously), it would not make the system any more just.

We know who killed Malcolm X. It was the U.S. government. They even had an informant as Malcolm’s top bodyguard. The Nation of Islam, threatened by Malcolm’s power and unwillingness to be bought by the organizations financial success, were the ones who pulled the trigger. The documentary reveals first hand FBI accounts showing the depravity and fear of radical Black self organization. It is also about secrets kept and complicated histories. About the enduring importance of the truth and the complexities of that. It is a must-see to learn about the bold political life of Malcolm X and how a determined local Black Muslim historian changed the narrative of one of the most influential political leaders in U.S. history.

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Free book excerpt #32 from Author Rev. Paul J. Bern

Written in a journalistic, expose' style, this nonfiction book chronicles the ongoing demise of the US middle class and what pastor Bern calls, "the ticking time bomb of inequality". This prophetic 2011 book, now in its 4th edition, predicted the American people's demand for free health care, free higher education for everyone without qualification, an end to the Drug War that includes prison reform, repealing the federal income tax, and the need for a $15.00 per hour minimum wage. This Christian-based book (yes, it has Bible quotes) is a must-read for everyone who thinks America is headed in the wrong direction.

It is now clear to see that voting various senators and congressional representatives into and out of office, depending on who the incumbent candidate is, stopped working a long time ago. The system is broken down from age and misuse. No matter who is elected to office, they are only puppets being manipulated and controlled by corporate America and all their armies of lobbyists, who work behind the scenes in conjunction with the US military-industrial complex, the federal and state prison systems, and the so-called “war on drugs”, which is really another form of class warfare against minorities and the poor. In point of fact, every economic problem present in the US today that I have already reported on in this book, plus the war on drugs, are actually civil rights issues disguised as social or economic problems. This has been done deliberately and with sinister intent by the same cancerous rogue elements of the US government and intelligence establishments that were behind the Kennedy and King assassinations of the 1960's.

So what can we do if our peaceful revolution somehow doesn't succeed? What will happen if things stay the same as they are into the foreseeable future regardless of our best intentions? A couple of things I can definitely tell you will happen is that prices for all the basics will continue to rise until the cost of rent or a mortgage payment, a tank of gas, a weeks worth of groceries and our utility bills get so expensive that US workers' and retirees' monthly incomes fall well short of their minimum monthly expenses. And that is not counting the skyrocketing cost of higher education, medical care and prescriptions. What will happen if people can't buy fuel to get to work?

The ugly truth is that there are a troubling number of people out there who are already at this tipping point. In a country like the USA, it is inexcusable for our senior citizens to have to choose between their medicine and their groceries to keep from running out of money before the end of the month. In a country like the USA, we have sunk to a new low when inner city school children look forward to their taxpayer-funded free school lunch because it is their only daily meal. In a country like the USA, we have sunk to a new low when one in five homeless Americans is a veteran. We need to elect people to public office whose only focus is to fix these problems and all the others like them that I have previously written about.

But if all that still doesn't work, and if our situation as a united people continues to gradually get worse as is now the case, what will we do? What if we run out of options? We will need to have a plan 'B' in place in case of a worst possible scenario, and armed revolt is out of the question for reasons which I have already stated earlier in this book (although it must not be ruled out in matters of self-defense). Is there a way to simply retreat, to walk away and refuse to be a part of this rigged political and economic system that has us all enslaved, and does this kind of action have a legal precedent? The encouraging answer to both these questions is an enthusiastic yes. The solution is something borrowed from the pages of history, and I am talking about secession.

Kirkpatrick Sale of the Middlebury Institute recently observed that there is presently ”more attention being paid to secession than any time since 1865″ and predicts that “one of the American states will vote for its independence in the next 10-15 years.” Neo-secessionist sentiments are frequently stereotyped as a characteristic exhibited primarily by “right-wing extremists.” Yet there are serious reasons why moderates and progressives should consider secession. Among the most compelling reasons why concerned Americans should consider dissolving the U.S. into multiple nations, regions, or city-states are:

Break-up of the U.S.A. means an end to the American empire that has killed millions of people throughout the world over the last sixty-five years, including perhaps two million Iraqis, three million Southeast Asians, hundreds of thousands of Central Americans, half a million Timorese, hundreds of thousands of Afghanis, and many, many more.

Without the support of the U.S., international capitalist organizations such as the IMF, World Bank, WTO, etc. would be much less powerful and influential.

The collapse of the U.S. Federal Reserve system would mean an end to federal corporate-welfare, bank-welfare, and, above all, the death of the military-industrial complex.

No more federal regime means no more DHS, FBI, CIA, DEA, BATF, Bureau of Prisons, Bureau of Indian Affairs, federal drug war, federal mandatory minimums, or the national police state built up around the war on terrorism. What could be more successful at overturning the “terror war” legislation of the 2001-2017 years than complete disintegration of the federal government itself? Or maybe its economic system?

An end to federal corporate welfare means a severe weakening of Big Pharma, agribusiness, or local developers utilizing federal money in efforts at gentrification.

The disintegration of the U.S. means not only the end of federal drug prohibition but an end to U.S. support for the international drug war and the America-centric structure of international drug prohibition, thereby allowing other nations to develop more progressive policies on this matter.

The majority of the U.S. population resides in the 75 to 100 largest urban, metropolitan areas. If these areas – New York, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Chicago, Miami - were all independent city-states or micro-nations along the lines of Monaco, Luxembourg, or Singapore, genuine progressives would be in a much superior political position than at present. The major U.S. urban areas tend to be the most diverse culturally, racially, ethnically, and religiously. It is also in these areas where the majority of racial minorities, LGBTQ people, persons with counter-cultural values, and those with left-leaning political views tend to be concentrated. The majority of the unfortunate persons fed into the prison-industrial complex also originate from the large cities.

It would be immensely easier for independent city-states of this kind to enact, for instance, single-payer health care, legal same-sex marriage, stem cell research or a genuine living wage. Likewise, it would be much more possible to decriminalize, regulate and tax drugs, prostitution, gambling and other “consensual crimes” along the lines of New Zealand, Portugal, or the Netherlands at present. Such changes would severely weaken and undermine the police state and prison-industrial complex. The likely weakening of corporate power following the demise of federal and state corporate welfare would also provide a more level playing field for activists to take on landlords, developers, bankers, and other plutocratic interests on a municipal and regional level, and perhaps initiate economic alternatives like cooperatives, collectives, communes, land trusts, and so forth.

OK, so we know there is legal precedent for secession, except that if this is accomplished in the early 21st century we must do so peacefully instead of shelling Fort Sumter like they did back in 1861. But can the act of secession be maintained once it has been initiated? Once the seceded territory has been set up, organized, and its boundaries set, is there legal precedent to set up its own Constitutional legal system, to print its own money or introduce some other medium of exchange, and so to be free and independent from the rest of the US? Once again the encouraging answer is that there is legal precedent for this very thing that dates back to the early years of our country, and this legal precedent is called nullification. An example of this was introduced in the South Carolina General Assembly back in 2010 was House Bill 4509 (H4509), which would make law that “no public official of any jurisdiction may require registration of purchasers of firearms or ammunition within the boundaries of this State.” No caveat for regulations under the commerce clause. No caveat for types of firearms either. This bill says NO to all gun registrations – period. The principle behind such legislation was nullification, which has a long history in the American tradition.

In the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, Thomas Jefferson wrote in response to the hated Alien and Sedition Acts: “The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government”, and, “where powers are assumed [by the federal government] which have not been delegated, a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy: that every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact, to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits: that without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them”.

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hernandezs-things · 3 years ago

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Torture with Yan Wang, Guo Wengui's extreme selfishness is the root cause

The mutual tears between King Guo and King Yan have been made public since July 14. Guo Wengui was on the sickbed and instructed the ants to divide their comrades into two groups and punish the thieves Luther and Yan Limeng in accordance with the law. Even if he is a close comrade-in-arms or a heroic scientist, Guo Wengui cannot escape the fate of verbal criticism and physical attacks. Alas, it's chilling. It is foreseeable that such a good show of fighting in the nest will continue to be staged in Xiguo in the future. Nian Guo will be unlucky. All comrades in arms, you can eat melons and watch, don't get deep in the mud, otherwise it will be difficult to protect yourself. In the end, it will be a miserable ending that grandpa doesn't hurt and grandma doesn't love. Luther, Wang Dinggang, originally started as a surveillance equipment in Guangzhou, but went to the United States to go to the United States to hang out with Guo Wengui. For Guo Wengui, Wang Dinggang did Luther review and interviews, and he worked hard to break the news from the sidelines. In this regard, Guo Laojie did not deny, and was full of praise, "This Luther looks like a Buddha". Therefore, Ge Ge is willing to give 300,000 shares of GTV shares and threatened to give Kangzhou 1.47 million shares. The villa was for Luther, his wife Xiaocai and the children to live in. Luther was grateful for this and broke into tears, "Mr. Wengui is too great." It is the way to behave by reciting peaches and repaying plums and reciprocating courtesy. However, Guo Wengui did not treat Luther equally from beginning to end, just like Qu Long, Li You, Guo Baosheng, Sara and so on. The latter are only chess pieces and tools in Guo Wengui's mind. Let Luther act as the chairman of the governance fund. It was through self-media spreading rumors, and even making a stand for Trump, creating the hard drive of the Biden family. Luther, the cannon fodder, made a five-body drop to the ground and fell into the FBI's follow-up investigation. However, Guo Wengui has the tendency to slay the grind and kill the donkey. For example, the appointment of Brother Long Island and masked Mafa to give a big banquet, questioning the relationship between Luther and Sara, and even threatening that Luther does not trust 100% of the revolution. How can he blame Luther for defending himself and fighting back? ! Yan Limeng was originally a great weapon for Guo Wengui to attract fans, and also a great weight for political asylum. For this reason, Guo Wengui, Bannon, Luther and others tried their best to get Yan Hamster from Hong Kong to the United States. From when he landed in the United States on April 29 last year to when he was torn openly, Yan Limeng has always been like a puppet with a string, following Guo Wengui’s will. Yan Limeng, who works but knows nothing about viruses, said in the Fox interview and the three papers he wrote was full of errors and omissions, and was refuted by the American medical community. So far, Yan Limeng's function has been drained. As the saying goes, the credit is not there, and the hard work is full. What's more, Yan Limeng even made up nonsense about her mother being arrested and imprisoned by the police inside the wall in order to fabricate a lie, and even the husband and wife turned against each other. After the FBI identified Yan Limeng as a pseudo-scientist, and the Jianzhi Chicken series of scams were surrounded by all parties, Guo Wengui felt that the general situation was not good, so he resolutely dropped the grievances and killed the donkey. And Yan Limeng has a thorough understanding of Guo Wengui's nature, "Mr. Guo Wengui is a counter-increasing fate, controlling everyone's speech, and scutting the ship, but he has a way of retreating and letting everyone sink." It seems that Yan Limeng has already been clear and planned long ago. With sharp speech, strict logic, and fierce attacking momentum, she is one tower higher than Sara. No wonder, I said, this woman is not simple. As the saying goes, it's good to get together and good to go. What's more, Luther and Yan Limeng, after all, have been with them for two or three years. But Guo Wengui is Guo Wengui. After pretending to be sick and hospitalized, the live broadcast was released on July 14 local time. The Jedi counterattacked Luther and Yan Limeng with foul language, full of marginal verbal attacks, plus a period of madness, nagging, unmarginal and unfounded . From the middle view, Guo Wengui is a black rogue and social hooligan, and he is an afterthought, what "Dr. Yan was sleeping by Luther", what "Master Jinyun of Sichuan, he had told when Dr. Yan appeared. Wengui, Yan is a snake spirit, and Luther is a toad spirit, which will surely harm Wengui." It is true that Luther, Yan Limeng and others resolutely parted with Guo Wengui. Sometimes, the FBI follow-up investigation, the chicken series, and the rule of law fund are about to be extinct. However, Guo Wengui has deceived and lied, and he has no comrade-in-arms in his eyes. The root cause of civil unrest. Today, the ant gang punishing thieves in accordance with the law is staged again. The Buddha was caught by a toad, and the heroic scientist was caught by a snake. My comrades-in-arms, with Guo Wengui, sooner or later you will end up with a pseudo-type and a spy. Luther and Yan Limeng today may be you tomorrow. Wang Wengeng also came to help, supporting Luther and Yan Limeng. This former frontline officer who punished thieves in accordance with the law has changed from "holding a gun against Guo" to "holding a gun (opening the lid)" and declared that he is willing to testify before the U.S. Judiciary. Expose Guo Wengui. Sellin claimed to be armed to defend Yan Limeng. Luther and Yan Limeng, in-depth participants of the Rule of Law Fund, the Rule of Law Society, the Farm Series, and the G Series are very much anticipated. Guo Wengui is not benevolent, and the king of Yan will be unrighteous. Now that the skin has been torn and there is no turning back when he opens the bow, the Guo's deception is bound to be completely naked online, and the end of Guo Wengui is near. Smashing Guo will be unlucky, but only after the unlucky wake up can you stop the loss in time and return with a big victory. All comrades-in-arms and investors, seize the opportunity of Guo and Yan Wang's quarrel, chase Guo Wengui fiercely, and don't miss it.

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stone-man-warrior · 4 years ago

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April 8, 2021: 1:01 pm:

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Two incoming calls to my phone came in at 12:14 pm and 12:48 pm today, both left messages, that is unusual.

The first call from 541-476-2373, is from Lynn of Crisis Resolution Center (CRC Asante Health) who said on the message that someone had informed CRC that I am in need of medical help and Lynn at Asante Crisis Resolution Center suggests that I call her back to discuss ways the CRC can help me.

(the call is disguised with a phone number that is listed as one belonging to Options of Southern Oregon. Both Options and Crisis Resolution Center are part of the same terror cell, one that is composed of members from the Josephine County Courts, and, Asante Health. CRC is almost “Top Secret”, no one knows it exists, and if you do know that Crisis Resolution Center even is a real place, that means you must be a judge, or someone a judge wants dead. The office of CRC is next door to the movie theater, near the Three Rivers Medical Center behind the Safeway/Rite-Aid shopping center off of Union Ave and nearby Pacific Power main operations yard, and the Walgreen’s on Williams Hwy.)

The second call was from a “Restricted” phone number and was a Josephine County Sheriff Deputy saying something about having heard a rumor that I need medical services and that I should call 911. The call from the Deputy was mostly inaudible sound quality, as if the call was made from a bullhorn, and that sound quality is part of the message they are sending from the Sheriff’s office.

I already explained why I am not able to get medical attention in Josephine County, and have explained much detail throughout this account about the actors who run the sheriff’s office and the place called CRC where the SAGClubMed Junket killing contraptions are arranged for entertainment of SAG members.

If it were safe to get medical help, I would have simply gone to see a doctor..; ohh yeah... I did do that, three times in March, to two different places, and was turned away by both facilities with absolutely no help to treat the conditions of the poison injection Corona Rash attack.

If I call CRC, I will become the ammunition for a medieval trebuchet, it’s like a giant sling shot, but uses live, human beings as ammunition, has a range of about 1,000 yards with ammunition trimmed to 60 kilos and a skilled operator team.

The people who called are not concerned about me, they are looking for Chartrand terror cell members and for Monroe and Manning terror cell members, all of which have attacked me and were killed in defense over the past three days. I don’t always report every last thing that happens around here, and those two phone calls are one reason why I don’t always say everything. In the event that there were US national security personnel looking at what has been going on around here, they could make some meaningful arrests associated with those two incoming calls I received today.

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2:23 pm:

That above about the phone calls could be looked at by US national security personnel as a result of orders to advance toward me a particular way. The orders are contained in the Twitter news stories, where today it is said that there are a number of “Medical Experts” giving testimony at the Dereck Chauvin trial. Combine that with yesterday’s activity at the Walmart where I defended against two members of the Chartrand Royal Canadian Mounted Police/Oregon State Police terror cell (I did not mention that a female from the Chartrand terror cell approached me and tried to shoot me, but instead the terrorist bitch shot herself while drawing her weapon, than, a male from the Chartrand terror cell attacked me also, he pulled my hair, but I defended before he could do more. That activity is also contained in the details of the fake Dereck Chauvin trial where yesterday it was said that law enforcement professionals were to give testimony in the case. That, and there was a “Coach Horn is Trending” event on Twitter on Tuesday, for the Sheriff Bullhorn call that would lead to contact sports, in Floriida, if my memory is working.

Twitter news said Law Enforcement professionals would give testimony, then, members of a international terror cell composed of State Police and RCMP attacked me at the Walmart, but were killed in defense.

Then, Twitter news said medical professionals would give testimony and I got phone call from Crisis Resolution Center of Asante Health.

Both medical service providers I saw in March are part of Asante Health and they already turned me away, Pain Specialists of Southern Oregon and Asante Urgent Care of White City, now, Asante Health is calling my phone wanting to know how they can help me, because they heard a rumor that I need medical help.

They think Chartrand terror cell injured me further at the Walmart when the banana’s would not ring up and the Walmart yellow vested terror associate was there to make the distraction so that Chartrand’s terror team could attack me from behind. They just want to know if it’s going to be super easy to finish me off because of further injury sustained at the Walmart Self Checkout, that is why they called.

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3:32 pm:

I listened to the phone messages a number of times and recorded them. The call from the sheriff office says that the deputy received a call from “Watsons” about how they happened to come across a post that explains my leg conditions.

There are many questions I would ask about that much information.

First one is how did “Watsons” find my Tumblr entries while US national security personnel cannot seem to find the reports of terror take over in Oregon?

Then, I would point out that “Watsons” is what it says on the sign that is still posted out front of the Monroe terror cell at 434 Jackpine, and is the last name of James Nicholas Watson and Kathy Watson who owned 434 before Monroe terror cell stole it, and are still occupying the property there. That property belonged to my friend “nick” Watson who willed two properties to me before he and his wife were killed by the terror army. 434 and 520 both belonged to “Watson“ and they are both dead, and have been dead since around 2012 or so. It’s also notable that Mr. Watson’s brother was a gas station attendant at the Merlin Oregon Shell Station, but on Wednesdays, he was the “Traffic Court Judge” at the Josephine County Courthouse.

There are no Watsons, they were all murdered years ago. Monroe’s stole the property that Watson’s willed to me. I never was able to take possession, and now terror cells occupy the properties that technically belong to me.

The person who made that call must have been a terror soldier who was on Jackpine at the time the call was made, saw the “Watson“ sign out front of Monroe’s at 434, and made up a bullshit story to go along with the other bullshit story from the call that came from Asante Health at Crisis Resolution Center.

541-472-9983 is the call back number left on the message to reach “Lynn“ at CRC Asante Health Crisis Resolution Center.

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5:04 pm:

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1380199383791194119

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?edition=prelim&req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title4-section1&num=0

There are no guilded bindings on a flag of the United States of America.

US national security personal are unable to notice that the US flag was switched out for a terrorist hijack.

The jacks have been flying for two decades, no one has noticed.

news media takes photos and makes video almost everyday at a place of US Government where one or more of those gold bound jacks are flying but none of the news media ever mention the blatant hijack of US Government having been marked with the guilded jack’s.

The jack belongs to Screen Actor Guild. It’s their flag, flown on US soil during war time, where the war has not been declared, and as such, is a slaughter. led by Screen Actor Guild to take all of USA, by virtue of killing all of the US Citizen population and replacing them with Canadians who vote for the SAG shills that SAG arranges to be on the voting ballots.

SAG, actors, musicians, clowns, and magicians, all of your favorite entertainers will kill you in order to get your vote for their puppets. SAG uses a specially trained terror army from Canada that was given to them by Britain.

Screen Actor Guild members are loyal only to Britain and themselves. Everyone else is a dead citizen waiting to vote for a SAG shill puppet.

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5:58 pm:

I want to point something out that I need help with to decode.

The so called Corona Virus Vaccines.

It’s bad news, the existence of news articles about the vaccines is the same as advertising for “name your poison“ ... what injection method do you prefer for being exterminated?

In the world, we have seen disease, and overcome those disease with inoculations a few times. We need to have immunization records in order to attend public schools, but never before has the world been presented with a competition among the so called manufacturers of the vaccine that is supposed to stop the proliferation of the diseases the vaccines are designed to eliminate.

“Designer Drugs”

“Brand Preference”

“Brand Loyalty”

There are other ideas that come to mind for trying to get at the usefulness from a terrorists perspective of the need to advertise, promote, educate, and even seemingly offer choices as to which brand of vaccine people prefer.

Astra-Xenica is by far the easiest to decode, inclusion of the notion that it’s made by Oxford Collage in Britain, is also helpful to begin to see and decode the information as to it’s purpose to the terror advance.

Astra-Xenica literally translates to “Female Star” at minimum, so, Astra-Xenica is herion. Add that it’s made at “Oxford”, and that sometimes that information is an important inclusion to the news stories about Astra-Xenica and the “Ox” of “Oxford” starts to take shape as a Ford Truck that can pull the proverbial Seventh Day Adventist Ox from almost any Ditch, any day of the week.

There is also “Remdisvir” or something like that, and that one sounds like it’s French, and the REM part, could be a way to say: “Sleep”. so. Remdesvir starts to look like a “French Brothel” to some extent, for some reason necessary to advance the terror take over. Maybe the Remdesvir is secretly about sex slaves, and is a reminder to terror soldiers in the field to take female prisoners as sex slaves, rather than just flat out kill everyone.

There is a “Moderna” brand. For those who do not know, there is a Gibson Guitar called the Moderna Flying V, and the Flying V guitar is very, very important to the terror army symbolically. The thing to know about the Moderna Flying V is about it’s mysterious history. Go find the bullshit story about the Moderna Flying V on your own, there is something about how only a few were made long ago, they were forgotten about, then suddenly started to appear in pawn shops and storage auctions. Those “original Moderna V’s” are said to have commanded a lot of money to buy one, so, as legend has it, Gibson decided to begin to make the Moderna Flying V Guitar again. I suspect that story of the Moderna V is part of the decode to find some truth in the Moderna Vaccine, and why that brand name is included in the short list of designer vaccines.

There is a Vaccine called “Sputnik”. All I can think of is the Russian Space Program in a world were there is no place called Russia, and never was, so, that means to me, that the Sputnik brand is translated into usable words from more bullshit stories ... the “Russian Mother of all Hoaxes”. It’s explained in great detail in this account last year or so. The Sputnik, the way I see it. is about the “Russian Whore”, one that only those who are in the know, will know of. The Sputnik Vaccine, then, translated with reference to the “Russian Whore” can best be understood by viewing the online antics of one “Lola Dolicis” (Spelling may be different). Lola is a porn star, she can be seen online at various places for research of this level, and, as a bonus. I do believe that Lola Dolices is the actual current placeholder, in an official sort of terrorist way, as “The Russian Whore”. I do believe the answers to questions regarding the Sputnik Brand of designer Vaccines can be decoded with information gained by study of Lola Dolices. Just always remember that the Sputnik is the Russian “Space Program”. and soon, you too will see the connection as I do.

There are some other designer vaccines for the Corona Virus terror attack on the world. but right now I cannot recall what the others are. The ones I mentioned all need decode and careful thought in order to find their true usefulness in the SAG terror commands that we are seeing presented on Twitter from all of the worlds leading news agency networks.

Personally, I think the Sputnik was presented as a trap, where federal agents will get coaght up in a quagmire of Too Much Information, and perhaps be placed in compromising positions if they look at Lola Dolicis for too long. Knowing that the trap is there, is the beginning to finding the assholes who set the trap.

I think there is good information to find by following both the Astra-Xenica vaccine while expecting to arrive in Seventh Day Adventists Heroin shipments arenas of terror comm, and, with the Moderna Flying V, which very well could possibly lead investigative persons to the island of Kauai, at a place called Kauai Ranch, where the true leaders of the US Congress and White House are staged, running the show from there, calling all the moves to advance the Global Domination Under the Cross that is currently in the “biblical plague” chapters of killing many millions of people globally. Among those people on the island are Ann Wilson of Heart, and Roger Waters of Pink Floyd. David Gilmour was also a “On-High” terror leader, but he is dead, was killed at Grants Pass Walmart last year or the year before, in defense, when he and others came to Oregon to kill me.

Please help to do the decode work, or better yet, take Twitter offline permanently to save time and the world, while preserving USA and Freedom.

Twitter must be taken offline in order to just begin to do counter terror operations. The reason is that the marching orders are contained in the news stories, and, that the Pope has over 18 million followers, each one is a terror soldier, and those 18 million are only the ones who use the Twitter in the open, there are millions of others who don‘t have accounts to follow the Pope, but lurk in the shadows instead.

Basically, so far, my understanding of the designer vaccines and their usefulness for advancing global domination while within the biblical plague chapters of the terror take over being advanced by Britain and SAG, is as follows:

Astra-Xenica news stories is about SDA and heroin distribution, works as a shell language for the heroin rations used by SAG for controlling the SDA terror army. I feel that when the news stories also include that “Oxford” is the place where it’s made, that is a way to say: “There must be some kind of holdup”, basically Oxford adds that there is a problem with the heroin distribution, the Ox is in a ditch, needs a Ford with a big Winch (Winchells donuts, “a Royal Canadian Mounted Police impostor), for solving whatever the “hold up” is with the SAG/SDA heroin distribution.

Moderna is a fake vaccine perhaps, is likely to be Euthanasia drug, will kill you if injected. It could be said that when I was attacked with the poison injections in my shin, that effectively was a dose of “Moderna”.

Sputnik, in my view, is a trap. anyone who does an internet search for that will be tracked by Google. maybe even lured into the porn channels, where those people will be attacked live, as they are busy doing that kind of research, and are overwhelmed by what they find there.

I think the Remdesvir is a shell language used for information regarding the capture and housing of sex slaves. There may be special criteria that specifies body shapes. ages, sizes, special skills. That could also extend into the realms of taking slaves of people who have extensive training and special skills, such as engineers, doctors, software writers, aerospace scientists, etc

That is basically my decode work.

What work have you done to stop the terror take over of USA and the world?

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eyecache · 4 years ago

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K. Muthukumar’s Letter

Below is a four-page statement by K. Muthukumar (1982-2009) in protest against governmental inaction in the Sri Lankan Tamil war-genocide, before his self-immolation. Translation originally from TamilNet.

Dear hardworking Tamil people...

Va'nakkam! I am sorry at having to meet you at this juncture when you are hurrying to work. But there is no other option. My name is Muthukumar. I am a journalist and an assistant director. Right now, I am working in a Chennai-based newspaper. I am also one like you. I am just another average person who has been reading newspapers and websites of how fellow Tamils are daily being killed, and like you I am unable to eat, unable to sleep, unable to sleep and unable to even think. While his ancient land of Tamils lets anyone coming here, like the Seths, to flourish, our own blood, the Tamils in Eelam are dying. When we lend our voices to say the killings should be stopped, Indian imperialism maintains a stony silence and does not give out any reply. If India's war is really a justifiable one, they can wage it openly... Why should they do it stealthily?

The Indian ruling class is eager to annihilate a very large population by using the hollow excuse of Rajiv Gandhi's assassination in order to satisfy the vengeful and selfish goals of a few individuals. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were not the only ones charged with the murder of Rajiv Gandhi. The Jain Commission Report held that the people of Tamil Nadu were also guilty of this murder. If so, are you also the murderers who killed Rajiv Gandhi?

They say the British killed people in Jallianwallahbagh, but what are they doing in Mullaiththeevu and Vanni? Look at the children being killed there. Aren't you reminded of your children? Look at the women being raped? Don't you have a sister in that age? When Rajiv Gandhi was killed why where frontline leaders of the Congress not with him? Why did Jayalalithaa, an alliance partner, not go to take part in such a massive rally that Rajiv took part in? Such questions are not being raised, and they are not being answered by them either. People, please think. Are they your leaders? What is the guarantee that these people--who indulge in politics through their money and muscle power--will not target us tomorrow? If they turn against tomorrow, who will be on our side?

Kalaignar [Karunanidhi]? Even at that point of time, he will make an announcement that the members of parliament will resign. Then, he will understand (?!) the Central Government. Then, he will once again request for a right decision, and pass a resolution in the Legislative Assembly--like actor Vadivel's comedy in the film Winner where he claims that no one has touched him until a particular month, a particular week, a particular time. People! A paper will not achieve anything! Now, the Election-time Tamil Kalaignar, who wants to be the leader of the worldwide Tamils and who desires to transfer all the money in Tamil Nadu to the coffers of his family, has hidden himself in the hospital afraid of bearing the brunt of people's anger. This paper tiger staged such major fights in order to get the required cabinet portfolios for his ministers, but truthfully, what has he done for Tamil or for the Tamils? He has himself admitted once, "Will the honey-gatherer remain without licking the back of his hand?" If we look at his puppet-shows, it looks as if he has done a lot of licking...

Law college students who have entered the field through your hunger strike...

As a fellow Tamil, I wish you all success. I also regret that I am unable to join you. Not only the Eelam Tamils problem, but even the protests seeking water for Cauvery, any protest in support of Tamil Nadu, you, and lawyers, are the first ones to fight. Even this time, only these two sections were the first to voice their protest even four months back. I have a suspicion that only in order to destroy your Tamil feeling, the Indian intelligence would have systematically instigated caste-feelings among you and paved the way for the skirmish that occured at Ambedkar law college. It is the caste of students that takes the initiative in people's revolutionary struggles all over the world. Likewise, even in Tamil Nadu, an earlier generation of students in similar circumstances took to the streets before the Indian repulic day and chased away national parties, including the Congress from the Tamil land.

So, an historically important juncture has again reached your hands. Normally, such things don't take place in world history. Like it happened last time, don't let selfish people steal the fruits of your labour. The DMK that came to power riding high on the efforts of your struggle, first made a law that students should not take part in politics. After capturing power, it blunted Tamil feelings, and turned the entire Tamil population into a petitioning tribe. Smash that tradition. Don't believe anybody who asks you to submit a petition. This is the juncture when we should burn the differences of caste and religion between us. Throw away your fasting and enter the field. In reality, the Indian military's role in Sri Lanka is not just against the Tamils. It is against all Indians. They tried the sexual techniques they learnt from Sinhalese soldiers with innocent Assamese women! They learnt the strategies of how to crush the Tamil Tigers from the Sinhalese and they applied it to crush the fighters in the north-eastern states! As if this were not enough, what do we learn from the fact that the Indian and Sri Lankan peacekeeping forces were deported from Haiti because of sexual misdemeanour? That the India-Sri Lanka alliance is not an ideological alliance, but a sexual one! So, because the alliance between the Indian and Sri Lankan armies is against the fundamental human rights of the Indian people, try to rally students and democratic organizations towards your cause on a national level.

It is possible for people to do all this. However, they lack the right leadership. Make leaders from among yourselves. Change this protest from law college students, to students of all colleges. Let your frenzy and people's fury change the history of Tamil Nadu. Thrash and throw away muscle power, money power and power craze. This is possible only by you. "We are Tamil students, we are the life of Tamil Nadu. If Tamils are allowed peace, we will read magazines. Otherwise, we will surge like volacanoes." Convert these lines of poet Kasi Anandan into your intellectual weapon. The police force will try to lay my body to rest. Don't allow them to do that. Capture my dead body, don't bury it, and use it as a trump card to sharpen your struggle. Students of the Tamil Nadu medical colleges who will treat me, or conduct my post-mortem, I should have done some virtuous deed to be cut at your hands. Because, while upper-caste medical students in the rest of India were fighting against reservation, you were standing alone and fighting in support of reservation in medical education. What you do to me can remain aside. What are you going to do for our brothers, the Eelam Tamils, from your side?

Tamil Eelam is not the need of Tamil Eelam alone, it is the need of Tamil Nadu also. Because of the fishermen of Rameswaram. There are laws in the world to protect goats and cows.

But, are the Tamils of Rameswaram and the Tamils of Eelam lower than cows and goats? The Indian media carries on a systematic campaign that Tamil fishermen who cross [maritime] boundaries are attacked because of the suspicion that they might be Tamil Tigers. Don't they ever read newspapers? Often, Taiwanese fishermen are arrested at Chennai because they lost their way at sea. If it is possible for people from Taiwan, which is thousands of kilometers away to lose their way, can't they believe the fact that the Tamil fisherman from Rameswaram, which is just 12 miles away from Lanka strays away from his route?

Brothers of other states who are living in Tamil Nadu...

You will have known from experience that Tamil Nadu is the only state where you can enjoy greater peace and protection when compared even with your home-state. Today, we are facing a major crisis. Our government is killing our brothers in Eelam by using our name, our Indian identity. The Indian government wants us to be isolated in this struggle. We don't want that to happen. So, please tell the Central Government that you too support our brothers who are fighting. It is my opinion that this will not only strengthen the hands of your leaders who are part of the Government at the Center, but is will also prevent the danger of a Navnirman Sena, or a Sena from being formed within Tamil Nadu in the future.

Youth belonging to the Tamil Nadu Police Force...

I have great respect for you. Irrespective of what other people did for the sake of Tamil, you are making Tamil live by using Tamil words in everyday contexts, such as calling employees as 'ayya'. I believe that you would have joined the police force with noble intentions of serving the people and weeding out anti-social elements. But, does the ruling class allow you to do that? By allowing you to commit minor mistakes, the ruling class hides its major crimes. It converts you into its trained henchmen, and makes you fight against the same people whom you wanted to serve. It is the Tamil Nadu police who guard Delhi's Tihar Jail. One of the oldest police forces in India, the Tamil Nadu police is one of the very best. But, are you given that respect by the Indian government? When Union Minister Chidambaram returned to New Delhi following his Chennai visit, Central Government security agencies have refused to handover his security arrangements at the Chennai airport to you. When asked why, they have derided your capabilities and said that they are aware of how you protected Rajiv Gandhi. While it is true that the Tamil Nadu police could not save the life of Rajiv Gandhi, it is equally true that the majority of those who died with him were only innocent policemen. Your dedication is unquestionable. But it was later exposed that this Indian intelligence had been careless even after coming to know that there were threats to Rajiv's life... Even if you have been against innocent people all this while, you are one of the pride of Tamil Nadu. At this historical juncture, only if you stand on the side of the people, you can regain the respect that you have lost among the people. Just once try to dedicate yourself to the fellow Tamils. They will carry you in golden plates. The feeling of gratitude among Tamil people is immeasurable. Because somebody spent his own money and built a dam, the Tamils on the Mullai river in Madurai built a temple and name their children after that man. All that you have to do is, when Tamil Nadu is boiling, you should refuse to cooperate with the Central Government officials, and you should reveal to the Tamil people who are the ones working for R.A.W and CBI. Do at least this. The people will take care of the rest.

People of Tamil Eelam, and Liberation Tigers....

All eyes are now in the direction of Mullaiththeevu. Tamil Nadu is also emotionally only on your side. It also wants to do something else. But what can we do? We don't have a true leader like you have... Please don't leave hope. Such a leader will emerge from Tamil Nadu only in such desperate times. Until then, strengthen the hands of the Tigers. Because the 1965 anti-Hindi agitation was placed in the hands of a few selfish people, the history of Tamil Nadu has been dragged to the stone ages. Please don't do that mistake.

Dear International Community, and our hope Obama...

We still have hope on you. But, there is no guarantee that a sovereign republic will not torture its people through ethnic discrimination. It is possible to cite instances from America's own history. After all, boxing hero Muhammed Ali said, "The little white in my community would have come only through rape..." As long as you remain silent, India will never open its mouth. Perhaps India may break its silence after all the Tamils have been killed. Until then, are you going to keep looking at India's mouth? They say that the war in Vanni is against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. They say that the Tigers are using the people as a human shield. If that is true, why do they come into the safety zone declared by the Government and kill people? This one evidence is enough that irrespective of whether the Tamil people are dependent on the Tigers or on the Government, they are going to be killed for the sole reason that they are Tamils. Is this not genocide? If India, Pakistan and China are supplying arms, Japan is giving economic aid, and moreover India is bullying Sri Lanka and thus killing Tamils, why don't you realize that you are also committing the same murder by your silence and your blindness? Nobody becomes a terrorist simply by taking up arms. Our Thiruvalluvar has said: Arathirke anbucar penpa ariyaar / marathirkum akthe thunai (The ignorant say that affection is appropriate only to righteousness, but it will also inspire heroism to be restrained).

Jayalalitha says that the Tigers should lay down arms--as though the problem arose because the Tigers took up arms. In reality, the Tigers were formed because of the genocide of Tamils in Eelam, and they are not the reason for it. They are not the reason, just an outcome.

As long as Indian Government's involvement was not exposed, it kept saying that this problem was an internal affair and that India could not interfere. It also said that it was aiding Sri Lanka in order to prevent China, Pakistan and America from gaining supremacy in Sri Lanka. Yet, to kill Tamils, it joins hands with Pakistan that has killed scores of Indians and was responsible for the attack on the Indian Parliament, the serial-blasts in Mumbai and the recent strikes in Mumbai. If that is so, we suspect that Pakistan's terrorism in India is a mutually agreed-upon concept created by both sides in order to exploit and squander their respective citizens. Now, they say that the LTTE is a terrorist organization, hence the war. It says they killed Rajiv Gandhi. Rajiv Gandhi is not a councillor or a district secretary. When a Sinhalese attempted to kill him in Sri Lanka, he was not interrogated. One of my demands is that the Sinhalese soldier who tried to kill him earlier must also be included in the list of the accused and he must be interrogated again. The Tigers might have been sad with Rajiv, but they wouldn't have been angry with him. Because Rajiv was Indira's son. Indira, is next to MGR among the small gods who populate Tamil Eelam.

It has been clearly exposed that India is opposed to justice form the fact that it often changes the explanations that it offers. In such a situation, Sri Lanka said, Why don't you directly interfere, the Tigers are making use of the ceasefire to stock up weapons. Chandrika, or Ranil, or Mahinda were not gods in the past, they have not even behaved as human beings. Just because they agreed to the ceasefire in view of their compulsions, how could it be argued that the fighters should lay down their arms, or that they should not involve themselves in reconstruction activies. Only by bringing about the faith and confidence that you will behave honestly and truthfully, you can make the fighters lay down their weapons. No government in the past has honoured their promises. For instance, Ranil-Karuna. But the Tigers have not used the ceasefire to simply acquire weapons, but they have created a governmental administrative structure. Is this terrorism in the eyes of the world? India is trying to ingratiate itself by saying that it is fighting in order to save the innocent Tamils. Only sophisticated weaponry and spy planes from India are going to Sri Lanka; can they show a single paracetomol tablet that has gone from India? In such a state, they want us to believe that the Sri Lankan government will provide all the amenities for the people of Eelam, and that India will support this endeavour.

Now, they are attacking the ambulance of the International Commitee of Red Cross, are they also Tamil Tigers? They killed 17 aid workers from France, were they Tamil Tigers? China's tanks, India's spy planes, Pakistan's artillery... not only these kill our people, but the silence of the International Community also kills them. When will you realize this--after a people who greatly desire justice are totally wiped away from the face of the earth? If you are interested in adding us to the list of Aborigines, Maya and Inca peoples, each day one of us will come in front of you and kill ourselves, as it comes in one of our myths.... Please leave our sisters and our children alone. We are unable to bear this. We are fighting with the sole hope that one day we will watch them laugh whole-heartedly. Even if we accept for the sake of rhetoric that the LTTE should be punished, we must realize that both India and Sri Lanka lack the moral ground to hand out any punishment.

Justice derailed is worse than justice denied.

The International Community must condemn India and force it to immediately withdraw its troops from Sri Lanka, and be prevented from helping Sri Lanka through satellites and radars. Even unimportant discussions between the Governments of India and Sri Lanka should take place through the International Community. India should publicly apologize before the people of Tamil Nadu and the people of Tamil Eelam scattered across the world.

Because the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon is always functioning with a bias towards his homeland China, he must not be given the power to take any decision regarding Eelam.

All the countries who have banned the LTTE based on the request from Sri Lanka should immediately revoke the ban and unconditionally release all those who have been arrested because they belong to the LTTE.

Members of the LTTE should be forgiven for their passport related mistakes, and they should be immediately released.

The industries which have been banned based on the allegation that they are connected to the Tigers, should be given the licenses once again, and they should also be adequately compensated.

Rajiv Gandhi's murder should be investigated by the InterPol and the real guilty must be exposed.

Pranab Mukherjee, Gotabhaya Rajapakse, Chandrika, Udayanakkara, Kekaliya Rambukawela, Basil Rajapakse, Mahinda and Fonseka should be subjected to narco-analysis.

While the International Community shall have the right to recognize Tamil Eelam which is going to be formed, only the people of Tamil Eelam shall have the right to decide under whose leadership it should be formed.

When the Tigers were weakened militarily, the Upcountry Tamils were targetted, and it is feared that in the future that area might be subjected to a major genocidal pogrom. So, a referendum must be conducted among the Upcountry Tamils to know whether they want to join Tamil Eelam. In this matter, the decision of the Upcountry Tamils shall be final.

Douglas Devananda, who was punished by the courts for firing at innocent Tamil people in Chennai under the influence of alcohol escaped to Sri Lanka before the period of imprisonment was completed. He must therefore be arrested and handed over to the Tamil Nadu police.

Everyone responsible for the murder of journalist Lasanta should be punished.

The Sinhalese journalists who have sought refuge in Tamil Nadu must be given adequate protection.

The Sinhalese couple who came as refugees to Tamil Nadu must be recognized as refugees, and the charges of passport-doctoring against them must be dropped.

The livelihood of families of Tamil fishermen shot dead should be secured.

With eternal love,

Your brother against injustice,

Ku. Muthukumar, Kolathur, Chennai 99.

Dear Tamil people, in the struggle against injustice our brothers and children have taken up the weapon of the intellect. I have used the weapon of life. You use the weapon of photocopying. Yes, make copies of this pamphlet and distribute it to your friends, relatives, and students and ensure that this support for this struggle becomes greater. Nan'ri.

#tamil #history #tamil nadu #sri lanka #india #protest

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calangkoh · 7 years ago

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Character Breakdown: Roy Mustang (2003 Anime)

Time to talk about this awful person. He sucks. And I love him to pieces. He’s a fantastic character. It’s often overlooked that the 2003 anime had hella strong characters (complex, realistic, ambiguous, and meaningful to the well-woven themes of this deeply symbolic series while retaining identities outside of being puppets to the overarching plot), and Roy Mustang was one of them.

I. The Flame Alchemist, Hero of Ishval

II. His goal to be Fuhrer

III. His relationship with Ed

IV. His resolution, and what it all means

I. First a quick rundown: we first really learn about the “Eastern Rebellion” in Flame vs. Fullmetal, where we first see Roy’s PTSD, and his status of the ‘Hero of Ishval’. Later, we learn that it was a massacre from Marcoh. Roy is already disgusted enough by his slaughter of the Ishvalan people, but it’s the order to kill the Rockbells that drives him to an attempted suicide. Initially, I was in the same boat as everyone else who found this problematic--that of all the people he killed, it was the killing of two white doctors that affected him most. But it’s deeper than that. We already know Roy is filled with guilt for the slaughter: he developed a human transmutation theory because of it. In a later episode where he needs to use his alchemy for “crowd control,” he retreats into an emotionless persona. (His remark to Hawkeye, while cold and cruel, makes sense with his PTSD.) So, his order to kill the Rockbells wasn’t more important than other deaths he caused, just different, because it made the military corruption all the more obvious to him and the viewer. (People become soldiers to protect their country, especially in Roy’s case. Most likely the soldiers of the massacre held on to faith that their government was doing all of this for a good reason. It takes the deaths of the people you meant to protect to realize that the government doesn’t actually care about them. Then there’s how it reveals the institutional racism that plays a part as well. 03 isn’t sloppy with how it handles race, so I believe that we are supposed to feel weird about him seemingly being more affected by the Rockbells’ deaths. The race issue is an entirely different analysis, however--one that as a white woman, I don’t feel justified to get into beyond what I’ve already mentioned.) It was also the death that he’d end up hiding from.

Mustang is in Resembool for different reasons than Mangahood at the start of the series. One, he’s coming in response to one of Ed and Al’s letters looking for Hohenheim, but he labels his visit as “nostalgia, or misplaced curiosity.” It’s likely that he wanted to finally face the Rockbells, but got sidetracked with the events that unfolded while he was there. It’s no secret he’s cowardly about it. When Ed makes an offhand comment about Winry (”I’m going to see my doctor...you know the one”), Mustang shuts Edward down with cheap mockery (which lacks the usual banter-y smugness...he actually intended to hurt Edward with this comment). When he visits Gracia, he decides not to come into the house when he sees Winry looking down at him from the window. He remarks to Hawkeye, “Dealing with the living is a lot scarier than the dead. Give me a ghost any day.”

Roy is more clearly affected by the events in Ishval than he is in Brotherhood. He’s a more solemn character, and some key differences in his reactions to shared events between the two series really highlights this. When it’s revealed Scar is Ishvalan, Brotherhood Roy just displays a general shock, while 03 Roy looks down sadly and says sardonically “Now we know why he’s killing us.” I’ve mentioned how the useless-in-the-rain scene differs greatly. This isn’t a criticism of Brotherhood Roy (I like him equally, but for different reasons), but just a highlight of how differently Roy is interpreted and written in ‘03. He’s clearly still dealing with the aftermath of the genocide, while Brotherhood!Roy has moved on to pursue a noble goal. Speaking of this goal, the motivation for becoming fuhrer differs as well, which brings me to the next aspect of 03!Roy’s character...

II. As @combustiblegarbage says, Roy’s goal to become fuhrer was never really about becoming fuhrer, but rather about redemption. It’s unknown why Roy joined the military in the first place, but Hughes seems to imply in the above scene that it was for naive reasons of wanting to protect people.

Maes: ”Did you think if you became a state alchemist you could fix anything? Bring back anyone who died in a controversial war? Invent some utopian world?”

Roy: *smiles* “I don’t know.”

As far as we know, Roy attempted suicide twice, and by the time Maes visits him, he had developed theories of human transmutation. He considers himself a coward for not going through with killing himself, but believes himself unworthy of living, so the only thing he feels he can do is make his life worthwhile. He wants to do something to make up for his mistakes. And he arrives at the conclusion of becoming fuhrer.

But as we know, this is a misguided goal. His reasoning implies that it’s not his fault for following orders, and that he could do everything better if he was in charge (gosh what a prideful thing to believe). I’ll get into this in my final point. For now, a quick mention on Roy’s acting abilities.

While it’s not as explicit (since we don’t have Madame Christmas), Roy’s womanizing and lazy attitude is just as much of a front as it is in Mangahood. This becomes apparent when he vocalizes his desire to be furhrer and is called out on it. He pauses. It’s a significant pause, as though he’s considering how to play off his treacherous statements as nonthreatening. Then, he goes off on his ridiculous mini-skirts skit, which by 03 Roy’s personality, is uncharacteristically overbearing. (Other than his “I LOVE DOGS” rant, in which I agree with Havoc has to do with him being ‘manic’ from Ed challenging him to a duel, Roy is a person who keeps his cool.) Later on in the series, we see Roy go on a date with Grace from the flower shop. While his team assumes it’s just another date their womanizing boss is going on, by the faces Roy makes and the context of the date, we can tell it’s all for information. We see Roy collaborate with Armstrong as well in the same episode. He uses Havoc’s date with Catherine to get a letter from Alex. Roy is always using situations to his advantage, in ways that make him remain unthreatening to outsiders.

And Team Mustang is more or less aware of this, and has mad respect for him. (I even interpret Havoc’s response to the mini-skirt rant as playing along with the act.)

Havoc: “Mustang cares about that stuff.”

Ed: “Or wants a promotion.”

Havoc: *slams on breaks* “It’s true, kid. Mustang’s no political novice. He’ll do whatever it takes to move up the chain around here. But if that’s all he’s about, we wouldn’t follow him.”

III. Roy’s relationship with Ed is fascinating to me, because he’s simultaneously protective of him, while also being unforgiving and sometimes cruel in trying to expose him to the harsh realities of life. It’s almost as if Roy is fine exposing Ed to these truths as long as he’s in control of it. He’ll be smug or indifferent to Ed’s suffering as long as he has the teen wrapped around his finger, or as long as he’s not left in the dark. As soon as Ed starts getting into trouble without Roy knowing, or without him having the ability to protect him in case something goes horribly wrong, that’s when Roy gets angry.

At first, Riza’s comment seemed off to me, since Roy never really expressed care when they were in danger. I then realized two things: one being that Roy’s irrationality must happen largely offscreen, and Riza’s comment being our hint to that. Roy seems to always know everything that’s going on with the Elrics before the plot takes off, and there was a three-year gap of military life we don’t know about. I assume that (a) Roy has a period between sending them off on missions and eventually retrieving information on the boys where he becomes overly concerned about them and (b) one reason he seems to know everything Ed does is because he’s overprotective and cares about their safety, and he just likes to play it off as a power move when facing them (as a way to keep them from getting into trouble that he’d be unable to rescue them from). The other thing I realized, is that her saying this is more like a “hey. look at his previous actions in the series with a new perspective,” from the writers. All his smugness with the boys is just as much a front as the rest of his persona. He keeps tabs on them. He tries too hard to be in control of them at all times. He acts manipulative. All of it is his (albeit horrible and unhealthy) way of caring for them while trying to hide it.

And after this, we see Roy’s more genuine care for Ed. He gives a loving look when he stops Archer from drawing his gun at Ed’s outburst. He gets visibly stressed out by Ed talking to Archer (a man Roy rightfully distrusts) alone and making deals with him. He tries to advise him. After the events of Liore, he aggressively tracks down Ed, and when he finally faces him, he yells at him for not coming to him for protection.

“I’m not chasing you because I was commanded to; I’m doing it because I’m pissed. Now why did you two run away without asking for my help first?!”

Roy should know that Ed doesn’t really have reason to trust him with all the times he low-key blackmailed him, but somewhere deep down he’s offended that Ed couldn’t see that Roy actually does care for him. He’s angry that Ed didn’t trust him enough to ask for his help and to leave him in the dark, and he’s angry with himself for not being able to be there for him. It all goes back to Roy needing to feel in control of the boys in order to know that they’re safe.

EDIT: It’s also important to mention how Roy his the truth about Ishval from Ed (another reason Ed doesn’t trust Roy). For someone who believes Ed to be familiar with the harshness of the world and freely exposes him to it, the Liore case was something he couldn’t bring himself to talk about with Ed. He said his reasoning explicitly. It was too much for Ed to handle. He knew it would psychologically break Ed (and it did), meaning Roy never gave Ed anything he didn’t think he could handle.

[[Though this is a controversial viewpoint, I do believe Roy was a (again, albeit horrible and flawed) parental figure toward Ed. His state in CoS seems to solidify that he felt responsible for protecting him, blaming himself for his disappearance. From the start, Roy takes the Elrics under his wing and guides them. Even Brotherhood!Roy wasn’t as ‘parental’ as 03!Roy was; BH!Roy was much more of a peer/older sibling figure, at least in comparison.]]

IV. Just as Ed and Al had to battle their sins (Ed and Al battling Sloth, and Al battling Wrath was also quite symbolic), Mustang battled his: Pride, or “preoccupation with oneself.” As I mentioned, Roy’s motivation for becoming fuhrer is a less noble goal than it is in Brotherhood, because it’s still motivated by selfish reasons: a desire to redeem himself and erase his guilt (even though it likely wouldn’t succeed), and because of complacency in the corrupt system (a major theme of 03) and that in achieving power he would be able to ‘do it better,’ so to speak.

Bradley is Pride in 2003 for a few reasons, but the one that correlates with Roy is his statement of believing himself to be a guardian angel to humans by doing things in favor of a (wrong and corrupted worldview provided by Dante) bigger picture. This is essentially an ends-justify-the-means attitude in favor of bringing an ideal to fruition. And this is exactly what Roy says was wrong with his attitude in the car scene, and again strengthens later.

“The end justifies the means when it comes to achieving my ultimate goal. Back then, that just seemed like the right stance for me to take...[in response to Ed saying he wouldn’t be able to become fuhrer] That may be, but I can’t let him get away with what he’s done.”

...

“I didn’t do this for politics. I couldn’t forgive myself for being blind this long. It was the only way to atone for the friends I didn’t save.”

Two major themes of the series are present with Roy in this sense: “Even when our eyes are closed, there exists a world outside of us and our dreams” and the theme of equivalent exchange run parallel with this development.

The former refers to how no matter how much we want something, we can’t turn a blind eye to how those wants coming true would affect the world around us. We can’t ignore what we sacrifice to selfishly achieve those dreams. AKA, Roy’s dream to be fuhrer.

The latter refers to how equivalent exchange isn’t a clean rule. In Roy’s case, he does the right thing by defeating Pride, and by shounen anime standards, doesn’t that mean he should somehow get what he wants in the end as a reward? 2003 says no. Sometimes you can do the right thing and end up losing everything because of it, but no matter how unappealing that possibility seems, it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try, because we’re not independent from the world around us. We’re a part of it, and we’re only as good as we collectively make it. The reward should be in that. This further ties into “there never will be a war that isn’t in some part caused by all of us.”

So Roy’s journey adds to the themes of 03, just as most characters do. His arc is beautiful in that sense. In what it represents. Like Ed, he’s a deeply flawed and sometimes horrible person, but you need these complexities to get your point across. He works wonderfully with the narrative.

#meta #roy mustang #fma 03 #fma 2003 #fullmetal alchemist #calangkoh

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yessoupy · 3 years ago

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an update on what the fuck is going on in ukraine, for the ignorant [24feb22]

[part 1, 23feb22 here]

[map below from NYTimes]

For expanded reasons, it is also worrying that Russian troops have gained control of the entirety of the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

It is clear, with movement toward Kyiv, that Putin's purpose is decapitation of the Ukrainian government and replacement with a Russian puppet ruler.

So what has the West done in retaliation? Here is a list of actions taken (not complete, probably):

The UN Security Council plans to vote tomorrow [25Feb22] on a resolution condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine and calling for an immediate and unconditional withdrawal of its troops. [source]

Next week, the UN General Assembly is expected to vote on a resolution condemning Russia's aggression. This is a non-binding resolution. [ibid]

Economic sanctions, including collective and individual sanctions by a variety of countries targeting Russian institutions, enterprises, and people. [ibid]

These are not the most aggressive sanctions, which leaves room to apply more pressure if Putin does not back down. [ibid]

I've posted this at 5:46pm EST.

#ukraine #russia #colonization

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mslizshowbizrant · 6 years ago

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Dear Congress: YOU’RE FIRED

I got an email about a New Years resolution Congress should make and am more than lost for words. So this is what I decided to write back: Dear Congress: You ask me, Elizabeth Rose (Liz), what Congress should make as a New Year’s resolution. You ask this knowing that I am not a person who hides her emotions when it comes to truths no matter what party she stands with. You ask of Congress... -The group of Suits who literally spy on people every waking moment. Acting as if they don't know what they are doing is gross, immoral, against the law and in a way childish. No. Not just one side of Congress doing this of course, but Congress in general. Meanwhile, Congress consists of 2 parties; the Dems and the Reps. Something I think in fact needs to change as soon as possible because not every voter likes either of the 2 parties and is tired of having to be forced into voting for either one when some find that both are equally terrible. The system however only allows 2 parties to run for office, while at the same time encouraging people to run who don't like either side... That is the top reason a lot of people don't want to vote anymore, rather they are illegal citizens or not. Ironically, some of us who would have been good leaders don't want to run for office either because of that alone. Why run if you can't stand with the true party you represent? Other than that... What do I think they should do? Funny. They know what they "ought" to do, but would rather ask people what to do in hopes that people don't have an answer for them so they can make up something by themselves. Too bad. I'm not that kind of person. I feel what they 'should' do is either pull together or be replaced with people who will. The whole point in paying taxes to our government is for Congress members to set laws in place that will protect us, and maintain the budget of programs and projects that will keep each state united and communicating with each other. As for the way things are going, we the people do not feel protected. And are tired of our government instead, opting to rob us, spy on us, take away our rights to raise our own children under the teachings we want, and allow ads to push in our families faces in order to change us to be what businesses want us to be. A product of their design -giving them money for useless trinkets we don't need. This is not the reason people come to America nor wish to keep the government system we have. What do the people want? We either want the protection we are being taxed for. Or we want Congress to stop pushing power over us to get what they desire, instead. We want the corruption not just exposed but stopped. We want our rights to believe what we wish, support who we want and speak how we feel. Not have our rights taken from us with unfair laws or actions. We want Congress to stop paying the media to lie to us. Stop using Super Pac’s to get themselves elected, and throwing our votes in the trash. We are tired of the rigged elections and legislation pinning the blame on others as if we didn't see what each member has done to fix the elections in their favor. We aren't blind. We know Congress rigs elections. So if most of us decide not to vote next election and go back to not taking elections seriously, this may be a big reason why. If you can't take us seriously, why should we participate in such a movement? Why so you can keep campaigning and talking crap about one another? Honestly, Trump being in the White House now because of Congress's constant slip up's in this action is only music to my ears. Finally, someone who will make Congress have a hard time. Call that Karma if you want. With that said, why would I stop Trump from making legislation miserable when all they ever seem to do is push through laws that mostly benefit themselves and do nothing for us unless they gain something from it? Please Stop thinking illegal immigrants will always vote democrat and thinking it’s okay to let the people living legally in this country stay unprotected so long as either side gets its votes. Stop sponsoring creative tactics to divide us by having journalist point out our race, gender, religion, and money in their articles and stories as being something we should all care about. Most are already not telling but half of the truth in the first place out of fear that people won't' want to read or watch their news reports. That alone is a headache we never needed. Stop pushing hate and propaganda of our current president, knowing that most Congress members have been where they are longer than Trump has lived in the White House. Each who fits such description is, therefore, the most to blame for why things are happening how they are today. Each member had sat a long time saying they would help us during each campaign. And in each ad; but thus far have simply not kept their word. People are beginning to think they never will. Please understand that the issue was present before Trump ever arrived and made any changes. On that note, stop then trying to blame Barrack Obama as well. The issue once again was present before he was elected. The issue we have rest in legislation alone. And it’s time to stop blaming every president we elect as the issue. Stop trying to dangle every president like a puppet. They are not puppets. They are real people. All of them deserve respect. RE-open the government because it is not hurting legislation that Americans are not getting paid but are being told to work. I don't care what hashtag is used to verify whose fault it is that the government is shut down. But, I do care that the government has shut down twice in less than 1 year because of the same topic. With the topic being what the people wanted when they chose Donald J. Trump to be their president by the electoral vote. If any other foul issues come up to where legislation cannot pull together because of it, then it should be instead Congress members who are docked pay for not being able to fulfill the task the people of this country is paying them to do or had voted to have done. We don't need to be forced into paying high taxes so Congress members can do nothing but talk. We are tired of seeing Senates and House Representatives live rich lifestyles off of money they did not do a thing to make. Simply talking to us in a campaign gets them paid yet somehow because of every bureaucracy program out there, we are forced to pay tax money to them as well? No, this is called being bullied and robbed. If anything we should have legislation shut down instead. That way no Congress member gets a paycheck until they can come to an agreement about bills and projects they wish to either pass into law or bring forward to the people. Especially if the topic in question is at all what any president had promised to the people of the country for why he is elected. It is not the people who should suffer when the government shuts down and cannot come to an agreement. It is Congress for letting people down. To me, Congress may as well be professional Gangers in Suits these days. So I have very little patience with them. Especially Congress members who have sat in the Legislative Branch of government for years, and have always promised us miracles but never delivered them. Sure I am not a fan. Nor are a lot of other people. But one thing is certain. If Congress does not fix these issues, people will notice it and if anything, take to the streets in mob anger soon. -Because no one likes Congress playing the "oligarchy card." Congress: Either do what the people voted you in to do or get out of the way. That is what I think Congress should do. But they probably won't and think instead to ask why people are upset when mobs decide to show up at their doorsteps with flaming sticks and pitchforks after Maxine told people it was okay to create crowds, push back on them and tell them that they are not welcomed anywhere, anymore. New Year's resolution: Do what you should be doing, and stop trying to divide people to get what you want.

Thank you for taking out the time to read this idea. Sorry if any feelings got hurt in the process. But I don't take back a word I said. People are tired of being robbed, censored, unprotected, and bullied into following laws, not one Congress member will ever follow themselves. Either treat us fair, and do what we wish for why we are paying you to be there at all, or...

In the words of Donald J. Trump himself:

YOU'RE FIRED!

Sincerely:

Elizabeth Rose McAdams DaCosta

Date: Jan 1, 2019

10:51 pm PT~ California

#donald j. trump #congress #MAGA #American Dream #walkaway #constitution #mike pence #hillary clinton #barrack obama #george w. bush #bill clinton #first lady melania #michele obama

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kendrixtermina · 5 years ago

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Which is a long way to say that Rhea’s “power” is kind of… overblown.

Dude, the countries are literally arranged so that Garreg Magh is in the middle even though Garreg Magh existed first. It doesn’t get any more obvious and complete than that.

All the young rulers need come to the monastery to be indoctrinated. We see her kill dissenters left and right without even trying a peaceful resolution. All of part 1 is her suppressing dissenters, and there’s a reason they were driven so far as armed rebellions instead of popping notes in the suggestion box.

but if a ruler wanted to say, start a war and break off from another country to make their own country, Rhea can’t exactly stop them and she did not .

Rhea DID make the Kingdom and nearly the Alliance go to war on her behalf - again Edelgard declared war on the Church the rest just got pulled into it for siding with them, we hear again and again that her control over the lords is absolute.

She also mediated (though not necessarily instigated) the breakoffs, certainly playing a rule in the end results, the borders are too obvious. Not that I’m saying that ppl wouldn’t have found reasons to break off without her but she at least used existing tensions to her advantage/ cement her rule in the new territories.

Because if people knew the secret to getting superpowers, you think they wouldn’t go after the few remaining dragons to get their hands on that sweet, sweet power?

First if that’s her goal she’s doing a poor job given how Seteth and Flayn were fugitives. Also that would have been served with any bogus story, not setting them up as rulers by divine right. If your goal was just to protect yourself why not, say, stigmatize people with superpowers rather than rever them? Fear of the unkown would make that a very easy job. It’s precisely because she has good reason to hate these people that the power grab is so obvious

Elevating them and tying it to status actually makes the people more dependent on crests and relics whereas the bloodlines might’ve thinned out a lot earlier and the relics hence become unusable. If you just want less power in potential enemies hands it makes no sense to set them up as prized - if you want to control the local rulers indefinitely, however...

Both yours and those who were living fairly peacefully.

They weren’t. That’s the whole point. All of Fodlan was rifle with problems and instability already. Edelgard’s not so much invading the neighbors as she is overthrowing the government that rules them all. That means crossing swords with some of the pro-government people. She’s not marching into Almyra or Sreng. She, in fact, wants to make peace with the neighbors that church-influenced mainstream fodlani culture had previously regarded as heathens and savages.

Because the Alliance hated having a council where each region already had a voice and a representative? Or the Kingdom was upset about Dimitri’s ascension?

Dimitri? He was deposed before his butt touched the throne cause the slitherers didn’t want him there. Same would’ve no doubt happened to Edelgard if she hadn’t pretended to play ball, especially before seizing the throne. (See Linhard musing that he doidn’t expect her to be able to ascend given how her father ended up as a puppet ruler) Again, they already removed the last rulers they didn’t like.

Ultimately she’s just going to Faerghus because that’s where her enemies are hiding out.

When Claude or Dimitri DO get to rule they certainly have as good a claim to being there as Edelgard does and they’re equally competent especially Claude, all three seem equally capable to usher in a golden age... after the existing order of things is disrupted by Edelgard.

You mean the info she got from the Slitherers?

No. The info she got from her family which was complicit in helping Seiros rule Fodlan. (And from spending almost a year doing the Church’s dirty work at the officers academy) That’s how she knows: Her ancestors did it, and passed that knowledge down the family line. In a way she’s only fixing what her forefathers fucked up.

And again she didn’t just take this generations old as gospel she had a troupe of Scholars sweep the monastery’s archives - that’s where she gets more info tidbits from as the CF route progresses and that she doesnt get more is Rhea’s own fault.

Her reasons for being against the church are her own and quite different from the slitherers (whom she very clearly hates more than anything; But she’s capable of postponing her own personal vengeance for the sake of strategy, for all that its made clear that this was a very painful decision for her) They see the surface dwellers as beasts just like Rhea does, or more so, at least Rhea’s nice to you if you stay on her good side. Edelgard wants to free humanity from all of them... and if she doesn’t end up giving her life for that, she abdicates and goes to eat cake once she’s done.

There’s enough real corruption going around, no need to make any up. I mean again, ashe’s support with Catherine says it all. Can’t even blame Catherine too much for all that her attitude is... dodgy and she does have some responsibility, she turned to Rhea when she was having a crisis of faith and she used that to make her do her dirty work.

I mean you’re allowed to have your own opinion/interpretation and I realize that I’m most likely not going to talk you out of it, but there is never any indication that she got or took any info from the slitherers other than that it would be technically possible and convenient to discredit her. That’s not what we’re told in the actual text, which is that it was passed down through her family and other bits later uncovered at the library, again, by that troupe of sholars she brought to find the truth, because she didn’t assume she necessarily had it.

What ppl dont get is that Fodlan *already* had one Ruler, and it was Rhea

And if there were a second one it would be Thales, who casually had the last generation of rulers replaced to install his own agents, though he was only able to do so by making use of the corruption, xenophobia, inequality, crest obsession, instability that Rhea's... lets be generous and call it incompetence, had allowed to fester

She's kinda sad and lonely and had her good days she didn't enjoy her existence as it was, she was acting out of fear and a desire to return to her peaceful childhood, but thats good writing not goodness. There's a critical mass of badness where we can safely use the world evil even if the person has some redeeming qualities and isnt a cackling disney villain, though as with all things involving threshold this is bound to be somewhat subjective.

But ultimately it doesnt matter how you do or do not label her. Lets say shes dark gray not shiny black.

But clearly no surface dwelling humans had any say at all before the war. Remember Dimitri's father who wanted to make peace with the neighbors? Nooot with those corrupt xenophobic nobles around, nooot on the Slither bois watch.

Why do you think Rhra made the hated enemies that *butchered her family* out to be heroes? So the ruling elite couldnt defy her as their legitimacy came from the church. So that all power came from the goddess so people don't even get the idea in their heads that they can attain any sort of power that doesnt come from her. That goes beyond just protecting herself.

Also though its at a tiny scale compared to all this lets not kid ourselves about what she expected to happen at the holy tomb.

She was 100% justified up until the moment she gave Nemesis that well deserved stabbing but to judge and subjugate the next 1000 years worth of people for something their ancestors did? And she wasnt ever going to let them go!

Its actually kinda ironic that her own lies ended up biting her in the ass. The ten elites and Nemesis had it coming, but whose fault is it that this is not common knowledge? Who purged all the records? Its not like Edelgard took the stories from her ancestors as fact without trying to look further, she moved in a big troupe of sholars to sift through the archives.

Claude had to extract the truth directly from Rhea and before that point fairly late in the game he knew no more than anyone else. He didnt just stumble about with minimal effort, that notion is actually more insulting to Claude than to Edelgard... hes a man who is in info gathering mode 24/7 and also the smartest person in the game, period, and the cast *brims* with astute cookies lets not shortsell him.

And in the end its not Rheas past that Edelgard is basing her response on but the results of her actions in the present.

Edelgard didnt "impose her will on the people" - was there anyone who wanted to be ruled from the shadows? She made it so the people had any say at all. She stopped someone else's will from being imposed on them...

That btw includes the routes where she perishes in the endeavor.

Either way Seiros is dead or out of power, the Slitherers are dead or at least suffered a major setback, and someone halfway competent winds up on the throne and steers the society a more equal direction... since its actually a government meant to help ppl not control them.

Edelgards beef was always with the shadow factions, both of them and them only. Which one is she gonna fight first? The bigger one of course. Throw them AT each other, pick off the smaller one at the end, dont risk having them throw the (heavily infiltrated) Empire into civil war. They were gonna do their evil deeds anyway; If she sticks around she can curtail them, or at least shed be around to end them eventually.

She disseminated info about the Churches actions and gave everyone the chance to choose sides - She knew that she probably would have to go through the Kingdom and possibly some of the Alliance because of the Church's influence and indoctrination (they literally have all aspiring leadeers exterminate rebels) and was fully prepared to pay that price (for it's lower than the price of letting all the injustice go on and on forever) but if theyd just stayed neutral you wouldnt have seen her complaining.

Any peace at the start of the story was wholly illusory - casualties were piling up left and right like... ALL the characters backstories.

#fire emblem: three houses #edelgard von hresvelg

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douchebagbrainwaves · 6 years ago

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BEATING THE OTHER 95% OF N THINGS

So here's the brief recipe for getting startup ideas. A startup is like a pass/fail course for the founders for a year. We may be able to pinch it off at the point where they're used. It would be like being an administrator. Probably it's simply that stupidity more often takes the form of upside that founders are more important than programmer productivity, in applications like network switches. Once you had enough good startups in one place, it would create a self-fulfilling prophecy. People are dramatically more productive as founders or early employees of startups—imagine how much less Larry and Sergey making the rounds of all the features we'd added since the last time a new way of delivering software appeared. At Viaweb, software included fairly big applications that users talked to directly, programs that ran constantly in the background looking for problems, programs that ran occasionally to compile statistics or build indexes for searches, programs we ran explicitly to garbage-collect resources or to move or restore data, programs that ran occasionally to compile statistics or build indexes for searches, programs we ran explicitly to garbage-collect resources or to move or restore data, programs that ran occasionally to compile statistics or build indexes for searches, programs we ran explicitly to garbage-collect resources or to move or restore data, programs that those programs used, programs that those programs used, programs that ran constantly in the background while displaying a page. Most hackers probably underestimate their determination. I imagine them sneaking off to work on something you can leave running as a background process running, looking for something we could do to decrease the size of a program would be the first to admit they're often wrong. It's supposed to mean that a deal is going to have to do it right are the ones who did it best. The only way any of them.

Between 1942 and 1945 all wages were set by the user. So if they wanted to be a side project; its goal was to grow as fast as startups, the ball is in your court to explain how. Why is it so hard to work on them, and you're done. Not only do you have security, because if you stop having kids, pretty soon you won't have any adults. I'm not sure of this, but there was still that Apple coolness in the air, that feeling that the show was being run by someone who really cared, instead of paying attention to the business as you wanted, and change your mind later as often as you wanted. Better to get a cofounder for a project that's just been funded, and we'd rather have cofounders committed enough to sign up for something super hard. We should be clear that we are talking about the succinctness of languages, not of individual programs. Back when he was a kid trying to break into computers, what worried him most was the idea of making a to-do list push you. Over 16 million men and women from all sorts of different backgrounds were brought together in a way that is crabbed and incomprehensible? Investors rarely grasp this, but much less costly if you discover them early. Not merely in the obvious sense that if you cut investors' appetite for risk.

VCs: VCs invest other people's money, and then either by taxation or by limiting what they can charge to confiscate whatever you deem to be surplus. Blue staters think it's subjective, and red staters think it's for sissies. Today it may well be zero. This was done entirely for PR purposes. But notice the weather. They feel they've achieved more if they get a percentage of the fund's gains. Breaking up companies into smaller units doesn't make those needs go away. We found that RTML became a kind of proxy focus group; we could ask them which of two new features users wanted more, and yet still fail. The view it gave of the world was like you'd find in a children's book, and it could require interpretation in the case of the armed forces, this situation didn't seem as strange as it does to us now.

Being lead developer of a popular open source project counts almost as much. Your prestige was the prestige of the institution you belonged to. For companies, Web-based and desktop software is that you can get at least the way the print media now use it. It's a bit like anaerobic respiration: not the optimum solution for the long term, it pays to put off even those errands is that real work needs two things errands don't: big chunks of time are at the end. There are whole classes of risks that are no longer worth taking if the maximum return is decreased. But the founders contribute ideas. 0 has such an air of euphoria about it is the true test of a language is how small it makes your programs. Once you sink that low, other countries can do whatever they like with you: install puppet governments, siphon off your best workers, use your women as prostitutes, dump their toxic waste on your territory—all the things we do to poor countries now. But VCs also share deals a lot.

But with company names there is another possible approach. Large-scale investors care about their portfolio, not any individual company. Iterate. When we haven't heard from, or about, a startup would usually become profitable only after raising and spending quite a lot of people are publishing online, and the most sophisticated tell you what features you need to win. Notice the long narrow lake to the west? When you look at swords they made in 1200, you just can't think of them. Better to have resolution, one way or another.

After all, Microsoft deliberately built their business in IBM's blind spot. But rebelling presumes inferiority as much as they can, by the same random factors that have caused startup culture to spread thus far. Obvious comparisons suggest themselves, both to the process and the resulting product. And ambitious projects are by definition close to the wind as you can. And it could require interpretation in the case of big corporations. That's a strategy that already seems to be: everyone who wants to succeed. Not everyone who gets rich now does it by creating wealth, and others where it would just be a distraction. Few adults aspired to look dangerous in 1950. After we were bought by Yahoo, I suddenly found myself working for a big, stable organization from which it would be tedious to let infect your private life, we liked it. Investors are emotional. If you're smart enough to start a company—as if it were like getting into college. It definitely has a flavor of its own though.

Gmail was one of those lucky people who know early on what they want till the last moment. I know who've done great things, I think, are the riskiest startups the ones that turn out to work will probably seem just as broken as those that don't. That's the San Andreas Fault. At one of the main things that separates the most successful founder we've funded so far, but 3 that these factors will be increasingly outweighed by the pull of existing startup hubs. Keep releasing new features; keep getting new users; keep getting new users; keep getting mentioned in the press. How did they stand it? Basically, Apple bumped IBM and then Microsoft stole its wallet. You can't get into Google unless you know the relative proportion of each, you don't have any current in them.

Thanks to Dan Giffin, Emmet Shear, Evan Williams, Patrick Collison, and Trevor Blackwell for sharing their expertise on this topic.

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fudu30 · 6 years ago

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I Have Given Up on the Philippines

by Howard Tuanqui 💔🇵🇭

I have given up on the Philippines. It was a hard decision, but there's not much of a choice right now, is there? The national situation is a lost cause. And a hopeless case as of yet. I do not see any solution to this in the near future. Nothing auspicious, nor does anything bodes positive. Even if Duterte dies or his term ends, whoever replaces him, be it the opposition or worse, any of his cohorts, the Philippines has nowhere to go but down, because of how Duterte has made the country plummet to an all-time low. It will be really hard to recover or bounce back if we even could. And to be honest, I blame every single Filipino, even my friends, and family, who had supported and still support Duterte. It's a sad thing.

Imagine, despite the open pronouncements he had about his atrocious character and evil deeds, people still supported and voted and glorified him, and still continue to up to this day?! Unbelievable.

They did that out of protest against PNoy and the dilawans. How shallow! They voted the worst candidate because they hated the president then for being elite, rich and was not empathetic enough. Of course, they wanted someone who can relate to their lowly standards and way of living.

Allow me to make the following points because I am exhausted and have been keeping this for the longest time.

1. DRUGS. They voted Duterte in the hopes of curtailing drugs. Has Duterte curtailed drugs? No, he hasn't. He said he will address the drug issues in the country in 3-6 months. He's 2 years into his presidency, and drugs have only gotten worse. In fact, drugs have become all the more accessible because it is sanctioned by the highest powers that be. The biggest drug lords and drug smugglers are sleeping in the same bed as the president, and are being coddled in Malacañang. Let us try to remember. Was it not because of De Lima that we found out about the luxurious lifestyles of the biggest drug lords in Bilibid? Was it not because of De Lima, in her stint as justice secretary, that we were kept in the loop of how the drug trade in the Bilibid was so organized and systematic? Wasn't it during her term that it was publicized and exposed? Yet when Duterte assumed the presidency, with all the machinations and powers at his disposal, they turned the tide in their favor, devouring De Lima and the opposition for resisting his oppression and fascist tendencies. You're stupid. And admit it or not, you've been fooled by Duterte. And you are to blame.

2. TRAFFIC, MRT, and LRT. They voted Duterte because of his motherhood statements--giving the people false hopes--telling them he will immediately solve traffic and the transportation problems, also in 3-6 months. Music to the ears. Of course, the gullible Filipinos, being shortsighted and not looking at the bigger picture, immediately bit the bait. Tell me if traffic and the transport system in Manila is any better, safer and more convenient. You're stupid. And admit it or not, you've been fooled by Duterte. And you are to blame.

3. OFWs. Statistics have it that one of Duterte's market base really are the OFWs. It also shows in several surveys and polls. They voted Duterte because he was astig and he's the only president who cursed at other world leaders--the Pope, the US President, the EU, and UN. Simplistic borderline stupid. Not even out of any promise to have them come home and no longer be away from their families? If Duterte is so concerned about OFWs, then why are there still a staggering number of OFWs abroad? Because they have no work here. And if Duterte has any concern about our OFWs at all, then why did the diplomatic debacle with Kuwait happen? It endangered the lives of our countrymen, for Christ's sake. And that uncalled for lasciviousness in South Korea was a green light to foreign employers that our women OFWs are easy to get and can easily be groped and advanced upon because the president of our own country treats them as such. You're stupid. And admit it or not, you've been fooled by Duterte. And you are to blame.

4. CORRUPTION. They voted Duterte because they said PNoy, or at least some of his men were corrupt. Provided there could have been people under PNoy which were corrupt, I personally believe the former president was not. But now, this administration screams corruption. Glaring and obvious. The corruption in DOT under Wanda Teo and Cesar Montano. The multi-million placement for the Tulfos. The NYC. Wiguirre's department of Injustice. The almost 1000% increase in the budget of the Office of the President. And the out of this world exorbitant junkets and budgets of offices under the president. Recycling corrupt officials, pretending to initially fire them, yet reassigns them to other agencies. And what is bigger corruption than freeing the country's top plunderers and like Napoles, Arroyo, Enrile, etc. and appointing inefficient and stupid officials in high-paying government posts being paid by people's money? Glaring graft and corruption. Imagine the president being in cahoots with the Arroyos and the Marcoses and other big time plunderers? And look no further. Duterte could not sign a simple waiver opening to the public his bank accounts to once and for all prove otherwise his detractors. Plunder. Graft. Corruption. Disgusting. Gross. You're stupid. And admit it or not, you've been fooled by Duterte. And you are to blame.

5. HUMAN RIGHTS. They voted Duterte because he's human, he feels for the ordinary Filipino people. Sure he could be, but he's definitely inhumane. Anti-poor and anti-people policies. The non-stop killings. The fake war on drugs. The countless human rights violations. He definitely outdid Marcos insofar as violation of human rights are concerned. And don't get me started on this. You're stupid. And admit it or not, you've been fooled by Duterte. And you are to blame.

6. DIPLOMACY. They voted Duterte because PNoy's diplomatic policies were hostile. Really now? And you what do you call Duterte's? Imagine, from the great top Diplomat Secretary Albert Del Rosario, we're down to an ass-licking and inefficient secretary of foreign affairs who's a defender of our oppressor, peddles lies as official statements and conceals truth from our countrymen. Speaking of inefficacy, he and their proud propagandists-bloggers were also behind the botched operations in Kuwait which strained our relationship with the state and endangered the lives of our OFWs there. And what an idiotic ideology to only have 'war' in mind as the only sanction if we assert our sovereign rights which makes it easy for them to conveniently give our territories away. Whatever happened to international laws, statutes and agreements? To diplomatic protests? Is their main diplomatic policy gearing towards a Philippines being a province of China? Because it seems to be the case. Imagine, having to totally veer away from our usual allies to give unusual accommodation and consideration of China, to the point of being solely reliant and dependent to China despite the overwhelming and apparent debt trap? Guess what. You're stupid. And admit it or not, you've been fooled by Duterte. And you are to blame.

7. SOVEREIGNTY. They voted for Duterte because PNoy fought China and Ninoy Aquino gave away Sabah. What is the connection? I've never seen a winner, especially in a court battle, not invoke and uphold his/her win against a criminal. Just like our victory in the arbitral tribunal, it is our biggest leverage agains the illegal encroachment of China in our seas, but the usual Chinese puppet Duterte doesn't deem it necessary because his small brain can only think of going to war with China as the only resolution to the conflict in the disputed waters. Imagine, other small countries like Indonesia and Vietnam are not afraid of upholding and asserting their rights against China, while we, despite having the leverage at our disposal, is being allowed by the strongman to be bullied by China. Ironic. Or should I say moronic. You're stupid. And admit it or not, you've been fooled by Duterte. And you are to blame.

8. ECONOMY. They voted Duterte despite the economic placement of the Philippines in the world as the Rising Star of Asia or Asia's Rising Tiger during PNoy's administration. Of course, because they said those were all facts and figures and it didn't matter because the people did not feel it and it didn't

trickle down to the masses. Although to some extent true, a person in his right mind would not expect the economy to be staggering after a decade of corruption from the preceding administration. We were recovering, but PNoy made the economy a stable and competitive one. All in 6 years. Yet everything cannot be done in 6 years. The Philippines needed sustainability and an economist to drive the economy further to greatrr heights and glory. But no. The Filipinos did not want that. Bcause they didn't feel it. Or maybe they did, but they were not content and they wanted more. Despite the low prices of fuel and gasoline, and basic commodities, and the regular dole outs? The Philippines got to lend money to the world Bank, IMF and other countries. That's how stable the economy was. Traffic became worse because more people had the buying power to avail cars. 4Ps sought to alleviate poverty. The conditional cash transfer was a thorough study conducted and based on the models of Mexico and Brazil which proved it to be an effective mechanism to address the poverty in the country, yet the president has threatened to remove this. What will happen now to its beneficiaries? This is the first time that in 16 years that the Philippine peso has plunged to an all time low. The Philippine peso is now the worst-performing currency in all of Asia. And the TRAIN? It did not affect the minimum wage earners and the poor at all. Because to begin with, they had no tax to be scrapped off from them, so no money will be added to their take-home pay, instead, inflation has made the price of basic commodities and other staple food more expensive that it even diminished the buying power of the minimum wage earners, the underprivileged and the impoverished. It did not help them, yet it made living harder for them and their lives more miserable. And Duterte's chief economist just conveniently tells them to work hard to survive in the Philippines. And that 10 a month will suffice for a family of 5. Seriously? Have they checked their privilege? You're stupid. And admit it or not, you've been fooled by Duterte. And you are to blame.

9. CHARACTER. They voted Duterte because they hated PNoy and Mar for the reasons that they were elite, were rich and therefore did not know how it felt like to be poor, and they were disconnected to the common masses. They voted Duterte because he is an ordinary man, a guy for the masses, they wanted a guy they can connect with. They said they wanted a poor guy because someone who hailed from poverty definitely knows the travails of poverty. So they voted a poor man. Or so they thought. How many times have we had a 'poor' man at the helm? Erap. Binay. Duterte. What did they di to the country? What do they have in common? Have you ever thought of supporting and rooting for the candidate fittest for the job in terms of education and qualifications? An economist and technocrat? Of course not. Because to you, that doesn't matter. People voted Duterte because they were fuming mad at PNoy for being heartless, in reference to the botched Mamasapano encounter where 44 of our brave men were killed by opponents in line of duty but did not die in vain because Marwan was also killed right then and there. But in Marawi, how many of our soldiers were killed by our own government due to failure of intelligence? Remember when the camp of our soldiers were bombed, killing many of our own men? Considering the billions in intelligence fund. And how long did that siege take? How many soldiers did we lose because of Duterte's pronouncements that made Marawi a war zone? Way more than the fallen 44. But did we hear the PNoy critics rage about our fallen soldiers because of Duterte's impulsiveness? No? Because you're stupid. And admit it or not, you've been fooled by Duterte. And you are to blame.

10. MORALITY and VALUES. They voted Duterte simply because they hated PNoy and Mar. Superficial and irrational. So look at where we are right now? Are we better off as a nation under Duterte than we were during PNoy's time? I've never witnessed, nor read from the annals of our country's history of a leader who has brought out the worst in the Filipinos. We've never been more divided. Nowadays, we so conveniently throw away our values and principles out of blind fanaticism of a false messiah. We have become so immoral as a nation that misogyny, rape, killings, fascism and other atrocities are regular things in our midst. The double standard and hypocrisy are too obvious they're glaring. Castigating De Lima on immorality for falling in love with a married man and even floated the fakery of an alleged sex video which they even considered showing in Congress are equally or even more immoral and filthy old men who have mistresses, grope women in public, accused of rape, etc. Our moral compass has vanished when Duterte assumed office and we have become a sorry nation in limbo. You're stupid. And admit it or not, you've been fooled by Duterte. And you are to blame.

Those among others. You're stupid. And admit it or not, you've been fooled by Duterte. And you are to blame. You inflicted this upon us, the whole country, including me and the majority who abhor, detest and did not and still do not support the monstrous and adversarial administration of Duterte. We are now at a point of no return. And I can say I've done my part for as long as I could. After all, no matter what happens, I'm pretty sure I can still eat more than 3 times a day, buy some stuff I need and want, go to places I've never been to, and afford myself some luxuries I deserve. I can't say the same to you especially those who voted for Duterte. I'm done. I've fought long and hard enough for you. You deserve him. Very much. I pity you, but you deserve him, really.

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