Sounds like a similar premise to Childhood's End.
flipht
joined 1 year ago
The whole gag to fascism is that it is 100% projection at all times, both internally and externally.
They attack people because they're afraid to get attacked and they can't imagine a situation where everyone isn't thinking exactly like them, so of course it's only a matter of time before they're attacked...and thus must attack.
It's circular and deeply uncreative, but it is the root of every bully, from the playground to the autocratic despot.
Yet another terrible thing about prisons - they target policing in urban areas where the population is high and tends to vote Democrat. Once arrested, tried, and convicted, that person is sent to a prison in the middle of nowhere - and now counts toward the population of that area, but cannot vote themselves.
Population is used to determine how congressional districts get allocated, and they haven't increased the number of congressional seats in decades. So as the prison population rises, they are gaining seats at the expense of urban areas losing the same number.
It's literally an updated version of the 3/5 compromise.
They already are. They worship the death of their God, ignoring all the stuff he said to do while he was alive. They won't engage in any common sense gun control. They worship the military while they're engaged in killing people, and then they demand those people continue to sacrifice their lives by underfunding and cutting benefits at the VA. They force births, but only to feed the machine with those bodies - once the kids are born, they try to stop them from receiving any benefits like food, medicine, or education - in large part to force them into the military or prisons where they can be controlled and used up.
Regressives the world over are not creative. They do what they do because they believe others will do it. They're bullies because they were bullied, and they don't want to be the victim, so they erroneously believe that means they have to strike first.
They never stop to think, "What if the world weren't shit? What can I do to make it better?" They accept as a fact that it is shit, and they believe the only way to come out ahead is to step on someone else.
When you get several of these people/groups pointing at each other, it becomes an infinite cycle.
Just under 550 miles. Google maps clocks it at just under 8 hours, but we also stopped three times for gas, twice for food, and a few extra times for bathrooms. And I didn't really speed. The family member who lives up there claims she can do it in 8 hours by barely stopping and speeding lol.
This. Their goal isn't logical consistency. It's to confuse every individual issue to such a degree that there will be conflicting court cases, at which point the supreme Court can step in and rule in the least democratic judgement possible.
I'm not sure why they get to set the standard for what people need to conform to, but somehow never have to make any compromises of their own.
In what situation would it be appropriate, legal, and approvable to burn down civilian houses in an occupied area?
I can't think of one.