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xiphiasThe Verge points out that, with the Net Neutrality thing, none of the people who wanted to kill it even ever bothered to pretend to make a bullshit argument about why it should be ended. They didn't even pretend that it was good for the country, or that it was anything other than a giveaway to large media companies. They were quite open about the fact that they were screwing over the American people, and that they didn't care.
The tax bill, they at least made some fake arguments that it would help people. They were obvious lies, and they didn't try very hard to make it sound like they were working on behalf of the people, but they at least pretended a little. Nonetheless, the folks in power are less and less even pretending to care about democracy.
And, well, that leads to the barricades and the guillotines. And there's a large part of me that's okay with that. I'm not saying that some of my friends are stockpiling weapons; I'm just saying that some of us have developed a recent interest in collecting interesting firearms. And I've been reading up on trauma medicine.
But here's why MOST of me ISN'T okay with that: populist uprisings always come after the Jews eventually.
We Jews are often on the front lines in social uprisings. The anarchists, the international Communist parties, the violent wings of the unions -- lots of Jews were involved in all of those. And if the fascist wing of the Republican party manages to corrupt voting to the point that there is no way to get them out, and if there DOES come an uprising, Jews will be there.
And after that? After that, people will talk about the rich bankers and the media that were controlling all the things that got us into this mess in the first place, and what they'll mean are "Jews", and people are going to talk about how Zionism is genocide, and then they'll come and kill us.
So I want this to be solved at the ballot box. Because if it comes to the cartridge box, it doesn't matter who I side with: the winner will come kill me next.
The tax bill, they at least made some fake arguments that it would help people. They were obvious lies, and they didn't try very hard to make it sound like they were working on behalf of the people, but they at least pretended a little. Nonetheless, the folks in power are less and less even pretending to care about democracy.
And, well, that leads to the barricades and the guillotines. And there's a large part of me that's okay with that. I'm not saying that some of my friends are stockpiling weapons; I'm just saying that some of us have developed a recent interest in collecting interesting firearms. And I've been reading up on trauma medicine.
But here's why MOST of me ISN'T okay with that: populist uprisings always come after the Jews eventually.
We Jews are often on the front lines in social uprisings. The anarchists, the international Communist parties, the violent wings of the unions -- lots of Jews were involved in all of those. And if the fascist wing of the Republican party manages to corrupt voting to the point that there is no way to get them out, and if there DOES come an uprising, Jews will be there.
And after that? After that, people will talk about the rich bankers and the media that were controlling all the things that got us into this mess in the first place, and what they'll mean are "Jews", and people are going to talk about how Zionism is genocide, and then they'll come and kill us.
So I want this to be solved at the ballot box. Because if it comes to the cartridge box, it doesn't matter who I side with: the winner will come kill me next.
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Date: 2017-12-15 02:29 am (UTC)