I should get a fucking tumblr.

This .gif would be a lot more funny if it worked.

Even Fascism Isn't Perfect

I used to literally believe fascism was the most effective form of government but not anymore after being "brain washed" in the military. Cause I realized dictatorships/military rule are flawed in this aspect: When a staff NCO or a colonel thinks up something stupid as a task for his subordinates to perform, no one would raise his hand and say, "Hey, that's retarded" because they're too afraid of repercussions making the higher up look stupid.

That's how the military works a lot of times. A lot of guys do things they don't wanna do and somethings that seem even counter productive just because they're too afraid to speak up about it. The military doesn't award medals for moral courage. I don't know any branch that does. If society ran like that as a whole it would simply fucking suck balls.

It's been a decade...

Since my first full fledged rock and roll show. I saw Man or Astroman? perform at the El Rey theater back in 2001 on their last blow out tour. They've done a number of reunions since then but it was so amazing to watch as a first time concert.

Having that as a first concert is the equivalent of losing your virginity to Mila Kunis. {That happened to me too by the way.}

Gentiles of Armageddon

For various reasons I am obsessed with what will happen next in the world in which I live. Maybe it's because of things out of my control in my personal life, but I do obsess about things in the past and present and what will likely happen next in the future. Many moments I feel doom. I know humanity is doomed. I just want to know how it will all end.

Now from my time in Iraq, I have realized, very quickly, I am just a pawn to the people who have REAL control and influence in American foreign policy. I don't exactly know how it's set up. But a guy like C. Wright Mills wrote about this kinda stuff and he makes an awful lot of sense. However, we live in a very politically correct society, so pointing out the fact prominent people with ownership and influence of media conglomerates and international banking happen to be Jews, get less rational people to think there are more nefarious schemes going on. Especially for people REALLY hung up on race . Of course dismissing racist conspiracies, DOES NOT mean American media has the most balanced view about the Israel/Arab conflict, but Jews don't solely drive foreign policy.

In actuality, Jewish influence in international finance is a false link to why the US has always been very pro-Israel. Yeah sure, Paul Wolfowitz was President of the World Bank, but he's dating a frickin' Catholic Arab, so that kinda throws the Jewish supremacy theories into nonsense zone. The reality is people need to consider how much the American military amongst the brass and enlisted ranks are dominated by the Right. More specifically, the Christian Right.

Yes, in my time serving alongside fellow Marines, the general political consensus did not reflect the same latte sipping, self-hating white, liberal, atheists prevalent in more urban (and wealthier) communities. Even though I don't like to play up the latter's assumptions about the military, there was definitely a fundamentalist Christian element within the ranks. Besides poor people of every color, there were Marines I knew who considered their duties in Iraq as some type of new age Crusade. They considered themselves Christian warriors dominating Muslim lands as some weird form of Western chauvinism. It's nice to think the West still has a fighting spirit left, but it's nonetheless disturbing.

Jim Goad once wrote, "Skepticism and curiosity, not Jesus and Mary, are what made the West great."

Religion may have started civilization, but it was never the reason why civilizations progressed. Never. It was always secularism and it will always be secularism. Secularism is an offshoot of skepticism. Separate the church from the state. Separate the powers of the state. Separate the monopoly of media. No one should be the sole arbiter of the truth, especially if the people who tells you the truth is in words written by some goat fucker thousands of years ago.

But it's scary thing to fathom that Pat Robertson's thoughts on the Palestine/Israel conflict are taken literally by people who are issued high-powered, automatic rifles. Christian Zionism isn't anything new, but it's probably the main reason why there is such a large consensus in America supporting the state of Israel. Not because Jews dominate the banks and media, but because Evangelical Christians are convinced when the sons of Abraham return to Jerusalem, Jesus is gonna come back and bring forth the Apocalypse for all of mankind. To imagine REALLY INTELLIGENT GREEDY JEWS aren't the true master minds of the free world, but instead, INSANE RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS with their heads up their ass doesn't give ME a peace of mind. I don't know about you, but that sort of shit simply SCARES THE SHIT OUT OF ME! Christians seriously waiting on Jesus to return can be a really good laugh until you realize thousands of lives are at stake when that becomes true motivation for American foreign policy.

To make matters worse, there is this fellow named Erik Prince. The guy is straight out of a James Bond movie and I don't mean he's one of the good guys. I don't know if you are familiar with his professional life, but he started this little company called Blackwater USA now known as Xe. It was a private military contract corporation. For lack of a better term, the company was a mercenary front. The company got in a scandalous incident where quite a few Iraqi civilians died, and as fast as you can shout "NUREMBERG!" Prince resigned as CEO and ultimately left the "commercial enterprise" altogether.

He might be just like any other insane former Navy Seal turned Evangelical Christian, but he happens to have A LOT of MONEY and GUNS. And if you think about how Islam and guns mixes into a HOLY SHIT stain, you would kinda understand why Christianity and guns don't mix that well either. There are funny things you find out about the guy when you read the New York Times article.

For his new "privatized" security company in the United Arab Emirates, he has an official policy of not hiring Muslims so he hires Colombians instead. They might happen to have ties to deadly drug cartels, but you know, nobody's perfect. Sure contracting this guy out to Arab despots to enforce military rule across the Middle East might just embroil the US even more in the region, but it's most likely Americans will start to care when it's too late. It's not like we have universal conscription or anything.

Now I just wanna return to my point about the fate of the world. Besides the fact the modern world is incredibly dependent on oil, I just don't get why we have been so entrenched with affairs in the Muslim world. There is no way Americans love falafels THAT much. But I'm sure men like Erik Prince has the nation's best interest at heart. Either that or he thinks no matter what stupid or evil shit he does, as long as he's helping out "the cause", he's got that get-out-of-jail-free card from Hell to spend an eternity in Paradise. To that, I say to myself, "Oh Sky Cake, why must you be so delicious?"

Infotainment

You know, last year was the deadliest year for American forces in Afghanistan (after 9 years of occupation).

As we speak, Congress is writing (and will probably pass) one of the most restrictive internet laws in history.

Multinational corporations have made record profits and continue to do so, while many of my friends are running out of unemployment benefits during this economic “recovery.”

But it’s {relieving} to know, ALL of the news media networks will use these crimes in Arizona as a talking point about America’s favorite Republican for the next month. {That’s what I call progress.}