10/17/2021
[Mandatory apology for not posting]
On a serious note, none of this post is designed to call for assassination or political violence of any kind outside of Minecraft. There is no position taken on political violence in Minecraft.
At 12:05, on October 15, MP David Amess was stabbed to death in Essex. He was in Parliament from 1983 to 2021. An absolute institution of the Tories, stabbed to death by a Somali immigrant at a constituency meeting.
For all the blustering and grandstanding about “democracy”, said democracy comes down to an increasingly activist cultural left wing, an overly-meek right wing, unified on the necessity of the altar of making sure that Wall Street can make money, just differing on how many modlib-pride-month-black-lives-matter signifiers they can wrap it up in. “Democracy” has entirely succeeded at its purpose (being a farce meant to trick the people into thinking their government is for them), and utterly failed at actually representing the people. Of course, more and more people by the day are realizing the nature of the scam. This is happening mostly on the right, due to the fact that they’re out of any kind of significant power on all fronts (but mainly social and cultural), but regardless of politics, the lie is being revealed and people are understanding that politics is not there for you, it’s there to fatten up politicians’ wallets and to let Wall Street & a motley crew of demented activists who couldn’t care less about material factors of progress and whatnot, but rather, only feelings. Their feelings.
Now, when you want to take control of governance, but the system has you locked out, there’s only one recourse for you. I have taken to lovingly calling this recourse “DPA” (Direct Political Action), and it is composed of grabbing your Moist Nugget (or similar), climbing on top of a normal office building, and aiming at your sena- assassination. it’s a funny euphemism for assassination.
Now, before you ragequit your browser and punch through your screen, think about this one.
We have reached a point where DPA is not an unthinkable (indeed, in a recent conversation, an unnamed person close to me specifically said he would shed no tears if a local official was killed. I obviously have no numbers here, but I guarantee you that you are close to a lot of people who are more than okay with someone else pulling the trigger), nor an unreasonable action. The system has utterly failed nearly everyone who isn’t upper-middle-class or above, and the assassinated are supposedly "public servants”. Many of them are fully entrenched. As said before, Amess’ assassination ended a nearly four-decade career. Across the ocean, the Speaker of the House, president pro tempore, and both chambers’ majority leaders have careers bottoming out at 22 goddamn years with Chuck Schumer, ranging all the way up to still having a Watergate Baby approaching a half-century of tenure in Pat Leahy. The only person ever coming to remove these people from their positions is the Grim Reaper. What is a citizen with a grievance to do? We’re far past phone calls and angry letter-writing doing anything. Quite literally, the only thing any given man can do to fight a gerontocracy designed to grind him into dust, is to pick up a handgun and find his senator’s next public appearance. He can’t just hope. He has to call the Reaper yourself.
Now, we’re Bringing It All Back Home (with respect to Bob Dylan) to Amess. This will not just be a one-and-done, so-sad, bury-him-move-on assassination like it was with Jo Cox. This is going to be the first of many, many, many more. The assassination is about to come roaring back into the limelight in the First World. It’s the logical endgame of politics in neolib nations now. The only possible political action that makes a damn nowadays is Direct Political Action. This isn’t new, but the difference between now and 5 years ago is that more and more people actually realize this than did 5 years ago. The only way to make the establishment turn its head is a gruesome spectacle. Nancy Pelosi and co. could not give fewer shits about what they were elected to do. Their pay is set, and they’re going to be able to keep making money & performatively kneel for fentanyl addicts until they drop dead. But if they’re aware that anyone, anywhere, could be gunning for them in a literal sense, they might actually stop and pay attention. They just might. Probably not. But maybe. It’s a possibility. Not set in stone, but it has a chance of actually getting their attention. There is no accountability in the mechanics of governance anymore with the exception of the President. And if the election was actually stolen, then there isn’t even accountability for the President anymore. It is a serious possibility that more and more people realize this and understand that accountability by the bullet will be the only kind of accountability possible from now on.
And that brings me to the state of the world, October 17, 2021. The media condemns riots based only on who does them. The rules of politics change depending on who’s doing a politics, but more and more, in the first world at least, political violence is becoming normalized, and more importantly, cheered on. A lot of Trump supporters I know think the Capitol riot was funny, righteous, or both. We all saw the extended circus that was support for riots destroying entire neighborhoods of cities. It’s okay and even acceptable to cheer on /yourguy/ when he breaks shit in the name of politics. Is it really a stretch that this cheering on could be extended to the new Oswalds and Booths of our time? There is absolutely nothing to suggest the death of an elected official who’s betrayed his constituents would provoke a stronger condemnation than the destruction of blocks and blocks of cities where people live and work.
And to the politicians… I’m not endorsing assassination in any capacity, but, freedom to discard your constituents doesn’t entail freedom from consequences.