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I finished reading the Book of Mormon for the first time all the way through today. I can testify to the truth and righteousness of that book, there is real power in those pages. If you haven’t read it, I pray that you will with real intent and a mind of understanding.
This is the White and Delightsome world I want to live in.
This cannot exist with 3rd world savages filling our streets and communities.
My car wouldn't start in a Tractor Supply parking lot in Tennessee, so I opened the hood.
I know nothing about engines. In American movies, opening the hood is how a man calls for help. It works outside the movies too.
The first one arrived in under two minutes with a fifty-pound bag of chicken feed on his shoulder. No hello. He set the feed on my bumper, put his hands on his hips, and looked into my engine.
Then a man from a truck hauling fence posts. Hands on hips.
Then an older man came out of the store holding a receipt. He had not finished paying. Through the window I could see the cashier still holding his card. I think he heard the hood.
Nobody touched anything. Nobody asked my name. Three strangers stood around my engine like it was a campfire.
"Battery," said Chicken Feed.
"Could be the starter," said Fence Posts.
"It's not the starter," said Receipt.
Fence Posts made a clicking noise with his mouth to show what a bad starter sounds like. Receipt said that was the wrong click and did his own, and for a while two grown men in Tennessee just clicked at each other. I did not interrupt. It felt religious.
It was the battery. The terminals were crusted white. Chicken Feed walked to his truck, came back with a can of Coca-Cola, cracked it, and poured it on my battery.
"Has to be Coke."
"Pepsi works," said Fence Posts.
"Pepsi does not work, Ronnie."
"It's the same acid!"
"Then why'd God make Coke?"
I looked it up that night. Men have been having this exact argument online since at least 2004.
The sun was going down. Receipt said, "Somebody hold a light," and a flashlight was in my hand.
I pointed it at the battery.
"Not there. Where I'm looking."
I moved it.
"Where I'm looking NOW."
For ten minutes I chased an old man's eyes around an engine with a beam of light. I have trained with a sword for twenty years. Nothing has ever asked more of my wrists.
Then, without looking up, Receipt said, "Don't watch my hands, son. Watch my face. Took my daddy eleven years of yelling to teach me that."
So I watched his face. I saw where he was going to look before he looked, and the light was already waiting there.
He stopped correcting me.
The car started on the first try. Nobody cheered. Chicken Feed took his feed back off my bumper, Fence Posts said "There ya go," and in under a minute they were gone, the way they came.
I was closing my hood when a truck two rows over wouldn't turn over. Up went its hood. A father, and a boy of maybe nine.
I walked over with the flashlight. I did not ask. I put the light where the father's eyes were about to go.
He glanced at me. Then at his son.
"Watch how he holds it."
Let it be known far and wide, we only wanted to be left alone and realize the American Dream, but then traitors brought invaders to our homes, slaughtered and took advantage of us… we were not the ones who hated first.
We are the fulfillment of the consequences of the state.
LET THERE BE FIYAHH!!!
Happy Halloween, everyone! Remember to build community and hate your government!
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The Empire were the good guys. At minimum, the Jedi were the bad ones, and it isn't close.
The original trilogy runs on Saturday-morning-cartoon morality: space wizards good, planet-killer bad. Then Lucas came back as an older man to explain why the most gifted Jedi alive would walk away. In doing so he accidentally made three movies of evidence for the defense.
Exhibit A: the Republic. Its Senate was too paralyzed to stop a trade blockade of one of its own worlds, and nothing passed until every faction got its cut. The Jedi spent those years running errands for it like galactic rent-a-cops. Meanwhile a Sith Lord climbed to the top of the government they were supposed to be guarding. No wonder Anakin, told his politics sounded like a dictatorship, shrugged: "Well, if it works."
Exhibit B: how they treated him. He was a boy conceived by the Force, the Chosen One of their own prophecy, and the Council didn't want him, mostly because he scared them. Qui-Gon won him in a bet and left his mother in slavery. In ten years the Order never went back for her. They forbade him to marry, under a code that treats love as a character flaw. They gave him a Council seat, denied him the rank of Master in the same breath, then asked him to spy on the Chancellor. When he came to Yoda terrified of losing someone, the advice was to let go of everything he feared to lose. He came back from Tatooine having done something unspeakable, and his teachers never even noticed.
Exhibit C: the Code. It was sacred every time it cost Anakin something. The moment it protected Palpatine (disarmed, beaten, owed a trial), Mace Windu decided he was too dangerous to live. This was the same Mace who had floated the idea of the Council taking control of the Senate. They threw the Code out the window the second it suited them, which is how Mace ended up out the window himself.
Exhibit D: everything else. "Only a Sith deals in absolutes" is an absolute. They took babies from their parents. They were peacekeepers who led a cloned army they never ordered and never questioned. They revered the prophecy until it got inconvenient, then decided it had been misread. Their plan to finish the Sith was to send a son to kill his father. Luke refused, and what actually saved the galaxy was the attachment the Jedi spent generations forbidding. Even Luke ended up calling their legacy failure and hypocrisy.
Anakin wanted what a lot of young men want: a wife, a family, a chance to be a hero and fix what was broken. The Republic offered him celibacy, suspicion, and errands. Palpatine offered a way to save the woman he loved. That's why this story hits so hard for so many young guys. The tragedy isn't that Anakin got corrupted. It's that he chased the things they want too, and lost everything anyway.
Not that anyone wins. Vader becomes a cyborg and Palpatine a cryptkeeper. Obi-Wan spends nearly twenty years in a desert hut, and Luke follows the Jedi path to an island where he drinks green milk from a sea monster. The New Republic inherits every problem the old one had.
HELL YEAH GO WALT!
Now make sure you actually help the man instead of giving him an award and ushering him to the side again. Follow through is of UTMOST IMPORTANCE here.
- lifetime red baron four cheese pizza connoisseur before it was cool, by the way.
Very relevant to the Red Baron Guy post as well.
Every libertarian I know says “End the Fed” and just hopes everyone else just understands.
They don’t. @ComicDaveSmith explains it perfectly
This is just a terrible thing to see… this is what our politicians have made our once beautiful country to be, somewhere you go to work your ass off day in day out for people who hate you and the general public to shit on you any way they can.
The American Dream is dead.
