A holy war is being waged with American bombs. The Pentagon, the Senate, and the pulpit are all singing from the same hymnal. This isn't hypocrisy. It's sincerity.
I don't know what the big attraction is in framing it as a war of a "good" religion against an "evil" religion. What is this, the Middle Ages? It was for the Iraqis--during that war, they called us the Crusaders. Maybe the Iranians are doing the same now. Are they wrong?
I don't think anyone's gonna come to the conclusion that they're the "good guys." But I think we've guaranteed that we can never be seen as the good guys either.
This is so much worse than invading Iraq. At least then they had the "decency" to lie about WMDs; to go in front of Congress and the UN and make their case. This time they just lied straight to the faces of the American people when Iran had essentially accepted every demand. It also doesn't happen that there's reporting that US and Israel had committed to attacking Iran regardless of how the negotiations went, before the negotiations had even started.
But unlike with Iraq, much of the American people are against it. Iraq was sold as revenge for 9/11. Most of us can see that Donald has no such thing to sell now.
Cheeto And Ritual Humiliation: Understanding Fascist Leaders
In a wonderful conversation between two historians and heroes of mine, Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Tim Snyder(https://bit.ly/4lcOvUc) take a look at past fascistic regimes and compare it to the current regime
The common theme of fascist leaders is that they are all malignant narcissists which means they are social psychopaths that don’t care at all for the people they represent as the leader of their societal governments As Snyder points out, the people of the electorate are treated not as humans but as objects to be used and discarded at the psychopaths whim
Which then led to the theme of ritual humiliation The sociopath is not satisfied in just firing people but in humiliating them on the way out Take Noem for example She learns about her firing on Truth Social after she gave a speech to a group of MAGA supporters Or the military in general Treated as objects who gave their lives for the country only now to have GI benefits pulled away from them It’s the ultimate fuck you And in a show of humiliating loyalty the recipient says on the way out “Thank you dear leader"
Cheeto hates Americans because WE the People are a constant threat to his power Figuratively he will end up like Mussolini hanging dead upside down at a gas station in Milan That’s what Cheeto is scared of And he should be
Mango Mussolini is becoming just as tiring and by the end the people will be so fucking sick of him and his destructive gravity that they will worship the day he is gone from the narrative.
I don't know what the big attraction is in framing it as a war of a "good" religion against an "evil" religion. What is this, the Middle Ages? It was for the Iraqis--during that war, they called us the Crusaders. Maybe the Iranians are doing the same now. Are they wrong?
That’s the thing… this time, we’re literally calling ourselves the crusaders… we’re not even waiting for them to try and make it a holy war.
Did you see this? They are starting to look like the good guys!
"Iran's president apologizes for strikes on neighbors as missiles and drones still pound their cities"
I don't think anyone's gonna come to the conclusion that they're the "good guys." But I think we've guaranteed that we can never be seen as the good guys either.
This is so much worse than invading Iraq. At least then they had the "decency" to lie about WMDs; to go in front of Congress and the UN and make their case. This time they just lied straight to the faces of the American people when Iran had essentially accepted every demand. It also doesn't happen that there's reporting that US and Israel had committed to attacking Iran regardless of how the negotiations went, before the negotiations had even started.
But unlike with Iraq, much of the American people are against it. Iraq was sold as revenge for 9/11. Most of us can see that Donald has no such thing to sell now.
Cheeto And Ritual Humiliation: Understanding Fascist Leaders
In a wonderful conversation between two historians and heroes of mine, Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Tim Snyder(https://bit.ly/4lcOvUc) take a look at past fascistic regimes and compare it to the current regime
The common theme of fascist leaders is that they are all malignant narcissists which means they are social psychopaths that don’t care at all for the people they represent as the leader of their societal governments As Snyder points out, the people of the electorate are treated not as humans but as objects to be used and discarded at the psychopaths whim
Which then led to the theme of ritual humiliation The sociopath is not satisfied in just firing people but in humiliating them on the way out Take Noem for example She learns about her firing on Truth Social after she gave a speech to a group of MAGA supporters Or the military in general Treated as objects who gave their lives for the country only now to have GI benefits pulled away from them It’s the ultimate fuck you And in a show of humiliating loyalty the recipient says on the way out “Thank you dear leader"
Cheeto hates Americans because WE the People are a constant threat to his power Figuratively he will end up like Mussolini hanging dead upside down at a gas station in Milan That’s what Cheeto is scared of And he should be
Mango Mussolini is becoming just as tiring and by the end the people will be so fucking sick of him and his destructive gravity that they will worship the day he is gone from the narrative.
Just like Mussolini.