I'm not jealous of rich people. I don't need a gold leaf wagyu steak to feel complete. I'm angry that a handful of people hoard all the money while the middle class shrinks and poverty reaches crisis levels.
It's rare for imagery this iconic to emerge organically.
It's just a still taken from the body cam of Henry's murder and yet it is so poetic in its composition.
The pale white flesh of Henry's hand, visibly depleted of blood as he is moments away from death, is both contrasted against his dark clothing and illuminated by the rays of the flashlight such that the image takes on the characteristics of a renaissance painting.
Henry's hand is curled into something like fist. It naturally draws comparisons to Black Lives Matter and the "Black Power" Fist iconography, Henry's dying paleness evoking "White Power," the boogeyman we have destroyed our societies attempting to stymie.
But there is no "White Power." Henry is dying. The fist is literally shackled, constrained, and drained of life. It is being "attacked" by the begloved hands, artificial, latex, inhuman, contorted into the shape of a predatory claw. These are literally the arms of the state. The "Systemic Organism." Our ultimate tyrant.
These are not the hands of the individual officers to whom they actually belong, but rather the hands of a system, a meta-organism. Hands following orders that did not come from the minds of the human individuals but rather the Systemic Egregore. Hands operating under explicit instructions to elevate testimony that claims "racism" and to treat all Whites with suspicion as avatars of that "ultimate evil" against which the system has oriented itself.
Except Henry was not evil. He was a victim of this inhuman system. This grotesquely maligned system embodied and visible in the grotesque blue claw clasping him and holding him down as he dies. The system that shackles the dying White "Power."
Henry is Britain. He is the West. We are all dying. We are all bleeding to death shackled by the inhuman systems we live under. And if we continue to be shackled by these systems, we will, like Henry, die.
The total repudiation of these governments are necessary to make any change. Incremental improvements are entirely insufficient. The time to be ungovernable is now.
Regime change is necessary. Remigration is necessary. The mass rejection of the status quo and its systems is necessary.
Revolution is necessary.
If you, through malice, negligence, apathy, or sheer IQ stunted incompetence, kill our sons or kill our daughters, I DO NOT want you to go to prison.
If you rule that a repeat violent offender should go free, who then harms the most innocent amongst us, I DO NOT want you merely disbarred or unseated.
If you break into our property to then steal and butcher the least of these of which God gave us dominion, I DO NOT want you deported.
If you rob and pillage our fellow citizens and ourselves of our tax dollars, especially to the tune of millions and billions in what is lazy unromanticized piracy, I DO NOT want you deported.
If you slaughter from distant cover, the best of us, and steal away mommies and daddies from the little ones I DO NOT want you to spend a long life in prison.
The Law should reflect the appropriate penalites for such gross crimes against us.
What kind of an American are you?
@ShadowofEzra Those who say that without these, progress will be impeded. What has any of the progress of the last 50 years really done for society at large, in terms of true happiness?
The number of AI data centers currently planned or under construction across this country are not necessary for efficiency tools or even generative AI.
It’s time to start calling them what they really are:
Surveillance Centers
@heresyfinancial Or just buy a second hand Toyota that has high mileage from long highway runs and you basically have a better car than anything new off the lot for a fraction of the price. Doesn't even have to be a beater. We have great cars and none were over $10K.