A disturbing book plans a ruthless total war against the “unhuman” left.

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    The old rules are over. The old order is over. Accusations are evidence. Activism means bigotry and hate. Criminals are allowed to roam free. Citizens are locked up. An appetite for vengeance is unleashed—to deplatform, debank, destroy.

    That’s some military grade projection

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    It really would be a shame if Project 2025 fell out of the news cycle for any reason

    Keep talking about this crazy shit, especially how Trump, trough his VP pick, Vance, is directly tied to it, even as Trump lies and says he is not.

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    Damn, I can’t believe I haven’t heard of this before. Truly insane that these people are serious candidates.

    Is this an accurate summary of the book? Has anyone read it?

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    Hah, remember when they got their knickers all in a twist because Hillary called them deplorable?

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    God, the current gen of right wing nut bags is so full of shit about “communism” same as their hero McCarthy.

    The older gen Americans, their great grand parents and families basically, ate so, so much social welfare under FDR. The New Deal and its after effects are basically how many middle class Americans made their wealth, and are now upper class or more. So full of shit and hypocritical.

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    His own book is pretty interesting too

    “I’ll never forget the time I convinced myself that I was gay. I was eight or nine, maybe younger, and I stumbled upon a broadcast by some fire-and-brimstone preacher. The man spoke about the evils of homosexuals, how they had infiltrated our society, and how they were all destined for hell absent some serious repenting. At the time, the only thing I knew about gay men was that they preferred men to women. This described me perfectly: I disliked girls, and my best friend in the world was my buddy Bill. Oh no, I’m going to hell.”

    When he brought up the issue with his grandmother — known to Vance as “Mamaw” — she replied bluntly: “Don’t be a fucking idiot, how would you know that you’re gay?”

    When Vance explained his reasoning, she laughed.

    “JD, do you want to suck dicks?” she said, according to the book.

    The young Vance, apparently “flabbergasted,” said: “Of course not!”

    “Then you’re not gay. And even if you did want to suck dicks, that would be okay,” she replied. “God would still love you.”

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    The book Unhumans, by Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec, is a fascist manifesto. It argues that the “Great Men of History” should take their cues from homicidal dictators like Augusto Pinochet and Francisco Franco, reject reason and democracy, and ruthlessly annihilate the gangs of communist “unhumans” who are currently threatening to destroy the United States. It explicitly advocates “eye for an eye” justice, promising a new McCarthyism complete with blacklists, along with the immediate banning of all teachers’ unions. It is perhaps the most paranoid, hateful, and terrifying book I have ever picked up. (I say this as someone who has read Mein Kampf.) And it comes with a warm and supportive blurb from Ohio senator J.D. Vance, who is currently the Republican party’s vice presidential nominee.

    Vance had this to say of Unhumans:

    In the past, communists marched in the streets waving red flags. Today, they march through HR [Human Resources], college campuses, and courtrooms to wage lawfare against good, honest people. In Unhumans, Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec reveal their plans and show us what to do to fight back.

    Worth the read, but I’ll continue

    Unhumans is both a manifesto and a guide for action. Its central argument, which I will state as dispassionately as possible, is that leftists are not fellow human beings who should be accepted as part of a pluralistic society, but rather “unhumans” bent on destroying the civilized order. Citing the usual parade of 20th century communist dictators (Mao, Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot), Posobiec and Lisec argue that even if it may not look like the contemporary United States is under threat from a communist revolution, we are under threat, besieged by furtive, scheming unhumans who must be rooted out before they can consummate their fiendish plot to commit mass murder. Stopping the unhumans will require shedding commitments to democracy, free speech, reasoned debate, and tolerance of alternate points of view. Instead, they argue, the right should find its role models in Caesar, Joseph McCarthy, and various murderous anti-communist dictators of the 20th century.

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      Stopping the unhumans will require shedding commitments to democracy, free speech, reasoned debate, and tolerance of alternate points of view.

      So basically do what they accuse others (with no evidence, naturally) of planning, because something something “freedom” and “liberty”.

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      What happens when they’re not just saying the quiet part out loud but shouting it from the rooftops and half the country doesn’t seem to even notice? Is there a term for this? Like, willful deafness?

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        You will probably not like this and I for sure don’t but there is no denying it anymore. Half the US, or probably more like 30-ish percent, is fascist and/or racist and substantially sprinkled in religious fairy dust. The country harbors persons who are hateful, ignorant, dumb, like to vote against their own interest and easily fooled by con-men and crooks. And again, religion is the root of many issues here.

        How this came to be is a whole other story and I partially blame the Dutch and British. Being Dutch myself I want to offer my sincere apologies for this. ask me why I think this is the case and I will try to explain as best as I can.

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            A couple of hunderd years ago there were factions inside England and Holland who were extremely religious, pious and very wary of society as it was at the time. Distrust and disagreement on how society should operate and focus on. These groups were at odds with the rest of society. Mind you, the Dutch had a (relative for the time) relaxed and accepting stance on people with different opinions and/or religion. Not sure how England fared with that at the time though, they could have been more ‘strict’ as a society. And even in that atmosphere of acceptance and ‘you do you’ attitude the people of Holland got very annoyed and upset at these fanatical groups, it just clashed with the rest of society. It got to a point where the situation was unsustainable and something had to be done as the people started to realize that these groups would go to any lengths to impose their views and religious understandings on the rest of the country. Ditto for the English I suppose.

            At a certain point the English started to ship these people to the colonies, i.e. America. The Dutch had a particular view on the matter. They ‘offered’ these people two choices:

            1. You take all your belongings, put it on a ship and f*ck of the America. And they had to buy their own tickets as well, essentially financing their own forced expulsion. We are Dutch after all :-)
            2. We cut your heads of, literally. Execution was on the table as would be your head if you refused to leave.

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            And in doing the forced expulsion of these nutjobs to the other side of the world got rid of the problem. And hence we exported the (as seen at the time at least) unreasonable crazies of the country to America. These people were part of the building and rise of the US, core members of society from an early stage.

            Hence my theory and opinion that by exporting the religious crazies who held very odd and fanatical views on how society should be run become part of the ‘core’ of the US. It is my belief that this caused mayhem and anti-social, entitled morons to be part of the US and we can see the results today.

            But I could be wrong of course 😀

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      The fact this book exists is more disturbing than the fact Vance endorsed it. Vance is a grifter who will say whatever he thinks will advance his own personal political power. His belief in this Fascist filth is as genuine as his friendship was with Sofia Nelson.

      In many ways, he’s more deplorable than actual Fascists because he doesn’t actually have a cause or belief he’s willing to die for. For spineless cowards like Vance, all that matters is that he gets his, whatever that means for him.

      If that means he throws his lot in with the Tech Billionaires, Fascists, and MAGA, so be it.

      Ultimately these kinds of books are the only type of “literature” I’d be happy to see burned and their authors exiled to “Angry Whites Only Island,” cuz while the US might have been founded by racist monsters, that’s not who the vast majority of us want to be or be enslaved to.

      So yeah, it’s not their country anymore, and if they’re gonna spout this much hateful rhetoric against people who just want to love who they want to love, and live how they want to live, then they’re the ones who are no longer welcome in the USA, and in many parts of the world. Fuck em. They can fuck off and die.

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      the right should find its role models in Caesar, Joseph McCarthy,

      Shit. Thanks for reminding me how far one of the tech gurus I remember from my earliest days has fallen. WTF is wrong with people?

      Bring Back HUAC by John C Dvorak

      To think there was ever a time where this man’s opinion was something I looked forward to reading. 🤮