America: home of torturers, land of prisons

America is a bright and shining lie.  America is a concept that is hollow at its core.  "American values" are the values of a used car salesman or streetwalker.  

America professes to be a nation of laws and of justice.  We're a nation of laws alright--that's why there are so many Americans in prison (highest per capita rate of incarceration in all the world--you'd have more freedom in Putin's Russia or Communist China).  

And justice?  As the greatest punk band in history (The Dicks) used to sing "You can't find justice it'll find you!"  It'll find you and if you don't tell it what it wants to hear you'll be tortured.  See, America loves torture almost as much as it loves prisons.  

America has allowed itself to become Texas-ized, to our everlasting shame.  

Texas to USA: Let My People Go!

Mr. President Obama, I beseech you, please, pretty please, give Texas its wish and allow it to secede from the union.  Texas hates America, and America is being oppressed by Texas.  It's been a bad marriage all along, and the time has been reached that both parties should just throw in the towel and walk away from one another.  

Texas drags America down.  Its racism and classism and homophobia (just good ole hometown values, brother, despite the fact that most Texans now live in the suburbs) are poison to the values America cherishes.  Its glorification of guns and violence, and its fealty to a vision of itself as a frontier that has not existed in fact (if indeed it ever did) in a hundred and fifty years are a degradation to true American values.  Texas is to America what Nazism was to Germany: a brutal perversion of values, an affirmation of sadism as patriotism. 

Texas wants to secede?  Don't let the door hit you in your fat white ass, Baby Fatt says.  Texas, and its ambiguously gay Governor, and its homoerotic Fox News-worshiping pseudo-libertarian hordes (memo to Texas: if Fox News tells you to show up at a tea bag party, and you do, then you're not a libertarian) can all go to hell without the assistance of myself and my fellow patriots.

One small problem for you Texans:  you'll have to pay for your own highways and public schools, not to mention your own military facilities and prisons, so better get ready for life away from the federal tit (one hint: your taxes are going to go up--oops!).  

Abraham Lincoln was a brave and visionary man.  He held the union together against all odds.  He did it for all the reasons that were--and remain--true and right.  Sometimes I wish he had not been so effective (America without the South would be a much nicer place--except, of course, for Southerners).  

Go away Texas, the sooner the better 

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Baby Fatt and Jesus

Ah Easter.  The sun arising in the East.  A new day.  One man put to death so that others can know eternal life--a human sacrifice cult the Aztecs could have been proud of.  

Other than the fact that those who worship him participate in a human sacrifice cult, what can be said about the man, Jesus?  Well, we do know some things.  

He did exist (there is a historical record, including the writings of Josephus Flavius).  He was a rabble rouser, faith healer, and prophet.  He riled the Roman authorities, for which crime he was put to death (the best explication of his life from what we can determine through the historical record is 'The Historical Jesus' by John Dominic Crossan).  

What else?  He believed that an apocalypse was coming that would bring the modern world to an end.  He believed that an apocalypse had to be coming because of the terrible perfidies of the modern world simply could not continue--if there really was a god in heaven then surely he would bring all this terror to an end.  

See, Jesus lived under Roman rule.  The Romans established the most efficient, brutal empire in history until the advent of the American empire.  As America is to the middle east today, so the Romans were in Jesus' time:  occupiers, exploiters, infidels.  

The Romans despoiled the Temple.  They violated every precept of Jewish law.  They brought pagan worship into the house of Jahweh.  They took a big dump on everything observant Jews found holy.  

In response there arose various sects and cults that were convinced that god would bring the wicked modern world to an abrupt end and punish the evil-doers who had defiled the Temple.  These sects included the Essenes, and the Jesus cult.  

The Romans reacted to these cults the same way America has reacted to the Muslim cults that want to restore the Caliphate:  with torture, terror, and murder.  The Romans brooked no dissent, and if  you caused trouble in the streets of Jerusalem then you could expect swift and brutal retribution.  And so the Nazarene was sentenced to capital punishment (always been interesting to me that so many current Christians are enamored of capital punishment when one would think they would have some sensitivity to the potential it gives for injustice, particularly when their own titular leader was unjustly murdered by the state--but then Christians for the most part are anything but consistent).  

What do we know of Jesus' beliefs?  That he believed the state to be evil, that rich people could never go to heaven (only poor people could get in) and that the end of the world was nigh and one had best get ready.  He believed that when god destroyed the world the "last shall be first and the first shall be last" in the heaven that was to come.  So--sorry yuppies, no room at the inn for you.  

The implication this has for modern believers is both simple and enormous:  most so-called christians have absolutely no idea what or whom they are worshipping.  Jesus would have thought most were unworthy of heaven and that they would instead spend eternity in damnation.  Materialism and prosperity, selfishness and greed, patriotism and hubris--damned souls as far as the Nazarene was concerned.  

It is only the most fundamentalist of believers who have the integrity of faith that Jesus would have recognized.  Those who believe in the literal interpretation of the bible, those who believe that the end-times are upon us, those who believe that poverty redeems--these are the souls Jesus would have recognized and affirmed.  The so-called progressive or moderate believers would have been no better for Jesus' purposes than the Romans whose worship was a matter of what was convenient and inoffensive.  Jesus wanted only those of true faith.  

One more thing--what did Jesus really look like?  Like Yasser Arafat, only shorter.  

Sorry you were wrongly convicted and executed by the state Jesus, you wouldn't have fared any better in Texas.  

Baby Fatt and Mao

So I'm at my favorite arthouse watching the roadshow version of Che when I hear this guy laughing consciously--you know, in a way that indicated that he wanted other people to notice him--at various points in the movie.  Like most movie-house laughers, he laughed at the wrong places in the movie (people who want to be noticed always get noticed for exactly the reasons for which they don't want to be noticed), and so at some point I had to check him out. 

He was wearing a black beret and carrying a cigar (get it? we were watching 'Che').  He had on dirty jeans and a green army jacket and was wearing a Mao tee shirt.  

A Mao tee shirt.  Wow, how quaint.  Maybe I'll wear a Hitler tee shirt, or a Stalin tee shirt, or some other tee shirt that celebrates a genocidal nut who used his own personality cult to slaughter people by the fucking millions!

People are so stupid.  They think that Che is cool, or Mao, or Manson, or Curt Cobain, and so they buy a tee shirt with the cool person's picture on it and see, this means that the idiot who wears the stupid tee shirt is now cool.  How vapid, how insidious, how utterly absurd.  

Baby Fatt is a radical left wing anarchist.  Baby Fatt is the most radical person you have ever encountered.  Baby Fatt also insists upon calling a spade a spade and if some alleged icon of either left or right was a stupid genocidal anal wipe then Baby Fatt will not turn away from that fact and will call said anal wipe shovel from hell.  

Go to hell Mao tee shirt-wearing retard.  Eat my shit, get hepatitis, turn yellow, and die.  You are an idiot and are I reject your oppression.  

Baby Fatt and Che

This weekend I saw the roadshow version of Che.  As a movie it was quite good.  It was four and a half hours, with an intermission, and covered the life of Che first during the revolution against Batista in Cuba, and then during the attempted revolution in Bolivia.  

It sugarcoated history a bit, portraying Che as a sort of modern day Robin Hood.  I have no doubt that Che believed it when he said that a revolutionary's most important aspect was love.  Che came from the upper class in South America and was genuinely (and appropriately) horrified at the treatment of the poor at the hands of the rich.  His anger against capitalism and colonialism were righteous and justified.  

But Che also had no compunction whatsoever in using murder, and torture, and terror to achieve his ends.  It is perfectly reasonable to see this as a necessary component of revolution--after all revolutions is not a tea dance--but the movie dwelled much more on Che's dignity rather than what he had to do to get and keep power.  

Castro, for instance, was portrayed as a politician doing what he had to do to get power, but not much was shown of what happened in Cuba once he had power, and proceeded to turn a vibrant country into a Stalinist work camp.  

Of course America has as much responsibility for Castro as did Che.  America nurtured the conditions that allowed Castro to seize power, and once in power America behaved exactly as it should have if its goal was to keep Castro in power.  Castro lives on to this day, in luxury surrounded by decrepitude, because America has refused to engage Cuba in any rational way, due mostly to right wingnut politics.  

What most Americans refuse to realize about revolutionaries like Che and Ho Chi Minh is that they were first and foremost anti-colonialists, who wanted the imperial powers to keep their grubby paws off their homeland.  They would have joined what ever political party they thought stood the best chance of uniting their people and driving the imperialists out.  Political-economic theory was secondary, driving whitey out was primary.  

The best thing that has happened in years to Latin America has been the USA's involvement in the Middle East.  By tying ourselves down in Iraq and Afghanistan we have taken our eyes off Latin America and allowed a new wave of social democrats to take over.  Good news, as I suspect Che would agree.  

Children as a force for evil

Children are a force for evil in the world.  

Oh, Baby Fatt, how can you say something so terrible about these innocent, enchanting little creatures?  Easy:  children are just little people.  Worse than that, they are little people who have yet to develop a conscience (simple developmental psychology).  Of course, some of these evil little beings will never develop a conscience, and these will go on to successful careers as business people, politicians, law enforcement personnel, and criminals.  

Children lie, steal and cheat.  Children are cruel to animals and other living things.  Children enjoy setting fires and making other children cry.  No one takes more delight in cruelty or revenge than a child.   

Our culture's whole deluded idea that childhood is a period of innocence that is eventually ruined by knowledge and experience of the terrible adult world is exactly backwards.  The goal of culture is to beat the sociopathy out of children so that they can be compliant adults.  Childhood as we know it today is a modern invention.  Up until the modern era children were seen as they really are--tiny feral people.  If we saw children as they truly are--if we stopped worshipping this insane ideal of childhood as a period of grace from the corrupt adult world--then maybe we would quit breeding so many of the mean little buggers.  

Baby Fatt says stop the insanity, and quit breeding.  Meanwhile, never turn your back on a child. 

Children as pollution

We are killing our planet.  And by "we" I mean not Baby Fatt, but those of you who insist upon breeding (Baby Fatt has always chosen to spill his seed upon the ground, where it can do no damage).  Let the call go forth, from this moment and to every nation:  stop the breeding you stupid idiot fucks of hell!

It's amusing to me that even those who consider themselves to be ecologically pure insist upon breeding.  Breeders are deluded and evil, and those who profess love for the environment even more so.  For example, is there anything more smug than some neo-hippy swathed in organic hemp carrying a squalling child in one of those paleolithic pouch contraptions?  

Why would a person who alleges to care about the health of the planet breed?  Narcissism.  

This is the great lie of our time: that individuals who refuse to breed are the selfish ones.  No, it is the breeders who manifest selfishness par excellence.  It is the breeders who are excreting the shitting, puking, eating, consuming, soon to be sentient beings that are rapidly overwhelming our planet.  It is the breeders who are destroying the world.  

Who wouldn't want a mini-me? An adorable little cherub in whose face one always sees--one's own self! Perfect, right?  Sure, until it grow into yet another of the mindless horde of entitled ingrate mall rats eating away at our planet's resources.  

Human breeding is only good for a few other species--rats, pigeons, and roaches.  All the other animals want desperately for us to go away (if chimps ever get frontal lobes, or pigs ever get opposable thumbs, we're in deep doo doo).  

It is a catastrophe for our country and our culture and our planet.  Do the rest of the world a favor, and for the love of all you call holy don't breed another human bean.  The world hates you enough already, no need for even more bad karma.