{"id":3575,"date":"2017-08-18T03:29:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T03:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifestream.hausderluege.org\/?p=3575"},"modified":"2017-08-18T03:29:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T03:29:50","slug":"august-17-2017-at-1129pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifestream.hausderluege.org\/?p=3575","title":{"rendered":"August 17, 2017 at 11:29PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, I&#8217;m doing that thing where I turn a comment I made on a thread into a status post. And it&#8217;s a long one.<\/p>\n<p>When I came back to my high school, for the last several weeks of my senior year, I was the kid who wore red laces in his boots. If you ever run into me somewhere we can talk quietly, and you ask, I&#8217;ll tell you about how that came about. But it&#8217;s not a pleasant story, so be sure you want to hear it.<\/p>\n<p>What you need to know is that for most of the ensuing 2 and change decades, I&#8217;ve worn those red laces as a reminder that in a world with a lot of moral gray territory, a day came when I discovered where the line between the moral gray space and the black is.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, every now and then, I&#8217;d see another set of red laces on a pair of boots. And I&#8217;d look at some punk kid in a black hoodie, and that kid&#8217;d look at me, and we&#8217;d know something about each other. We&#8217;d know we&#8217;d each found the hill we&#8217;d die on, if the day ever came. Because we&#8217;d seen the edge of the map, where it was labelled it &#8220;Here be Fascists&#8221; in a tidy scripthand. Under it, we scrawled &#8220;Fuck them.&#8221; in big red letters. <\/p>\n<p>The thing that most people don&#8217;t understand is that they are not included in the fascist&#8217;s deluded vision of the perfect world.<br \/>\nYou belong to the wrong church,<br \/>\nor have mixed blood,<br \/>\nor fuck the wrong people,<br \/>\nor have too many children<br \/>\nor not enough.<br \/>\nor it&#8217;s fucking Wednesday and the Nazi screw just doesn&#8217;t like the look of you. <\/p>\n<p>Because that mentality see the the bottomless well of humanity&#8217;s differences as a sewer, and most of humanity as the shit that fills it. <\/p>\n<p>The fascist movement under all its various names, is not rational. You can&#8217;t reason with it, especially when the bastards start to mobilize in armed mobs. 70 years of attempted discourse with Nazi-wannabes really should be enough to satisfy even the most mealy mouthed and indecisive on the matter: They aren&#8217;t interested in discourse, and no amount of talking will change their minds.<\/p>\n<p>So, let me clear up a few things about the AntiFa. <\/p>\n<p>AntiFa don&#8217;t want Nazis dead. We want their movements and belief systems dead, because it&#8217;s incompatible with life for everyone else. <\/p>\n<p>So, AntiFa make trouble. <\/p>\n<p>AntiFa make enough trouble so that these bastards lose their platforms. <\/p>\n<p>AntiFa create a big enough shitstorm that the cops can&#8217;t ignore it anymore. <\/p>\n<p>AntiFa take the hits and get beaten and stabbed so that those who live in fear don&#8217;t have to.<\/p>\n<p>AntiFa stand between Nazi rage and the peaceful counterprotesters.<\/p>\n<p>AntiFa are society&#8217;s immune response to Fascist sickness.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m AntiFa because as a Thelemite I work to live that &#8220;Every man and every Woman is a star.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m AntiFa because Fascism and racialism are diametrically opposed to the lessons of Liber AL: Because Nazism is an ideology rooted in snuffing out those stars and dimming the heavens.<\/p>\n<p>Liber LXXVII : Oz<\/p>\n<p>Man has the right to live by his own law\u2014<br \/>\nto live in the way that he wills to do:<br \/>\nto work as he will:<br \/>\nto play as he will:<br \/>\nto rest as he will:<br \/>\nto die when and how he will.<\/p>\n<p>Man has the right to eat what he will:<br \/>\nto drink what he will:<br \/>\nto dwell where he will:<br \/>\nto move as he will on the face of the earth.<\/p>\n<p>Man has the right to think what he will:<br \/>\nto speak what he will:<br \/>\nto write what he will:<br \/>\nto draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will:<br \/>\nto dress as he will.<\/p>\n<p>Man has the right to love as he will:\u2014<br \/>\n\u201ctake your fill and will of love as ye will,<br \/>\nwhen, where, and with whom ye will.\u201d \u2014AL. I. 51.<\/p>\n<p>Man has the right to kill those who would thwart<br \/>\nthese rights.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are infinitely tolerant, save of intolerance.&#8221; &#8211;Aleister Crowley via Facebook<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1c4nCfM\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, I&#8217;m doing that thing where I turn a comment I made on a thread into a status post. And it&#8217;s a long one. 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