Yesterday, it was my birthdayWhy? It wasn’t my birthday — that’s a few months off. My life isn’t any more messy than usual. In fact, physical crapoli aside, I’m doing pretty damn well. So then, am I having a carefree good time?
I hung one more year on the line
I should be depressed
My life’s a mess
But I’m having a good time
I’ve been loving and loving
And loving
I’m exhausted from loving so well
I should go to bed
But a voice in my head
Says “Ah, What the hell”
Have a good time
Have a good time
Have a good time
Is that really the right question though? While the world is being turned into a vat of hot, fried sewage courtesy of a bunch of zed-headed oligarchs, plutocrats, and other assorted gilded garbage humans, how am I having a good time?
Monday two teens, Cain Clark and Caleb Vazquez, walked up to the Islamic Center of San Diego, the largest mosque in the county, with 30 guns, a crossbow, a 75 page long, plagiarized and AI written haterific, white supremacist “manifesto"/suicide note, a gas can with a Nazi SS symbol on it and proceeded to kill three people. They filmed themselves as they murdered Amin Abdullah, Mansour Kaziha and Nadir Awad, then posted the video to some ultra sick site online.
The video investigators found was posted to a website which has been on the FBI's radar amid a disturbing trend of young people engaging with what's called the "True Crime Community," or TCC, an online movement that glorifies mass shooters and encourages violence and self-harm.
A source familiar with the investigation said he believes the video was initially recorded on Discord, a popular online platform for gaming. (source)
It’s the week before Eid al-Adha, the "Festival of Sacrifice," the second major holiday in Islam. There were approximately 140 children and teachers inside the Islamic Center’s school when these bastards began their rampage. If not for the security guard, Amin Abdullah, calling in a lock down before he was murdered, a lot more people – kids – would have died.
These two murderous fuckers weren’t just after Muslims either. Nope, their masturbatory “manifesto” went off on how much they despised Jews, the LGBTQ+ community, Black people, women (whilst whining about how they can’t score – no, I’m not making that up.). 
Who told these absolutely-consumed-by-hatred teens that Muslims, Jews, Blacks, LGBTQ+ folks, and women are horrible, less than human, to blame for everything that’s not perfect in their lives, and deserve to die? Was it their parents? Possibly. Their president, his cabinet and his faithful cult? DEFINITELY!!! It’s also the shock jocks, podcast bros, and other online mini-dicked idiots who make bank on exploiting and inflaming young (and not so young) disaffected and embittered white men’s insecurities, fears, and prejudices. They may not specifically say “go out and kill!” (plausible deniability and all) but they create the conducive vibe.
Who does this ultimately serve? The powerful and power-adjacent people. The same ones who are responsible for the minimum wage remaining at $7.25 per hour in 20 states. It’s been $7.25 for 17 years – since 2009. Meanwhile, the cost of living has risen 55.23%. A microwave oven you bought for $100 in 2009, would cost you $155.23 now. Your paycheck is still stuck in 2009 though. No one can afford to exist in America on a minimum wage job.
The powerful and power-adjacent need us to not be looking at them, not be blaming them – the decision makers – while we chase health insurance, wallow in medical debt, education bills, housing, food, and transportation costs. If we’re blaming and hating someone we can possibly perceive as weaker than ourselves, we’re not paying attention to the rich fucks stealing our wallets and our lives.
Look! Over there! The Muslim! The Jew! The immigrant! The gay kid! The Black family! The Latin family! THEM! THEM! THEM! They are the reason your life is hard. They are why your town is dying. They are why you can’t afford college and your insulin costs so much and your factory closed and your church is empty and your country doesn’t feel like your country anymore. IT’S THEIR FAULT.
~ Mo Husseini
To answer my original question – how am I having a good-ish time in this era of Trumpian hate and horror? As my father once said (to my great dismay), I have the personality of a cheerleader (how totally unhip!!!). Perhaps, more accurately, I'm a manifestation of the Chumbawamba song, Tubthumping. You know, I get knocked down but I get up again. You're never gonna keep me down. Also, I sing the songs that remind me of the good times. God, I love that tune!
They can’t, fuck with us
Once they realize we’re all on the same side
They can’t, split us up
And let them prosper off the divide
Don’t fall for the bait and switch
Racism is real, but not it
They fuck whoever can’t fight back
But now we gotta change all that
The people have had enough
Right now, it’s them against us
This shit is ugly to the core
When it comes to the poor
No lives matter
Body Count – No Lives Matter
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