MG XI

responses to posted comments also: here (MG X); here (MG IX); here (MG VIII); here (MG VII); here (MG VI); here (MG V); here (MG IV); here (MG III); here (MG II); and here (MG) ~

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Mille Grazie (XI)

from 2026:

selected comments (in grayscale, more or less) and 

my responses (in purple, more or less)

(in more or less chronological order by blog post, comment, or response)

* January *

Enter the Police State (1/6/2026)

my responses (batch I - 1/10/2026...)

Sneaker (1/9/2026)

"If we remain optimistic that our rights will remain intact simply because they always have been, we fall into a trap of normalcy bias. We need something more rigorous than optimism: we need informed skepticism that leads to radical responsibility."

when a police state repudiates a public's right to subject police-state-'agents'

to accountability measures by, for example,

'illegalizing' documenting actions of police-state-'agents' or

'illegalizing' documenting police-state-'sanctioned' rules, policies, practices or

'illegalizing' real reality

a public that trusts a police state's 'report' of 'the truth'

because 'honorable people', 'pious people', 'normal people' trust police-state-'agents' implicitly,

is a public that repudiates its inalienable responsibility to discern fiction from real reality

"A police state thrives on compliance. The antidote isn't just a positive attitude, but a willingness to be a friction point in the machine."

absolutely

a 'frictionless' populace is part and parcel to 'the purpose' and 'the end-game'

of wind-up plastic rictus-faced monkeys, casually evil cheerleaders, servants of Ate

"if we are sitting back waiting for a happy ending to the current trend of global surveillance and state overreach, we are essentially consenting to the outcome. The response required is not a smile and a hope for the best, but a grim, determined vigilance that prioritizes action over expectation."

advocates of 'obedient' inaction

are police state pacifiers and police state allies

in all but name

"thank you!"

thank you!!!

BenLewis (1/9/2026)

"We've moved past Big Brother and straight into 'Big Narcissistic Stepfather!"

not only are 'loyal believers' naive to the weaknesses of police states

but 'loyal believers' lionize and revere "Big Narcissistic Stepfathers"

like parking lot pennies are 'liberators' of 'the faithful'

as if everyday people who are police state loyalists aren't as casually evil

as 'absolute dominators' of 'the meek and mute faithful'

"We're sleepwalking into a world where your freedom is just a series of pre-approved options! You want to protest? Fine! Just make sure you do it in the Free Speech Zone which is a soundproof box in the middle of a SALT FLAT IN UTAH! And once you are there, don't be shocked when you end up in the new Free Speech Zone in a random Central American or African institute..."

lolol

reminds me of the motivational aphorism:

'The criminalization of being a living, existing, breathing human being will continue

until police state ratings improve!'

"I have a right to be a private, miserable human being without an idiot counting how many times I scratch my backside in a CVS parking lot!"

amen

police states 'break eggs to make omelets', which is to say,

sanction police state impunity for breakfast

because 'omelets' = 'ratings'

"I can't take it! My brain is sweating! We've traded our souls for the promises, the winks, the optimism of a better tomorrow, a safer tomorrow. We are STUPID! We are a nation of toddlers handing our car keys to a shark because it promised us a cookie and a locked door!"

for your insights and your candor - THANK YOU!!!

APrince (1/9/2026)

a perfunctory 'defense' of 'shepherded sheep' does not deserve applause

here, there, or anywhere

SofiaTheFirst (1/9/2026)

"This is a classic protective racketeering strategy: the state breaks the world, then demands total authority to fix it."

as if the police state is the only 'legitimate solution';

as if anything less is unwise, unreasonable, indefensible;

as if such 'common sense' isn't casually evil cowardice

"The litanies and homilies serve as a moral anesthetic. By branding surveillance and militancy as [morally just], the state prevents the public from identifying government actions as violent or oppressive. Instead, they are framed as restoring order."

for reverential devotion to police states

lubricates the restoration of illusions of 'harmony'

"a perpetual market for state-sponsored fictions, illusions of success and approval"

police states deluge the public with narratives

so there's always an illusion of your choice to toss back with an 'omelet'

ACowboyAtMidnight (1/9/2026)

"architect"?

you?

an exhaustive body of comic-book-superheroes

have addressed ad infinitum

an exhaustive lot of conscience-impaired comic-book-villains

such that this corruption of sagacity and common sense

in flagrante

arouses no one who is not a #policestatetool

HeimdallAvatar (1/9/2026)

"To say that we overestimate the differences between us is a coward's lullaby. In the halls of eternity, we know that differences are what define the spirit. When the Giants march, shall I tell myself to stand down because a poll suggests they value peace?"

lolol

the oft-exalted credo of world unity and peace:

'The firing of lethal munitions during ceasefires will continue

until deaths by firing achieve peace!'

my responses (batch II - 1/29/2026...)

HamburgersFromLeipzig (1/16/2026)

"A state that sees its own people primarily as a threat to be managed, rather than as a sovereign body to be served, has already lost its moral compass."

how many states proclaim their "moral compass" - faultless -

while "managing" human beings - villainously!

"the instruments of a police state are the very tools that fascism requires to breathe. Fascism needs an atmosphere of fear; it needs a mechanism to silence dissent; it needs a police force that answers to power rather than to the people."

in order words, without casual evil, fascism cannot breathe

PainNowandForveverHereAndThere (1/16/2026)

"We behold today a specter rising under the guise of unity, a philosophy of fascism that seeks to bind the individual to the chariot of the state. It is a doctrine that demands the surrender of the mind and the worship of a mortal man as though he were a deity."

this "doctrine" proclaims its ideology the noblest of all - 'freedom'!

as if such ideology isn't a farce

for no citizenry commanded to appease a despot is free

"It is the business of little minds to shrink; but those whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue principles until their last breath."

"little minds" believe in spoils of capitulation,

especially illusions of power,

as if an enchanted kingdom that serves slop and piggery

is anointed! sublime! golden!

AntiMoloch (1/16/2026)

"I see you hiding in the architecture of your own silence, building a skyscraper of not-my-business that scrapes the belly of a hollow heaven."

skyline after skyline of "not-my-business skyscrapers"

define by toothless teeth, nation after nation

"I am with you in the wreckage, where we finally look each other in the eye and say: NO MORE BLINDNESS! NO MORE SILENCE! The universe is a telegram of truth, and you are the one holding the wire, refusing to read the message while the world burns for a nickel."

thank you

AlphaCentauriOrBust (1/16/2026)

"You sit in your warm halls, counting coins while the wind of tyranny howls at the door of your neighbor."

we have done something - something we have done before - to "neighbor"

we have made "our neighbor" - our ally

we have made 'neighbors who are not ours' - our enemy

not by merit

or its lack

nor by character

or its want

but by the most meaningless and superficial... reality

by likeness

and difference

as if these are the most real... reasons

to ally or to war

"To trade the wide, white expanse of freedom for the narrow, gray corridor of a police state is the act of a slave, not a hunter."

which is to say, not a "hunter",

superior and formidable

but a "slave",

chained to a fiction that believes it's not

TeleogicalMeans (1/18/2026)

"Liberty, as we have established, requires the ability of citizens to deliberate together for the common good. However, when the ears of the populace are stopped with the wax of partisan zeal, deliberation becomes impossible. The echo chamber creates a state of stasis, where the citizens no longer share a common reality."

"not sharing a common reality" is where much begins

from the experiences of human beings subjected to injustice

to the experiences of human beings burdened by poverty

to the experiences of human beings with means

to the experiences of human beings in power

"the echo chamber" invites us to divide from each other

as if "our un-common reality" is a natural truth

that irrevocably disunites us from each other

instead of a hypnotic exhortation

that conflates 'experiences' and "reality",

transmuting 'our un-shared experiences' into "our un-common reality"

for they are not one and the same

no more than such conflation immutably defines, as if by a natural law,

who we are habitually united with

and who we are pitilessly divided from

"Thank you, as always, you are the nearest and dearest to the truth and I can't imagine the crater of a world we would be in without you and yours."

thank you

and you're welcome

TheHandThatFeedsTheWolf (1/18/2026)

"where is the 'liberty' we are always told America stands for?"

there are Americans for whom

'liberty' is a privilege for NOBODY but them

not because such human beings are more deserving of 'liberty'

but because an accident of birth privileges NOBODY else

notwithstanding, a privilege by accident of birth is not earned

any more than rule or throne by inherited claim or title is

"When you replace trust with roving patrols and fear, you aren't just enforcing law; you are breaking the social fabric. It feels like America is trading its soul for a false sense of security, and as someone from a country that values the rule of law and transparency, it's heartbreaking to witness this mass deportation machine being built on such a scale."

many Americans who cheer "this mass deportation machine" with one roar

salute "America's soul" with one fist

the purification of which

is through rites of witnessing 'the putting in trauma' of human beings

tbc: name (date)

am

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&EverythingIsPolitical

Now is not the time to be pacified. (It never was and it never will be.) If a pacifier is what you seek, however, be not surprised when the world falls ass over teakettle to offer you pacifiers aplenty in exchange for everything that is real and everything that is true, which is to say, everything that is worth fighting for.

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M