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I was driving home one day, and I decided to take an alternate route, because it might be a little longer as far as street distance goes, but there are fewer lights, and I was in one of those moods where I was over all the red lights that I seemed to be hitting.\u00a0 There\u2019s a point on this route where there\u2019s this farm, that I\u2019ve come to know as being owned by some obvious hard-right-wing nutjobs, as indicative by all the hard-right-wing signs that they plaster all over their property.<\/span><\/p>\n MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN And the list goes on and on and on.\u00a0 There\u2019s pretty much no matter, no election or no opportunity missed by the people who live on this farm to spout their views or automatic support for whomever is repping the right.\u00a0 In one hand, I kind of respect and wish that the not-left had such devout, obsessed and dedicated to voting and supporting their cause, and perhaps every single political arena wouldn\u2019t be so fucking one-sided.\u00a0 But in the other hand, fuck these shitheads and their support of just about everything I disagree in.<\/span><\/p>\n Anyway, as I was passing by today, there was a sign in their primary viewing sign space, that said: WE ARE CHARLIE<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n I scrunched my brow at this one, and at the next red light I stopped at, I whipped out my phone to google it because I was curious.\u00a0 Of course it had to do with the fairly recent assassination of some right-wing nutjob who had the same name, and I felt a microsecond of embarrassment at not realizing that sooner but on that same note I actively avoid politics as if discussing them will give me COVID.<\/span><\/p>\n Unsurprising, his death made him into a martyr to the right, and I guess saying WE ARE CHARLIE is some sort of defiant solidarity, and basically the white people version of everyone else saying that they are George Floyd, Sandra Bland, or any person that dare ever stood on the other side of the fence.<\/span><\/p>\n However, I couldn\u2019t help but feel that there was some severe irony in the phrasing of WE ARE CHARLIE, because the very first thing that came to my mind is that \u201cCharlie\u201d was the nickname\/slang\/slur that US soldiers used to describe the opposing Vietcong forces during the Vietnam War.<\/span><\/p>\n Every skirmish was, against Charlie.\u00a0 Charlie ambushing US forces.\u00a0 Fuckin\u2019 Charlie all over the place.\u00a0 Spraying Agent Orange in the jungle to weed out Charlie. \u00a0Etcetera, etcetera.<\/span><\/p>\n Charlie is a term that has some hard negative connotation, especially for those who served, come from military backgrounds, or were impacted or affected by Vietnam in some way, shape or form.<\/span><\/p>\n And now we have white folks all over the American landscape who are now defiantly and proudly proclaiming to be, Charlie.\u00a0 Okay<\/span><\/p>\n The ironic thing is that the Vietnam War more or less ended in 1975, which is just<\/em> 50 years ago.\u00a0 Across America and the rest of the world, there are still living people who fought in it; there are people who have killed, are widows and fatherless children from the conflict, \u00a0in the name of war, still alive today.\u00a0 I can\u2019t imagine that a lot of these people are all too thrilled to be seeing the word Charlie being used in such pro hard-right-wing propaganda, especially those who have and still suffer the effects of loss, death and PTSD.<\/span><\/p>\n Or perhaps I\u2019m being presumptuous and giving too much credit to right-wing supporters to have the morals that would put something like this into question, and even they have no problem dropping their stigmas over the word Charlie and are more than happy to take it back<\/a> if it supports their idiot beliefs.<\/span><\/p>\n Given the nature of modern politics, it\u2019s probably the latter, unfortunately.<\/span><\/p>\n Because like I said, I saw this sign on a farm.\u00a0 Farms are usually family joints passed down generations, and I\u2019m going to go out on a limb and take a guess that if the owner of this farm didn\u2019t fight in Vietnam, they\u2019re probably descendants of someone who did, and because politics are unfortunately often times practically genetic at the success rate of offspring buying into their parents\u2019 beliefs, I\u2019d wager that through the 80s, 90s, 00s to up until a month ago, the name Charlie was probably something that was probably spit out, with some resentment, as opposed to being a phrase of solidarity and left-wing defiance.<\/span><\/p>\n One thing that I thought about though, that would be ironically funny, but not that funny because the loss of life isn\u2019t really a laughing matter in most cases, but piggybacking onto the recent termination of AOL dial-up service<\/a>, I\u2019m imagining a scenario where the elderly final users of the service, now without any real internet service to brainwash them any further, have no idea about the whole Charlie situation, and have no clue that being Charlie is considered a good thing among their right-wing brethren.<\/span><\/p>\n And then \u2018ol Hershel is going down the road in his 1957 Chevy pickup, and he drives past a house with a big ass WE ARE CHARLIE sign in their yard, triggering his PTSD.\u00a0 Naturally he is packing, and he parks his truck, grabs his double barrel shotgun that\u2019s on a mantle behind the driver\u2019s seat, and storms into the house, and blows the fuck away out of some right-wing family.\u00a0 Took care of that fuckin\u2019 Charlie.<\/span><\/p>\n Right-on-right crime, just like the actual Charlie incident, from what I\u2019ve heard.<\/span><\/p>\n Like I said, the loss of life in any case isn\u2019t really that funny under most circumstances, but I\u2019m just being honest here, if I were ever to catch wind that a scenario like this actually happened, I have to admit that I\u2019d be kind of amused.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was driving home one day, and I decided to take an alternate route, because it might be a little longer as far as street distance goes, but there are fewer lights, and I was in one of those moods where I was over all the red lights that I seemed to be hitting.\u00a0 There\u2019s … Continue reading Seems kind of ironic to me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,83,8,52,165,146,190,49],"class_list":["post-50890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-observations","tag-ohgeorgia","tag-owned","tag-politics","tag-triggered","tag-white-people","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50892,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50890\/revisions\/50892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPRAY FOR AMERICA
\nLET\u2019S GO BRANDON
\nKEEP AMERICA GREAT
\nAMERICA FIRST<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n