Just as I’m writing about how the Left seems to be doing its damnedest to turn the Culture War into an actual shooting war, along comes the gay marriage ruling.

We knew it was coming, of course, but there was a sliver of hope. That’s gone now.

Hey, America — you’ve just been told, in the clearest possible terms, that your religious convictions mean nothing.  Your votes mean nothing.  You will be assimilated.  You can vote for anything you like, you can appeal to the Constitution all you like, but none of it matters.

You are ruled by a quinqumvirate in black robes, and their power is absolute.

Because I’m a conservative, I’m aware there’s history before 2008.  We’ve seen this exact thing before, y’all.

It didn’t end well.

UPDATE: Between ’em, the Supreme Court and Her Majesty have all but handed Mike fuckin’ Huckabee the 2016 GOP Presidential nomination:

“The Supreme Court has spoken with a very divided voice on something only the Supreme Being can do-redefine marriage. I will not acquiesce to an imperial court any more than our Founders acquiesced to an imperial British monarch. We must resist and reject judicial tyranny, not retreat.”

The other GOP candidates will, of course, fall all over themselves explaining that while they personally believe marriage is between a man and a woman, the American people and the law have spoken blah blah blah.  Which will fail because a) that “personally” stuff only works when the media asks you no followup questions whatsoever (that is, when you’re a Democrat), and b) Huckabee has already positioned himself as the Voice of The Opposition, and c) he’s already been so maligned by the media that there’s no shit left to fling, and d) as I and pretty much everyone else has been saying for the last two election cycles, Democratic tactics all boil down to “vote for me, ignorant peons!”, which means that e) any GOP politician who displays even the smallest hint of possible testicular fortitude is going to garner the vote of anyone who wants to spit directly in the Left’s eye, regardless of his platform.

I wondered who’d play Kurt von Schleicher in our shitty, big budget reboot of the Weimar Republic; I guess now I know.

UPDATE 2.0: It’s starting.  Ace of Spades has millions of readers.  And he asks a question that lots and lots and LOTS of Americans will be asking themselves in the coming weeks:

So, the government is officially just an outlaw now, huh?

Then what basis is there for any of us to obey it any longer?

Note, please, that this question has an answer, a simple, obvious one — brute force.  But note also that law enforcement types obviously tend to be law and order types.  It’s gonna be reeeeeeeealy interesting to see what happens when the first majority-white protest turns violent (and the summer’s just beginning).  Will the cops fire?  Will the National Guard?

You know, if I were really, honestly trying to transform the Culture War into an actual shooting war, I’d do something much like the current campaign to ban the Confederate flag.

If you really want to rally your opposition, give them a symbol.  Sorry for quoting myself, but this is the kind of thing I’m talking about:

For many ordinary folks in Weimar, the one thing you weren’t allowed to be was German.  The Kaiser, the Imperial War Flag, Die Wacht am Rhein… for a nation that really only became a nation in the 1870s, i.e. in the crucible of war and empire, those things were Germany.  And those things were banned.  You could be a communist, sure, or some flavor of “social democrat,” or an artist, or a cabaret singer, or a morphine addict, or a homosexual, or a wage slave to foreign banks…. but a German?  Verboten!

As I’ve said many times, a major part of Hitler’s appeal to ordinary Germans was that his very presence was a middle finger to weak-kneed liberal internationalists.  The Commies want to sell you out to foreign (Jewish) intellectuals, he told his audiences, while the Social Democrats want to sell you out to foreign (Jewish) banks.  A vote for the NSDAP is a thumb in both their eyes.

Put on the swastika armband and let them all know where you stand, he told them… and they did, and when they looked around, they saw hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands of people just like them.

Our SJWs are creating exactly those kinds of conditions today.  It won’t take much for folks to start wearing Confederate flag patches on their clothing, in mute protest at everything that’s being shoved down our throats — all the so-called “equality” and “social justice” that really boils down to this:

Let me be clear on this, lest anyone be tempted to miss my point: One doesn’t make sophisticated arguments with symbols.  The actual history behind the “Confederate flag” doesn’t matter, because nobody cares about that stuff.  All that matters is that people like that “let us abolish you” chick hate it.  One doesn’t make sophisticated arguments with selfies, either, and everybody knows what “let us abolish you” means. By pushing things in this direction, SJWs are quite literally daring folks to slap Confederate flags all over their clothing, as their way of saying “no, sit down and let us abolish you!”

And the Confederate flag-wearers are armed.

Thank God the Charleston church shooter was a disgusting omega dreg, and looked it.  But the kid some media-frenzied Michael Brown goes out and shoots in “revenge” might not be.  The absolute nightmare scenario would be a ghetto thug gunning down a cute blond girl with a Confederate flag patch.  Any guesses as to what happens then?  Anyone want to lay odds on this not happening sometime in the next year or so?

The media sure as hell seems eager for it to happen.

Correction (6/16/15): Not written by George Rape Rape Martin; it’s a customer review on Amazon.  We shall not accuse Rape Rape of that which he is not guilty.  Thanks Nate!!

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SJWs always lie, but since they also always project, they often end up telling the truth inadvertently.  As here.  George Rape Rape Martin, on John C. Wright’s essay collection Transhuman and Subhuman:

Rather, reading the author’s extremely non-mainstream views felt like being at ground zero of a nuclear explosion after being dosed with anthrax and sprayed with nerve gas.

Speaks volumes, don’t it?

Every leftist I’ve ever met has informed me — usually within five minutes of our first acquaintance — that liberals are all about teh free thoughtz.  Academics routinely decree that conservatives have no place in academia, because we’re just not capable of handling their out-of-the-box cogitations .  It’s right-wingers, says everyone in the media, who defend the status quo at all costs.

And yet here’s Rape Rape, bitching through Dorito fumes that science fiction — science fiction! — dared challenge his worldview.

SJWs won’t learn, because they can’t — they’re rabbits, after all, not people — but anyone not suffering from a full-scale attack of social justice toxoplasmosis should, by, now, be cottoning to the chief difference between Left and Right worldviews:  The Right’s is testable.

[I know, I know — as much as they claim to be science’s BFFs, Our Betters, the liberals, should’ve been the first ones to see this.  A mysterious fuckin’ mystery, that.  But anyway…]

A few months back there was a trial of strength.  Vox Day et al challenged the sci-fi publishing establishment by attempting to stack the Hugo Awards.  They succeeded wildly.  And now they’re going after the scalp of a senior editor at Tor Books.

Time will tell how this one goes.  Given the, umm, healthy ego of the gentleman involved, I suspect he wouldn’t have let slip the hogs of war without being near-certain of victory, but that’s by the bye — either way, when the dust settles we’ll have a pretty good idea of the relative strength of each side.

No leftist would ever do it this way (indeed, they’re insisting, in George Rape Rape Martin’s words, that “No one on ‘my side’ ever threatened anyone’s livelihood or career” — in case you hadn’t had your daily dose of hilarious insanity yet).  It’s all Feelz Before Realz to the rabbits.  It’s all perception.  And on those terms, Vox’s victory — assuming he wins — will be devastating.

How many emails does it take to bring down an SJW?  I think we’re about to find out.

Over at Vox’s, I see a lot of commentary in this vein:

If [Irene Gallo] had posted to Facebook that there aren’t more women and blacks in SF because they just aren’t smart enough to write quality stories, she would be gone by now. There’s zero question about that. She might not have lasted to the end of the workday. Maybe Mr. Doherty wouldn’t have been the one to fire her, but all the people at Tor currently defending her and drawing new lines between corporate and personal would have demanded her resignation, someone in authority would have acted, and she’d be gone.

Which is true, but meaningless.  The ol’ argument by analogy doesn’t work on Social Justice Rabbits, because they practice Crimestop:

Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any ttrain of thought which is capable of leading a in a heretical direction.

A Rabbit literally — literally — cannot think about women and/or blacks not being good enough to write compelling sci-fi.  Crimestop has rewired their neural pathways.  And because “women/blacks can’t write compelling sci-fi” can’t enter their heads, it’s likewise impossible for them to think “Irene Gallo thinks women/blacks can’t write compelling sci-fi.”

For them, trying to think a thought like “Women/blacks can’t write compelling sci-fi stories” would be like us trying to prove the Riemann Hypothesis — there’s a point past which our mental faculties can’t go.  Similarly, an SJW trying to entertain the proposition “Irene Gallo thinks women/blacks can’t write compelling sci-fi” would be like us trying to prove the Riemann Hypothesis by imagining all the steps a genius mathematician would take to prove it.

This is why you can’t argue dialectically with bunnies.  Their poor cunicular cerebrums can’t handle it.