#fyp #cemetery #graveyard #gravestone #taphophileMonday, February 16, 2026
#fyp #cemetery #graveyard #gravestone #taphophile
April 15th 2026 (tax day) - Starve The System Day
They don't care because we have proven incapable of setting aside surface level differences. Incapable of being distracted and divided over trending headlines. Incapable of uniting. Incapable of coming together to address the root cause of this nation's issues...
If we ever want them to be held accountable for their crimes. If we ever want things to change for the better - corporations out of our government, our tax dollars kept here to improve and better our country, them to stop getting rich while they rot in office decade after decade, then we need to show them that we are one, because until then, they will not listen. Nothing else we can do will be effective.
So this is the call to action, no matter who you are, your political or social beliefs, your gender, where you come from - April 15th 2026 - we show them we are awake - no work, no school, no driving, no phones, no social media, no screens, no shopping, no consuming - we disconnect from everything they use to make money, to drain our energy and keep us divided - we stay home, we spend the day with our families - we remind them that they need us, not the other way around.
If we cannot come together for one day and shake them...then I believe it is all lost....
It’s getting harder to ignore the pattern: Extreme wealth hoarding seems to do something profoundly strange to the human psyche.
When
you have enough money to insulate yourself from shame, consequences,
and the word "no," your grip on normal reality seems to dissolve. It’s
almost as if becoming a billionaire is an inevitable path toward
bizarre, dystopian, or deeply disturbing behavior.
Here is just a sample of the reality distortion field surrounding some of the world's richest men:
ELON MUSK
Often manifests chaotic personal and professional conduct.
• The obsession with "breeding" and repopulating the Earth with his DNA, sometimes secretly with employees.
• Naming children things like X Æ A-Xii, Exa Dark Sideræl, and Techno Mechanicus.
• Accusations of exposing himself to a flight attendant (leading to a $250k settlement).
BILL GATES
Despite the philanthropist image, his connections tell a darker story.
• Continued to meet with Jeffrey Epstein multiple times *after* Epstein was a convicted sex offender, even flying on his jet.
• Reports of an uncomfortable workplace dynamic where he pursued women working for him at Microsoft and the Foundation.
DONALD TRUMP
One of the longest and most documented connections to Epstein.
• Was filmed partying with Epstein in the 90s at Mar-a-Lago, laughing and pointing out women.
• Famously called Epstein a "terrific guy" who liked women "on the younger side."
• His name appears multiple times on Epstein’s flight manifests.
JEFF BEZOS
Seems intent on physically reshaping the world to fit his ego.
• Spending $42 million building a giant clock inside a mountain designed to tick for 10,000 years.
•
Commissioning a $500M superyacht so tall that a historic bridge in
Rotterdam was initially scheduled to be dismantled just to let it pass.
MARK ZUCKERBERG
Behavior that often feels like a simulation of human coolness.
• Massive land grabs in Hawaii for a compound, engaging in legal battles to force locals off ancestral lands for his privacy.
• An obsession with Roman Emperor Augustus (even giving his daughters Roman names).
• Strange fixations, like spending a year only eating meat that he killed himself (including laser-sighted goats).
PETER THIEL & LARRY ELLISON 
The dystopian futurists obsessed with cheating death.
•
Thiel has shown deep interest in "parabiosis" (injecting young blood
into older people) and bought NZ citizenship as a doomsday escape plan.
•
Ellison bought 98% of the Hawaiian island of Lanai for $300M,
effectively becoming a modern-day feudal lord over the community there.
It really makes you wonder: At what point does extreme wealth stop being "success" and start becoming a pathology?
George Carlin says: "Consciousness is realizing that your poverty is not a lack of luck, but the result of a plan… They don't want you to be an evolved citizen, but an exhausted worker. A person busy with survival has no time to demand their rights."
In this profound statement, Carlin speaks not just about poverty as an economic problem, but as an intertwined psycho-socio-political system, meticulously crafted to produce a submissive, busy, and exhausted citizen. It's a bold reading of the collective mind of the modern era, where poverty is no longer a natural consequence of circumstances, but a systematic tool for control and the subjugation of consciousness.
From a psychological perspective, an exhausted person loses their capacity for critical thought. When an individual's awareness is confined to securing their next meal, consciousness transforms from a tool for liberation into a mere means of survival. This is the most dangerous form of alienation: when the mind reduces itself to the function of instinct. Here, poverty is not just material deprivation; it's a starvation of dignity and will. A person living under the constant weight of need suffers from what psychologists call existential burnout—a state of internal erosion that drives them toward submission and compliance instead of revolution and creativity.
From a social and political angle, poverty is managed as a tool of control, not as an economic flaw. Consumer societies are built on the principle of deferred gratification; citizens are given doses of false hope through advertisements, promises, and policies, keeping them in a perpetual chase after a mirage. It's a meticulous engineering of helplessness, mastered by the neoliberal system, by transforming the human being into a small cog in the production machine, surrounded by a vast array of distractions and fears. Thus, poverty becomes a function: the function of maintaining the existing order.
From an existential literary perspective, the text can be read as a cry against the slavery of the modern age. Here, poverty is not a transient event, but a spiritual state of inner extinguishment, where a person is reduced to a body that works without living, produces without owning, and is consumed without choosing. It is the new face of slavery; a slavery camouflaged behind a facade of freedom.
In deep psychological analysis, the intended poverty becomes not just a poverty of money, but a poverty of consciousness. When a person is programmed to believe that their misery is destiny, they themselves become the guard of the prison they are placed in. The system needs no walls when fear and deprivation are sufficient to build internal barriers. Thus, poverty transforms into an inherited psychological illness, measured not in currency, but by the degree to which hope has been extinguished.
It is a system of soft control, replacing iron chains with mental shackles. It exhausts the individual in the vortex of work and consumption until they lose their sense of time and meaning. And when Carlin says they don't want you to be an evolved citizen but an exhausted worker, he reveals the core truth: the conscious citizen threatens the system, the intellectual doubts, and the enlightened cannot be led.
From here, the conscious awakening becomes a revolutionary act in itself:
To realize that poverty is a policy, not an accident.
To understand that deprivation of time and knowledge is the most dangerous form of poverty.
And to practice consciousness not as an intellectual luxury, but as a silent resistance that creates itself by itself.
Something feels different right now, and it isn’t just politics, it’s reality cracking open. I think what a lot of people are feeling right now is the slow, nauseating realization that the ideals we were handed regarding the world have been held together with duct tape and spit. Really, nothing short of being bedtime stories for adults. But the stories aren’t holding up. The façade is cracking. The stage lights are flickering, and the whole set is collapsing under its own weight.
People are commenting on my posts that this is the end of the world. I understand that it feels like the apocalypse. But apocalypse doesn’t mean the planet explodes, or it’s the end of life as we know it. It means something is revealed or uncovered. The word apocalypse comes from the Greek word apokalupsis, meaning "unveiling," "revelation," or "disclosure," referring to the uncovering of hidden knowledge. At this time in history, I feel it means the moment you cannot unsee what you have seen. It is the end of denial, not the end of existence. And honestly, that is almost worse, because you can survive a disaster, but you cannot go back to sleep once your eyes are open. You just can’t.
We are watching the death of illusions, and illusions do not die quietly. They die screaming, kicking, tightening their grip, demanding obedience, labeling questions as dangerous, calling dissent a threat, and wrapping control in the language of safety. The old world does not step aside with grace, it throws a tantrum because power does not retire, it has to be dragged out of the room kicking and screaming.
The truth is, the oligarchy is not a conspiracy with a secret handshake, and it’s not a villain in a dark suit. Although I have to admit, when I think “World Super Villain”, I think Klaus Schwab. The bald head, the weird outfits... Am I lying?? LOL! Sorry, I digress. Oligarchy happens when money, influence, media, and government merge into one big self-protecting pile of crap. It is a system that rewards the ruthless, punishes the honest, and then smiles at you on television like everything is fine. That is why people feel crazy, because the disconnect between the script and reality is becoming too fucking obvious to ignore.
So, are we headed toward something better?? Maybe. Probably. But not automatically. Collapse does not guarantee rebirth, it only creates the opportunity for it. This is important to remember. The question is whether people will wake up into wisdom, or wake up into paranoia. Whether we will stop worshiping institutions, stop outsourcing our conscience, stop begging for someone else to save us, and start becoming ungovernable in the most boring way possible, by telling the truth, living with integrity, building real community, and refusing to be farmed for fear. I strongly suggest reading that again.
The spell is breaking. The collective hypnosis is wearing off. People are realizing that the emperor is not just naked, he has been naked the whole time, and we were all politely clapping like idiots. Folks, this might not be the end of the world. This might be the end of the performance.
~TL
That is what just happened in Munich.
I am sick to my stomach that my own disavowed FAMILY wanted this. My brothers, NOT my parents. (My parents hated Trump with an educated passion.)
Now, my FRIENDS, we all now will pay the price for their ignorance, Trump's ignorance...
EVERYTHING WE WARNED ABOUT.
EVERYTHING WE KNEW WAS GOING TO COME TO PASS.
#ifuckingloveaustralia carries it forward:
This is a long one but I promise it's worth your time, so buckle the fuck up because this is absolutely fucking terrible.
Germany's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz just stood up at the Munich Security Conference and basically told Trump to go fuck himself with a brick - diplomatically, but unmistakably.
Here's the full story, and I'm going to eviscerate that orange fucking colostomy bag when we get to it.
THE SETUP:
The Munich Security Conference is where the world's top security leaders gather every year. It's been the backbone of transatlantic relations since 1963. Last year, JD Vance showed up and spent his time lecturing Europeans about free speech and immigration like some kind of fucking MAGA missionary. It was a disaster that set the tone for the entire year of Trump's second term treating allies like shit.
MERZ'S BOMBSHELL:
This year, Merz opened the conference and didn't fuck around. Here's what he said:
1. The world order is dead: "This order, as flawed as it has been even in its heyday, no longer exists." Not "under threat" - DOESN'T FUCKING EXIST.
Past tense.
Done.
Trump killed it.
2. America can't do this alone: Switching to English to make sure the Americans heard him clearly - "In the era of great power rivalry, even the United States will not be powerful enough to go it alone. Being a part of NATO is not only Europe's competitive advantage. It's also the United States' competitive advantage."
3. Europe is building its own nuclear deterrent: Merz revealed he's in confidential talks with France's Macron to join their nuclear program. This is MASSIVE. For 80 years, Europe has relied on America's nuclear umbrella. Now they're building their own because they can't trust Trump not to abandon them.
4. Direct rejection of MAGA bullshit: "The culture war of the MAGA movement is not ours. We do not believe in tariffs and protectionism, but in free trade. We stick to climate agreements and the World Health Organization."
5. Called out the divide: "A deep divide has opened between Europe and the United States. Vice President JD Vance said this very openly here at the Munich Security Conference a year ago, and he was right."
THE CONTEXT THAT MAKES THIS BEAUTIFUL:
This didn't come out of nowhere. Since Trump's second term started:
- He threatened to ANNEX GREENLAND from Denmark (a NATO ally!)
- He imposed tariffs on European allies
- He pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement (again)
- He pulled out of the WHO (again)
- He threatened military action in Latin America
- His National Security Strategy literally said "the days of the United States propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over"
AMERICA'S PATHETIC RESPONSE:
Now here's where it gets fucking hilarious. The U.S. sent Mike Waltz (UN Ambassador) to respond. His big move? He handed out "MUNGA" hats. "Make the UN Great Again." I'm not fucking joking. While Germany is announcing they're building nuclear weapons because they can't trust America anymore, Trump's emissary is handing out fucking novelty hats.
Waltz claimed that "more Americans are dying from drugs from Latin America than in wars" (which is why Trump is focusing on the Western Hemisphere instead of Europe), and that "NATO and the UN are stronger because of Trump."
Meanwhile, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas had to remind him: "When America goes to wars, a lot of us go with you, and we lose our people on the way. You also need us."
TRUMP'S ACTUAL RESPONSE:
When asked about the conference as he left the White House, Trump said - and I fucking quote - he has "a strong relationship with NATO leaders" and claimed NATO defense spending was at 5% because of him (it's not - the actual target is 2% with a new goal of raising it to 3.5% by 2035).
That's it. That's all he fucking said. His Chancellor-level counterpart just announced Germany is going nuclear independent and Trump's response is "we have a strong relationship." It's like watching someone's wife file for divorce and the husband saying "we're very happy together."
NOW LET ME EVISCERATE THIS WALKING COLOSTOMY BAG:
Donald Trump, you fucking moron. You absolute fucking simpleton. You've managed to accomplish in 13 months what Putin couldn't do in 30 years - you've broken NATO.
For 80 fucking years - EIGHT DECADES - the United States led the most successful military and economic alliance in human history. We won World War II together. We stood together through the Cold War. We built the richest, most peaceful era in European history. The whole fucking point of NATO was "an attack on one is an attack on all" - it was about COLLECTIVE SECURITY.
And this brain-dead fucking carnival barker decided that transactional bullshit and threatening allies was better than the system that made America the most powerful country on Earth.
You want to know what "America First" actually means? It means "America Alone." And guess what happens when you're alone, you fucking dipshit? You're WEAKER.
Germany - GERMANY, the country that wasn't even allowed to have a military after WWII - is now building nuclear weapons because they can't trust the United States. France, Britain, Germany are forming their own defense alliance. They're creating their own nuclear umbrella. They're preparing to defend themselves without America.
Do you know what that means for American power? It means you lose:
- Forward military bases across Europe
- Intelligence sharing with dozens of allies
- The ability to project power globally
- Economic leverage over the world's largest trading bloc
- The moral authority that came from leading the free world
And for what? So you could fucking peacock around about "tariffs" and "America First" while China and Russia high-five each other watching the Western alliance crumble?
THE ECONOMIC SUICIDE:
Here's what this fucking moron doesn't understand: NATO isn't charity. It's the foundation of American economic and military dominance. Every dollar we "spend" on NATO returns ten dollars in:
- Access to European markets
- Intelligence cooperation
- Shared military R&D
- Forward deployment capabilities
- A united front against adversaries
But Trump sees it like a fucking protection racket. "Pay up or we won't defend you." Well guess what, you orange fucking idiot? They're calling your bluff. They're building their own military. They're creating their own nuclear deterrent. And when they don't need American protection anymore, they don't need American influence either.
THE IRONY THAT WOULD BE FUNNY IF IT WASN'T TERRIFYING:
The Munich Security Conference's theme this year was "A World Under Destruction." Merz said even that wasn't harsh enough - the world order doesn't exist anymore. It's already gone.
And who destroyed it? The country that built it. The United States, under this fucking halfwit, dismantled 80 years of American global leadership because he's too fucking stupid to understand that alliances aren't transactions - they're force multipliers.
You know who's celebrating this? Putin and Xi. They're probably popping champagne watching America's allies build nuclear weapons because they can't trust you. China doesn't have to DO anything to replace American leadership - you're just voluntarily giving it up so Trump can feel like a big man.
THE GEOPOLITICAL CONSEQUENCES:
When Germany has its own nukes and doesn't need American protection:
- Why would they follow American sanctions on China?
- Why would they support American military actions?
- Why would they align their economic policy with Washington?
- Why would they share intelligence?
They wouldn't. You lose all that leverage. All that power. All that influence.
And it gets worse. With a European nuclear deterrent:
- Russia becomes even more paranoid and aggressive
- Nuclear proliferation accelerates
- The risk of miscalculation skyrockets
- American influence in European affairs plummets
THE DOMESTIC POLITICAL REALITY:
Here's the part that really fucks me off: Trump's base will CHEER this. They'll see "Europe building their own military" as a win. "Finally they're paying their fair share!" they'll crow, completely missing that they just lost the most valuable alliance in human history.
It's like bragging you got your roommate to finally pay rent after you burned down the fucking house.
THE BOTTOM LINE:
Friedrich Merz stood in front of the world and announced that Europe can no longer trust America. They're building their own military. Their own nuclear weapons. Their own alliance structure.
And Trump's response was to send a guy with novelty hats.
This is what American decline looks like. Not because you lost a war. Not because your economy collapsed. But because you elected a fucking moron who's too stupid to understand that American power isn't about military might alone - it's about alliances, influence, and leadership.
And that walking colostomy bag just flushed it all down the toilet because he can't see past his own fucking ego.
Europe is done waiting for America to be reliable. They're moving on. And when they do, the American Century is over.
All because 74 million fucking idiots voted for a conman who thinks "Art of the Deal" is foreign policy.
Unfuckingbelievable.
Painting by Jon Stuart Anderson
In the quiet morning of October 15, 1917, in Vincennes, France, the world watched as one of history’s most enigmatic figures met her end. Mata Hari, born Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, the Dutch dancer who had captivated Europe with her beauty, charm, and mystery, was about to be executed. Accused of spying for Germany during World War I, her guilt has remained a subject of debate for over a century—but on that day, she became a symbol of betrayal. In the first photograph, she takes a final sip of cognac, her hands bound to the post. Even in the shadow of death, she refuses a blindfold, facing her fate with calmness and courage. Her eyes, once so full of performance and intrigue, are now steady, unflinching, daring the world to witness her final act. Moments later, the firing squad opens fire. The second photograph captures the aftermath, as the officer in charge steps forward to verify the death of a woman who had lived at the intersection of seduction, espionage, and politics. Mata Hari’s story lingers—not just as a tale of war and espionage, but as a haunting reminder of how myth, rumor, and history intertwine. Beauty, scandal, and secrecy—her name still evokes fascination, a life lived dangerously until the very end. Mata Hari: dancer, spy, legend. Death could not erase her story
Sunday, February 15, 2026
Ah yes, Peter Thiel. The philosopher-king of Silicon Valley who looked at democracy and decided it was an optional feature.
Thiel is a central co-founder of Palantir, because nothing says “libertarian freedom” quite like a surveillance company named after an all-seeing orb from Tolkien. He’s a billionaire venture capitalist, an early investor in Facebook, and one of the PayPal founders who helped design the financial plumbing of the digital age. He built tools that move money invisibly and harvest data efficiently, and then had the audacity to publicly muse that maybe democracy itself is the inefficiency.
He famously declared, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”
Just sit with that for a second.
A man who amassed staggering wealth inside a democratic republic now questions whether the voting public should continue having a say in how that republic functions. It’s the kind of statement that would’ve gotten you laughed out of civics class, but in Silicon Valley boardrooms, it passes for edgy intellectualism.
And then there’s the Epstein angle.
The latest batch of Department of Justice files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein shed light on Epstein’s deep ties to Silicon Valley. In those documents, Peter Thiel’s name reportedly appears at least 2,200 times. Let me be precise: appearing in documents is not proof of wrongdoing. But when your name surfaces thousands of times in files connected to one of the most notorious financial predators in modern history, it raises eyebrows, especially for someone who styles himself as a moral and civilizational critic of modern society.
The reporting also highlights something almost absurdly on-brand: Thiel’s elaborate dietary restrictions. Because of course. While the rest of us are worrying about whether democracy survives the decade, billionaires are managing micronutrients and optimizing their biological performance like they’re beta-testing immortality.
There’s something darkly poetic about it. A tech titan who questions democracy. A surveillance empire built on data extraction. Thousands of mentions in Epstein-related files. Meticulous food rituals. Apocalyptic musings about the “Antichrist.” It reads less like a biography and more like a rejected script from HBO.
But here’s the through-line: power without accountability.
When billionaires start openly theorizing that democracy and freedom are incompatible, that’s not just philosophical debate. That’s a worldview backed by capital, influence, networks, and institutions. It’s not a blog post. It’s a strategy.
And the rest of us? We’re left hoping that “freedom” in their lexicon doesn’t just mean freedom for the few, and management for the many.
—Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.
The Word Has Been Weaponized
What Fascism Actually Is, and What It Is Not
White Rose
February 2026
“Communists.”
“Marxists.”
“Radical left fascists.”
“Extremists.”
“Vermin.”
These are not paraphrases. These are the actual words Donald Trump has used repeatedly to describe his political opponents. The labels are applied broadly, often simultaneously, sometimes even contradicting one another. Fascists and communists, historically mortal enemies, are merged into a single interchangeable threat category.
This is not ideological precision.
It is rhetorical construction.
Because once a word becomes elastic enough, it can be stretched to cover anyone. And once it covers anyone, it loses its meaning entirely.
That is the first victory of real fascism. Not the uniform. Not the salute. The definition.
When the word fascist becomes nothing more than an insult, it ceases to function as a warning.
So it becomes necessary to restore the word to its actual meaning.
Fascism is not disagreement.
It is not dissent.
It is not opposition.
Fascism is a structure.
In 2003, political scientist Laurence W. Britt studied seven fascist regimes including Mussolini’s Italy, Hitler’s Germany, Franco’s Spain, Pinochet’s Chile, and Suharto’s Indonesia. His findings were published in Free Inquiry magazine under the title “Fascism Anyone?” He identified thirteen characteristics that appeared consistently across all of them.
He was not writing about modern America.
He was describing a pattern.
And patterns, once understood, become unmistakable.
Here are those thirteen characteristics, restored to their proper meaning.
1. Powerful and continuing nationalism
Fascist systems rely on emotional national identity centered around restoration. Trump’s political identity remains anchored in the promise to restore a lost national greatness, presenting himself as the singular figure capable of that restoration.
2. Disdain for human rights
Human beings become categorized as threats rather than individuals. Trump has repeatedly advocated mass deportations involving millions of people and the construction of large scale detention infrastructure to carry them out.
3. Identification of enemies as a unifying cause
Fascism requires internal enemies to unify followers. Trump consistently labels journalists, prosecutors, political opponents, and civil servants as corrupt, traitorous, or illegitimate.
4. Supremacy of security force as an instrument of internal authority
Military and federal force become tools of internal control. Trump has openly discussed using federal forces and military capacity to enforce domestic political and immigration objectives.
5. Rampant sexism
Authority becomes associated with dominance and masculinity. Trump has repeatedly framed leadership in terms of strength and dominance while using personal and gender based attacks against female opponents.
6. Obsession with controlling narrative legitimacy
Independent truth becomes subordinate to leader defined truth. Trump consistently labels unfavorable reporting as fake, encouraging followers to distrust independent information sources.
7. Obsession with national security framing
Threat becomes permanent. Immigration, dissent, and protest are framed as existential dangers requiring extraordinary authority.
8. Religion intertwined with political legitimacy
Political authority becomes linked with religious identity. Trump has positioned himself as a defender of Christianity, reinforcing alignment between political loyalty and religious identity.
9. Protection of corporate and elite economic power
Economic hierarchy becomes normalized. Trump’s economic policies have consistently favored deregulation and tax structures benefiting corporations and wealthy individuals.
10. Suppression or delegitimization of labor power
Independent worker power is weakened. Economic messaging emphasizes hierarchy and individual accumulation rather than collective bargaining power.
11. Disdain for intellectuals and expertise
Expertise becomes suspect when it contradicts authority. Scientific institutions, intelligence agencies, and academic experts have been dismissed when their conclusions conflict with political messaging.
12. Obsession with crime, punishment, and social control
Authority becomes the primary solution to disorder. Trump’s rhetoric consistently emphasizes harsh punitive responses to perceived threats and instability.
13. Cronyism and loyalty based authority structure
Personal loyalty becomes the primary qualification for power. Authority centers on the individual rather than on independent institutional function.
Fascism does not arrive with announcement.
It reveals itself through patterns.
Its clearest signal is the elevation of one individual above the system itself.
When loyalty to a person becomes more important than loyalty to law, institution, or shared reality, the transformation is already underway.
History does not need to repeat exactly.
It only needs to follow the same structure.
Reference:
Laurence W. Britt, “Fascism Anyone?” Free Inquiry Magazine, Volume 22, Number 2, Spring 2003.
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