Kettle lies heavy

Another day, closing up a month, another spasm of dark fantasy, bordering nowpunk political thriller, from progressive victims of TDS across the pond, on a few radically (neo)liberal & otherwise Left-leaning tech buffs boards that I sometimes seine for delicacies and also to polish my English somewhat.

Well, there were the Ides of March recently, so I shouldn’t be surprised by new potent upwelling of Kaganism among the members of Opus DEI.

I couldn’t but wonder why so many TDS victims, who propose Northern, Coastal, or another form of secession, are branded with Ukraine flag.

As you may recall, attempts at secession of the Crimea and Donbass in 2014 didn’t go particularly well for Ukrainian populace (except, of course, Left-leaning liberals who overwhelmingly, in an ever-so-slightly perverse accord with far right nationalists, supported the second Maidan uprising and the troubles with Russia that continue there since).

Do you want to know how the hypothetical Coastal Secession of the Blue states may look like? Turn your gazes slightly farther than rosy utopian posts which progressive fellows produce copiously (despite the obvious hopes that one of such opinion posters may become the next “Butlerian Jihadist” in the wake of Thomas Matthew Crooks),

farther even than Civil War, Dem Party propaganda clumsy piece made by Alex Garland.

Boldly flip through brittle archive pages of the last significant armed conflict on the soil of the US, when widespread electricity, tap water, or instant news access had all been futuristic and fantastic, and leave the first Civil War behind, because it won’t be the Gettysburg Address (which one?) that might spark the flame in the belligerents’ souls, and not the tragically undervalued Watchman, What of the Night?

More relevant examples to study the attempts at “peaceful dissolution” and civil wars should be supplied to you from El Salvador, Colombia, Sudan, Ukraine, or Ethiopia. Not from countries following the Scandinavian models of government. By the way, perchance under those latter you also mean Finland, whose economy now looks irreversibly broken after 2022 unilateral cessation of very lively cross-border trade with Russia?

But then again, kettles and pots lie heavy like the real crown.

Or like grasshoppers, for what the Godwin’s law is worth (I don’t count The Man in the High Castle among PKD’s successes, even remotely).