yes it’s fucking bizarre that the police get paid additional paid-duty money to police the regular on goings of a city - events are part of urban life! should be part of the already exorbitant budget, which we are often reminded is majority salaries
@TheBigPharaoh When authorities prioritize ‘maintaining the peace’ and the ‘peace’ itself is sectarian, the authorities are endorsing sectarianism. Exactly how in the West Bank, IDF refusal to intervene against settler attacks is an endorsement of their behavior
No mention of the most draconian crackdown on free speech since the Red Scare.
Rushdie brought the literary world to a standstill when 12 Charlie Hebdo journalists were murdered, but he can’t summon a word of outrage for the 250+ writers and journalists slaughtered in Gaza.
@EvansRyan202 Any version of the domino theory that wasn't falsified by that couldn't be falsified be any events. To some people, violence can never fail, it can only be failed.