giving an account number to a customer service rep over the phone like "yeah 3 as in if there were like 3 girls, 6 as in 64, 0 as in if there wasn't any of something"
If Aaron Bushnell had destroyed his life fighting a war, on behalf of the empire, he’d be unquestionably celebrated as a hero. Instead he destroyed his life exposing the moral rot at the heart of empire, and our complicity in its cruelties. That��s why his memory will be attacked.
The cop was pointing his gun at him even as he laid there burning. Whatever your view on self-immolation, nothing betrays the monstrousness of our political culture like that moment: from the local to the federal level, the state meets every challenge with an opportunity to kill.