Post

It is dangerously naive to believe that cruelty can be directed only towards the guilty. An appetite for cruelty is equally sated by the victimization of innocents. There’s no reason that a straightforward prosecution of the administration’s crimes would be inferior to performative cruelty.

I’ve reported on war crimes tribunals, I spend most of my time documenting war crimes, and I think you’re the naive one if you believe we can break the will of these depraved beasts without extremely public and entirely legal consequences for their genocidal crimes.

I think I started where Carl is and have ended up where you are, or in the approximate neighborhood. I feel kind of awful about it, but I feel much more awful about them escaping justice, etc..

I have come to where I am after a whole lot of confronting human brutality and its consequences. I feel this is by far the least bad choice on the table now.

What is? I think you need to always consider what you do will be USED by the far right to JUSTIFY their own escalation. Which is why if you want to change the situation you need to apply tried and true tactics, like again study the Black Panthers. Protest peacefully, while armed. Outreach/ community

If you still believe that the evil and cruel among us require any sort of action on our part to justify their evil and cruelty, then you haven't been paying attention.

The optics of killing people who have first tried to kill them goes down a lot smoother than killing nonviolent protesters and community organizers. Though of course even then the Black Panthers were hunted and killed by police.