"Serving", tho, right?

And also, look at the all-star roster of public law enforcement agencies that are happy to take money from a private business in order to assist their mob-style intimidations and interrogations: the NYPD and Joey Arpaio's Goon Squad. This whole thing sounds to have been handled in a completely extralegal way by…

Well, lots of other countries have police without firearms. If it's the right of the people to bear arms, allegedly, maybe they should have them and just never have to use them. The constitution nowhere guarantees police or the state the right to bear arms against its own people- in fact, it goes on at some length…

I hope that more and more people have this realization. It was frustrating to live through this shit during Occupy and have so many people not get it. If people are for real wanting to actually do something about this, my suggestion is that we disarm the police in the United States — all of them.

That's interesting and good to know. I can't say I have a firm grasp of the internal politics of Israel, just a loose one with some I think diversified source material. But getting out the vote isn't quite the extent of what I was thinking. Demonstrations, coalition building, creative messaging development and…

Ugh, yeah I stand corrected. Shit turns my stomach

Sure, but it shouldn't be an option in this game. The purpose of the game is to simulate the hard path, which happens to be the only humanly imaginable one. You don't need a genocide simulator. I'm sure you can imagine what that looks like.

OK, I hear you. I actually don't think that you've quite got those historical examples right, though — or at least the takeaway. Think about who the aggressor and the defender are in the wars you named. Who won? In none of those cases did the aggressor win. So I think what you're doing a good job of is not…

Parliamentary systems can't have activists and electoral organizers?

That doesn't happen by accident? Most Israeli residents get to vote? Maybe there is something you can do about this besides ackowledge that it sucks?

Ugh are you seriously saying it's debatable whether or not war and only war can resolve this conflict? Are you okay with totally erasing the Palestinians from the region? Because that's called ethnic cleansing, it's considered one of the most evil things humans can do, and that's the only end game unless peace is the…

Not even one of their own aircraft, a Malaysian flight from the Netherlands. It makes zero sense strategically. I'm going to go with the ol' Hardy Boys method on this one — the simplest explanation is probably the correct one. The simple explanation here is that Russia or Russia-backed extremists shot it down thinking…

For me, that sounds pretty close to a best-case scenario. Local is where so much of the work should be done. I eagerly await, however, the next time all our problems' intersections can bring us together. Thanks for doing what you do.

Sorry, misread what you wrote.

That's not a satisfactory recourse when bullshit charges are being levied hundreds of times a day, unless you expect us to shut up for like 10 years while the courts lope their way through such appeals. This is a nonsense argument given any actual knowledge of the situation.

there's no way a self-inflicted bruise could have been that color unless she inflicted it on herself while in police custody. No involved party actually disputes that her breast bruise occurred during her arrest.

I'm sorry to hear about your grandmother! Thank you for your kind words. I hope you're right and that we'll meet in the streets when the time comes.

shocking that a former communist has no problem with authoritarian state violence. absolutely shocking.

Cecily's jury was denied boatloads of relevant information and literally all context about Officer Bovell and the night she was arrested. Immediately after the verdict, when they were allowed to research the case and obtain all of the relevant information they were denied during the trial, 9 of 12 jurors asked the…

Of course we were. And it wasn't just that we were shut down: we were beaten down. Countless efforts and projects were disrupted or demolished by almost two years of organized police suppression. I already said I don't want to excuse our mistakes. But we never had a chance to learn from them because of illegal state…