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“Upon signing this document, you will be awarded fifteen Blood Points. The value of each Blood Point is one one-thousandth of one cent.
many politicians had already appeared before holostreams to implore nonviolence. An absurd thing for the murderous state to plead for, but, as always, the massive violence of the state was “justice,” was “law and order,” and resistance to perpetual violence was an act of terror. It would have been funny if there weren’t so much blood everywhere.
Bars
I said I’m an abolitionist. I’m going to call on the great Ruth Wilson Gilmore to remind us exactly what abolition is. ‘It is meant to undo the way of thinking and doing things that sees prison and punishment as solutions for all kinds of social, economic, political, behavioral, and interpersonal problems.’
Does each evil cancel the other out? Does disappearing one person from the earth clean it some?
He’d said, “I will not force anyone else to have to consider forgiving me either. I’m not sure what I deserve.”
There is a space in time when violence tears through from imagined to physical—and if that physical is met with more physical, then the violence can become both the vehicle and driver for all that comes after, and what has escaped can be incredibly difficult to contain.
