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“When the Israeli military opens fire on starving civilians clambering for flour, ‘The Guardian’ describes the killings as ‘food aid-related deaths.’ One struggles to imagine how food aid could do such a thing.”

“The story begins not when the wagons arrive, but only after they are circled. In this telling, fear is the exclusive property of only one people, and the notion that the occupied might fear the doing of their occupier is as fantastical as the notion that barbarians might be afraid of the gate. Any population on whom this asymmetry is imposed, will always be the instigators…”

And the obvious centrist refrain - But do you want the deranged right wing to win? - should, after even a moment of self-reflection, yield to a far more important question: How empty does your message have to be for a deranged right wing to even have a chance of winning?

“It’s the person who in self-image professes to be a rule breaker, untamable, wild - and in the next breath sides question unquestioningly with every facet of state power. I’ve seen the Punisher decal on the bumper, the stylized American flag, denoting the thin blue line: I’m an outlaw; also, anyone who disobeyed the cops deserve to be killed.”

“The afflicted don’t need comforting, they need what the comfortable have always had.”