From MiketheMadBiologist: if police are under no ethical obligation to endanger themselves in [school shootings, as they did in Uvalde] then we should stop pretending they’re warrior kings, and start treating them like they’re clerks at the DMV (nothing wrong with that job, but no one calls them Heroes).
"It is increasingly clear that the real threat lies not with the person crossing a border, working a warehouse shift, or marching in the street—but with the structure that enriches itself by sowing division and suppressing dissent." - Peter Bloom
"You Yanks don't consult the wisdom of democracy; you enable mobs." - Australian planner
Friday, May 27, 2022
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