Echoing my friend Matthew, it's pretty funny to see people who are milquetoast liberals on American politics endorse “don’t vote, firebomb a Walmart” logic in Iran, and vice versa.
And in reverse a lot of Middle Eastern radicals want Americans to embrace a logic that only really works well when you're on the periphery and your country's system of government is incredibly weak under the surface.
lmao my only comment is how cute it was to see @anfurman.bsky.social have sales on a his artwork of a british architecture icon and an iranian one this weekend bc of the elections
Not that that only happened in France, but to take it as an archetypal example, in the long run those protestors just mellowed out / were bought off. France may have its 30 hr workweek or whatever but its govt is as technocratic as the US one and only slightly more merciful. Our military is its
Yes, it's wild. I've heard people who wouldn't even trouble themselves to attend a rally here in the U.S. criticize Palestinians for not just fighting to stop Hamas terrorists.
Oh that one is even worse. Way worse. As though they should fight someone who is breaking the wall of their prison, and go, 'no no the master says not to do that!' You know what animal acts like that? Dogs. Trained ones, not wolves or wild dogs. No other animal does. Not cats or horses
If it's an especially dangerous person or group who is breaking the prison walls around you, all the more reason not to fight them and just let them do it!
