incredible blog www.vanityfair.com/story/the-ne...
genuinely unbelievable that as individuals we just have no choice but to tolerate that there are sometimes just malfunctioning unguided missiles zooming around the streets at absurd rates of speed because a few people think it’s cool
"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.
The first step you take on the journey to "abolish the police" is the realization that we could "abolish" 2 soldiers, 4 cops, and a horse from this particular situation, and we would be fine.
The arrests for "vandalism" around the reflecting pool are in principle the same thing as Russian soldiers being forced to record false captures/flag-raisings on the frontlines– the deforming of the state into a tyrant-soothing bouncy infant chair
