They are destroying government institutions that protect people from incursions by the STATE, but they are not destroying the STATE. You’d better damn well understand what that means–for the tens of thousands put at immediate risk of our lives–not in some future, but starting now.

“Democracy” is an abstraction; at this point, we’re not fighting to protect Democracy–there IS no democracy to defend.

We’re fighting for our lives. Stop describing it like a fucking brush fire we can quench by squirting it with pretty Memes and a few peaceful demonstrations
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#1165 Homo Agonistes