I want just one interviewer to give these men the treatment they gave Whitney Houston, Britney Spears, or Amy Winehouse when they were clearly at rock bottom.

One can thus be guilty of war crimes even during times of peace.

The Massachusetts way to fight someone is to cut them off in traffic & then slam on your breaks. Not sure how that’s applicable here.

Have you heard of the Geneva Convention?

The Second Geneva Convention says: “In the case of armed conflict not of an international character occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties, each Party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the following provisions:”

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How many decent people do you know who can raise $2 million from their friends?

Inequality and political liberty are incompatible, but you don’t see me out here whining about it.

I always assume it means “does a lot of cocaine”. That’s definitely what it means when people say “rockstar programmers”.

Figure out how to help in ways that don’t require spending time with people.

Knocking on doors, making phone calls, raising money for progressive candidates: none of those require caring what anyone around you thinks about the uber-wealthy.

Not vote: organize, obstruct and resist.

But you keep dreaming of your deus ex machina “revolution”. We’ll see who does more.

No one else is going to swoop in and save us. Liberal democracy is a tool we can use to save ourselves.