I visited Switzerland just after the vaccines dropped. The Swiss COVID response far surpassed the response in the United States. They rolled out a nation-wide app for vaccination attestation, and any museum, restaurant, etc. could scan a QR code on someone’s phone with a phone. But do they have a scary, socially reactionary subset of their population? Yes.

In some harmful ways they are fanatically culturally conservative. But they also care about community, sustainability, health, the well-being of children, environmental preservation, organization, and self-reliance. Being a small, rich, homogeneous, topographically-isolated country drives these characteristics.

Surveillance State developments are depressing but not surprising.

No just any shit, shit that helps everyday people living in their country.

I’m just thinking of the major cities in my U.S. state where the public transit map, before and after, looks like Chengdu in 2010. So as unfortunate as the circumstances are in Toronto, they can be even worse.

Licking Lead is only “not a great idea?” I think it’s squarely in the “Please don’t do that” territory.

#1 and #9 are the same dude: Saint Thomas Beckett, getting his brains stirred.

I’m being downvoted for pointing out an obvious discrepancy, one that needs to be recognized and reckoned with?

In WW2 the full federal might of the United States government and armed forces were aligned against the Axis.

Which side is the administration on now? Against whom were the National Guard and Marines deployed against this week? Reality check time.

Does it make you feel better to lash out and rage against people who agree with you, who are on your side and opposed to the bullshit we’re all facing? Slipping into a comfy fantasy, where we imagine the “good guys” have the guns and power this time, isn’t productive, unless it’s motivating you to arm yourself and build solidarity. Do you have your rifle and bayonet? I do. Are you supporting people who are with you, or are you just sitting in your chair screaming at the wrong people on the Internet?

“There isn’t a genocide happening…”

Do you mean besides the one in Gaza, where U.S. money and munitions have been facilitating the bombing and starvation of children for over a year?

My question is rhetorical. If you have a response, I’m not interested in hearing it.

The trouble is: the poster misrepresents the situation. The guy wearing the red hat is the one holding the rifle and bayonet this time.

“No, no we meant just all the brown people after us.”