1. This post is an incisive critique.
2. I’ve said before and I’ll say again that the only alternative to widespread popular violence is widespread empowerment through nonviolent mechanisms — not robbing people of power, that’s not an alternative, that’s a cause! — and if the oligarchs persist in their aggressive capture of power, Luigi Mangione is going to be not a curious aberration but a harbinger, and I don’t want that, I don’t actually want to live in a world where assassinations are a regular part of how things work, that’s miserable, that’s no way to live, and that’s exactly where we’re heading right now, and it’s grim and driving me to write egregious run-on sentences, please make it stop, thank you. https://wandering.shop/@aesthr/116381847228695045