Between pipelines getting jammed, the slow-motion general strike, protests everywhere all the time, Sheikh Jarrah, mass shootings every day, new covid strains in India, and just the general background noise of life getting worse and worse for almost everyone on the planet, it feels like someone tied a brick to the big “accelerate the contradictions” lever.

Anyone else felt this way lately?

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The difference in posture between Soleimani getting killed and Bin Laden getting killed was astounding.

I remember when Bid Laden was killed, all the politicos were solemn-faced and tons of us plebs were chanting “U-S-A!” in the streets.

Fast forward a decade and all the politicos were cheering about killing Soleimani and almost everyone I know was just kind of shocked that we were just straight-up killing foreign leaders in broad daylight.

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