Or better yet:
"'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens."
--The Onion
"'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens."
--The Onion
This is a country at war with itself for profit. This is a country at
war with itself because its ruling elite is too cowed, or too
well-bribed, or too cowardly to recognize that there are people who are
getting rich arming both sides, because the only thing that stops a bad
guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun, so you make sure that it's easy
for the bad guys to get guns in order to make millions selling the guns
to the good guys (emphasis mine). --Charlie Pierce
But two of the notable quotes from one of the better pieces I've seen written on the reoccurring atrocities we now take in accustomed seasonal stride. By golly, if we were an agrarian society we could now dispense with star sightings and seasonal shifts, relying instead, on our regular bloodletting of the innocents to plant and harvest our crops... like the virginal offerings of olde to the troublesome gods of fertility.
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