Fuck pacifism. Fuck turning the other cheek until you wring your own neck for the sake of optics and ~~*avoiding escalation*~~ (they will always fucking find an excuse, even if it's a dumb one).

Let that fucking headline sink in.

Now think of your worst childhood memory.

I say fuck pacifism because I've been there. I haven't been dragged from my home or yanked from my mother's arms by a Border Patrol scumbag, but I've been scared and lost and alone like that. My earliest memory is my father screaming in my fucking face because I wouldn't smile for a picture and I cannot even imagine being a normal, functioning person because of it. So I say fuck pacifism because I know how painful this child's life must be right now. I'm not a fucking radlib "organizer," who thinks this is a game of fucking chess, that this child's life matters but.

We're going to have to fight a war at some point in our lifetimes, the way the climate is turning to shit, the way the mal aria of wildfire soot and [COVID] degrades the flesh of our lungs, so, like, y'know, play some Minecraft.