The age of hypocrisy and the art of carrying on |
The first episode of 2026 has been fraught, with reasons to despair while watching global politics unfold.
Just the other day I switched on my computer and began the daily doomscroll, only to read the news about Renee Good being gunned down in her car by an ICE officer.
Despite the fact that ICE sounds similarly sibilant to SS, and seems to be drawing a lot of comparisons these days now that Trump is incentivising Yanks to sign up, it isn’t a militant wing of the army that’s dedicated to the president.
You need no formal training to apply for the post. As long as you have US citizenship, a clean criminal record and a permit to carry a weapon, you too can gun down people with impunity.
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One minute I’m suspended in a sense of horror while watching the carnage unfold, only to hear a comment from someone on the news that causes enough cognitive dissonance to snap me out of the doom cycle with a disbelieving laugh.
Take, for instance, when I finished reading updates about the Minnesota........