It's fucking incredible and ridiculous. Apparently it's a no fly zone. A NO FLY ZONE. RUSSIA IS FUCKING NO FLY ZONE. All the US news stations are reporting on the looting and rioting, but not the fact that police militarization is a real fucking thing. I don't even know what to say.
This is the worst case of... fuck, I don't even know, police state? Fascism? in the country's history at this point. You know what... I can't even make that statement in confidence, and that scares the shit out of me. I am fully terrified of this country and government now.
This incident has shown me that I have several idiotic Facebook now-un-friends. I actually can't even begin to encapsulate the conversation I had earlier today with someone, and I won't, but let it be known that a gay man basically said that gays were better than other minorities because they "wouldn't riot" in similar circumstances, and then another one said that even if they did riot it would be okay because they haven't had the same rights as the rest of America for the past 40 years, legally speaking.
Yeah I asked about the rationale but clearly there wasn't one. I actually asked because I think we are on double discrimination duty here; I think it's discriminatory to raise the gays up as somehow "better," but I also suspect that they said gays wouldn't riot because gay men are perceived as effeminate and women are, well, women, right? I did do my duty and point out stonewall but of course if you're not arguing with intelligent people intelligent points don't hit any target any way.