Thread by @BeauTFC

I'm extremely detached from deaths in conflict. I don't normally have an emotional reaction.

Just watched the footage of an unconscious man beat to death at the Capitol. One of the implements was a pole with an American flag on it.

I can't tell you how many times a contractor or consultant headed overseas is told by somebody like those in the crowd what "they" (meaning foreigners) would do if they caught an American. As if Americans somehow were different.

The greatest evils in the world are always committed not by people as thinking individuals, but by groups of tool using primates tricked, indoctrinated, and pitted against each other by some idiotic power structure.

Apparently this is a different beating that occurred that day and this guy survived. Don't know if that makes it better or worse to be honest.