Antifa’s Long and Distinguished History
The meme here is a reminder that Antifa didn’t start with the BLM movement; it’s been around ever since a group of people first rose up against a tyrant.
My father, risking his life and acting in the spirit of Antifa, didn’t storm the beaches at Normandy, but he sure did pilot a B-17 bomber that destroyed a few dozen Nazi oil refineries.
As suggested here, American journalist Chris Hedges is Antifa as well, fighting with ideas rather than weapons of war. Perhaps this is indicative of the fact that all decent people have our own respective roles to play.
The New England Journal of Medicine, which began publishing in 1812, took the unusual step of making a political comment.
Fully 85 percent of Venice was flooded by a near-record 74-inch high tide last November, leading to renewed calls for action on a flood protection system. Here it is: Venice’s long-awaited sea barrier system was deployed successfully for the first time on Saturday, holding back the tide and keeping the city flood-free.
Here’s a sign that’s painful to read.
I thought I’d post this, since there seems to be so much conversation on the topic of wishing suffering on others.
No decent human being should wish disease on another. But if someone’s going to contract a disease, shouldn’t it be the person who selfishly defied the extremely clear instructions of doctors and scientists, rather than the person who, in order to protect the welfare of the entire population, went to the effort to comply?
In terms of human rights, the U.S. is looking more like China, in terms of democracy, more like Russia, in terms of national solvency, more like Greece, in terms of domestic/racial tranquility, more like Serbia, and in terms of truth, more like North Korea. 
In an earlier post I mentioned that 
Though I’m not a religious person, I find it very interesting that the world’s great monotheistic religions are quite clear in their warnings of evil people, and how they need to be identified and disempowered.
Thus far, the 21st Century is defined by the dividing-into-halves things that at one time were far more homogeneous.
