Note: the way this Substack usually works is that every public piece has a follow-up piece for subscribers only containing all the screams I restrained to make the free one nice and civilized and not have to argue reality with sea lions in the comments.

However, this particular one is a standalone under a paywall because I’m about to talk about real people I used to know very well during the era of 9/11 and the Iraq War. And it’s not nice to put them on blast, even anonymously, even if it’s a somewhat elegant (if anything featuring gifs can be elegant AND IT CAN) and well thought-out blast, as they weren’t specifically trying to be bad or stupid or naive, they just listened to a lot of bad stupid naive shit hardly anyone had learned how to publicly say was bad and stupid and naive yet.

And this is about the ONGOING war in Iran and the absolute skull-fractures running it, not holding adults to account for the silly things they thing when we’re young. I’m no better.

So to protect the, if not innocent, at least the “helplessly morally bulldozered by how we were all raised,” I have chosen to screen the calls, so to speak.

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