In case you haven’t heard, some troop of morons has taken over a few city blocks in Seattle and declared a new nation — the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ.
It’s not at all amusing that so many of our elected officials have been revealed as thoroughly incompetent at almost every level of analysis, but it is quite amusing that two of the first things the residents of CHAZ did were to create a border and to make a police force.
Don’t forget introducing stop-and-frisk!
One giant, crazy block party, I guess.
Do you think there’s any cognitive dissonance there, or are they unaware?
I honestly don’t know. I mean, it’s so self-parodying that it doesn’t seem real.
My guess would that it’s a version of the “it’s different when we do it” argument which we’re all susceptible to, but which socialist revolutionaries have raised to an art form. The Terror made the monarchy’s oppression look mild, and the same for the Soviets and the Tsar.
And I never get tired of reminding people that communist countries ban independent unions, because since The People are in power, any union would either do the same thing as the state, in which case it’s redundant, or something different, in which case it’s clearly an enemy of the people and should be suppressed.
It’s always “kto kogo?” with these types.