Every empire falls. Its collapse becomes inevitable once its rulers lose all sense of how absurd and abhorrent they have become
  • hopefull_cottonball@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    And yet, there was just one visible protester in the congressional chamber. Rashida Tlaib, the only US legislator of Palestinian heritage, sat silently grasping a small black sign. On one side it said: “War criminal”. On the other: “Guilty of genocide.”

    Imagine being the the sole protestor in a room full of hundreds of people clapping like maniacs.