It’s the imperial boomerang. I used to talk about LRADs all the time — long-range acoustic devices, right? They were first implemented in Iraq for crowd control purposes. Then only a decade later they were being used in Portland, and now every police precinct has one. Same goes for all these different tools that we use first in the colonies and then at the home front. And the same systems of surveillance that people experiment with in places like Gaza. Maybe even AI targeting and drone warfare that we’ve seen happening to the captive Palestinian population in Gaza. And the genocide will inevitably happen to Americans on the domestic front as well. We’re not there yet, but that doesn’t mean it’s not going to happen.

Tying that back to Minneapolis and what’s going on there, I think we’re in a unique time as far as the administration not readily having an organized response or reaction. At least in the past there were boogeymen that you could point to, in the Cold War: communism, the Soviets, things of that nature. Right now, America in the aftermath of the dissolution of the USSR has been the domineering force, and it’s basically just hurting itself as the contradictions worsen. So now they’re just trying to invent villains, and sometimes the villain that they invent is a thirty-seven-year-old white mom who is in her Honda Pilot with plushy toys in the glove compartment. They tried to present her as a left-wing domestic terrorist, a left-wing extremist.