2025-11-30 Enough
Sometimes enough is enough. I come home from a social occasion, it's past midnight, we're drinking tea, can't quite go to bed yet after so much activity. So many people. My ears are still humming from all the noise. I am hoarse because of the shouting. I am afraid because of infectious diseases and bad ventilations.
And when I sit down at the laptop in the living room, I wanted some aimless drifting across the timeline, a little Emacs and Oddmu, perhaps. And then I think that on this laptop, I can look at social media using a text user interface (TUI), namely `toot tui`. And there’s the German police escorting politicians of the far right through a demonstration; there’s the German police beating up a demonstration, there’s that politician decrying the violence of the demonstrators, and here I am thinking, the Germans voted for this. This is the party that’s aiding and abetting the far right. Ugh.
And there’s the US military double tapping helpless people swimming in the water after they were shot. Using military force against civilians, committing war crimes.
Has Israel stopped the genocide? Allowed people to return, paid for the damages done, paid restitutions for the civilians killed?
Has Russia stopped the invasion of Ukraine? Have they stopped targeting civilians? Are they still committing war crimes?
Ah, and what about the ongoing disaster in Sudan?
Enough!
Enough.