August 2022
“Twenty years after 9/11, the US military has killed the al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri by drone as he stood on his balcony at a safe house in Kabul. Goddamn, America clipped the world’s most wanted terrorist off of his safe house balcony? I mean also, at this point, maybe we should stop calling them safe houses. Every terrorist gets killed in a safe house. They should call it ‘a house that you think you’re safe in, but you never know.’” —Trevor Noah“What’s crazy is that America didn’t just kill him. They killed him with a razor blade missile, which I didn’t even know was a thing. The Hellfire missile is a non-explosive, unmanned weapon which deploys razorblades in flight. The weapons America has sound like things kids just make up on the playground. [imitating a child]: ‘I’m shooting you with a laser-guided missile with razor blades and a shark’s body.’ Meanwhile the CIA is up in a tree being like ‘with a shark’s body, you get that, boys? We gotta go make one of those.’” —Trevor Noah
“When you see stories like this, when you see stories about what America’s capable of, this is where you realize there’s really no excuse for the amount of domestic terrorism in America. Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s deputy and successor, lived in a safe house in Kabul and yet America knew what time of day he liked to go out on to his balcony. But when a white supremacist posts on Facebook that he’s gonna murder everyone, and then buys an AR-15, everyone is like ‘Oh, there was no way to stop this!’ The point of the assassination, was that America never forgets … unless it’s slavery. But everything else, America never forgets.” —Trevor Noah
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A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night of the Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”