right.

so, the repeated shots at close range are clearly unjustified. it's excessive force, and the officer should be charged with and tried for murder and go to jail for the rest of his life.

however, given that the guy got into a fight with a handful of cops (he seems to have been trying to prevent somebody from getting arrested, which he shouldn't have done. he should have kept filming and offered it as evidence.) and had a gun on him, the officers had grounds to use some amount of force, such as shooting him in the leg, in order to stop him from resisting. the officers knew he had a gun. he brought a gun to a protest. why? did he have explosives? other weapons?

there is no justification to shoot him repeatedly in the head, but there is justification to use force, and he should have been arrested and charged. he cannot help his friend by getting into a physical altercation with police. that won't prevent his friend from getting arrested. he can only put himself in danger and can only irrationally break the law. if he thinks his friend is being arrested for civil disobedience, and thinks it is illegal, the best way he can help is to document it for his friend's defence.

being a cop is hard. that's not an excuse, and this cop needs to go to jail. but this is not the same thing as what is happening in iran, at least not yet.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/24/us/invs-videos-show-federal-officer-recovered-gun

the number of dead civilians is continuing to rise and it's becoming clear that the iranians killed more of their own people in a week than the israelis killed in gaza in a year of the recent war there, and the numbers of dead in iran are continuing to climb. 

newest estimates suggest the number of dead over a week this january is pushing 40,000.

still no comment from the western fake left, who have no solidarity with leftist comrades in arms, but restrict their solidarity to right-wing rapists and thugs that want to create a society similar to the one in iran, due to being heavily propagandized by islamist state media from the middle east. it's sad and disgusting.

the americans won't do with iran what i want done or what the democratic opposition wants done, but this regime will not fall without an army being raised to topple it, and the idea that there could be anything worse than the status quo in iran is stretching credulity.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/world/middleeast/iran-how-crackdown-was-done.html

see, it would be great for me if michigan was a part of canada because i wouldn't have to cross the border to party in detroit.

let me soberly ask michiganders - not something i've done often in michigan, which those who know me will testify to - to weigh the facts in front of them.

trump wants to put a 100% tariff wall over the detroit river. you know what that's going to do.

given that fact, are you not better off in canada?

pierre trudeau did flirt with non-aligned status, and canada was certainly the most independent member of nato. but we were never fully non-aligned, and it would have been suicide to become non-aligned or leave nato.

there's actually a little irony here.

every time i hear trump say "you'll see" or some variant of it when asked a question, what i hear is "just watch me".

ok, here's some al from chicago. he can be a part of the united states of canada if he wants, too.

canadian news is keying in on that familiar phrase uttered by carney: it's a new world order.

what carney actually seems to want is the old world order in the sense that he wants to bring the cold war back. he claims we're not going back to a post-war order. i think he's wrong, but if bush was declaring a new world order on the collapse of communism that did away with global superpowers in favour of us hegemony, and most of the west went along with it, carney's proposed new world order, full of superpowers fighting and "middle powers" seeking a third way through non-alignment, actually looks a lot like the old one and that is consistent as much of the anglo-american elite never really accepted bush' new world order in the first place, was disinterested in being reprogrammed to fight terrorism and just kept fighting the communists through the post cold war period. i've remarked before that while my heart is in gen x, and i am the last gen xer, i realize that the anti-soviet propaganda pushed down on gen x from every direction, except punk rock, was so immense that we will need to wait for gen x to overturn before the west can let go of the cold war, and it's 2026 and we're still suffering through what must be the last of the boomer presidents. we haven't even got to gen x yet.

so, you can meet the new order. wrong band. it's the same as the old order. wrong song.

wrong square.

wrong date.