“It’s time for leaders to lead,” he said. “And the words mean things. And the words are leading to people doing things like this and I find it appalling.”
damn straight.
“The gentleman didn’t appear to be a member of the MENSA society,” [Cohen] told CNN. “He listens to the noise, he hears the noise, the noise was telling him his people were being slaughtered. He thought it was time to rise up and do something. He’s completely confused.”
“The gentleman didn’t appear to be a member of the MENSA society” is the classiest burn I’ve heard in a while
well as chief of the entire hospital he’s also responsible for the burns unit.
always thought it must be weird being in pro-socially coded trauma care that’s only made possible by antisocially coded trauma
but I suppose this IS the thing that made d’Annunzio’s retelling of the Sermon on the Mount as a call to World War I – “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall have splendid blood to wipe away, radiant pain to bind up” – work