Sweeping, preemptive pardons are only necessary when we already live in a system that cannot be trusted to administer fair justice. I’m disturbed that my thought upon hearing the news was “good, that was necessary.”

The cruelty is the point. We don’t have to listen to their post-hoc justifications. The rationale is, “How can we be cruel? How can we be cruel just to be cruel, so that we can continue to enrich and entrench ourselves while everyone is distracted by the suffering we inflict?”

I was listening to @danprovost@mastodon.social discuss his partscaster on Thoroughly Considered and agreeing with everything about resale value etc… but then I saw the incredible offset P90 that he built and… I would definitely buy that.