Those who launch and sustain the wars, who see the world as a chessboard, who see the soldier and the civilian condemned to death as equally inconsequential pieces they may move around that board, those who draw their wealth from the world-as-chessboard, those for whom some dominance fantasy instills their small lives with meaning—they have no right to fuck with our lives. And we must see all of those lives impacted as ours, however we encounter that impact, vicariously or immediately. Performing that basic solidarity is the first step toward stopping them from their ongoing efforts at fucking with our lives.

Spencer Ackerman