The legendary “Daisy Girl” political ad from the 1964 LBJ campaign.

I always thought the first few pages in Uncanny X-Men #238 was a reference to this (along with all the more obvious Maddy Pryor references like “Gone to America”).

The quote is usually attributed to Curtis LeMay, the scowling Air Force general who incinerated two thirds of Japan’s cities in World War II and was disappointed when Kennedy wouldn’t let him do the same to Cuba. In his 1968 memoir he suggested that rather than negotiating with Hanoi, the United States should “bomb them back to the stone age,” by taking out factories, harbors, and bridges “until we have destroyed every work of man in North Vietnam.”

What the actual heck 😭 How can this be real 💔

JC publisher:

Over the last week, it has often felt as though we are holding an impossible position, as the conditions for credibility in many of our communities seem to have become mutually exclusive. On some parts of the left, any reaction that foregrounded Jewish grief and reached quickly for condemnation of Hamas’s atrocities appeared to obscure the root of the violence in decades of subjugation, and to distract from the ongoing atrocities in Gaza. In some parts of the Jewish community, any reaction that did not fully and forcefully condemn Hamas’s violence and bear witness to the extent of Jewish grief appeared as a moral failure and a lack of concern for Jewish lives. On either side, the voices on the other have been received as unforgivable moral and political failures.

Does the Empire has the right to self-defense against Alderaan?

“How, in heaven’s name, was this possible that human beings could lose to such a degree their true humanity, that they could lose themeselves?”