Fuck, I thought Niger was just nailing it for some reason, then read this.

There was no false alarm for nuclear war. They hadn't recieved any information in days due to being submerged.

The Captain and the Commisar wanted to use the tactical nuclear torpedo on a US ship dropping depth charges in an attempt to get the sub to surface. It is pure luck that Captain Arkhipov was also on board and thus required to also approve of the use of the tactical nuke. He argued that the depth charges were likely to be an attempt to get them to surface ans communicate with the US ships.

The initial confusion was that the US had changed their protocol as to how they would use depth charges to signal a demand to surface, something about the number and sequence of depth charges used had changed, leading the other Captain and Commisar to assume they were under attack. Arkhipov argued that it may be a demand to surface, and that they should do so to confirm what was actually happening. They surfaced, and the US ships told them to return to the USSR.

I saw this same photo used as the cover to John Reed's 'Insurgent Mexico' in another post on reddit today.

Cool coincidence.

It also means doing what the victim wants to do about the alleged crime. If they don't want to go to the cops, or publicly accuse someone, then don't go to the cops or publicly accuse someone.

In this case, the person believes she was strangled, but because she has come out in public and said that she hasn't been (which is a common thing for DV survivors to do), they are sad to see that.

Read the book.

Because it's a process that would take AT LEAST a century, hence what contemporary societies are doing isn't particularly relevant.

Prison and Police Abolition is a goal to try and work towards gradually, not an overnight policy change, read the book.

None of that is incompatible with Police and Prison Abolition.

Probably the best text to start with would be 'Are Prisons Obsolete?' by Angela Davis

Police and Prison Abolition is not an overnight process. It's a long term objective that will likely take at least a century. Whether or not our door writer knows this is up in the air, but it doesn't mean the idea is a fantasy.

It's a shortening of 'Alpine', and is used to describe lots of Alpine regions. For Australia, what counts as the 'Alps' is generally the parts of the Great Dividing Range that get yearly snow.