Civility is a tool to do your enemy's job for them.
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2024
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"Hello I would like to mentally police myself for free so that people who want me dead might think I'm one of the good ones"
Legitimately had someone compare defacing a Trump sign to firebombing an Elementary School, saying "we are better than them" lmao
Poverty is violence. Poverty is a policy choice.
Violence against the ruling class has no place in politics
I think sometimes when I try to point out that political violence underpins much of society people hear "violence is good actually".
It's frustrating because what I'm trying to point out is actually the opposite. Prostrating yourself lets other people use violence with no checks.
We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror. (Karl Marx)
Politics is nothing but coordinated violence, in that it is nothing but coercion of people against their own interests. If you're an interested party, than youre adding to the coercion of others. If you stay out of it, then it's not political to you is it?
Politics:violence
Politics:economics
Economics:violence
Try telling people whose rent has doubled or tripled within a decade that economics isn't violence. You'll experience some carnal violence in return, I'm sure.
Politics = violence; it's the NC-17 version, violence all grown up and sophisticated. Sanitized for TV, in it for the sound bites. In fact, I'd say at least half of it is theatre alone. It's even been packaged up for the people to play along from home. The evolution of violence, fun for the whole family. I mean, what else would we talk about come holidays? HELPING each other?!?
I just think people don't like it when their side's politicians and advocates are getting murdered.