• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    They usually qualify it with the adjective “political violence” because most think the other types are just fine.

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      9 days ago

      ‘Political violence’ isn’t ‘political’ or ‘violence’ when the state does it, according to it.

      Despite the state literally being a politically derived monopoly on violence.

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        9 days ago

        I mean I think most understand that it’s violence and I think that’s why they add that qualifier.

        Reminds me of the “no more regime change wars”…like more wars, yes, but just not of this specific variety that I can deny it is.

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          No I disagree.

          Look at the propoganda, look at cults it creates.

          Millions suffer from the violence of wage theft and protest?

          Some bricks end up through some windows?

          That’s the only violence that matters.

          Government funding a genocide, executing its own purge of 99% nonviolent migrants?

          Opposing this, vocally… that’s violence.

          But not what they’re doing.

          … I dunno, maybe there actually is some kind of broad sea change now, now that its so horrendously obvious, but vast majority of my life, vast majority of people fall back on ‘well, you can’t do that, because that’s not legal’.

          … While the pedophile rapist corrupt conartists write the laws.