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it's almost like assassinating people doesn't solve problems.

• DubiousPusher 4y ago
  Ecept for all the times it does. Not advocating it but repression in fact works. Romam reactionaries maintianed their wealth and influence for several hundred years by stabbing anyone who challenged it.
  • akira2501 4y ago
    That's not "solving problems." That's simply "maintaining the status quo in the face of opposition."
    • DubiousPusher 4y ago
      Except if you see "the problem" as ingrate agitators, it very much is "solving problems". I'm not making a moral argument for political violence. But we live in an era with a peculiar recent history and we tell ourselves a progressive story of hope, triumph of justice, rule of law and non-violence based on that recent history. But if we look more broadly at history, we see powers which endure a long time on oppression and occasional mild reform or compromise. It tells a different story which I think we should be congizant of and which should make us guard more jealously democracy and less certain of its security in moral rightnes. People can take power and dominate you, your family and everyone you know. And the "moral arch of history" will fuck itself off for 1000 years with only a sting of martyrs to its credit.
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