• JoYo@lemmy.ml
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    3 hours ago

    I was just break checked going 80 mph on an empty freeway. They came to a complete stop in front of me then sped off. No there’s nothing I can do about it. They put my entire family at risk for what?

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    10 hours ago

    It can’t be fixed because violent aggressors are always willing to use more violence than everyone else.

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    14 hours ago

    It’s not because the majority “lets” violent aggressors get what they want, it’s because capitalism as a system selects for those most willing to do whatever it takes to gain the most profit. It’s a control system that selects for profit, if a capitalist is unwilling to do whatever it takes then another overtakes them. Socialist countries don’t have these same problems to nearly the same extent.

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    I’d love to say yes, but ironically changing that state of affairs is going to require a lot of violence

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    19 hours ago

    “Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”

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    20 hours ago

    Maybe if people understood morality as part of the universe and human experience and not just an invention, and then kept themselves righteously in check as they should which would naturally follow (through belief in a higher power and His judgement, for instance, or simply because they take pride in being correct human beings), we could all live under the same paradigm, trust each other more easily, and work together to make our world better for us all.

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    19 hours ago

    Violent aggression per se (carrying around a big club and using it to bonk anyone who put up resistance) hasn’t worked in quite a while. These days it’s more about propaganda.

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      19 hours ago

      Isn’t that arguably only because modern governments maintain a “monopoly on violence,” essentially?