• Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Fred Hampton and other Marxists murdered by the American Empire might have a word on this.

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        2 months ago

        That violence usually is a result of failing mental health support during crumbling and dying Capitalism, not the State directly shooting kids, to be clear.

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          That’s fair. Still seems to be quite a large reluctance to do anything about it, so it seems to “belong” through negligence though.

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            It’s more of a consequence than a direct choice, we can waffle back and forth on how far consequences of direct decisions extend. You’re largely correct though, but I wanted to draw the distinction that the American Empire is explicitly and violently anticommunist.

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    2 months ago

    “Political violence is never acceptable, now let’s celebrate our war for independence with massive explosions” - Americans, probably

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    2 months ago

    Unless you are a women, skin color darker than snow, LGBTQ+, non-Christian, or poor. We need to stop acting as if indirect political violence isn’t done all the time in America.

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    What’s the rationale behind “there’s no place for political violence” when we’re talking about fascists?