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0 pointsDraiken7mo ago0 comments

And we rarely see meaningful change anywhere because electing politicians is barely connected to the actual outcomes people want.

Now we have a pacified populace that allows corruption to run freely and keeps repeating "violence is never the answer" while forgetting meaningful change almost always requires it.

Never forget we wouldn't even have weekends if people hadn't died for it.

I wish we never needed violence but it seems to be wishful thinking rather than reality. Will people oppose the next Hitler by ranting on Twitter and peaceful protests? Something tells me that won't work.

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olelele7mo ago

This. The fact that people in Europe and the US had to fight tooth and nail for workers rights and were opposed by a conglomerate of government force, corporate powers and organized crime gets all to easily forgotten.

marcosdumay7mo ago

> keeps repeating "violence is never the answer" while forgetting meaningful change almost always requires it.

It's a bit paradoxical, but almost all real change is done by the threat of violence, and almost none of it is achieved by applying violence.

But you are right that as people more radically reject violence, democracy dies and changes stop. Even though violence almost never achieves anything.

randomNumber77mo ago

I deliberately said "most of the time" as Europe goes in a dangerous direction imo.

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