Comment on Looking for answers
rumba@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Whenever violence is involved, either both sides are violent, or violence wins.
When neither side is violent, violence is not the answer.
Now both sides look at #1 and ponder if the other side is ready to be violent.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_of_tension
a political policy wherein violent struggle is encouraged rather than suppressed. The purpose is to create a general feeling of insecurity in the population and make people seek security in a strong government.
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GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I think killing people through apathetic business practices that are specifically designed to maximize profit over human life is not just murder, it’s genocide.
I also believe that a justice system that is curtailing law for the wealthy based on some sense of increased personal worth compared to that of a “lowly commoner” goes against the fabric of our nation and is a personal attack against the culture of our country. I also believe that anyone lending support to these traitors are themselves traitorous filth that deserves to be imprisoned in a public gallows to send a message that that behavior will no longer be tolerated.
short answer though, yes violence begets violence.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
It’s murder for profit, don’t dilute the term genocide. The last thing we need is people calling everything genocide and making the literal genocide in Gaza seem more normal.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 days ago
idk, murdering people based on their genetic predisposition to healthy living standards seems more of a literal definition of it.
I do understand (and agree with) your point though.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Yeah they’re both horrible and have a lot of interwoven causes (cough kings that don’t think they can die cough) but muddling the language and comparing apples to oranges isn’t useful. It’s adding inflammatory and confusing language to a situation that requires a fair amount of planning and forethought to handle (there’s a reason they’ve kept winning, and there’s a reason an Italian plumber recently hit the news).
Donkter@lemmy.world 5 days ago
As many people say, the horror of the Nazis wasn’t just that they killed so many people, but that they industrialized it, turned it into an inhuman factory process like they were mass-producing shoes.
In a similar way we have modern corporations that have brought neo liberal styles to the idea of murder. Instead of the industrial style of the Nazis, this style serves to alienate the murder from the murderer, putting a price tag on deaths and profiting from the lives they’re destroying all veiled by the size of these companies and the corporate double-speak that places all the lives they have control over into their sterile profit-centered game they play.