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Dude was chill, growing and using cannabis in his 80s. A master gardener, he kept cacti alive for 40 years in Canada through nasty winters. He was kind, generous intelligent and thoughtful.

His son caught covid at his workplace, and passed it on to my FIL. FIL was hospitalized around December solstice due to complications of that covid, and other non lethal problems He passed on a couple of days ago.

He did not die, he was killed by capitalism.

Capitalism requires people to work or starve, so they have to be on the job spreading diseases when they should be at home fighting them.

Capitalism rewards the pharmaceutical companies that decided it was more profitable to treat Covid than to eliminate it, attenuate it rather than eradicate it.

The oligarchs that use capitalism to enrich themselves turned precautionary measures that would slow the spread of Covid into ammo for the culture wars that keep the working class fighting each other instead of slitting the throats of the oligarchs.

Yes, I am very angry.

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[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 100 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If you want a proper term for it, if you aren't already aware, Engels calls this social murder.

When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live – forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence – knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual; disguised, malicious murder, murder against which none can defend himself, which does not seem what it is, because no man sees the murderer, because the death of the victim seems a natural one, since the offence is more one of omission than of commission. But murder it remains.

Rest in piece, shit fucking sucks.

[-] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 49 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

very good quote; every death under capitalism that could have been easily prevented under socialism should be considered an act of murder by the collective bourgeoisie

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago

Fuck whoever in western society normalized the idea that you are only responsible for your actions and not your inaction.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago

passes you a time machine, a gun, and a picture of John Calvin

[-] asg101@hexbear.net 29 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the insight comrade. And now they are murdering everything and everyone before they finish.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago

Technically its structural violence... but I get the point, it indeed fucking sucks...

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