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if violence has no place in our political system, then we should completely demiltarize, right? and cops should be disarmed. that's some big savings right there we can put into healthcare, housing and food access right?

oh, you just mean workers shouldn't be allowed to do defend themselves from the structural violence of capitalists and their attack dogs, which should continue to enjoy the lion's share of budget line items with bipartisan support. got it.

Remind them that not having free healthcare is an act of violence.

Remind them that not having a home to live in is an act of violence.

Remind them that sacrificing one minority group to appease a political opponent is an act of violence.

Remind them that being able to be fired from a job for any reason or no reason is an act of violence.

Remind them that having a paycheck that can't pay rent, groceries, utilities and medicine is an act of violence.

Liberals are much worse than actual pacifists because they make tons of exceptions whenever it's systemic violence conducted by a bourgeois state, which is literally the worst time to make exceptions.

I think part of the 10% of Americans who never approved of Bush included some of those old hippie cranks who I respect infinitely more than the people who style themselves as "nonviolent," while opposing every war except the current one. Possibly a hot take but simply being like, "violence is bad" consistently, with zero broader understanding of politics and no consideration of material conditions, even when the news says otherwise and even when the state or the "good guys" are doing it, is enough to make you more correct about geopolitics than the vast majority of Americans.

my brother in christ, violence IS our political system

"The Fourth of July commemorates the start of which war, again?"

Favorite thing to say to myself in the shower when I have this imaginary argument. It's gonna be super cool when I fumble it in practice.

Libs don't realise violence is built into the system and happens everyday. They don't realise violence is often the only way to undo these unjust systems. And they think you can over turn things operating within a system where the oppressors have a monopoly on violence and decide who gets to use it

Lol we vaporized tens of thousands of Japanese civilians and imbued the bones of the survivors and survivors' children with cancer and use the bases we built on those islands to menace Korea and China

This 100%

The whole nonviolence shit is being pushed to make the protests ineffective

My brother in Christ, violence is committed by the state against millions of Americans every day, wake the fuck up

It's crazy, it's like political power grows out of the barrel of a gun or something. Wouldn't it be nice if it grew out of the barrel of a brunch instead though?

when they said, what they really mean "disarm yourself and let yourself be crushed under bourgeois rule"

Violence is the system.

Libs believe in the magical liberal state which actually does not utilize it's monopoly of violence. If libs were principled they would actually be anarchists, but instead I have no respect for them.

All politics are violence. Even something as stupid as jaywalking laws are enforced with violence.

i've seen some hilarious shit how military is non-political

oh but dearie, you don't understand! i don't have to see all those filthy poors dying, but if violence happens near me i might just feel a negative emotion! hope that helps :)