• Comrade_Mushroom [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    6 days ago

    Unfortunately for us all, the entities with the vast majority of weapons and power are (and have been) doing everything they can to inflict violence upon the most desperate and vulnerable people in society. The people carrying out these actions cause very real harm, both in the forms of massively oppressive social violence and also outright physical violence. There is a very serious difference between the man who attempts to exploit and murder other human beings for his own gain and satisfaction - in this case, literally Adolf Hitler - and the people who use violence to overthrow that ruling ideology of unceasing human suffering.

    In other words, it should be obvious now more than ever that we don’t live in a perfectly neutral world where the people who have all the guns are 100% neutral arbiters of peace, as much as I wish that were the case, and the people who are inflicting harm always have and always will use as much force as possible to continue their machinations of suffering and death. That being the case, the solution to the problem unfortunately necessitates something more impactful than “Killing is bad, don’t do it!”