• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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    10 days ago

    I had a shower thought the other day that if more CEOs were shot dead, there’d probably be less Return to Office.

    People are sometimes like “oh but violence is bad!” but ignore all the casual harms inflicted on people by capitalism and friends.

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        2 days ago

        And let’s not forget all the freedoms that were granted because we asked nicely while tugging our forelocks.

        Those are easy to remember because there are none.

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      9 days ago

      They also ignore literally all of human history when they say shit like that. Hell even the civil rights movement only worked because of Malcolm X’s threat of violence.

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        Malcolm X was a fringe figure: the NOI got lots of press but didn’t really do all that much besides indulging in infighting and encouraging local Black businesses. Their approach to politics was separatism. H. Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, the Panthers, and many others were more closely involved in direct action.

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      8 days ago

      You had me until you distilled everything into “capitalism”… Life isn’t black and white.

      Inb4 the intellectually dishonest response of “but I said ‘and friends!’”.