• Godric@lemmy.worldOP
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    9 hours ago

    removing a class of parasites

    Fuck, a horseshoe theory wallop upside the head yet again :(

    Mass-murder is bad, you absolute muppet.

    • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus
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      Ignore the swaths of people exposed to the elements in the states while suburban boomers rent out second homes and corporations buy up the rest. What is that if not systemic murder? Yeah Mao did bad shit, killing landlords isnt one of them.

      • THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves

          • Matty Roses@lemmy.librarysocialism.social
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            “What? I just wanted to threaten people with homelessness unless they paid for my equity with their labor! How DARE you pretend I’m the bad guy! Now let me figure a way to steal even more from you and have the cops attack you if you resist.”