• sevenOfKnives@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      The credible threat of violence is often much more powerful than violence itself. See unions, the civil rights movement, mutually assured destruction.

      Society is very often an implicit contract of “do what we want or else.” Without the “or else”, the powerful have no reason to listen.

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      violence doesn’t “solve”, it is about eliminating the problem.

      It’s their failure to solve or even recognize and formulate the problem that pushes some people to use violence.

      • bash@lemm.ee
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        Honestly, yes. Dunno why you were sittin’ at a healthy karmic 0 because that is literally what violence is for. It doesn’t solve a problem, it staunches it for the current government. Violence isn’t a solution even when people think it is; it’s a fascist band-aid