Well, no, violence is violence, borders are a logical way to filter and control dynamic entry of unknown populations into otherwise stable environments
There are no nations, there’s only Humanity, but if we don’t understand this soon there will be no nations, because there will be no Humanity" - Isaac Asimov
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
If you’re going to justify your violence by pretending it stops rather than generates other violence, well, that’s still disingenuous/profkubdly uncritical, but in no way does it make them stop being violence.
I think that person is a bot. Someone double-posted by mistake and got the same reply to both messages, but from two completely different accounts, one of them being this one. That doesn’t just happen. Most likely it’s some bot network reacting to a type of message (in this case the message had /s at the end, and the two identical replies were about how “maybe we should say egregious things without the /s to keep people guessing”).
Borders are violence.
Well, no, violence is violence, borders are a logical way to filter and control dynamic entry of unknown populations into otherwise stable environments
No
Isaac Asimov
Fuck that guy, and fuck him double for agreeing with me, and triple for doing it more eloquently than i would’ve.
Borders are a way to filter and control populations in order to better extract resources from them.
Control them with…??m
Paper is paper, books aren’t paper
If you’re going to justify your violence by pretending it stops rather than generates other violence, well, that’s still disingenuous/profkubdly uncritical, but in no way does it make them stop being violence.
I think that person is a bot. Someone double-posted by mistake and got the same reply to both messages, but from two completely different accounts, one of them being this one. That doesn’t just happen. Most likely it’s some bot network reacting to a type of message (in this case the message had /s at the end, and the two identical replies were about how “maybe we should say egregious things without the /s to keep people guessing”).
Labeling everything violence lessens the impact of actual violence.