• RION [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    Man it’s a good thing structural violence isn’t a thing. Otherwise incremental reform (or more honestly, its vain pursuit under bourgeois democracy) would have its own death toll that is being assumed as the normal, immutable state of things

    • Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml
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      6 months ago

      The logical chain they’re missing is the fact that Capitalism is very literally using the sick and disabled as human shields - “Don’t hurt me, or little Timmy won’t get his chemotherapy!”