• Patches@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Will be locked up for the next 400 years while people starve or die of preventable and treatable diseases.

    It really doesn’t have to be. The French figured this out a long time ago.

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      11 months ago

      The French also existed within the same reality that they could agree on.

      The right and left in America might as well be living in alternative realities… On the right they’ll defend this to the death, they’ll fight for Bezos as he crushes their local economies and they’ll lick musks boots as long as he keeps “sticking it to the libs.”

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      11 months ago

      Unfortunately they also got way too happy with guillotines and devolved into anarchy. Robespierre had his reign of terror, and then he had his own head chopped off.

      I’m not saying we don’t redistribute their wealth. Let’s just be careful to not do it in a way that leads to repeated redistribution because violence is normalized.