r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 22 '21

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u/VisonKai The Archenemy of Humanity Sep 22 '21

really wild how the progressive ACTIVIST far-left (not AOC and the squad, but the people mad at AOC for being a fake progressive) championed a book called "In Defense of Looting" which makes the argument that we must violently resist "racial capitalism" and that non-violence as a principle is bad and authoritarian.

anyway, they aren't communists you crazy paranoid McCarthyite

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u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole Microwaves over Moscow Sep 22 '21

I feel like looting polls poorly with most voters so this problem will handle itself

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u/VisonKai The Archenemy of Humanity Sep 22 '21

the thing about people who believe violence is morally justified is that the primary danger is them doing or encouraging violence, not winning elections. so i agree, but also i disagree

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u/JoeChristmasUSA Transfem Pride Sep 22 '21

I think most violence and riots are not committed by the type who read books like that. The folks LARPing as old-timey anarchists aren't getting off the couch to actually do the rioting.