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Turtlesong Farm@TurtlesongFarm · Dec 9, 2024

Ok, here's something I learned in high school humanities: As long as people believe that they have redress for…

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When people lose faith in institutional avenues for justice (courts, voting, political change), they abandon nonviolent resistance and may support or celebrate violent resistance. The author argues oligarchs have deliberately dismantled systems of fairness and hope, making outlaw figures appealing; citing FDR's social programs as a successful prevention of violent revolution, they contend that restoring justice through policy change is the only way to prevent more violence.

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  1. #1

    Ok, here's something I learned in high school humanities: As long as people believe that they have redress for injustice, either through courts or through political action (like voting), the people will choose nonviolent options. 🧵

    Jezebel 𓅃@linbregar · Dec 6, 2024
  2. #2

    When people become convinced that they have no power to change anything within the system—that's when folks choose violent options. More importantly (since there's always someone around who chooses violence), that's when folks begin to support *other* folks choosing violence

  3. #3

    That's where we are. Most of us Know that no matter who we voted for, the corporate heist of America would go on. Neither Harris nor Trump had any interest in ensuring that ordinary people get quality healthcare everyone can afford.

  4. #4

    We know voting is irrelevant to creating a society in which we can all prosper. The oligarchs have very carefully dismantled the ability of ordinary people to get justice. In their greed to get everything and hold all power, they forgot to allow folks to feel like they had hope.

  5. #5

    Folks with no hope of getting justice within a system, have no reason to uphold the system. Lots of folks are talking about the French revolution and the Russian revolution, but don't forget how FDR addressed the problem in the US.

  6. #6

    FDR created Federal programs that gave people hope for a scrap of fairness. He stopped violent revolution in the US by making the country a fairer place. He has been viciously hated for it for nearly a hundred years, by the rich people whose necks he saved.

  7. #7

    When so many ordinary people celebrate the killer of a rich evil man, that is 100% the fault of the oligarchs. In a society where most folks can feel some hope for a fair and decent life, there's not a lot of fertile soil for growing outlaw folk heroes.

  8. #8

    Now The Claims Adjuster, admittedly, is a smart and creative performance artist. But he wouldn't be loved in a fair, compassionate, and decent society. He is loved specifically because our society is unjust and cruel, and leaves most ordinary folk with no hope of a better life

  9. #9

    If the oligarchs want to prevent more Adjusters, it is 100% in their power to do so. Change laws/policies so that everyone can get justice. So that everyone can eat, be housed, be free to pursue dreams and joys, pursue an education, enjoy clean air and water, have good healthcare

  10. #10

    Anyway, this I learned in high school humanities, and I am pretty sure the oligarchs learned it too. They'd just rather pay influencers to try to shame us, than work to get us healthcare. Fuck em, and long live The Claims Adjuster.