Post 3426512 by clacke@libranet.de
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 (DIR) Post #3425548 by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2019-01-27T11:56:02Z
       
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       The cleverest tyrants know that the easiest way for an unjust system to perpetuate itself isn’t to fight, imprison, or kill its freedom fighters, it’s to employ them.
       
 (DIR) Post #3425549 by chidgey@pleroma.engineered.space
       2019-01-27T12:08:54.259586Z
       
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       @aral Follow the money...
       
 (DIR) Post #3426511 by amiloradovsky@functional.cafe
       2019-01-27T12:02:58Z
       
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       @aral But first you have to make all the other opportunities practically non-existent.
       
 (DIR) Post #3426512 by clacke@libranet.de
       2019-01-27T12:39:12Z
       
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       @amiloradovsky @aral  You can just buy them too. And/or outbid them.
       
 (DIR) Post #3437833 by Gaynebula@girlcock.club
       2019-01-27T13:30:05Z
       
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       @aralThis... isn't true though..?Like... there's a storied history of the US government, just to name one, bombing and killing and locking up black activists seeking to end white supremacy. I get what you're trying to say I think..? But this enters dangerous territory wrt erasing the legacy of the activists, resistance leaders etc who've been killed in the system's perpetual war to keep oppressions alive.
       
 (DIR) Post #3437834 by clacke@libranet.de
       2019-01-27T19:09:19Z
       
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       @Gaynebula @aral That just means the US government partly lacks or lacked this insight, or there were other forces than effectiveness affecting their decisions.
       
 (DIR) Post #3499120 by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2019-01-27T19:32:06Z
       
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       @Gaynebula I didn’t say that it is the only technique – all your points are true. I said it’s a technique employed by the cleverest. Context: neoliberalism/capitalism’s ability to own both the problem and the solution.
       
 (DIR) Post #9fS5vcwwp68xuoOPAG by freakazoid@retro.social
       2019-01-30T17:52:52Z
       
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       @aral Yes, though this also has the impact of limiting how unjust a system can become. Societies that have avoided violent revolution have generally done so by implementing gradual reform.