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minus-squarejtrek@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up29·1 month agoCapitalism is enforced at gunpoint. Can we condemn that, too?
minus-squareDarkwingDuck@sh.itjust.worksBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down11·1 month agoYou mean like when you can’t loot other people’s shit?
minus-squarejtrek@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 month agoWhat? No, I meant like when people said they didn’t want to work 12 hours a day 6 days a week anymore, and then the capitalists had the police shoot them.
minus-squareDarkwingDuck@sh.itjust.worksBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down10·1 month agoI mean, that certainly wasn’t nice, but unions are an accepted part of “capitalism” now.
minus-squarejtrek@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 month agoDescribing murder and decade long imprisonment as “nice” is underselling it. Also, “accepted” is stretching it. Union busting, suppression, and capture, are all common.
Capitalism is enforced at gunpoint. Can we condemn that, too?
You mean like when you can’t loot other people’s shit?
What? No, I meant like when people said they didn’t want to work 12 hours a day 6 days a week anymore, and then the capitalists had the police shoot them.
I mean, that certainly wasn’t nice, but unions are an accepted part of “capitalism” now.
Describing murder and decade long imprisonment as “nice” is underselling it.
Also, “accepted” is stretching it. Union busting, suppression, and capture, are all common.