Just reposting this excellent point from lemmygrad

  • a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]
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    1 year ago

    political necessity

    Just because people stomp up and down about 'political necessity' doesn't actually conjure that ideological abstraction up into material reality. China didn't machine gun Pu Yi and incidentally, their communist party is still running the show. I don't know how difficult it is not to machine gun a 13 year old, and no amount of "you made me do this" are going to change the fact that we're the ones making the (erroneous) decision to machine gun 13 year olds.

    Kind to people, ruthless to systems, folks.

    • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      If Chinese rebels new this online argument was going to happen they probably would've killed whoever this guy is that they let live.

      • a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]
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        1 year ago

        I mean they literally let him live after being a Japanese puppet during their atrocity spree in the 30's and 40's, so I think my dumb ass using him as a morality puppet would seem just about par for the course to them.