It's really fucking common in the internet wild. It's even common offline.

"Just pack up your entire life and move out of here if you don't like it here. No one is holding a gun to your head to stay." smuglord

Oh, I did, but it took years of planning, preparation, savings, and an early retirement with the penalties that entailed. There was no gun, but I couldn't whisk myself out of Bazinga Land in CA any faster than I could sell a flooded house to Aquaman.

That's it. That's the post. No one held a gun to my head to post this, but I did it anyway.

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    3 months ago

    the version that's been rattling around in my head for a bit is "laws are the codification of political violence"

    part of the problem is that ruling class ideology defines "political violence" as something that attacks mainstream society, never the violence that mainstream society inflicts. police clearing a homeless encampment isn't "political violence" it's just they way things work.