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    • Puffin [any, they/them]
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      4 years ago

      For a lot of people, your landlord doesn't exist. Rather, your landlord isn't some person living down the street from you, they're a massive property conglomerate the owners of who live in a far away city and who you couldn't even find if you wanted to. Who are you gonna go after, the person working the front desk at the local housing office? They're just some random employee.

      Modern capitalism atomizes you to a great extent. You don't know your boss' boss, you don't know your coworkers (like for a gig economy job), you don't know your landlord. You have all these economic relationships with people who as far as you are concerned do not exist.

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        The solution is to put the choppy boi on anyone whose job title is all capitals and starts with C. In minecraft.

        You'll still mostly get the money butlers, but it'll be close enough to get the real rich to flinch

      • joshuaism [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Have them March to their bosses desk, kneecap them, then repeat till you meet your landlord.

    • Infamousblt [any]
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      4 years ago

      I'd honestly love to see someone provide some detailed analysis of the how the modern west got to be like this. We're jerked around a LOT and do literally nothing about it. How was society so successfully defanged? I have lots of ideas and can point to lots of individual reasons sure, but I'd love to see a comprehensive analysis, because it has been almost complete and total annihilation of any sort of real resistance.

      • LangdonAlger [any]
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        4 years ago

        I don't feel like fleshing this out, but violence (with the exception of state-sanctioned violence or superheroes) is seen as reactionary, wrong, and for dumb people 100% of the time. When do you see an average person using righteous violence in popular media? They have to be smarter or sneakier or funnier or something, but stronger/more violent is seen as wrong. But we love watching historical texts of violence (Game of Thrones, etc).

        • SoyViking [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Pop culture has no problem glorifying righteous violence as long as it is used against "criminals" or "terrorists".

        • Runcible [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          Game of thrones is not a historical text.

          I couldn't stop myself, it was this or have a stroke

          • LangdonAlger [any]
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            4 years ago

            Yes it is. I watched it in the past. Therefore it is history.

        • Infamousblt [any]
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          4 years ago

          Yeah but how did we get like this. How was society successfully manipulated to be so damn docile

          • Caocao [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            widespread rentiership is a relatively new development, between the New Deal and Reagan it was pretty easy for the average working class American to buy their own home

    • Elohim [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/us/hartford-sword-homicide-trnd/index.html