Antifa vs Anticom

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VGPolyglot said:

bdbdbd said:

The violence is used to maintain civil society. People are kept in jail to prevent them doing any more damage - either permanently or a set amount of time.

Now, as you talk about cooperation, isn't this excactly what countries like USA have been doing ever since WW2. If you think Russia is doing like shit today and USA or Germany or Japan is doing good, it's because USA, Germany and Japan have made better friends than Russia. Why do we have this system that's allowed to inflict violence on citizens, is because that's what people want. People want to be protected. They want their kids, friends and other relatives or close ones to be safe. If you can't act the way that other people in society are safe, you need to be removed from the society, either put in jail or expelled.

Many people in jail are either there for non-violent crimes, or are there for charges like theft, which would be much less of a problem if there weren't poor, desperate people. Of course people want to be protected, but the problem is that they simultaneously uphold a repressive system yet also make themselves the only people that can come to our help in times of emergencies. They force us to be reliant on them.

I would agree that jail is a method that is overused, ridiculously so in the US. However, if a majority of people agree with that, you have a method to provoke such change (the election.)

 

Trying to impose a change without the support of the majority is a planned disaster, regardless of how you proceed. If you do have the support of the majority, for something concise, or believe to have the ability to convince the majority, our established democratic system gives the tools to bring through that change (though the american system would need some serious reform...)