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[-] ArcticCircleSystem@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Police are fundamentally built on racism and oppression. The idea of a standing police force very much goes back to the days of slave catching and union busting (arguably that specifically goes back to also putting down peasant uprisings under feudalism).

Why maintain those aspects though?

And a lot of that is the idea that, under any form of resource scarcity*, it is a zero sum game. If Fred has a loaf of bread, that means I have one less loaf of bread. So I should go cave Fred’s skull in and take my bread back. Obviously.

Not obviously, it's pretty well known that we grow more than enough food to feed pretty much everyone at this point. And what resources are even being exhausted here?

What does work? What will help specifically? Why do some people choose this and others not? Why do some stop after doing it for a while and others not? Why do some start doing after a while of not doing it and others not? It's not as if it's some obscure, hard-to-find conclusion that this stuff never ever goes well... ~Cherri

[-] Seasoned_Greetings@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not obviously, it’s pretty well known that we grow more than enough food to feed pretty much everyone at this point. And what resources are even being exhausted here?

The idea is that the people who want those groups fighting will push that way of thinking. Also, resources in this context dont just mean necessities of survival. Go watch fox news. One of the main views they push there is that "illegal immigrants are there to steal your jobs". They've gone as far as to say things like "democrats are stealing your money" or "those guys are satanists, they're stealing your children!"

It isn't the fact that resources really are greater than demand, it's about stoking the thought that some group is less desirable by pushing the ideology that resources are finite and those groups are taking them.

this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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