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I genuinely don't know if they're doing this intentionally, or if they are just completely blind to it at this point, but violence is, and always has been, normalized and used in the dominating political/legal/governing/economic systems. It's just not treated as such.

Because what is denying someone's healthcare insurance claim that they are supposed to get if not violence? Or sending police after someone? Or sentencing someone to death?

Violence has always been part of the answer. It's just that that answer is not officially allowed for the common rabble.

If it was at least it'd be good to live in it

Meanwhile our real world is still a hellscape even with the child sacrifice

It's just a short story that's like a 10 min read

Is it okay to support Ukraine shooting Russians?

Violence is inherent in our systems. Violence is inherent in politics. States are literally founded and upheld through violence (the military and the police). Believing anything else is just closing your eyes to the violence that happens every single day, and making you powerless against injustice.

Gotta have better sleepovers then. Ones where vibrators are welcomed, not shamed

How is it human nature when it's literally the system that is the problem? This is not about individuals, but about systems, specifically the profit motive

Competition for the most profit under capitalism is literally the driving factor for all of this. If you don't do it, someone else will take your place and do it instead

Or the French revolution, for that matter

God, we have a near identical life experience here, even the same age funnily enough. Though I have childhood trauma from my parents on top of that

I relate heavily to what you said. It sucks hard. It really sucks feeling like you're losing out on your youth because you were set up for failure from the people who chose to have you and we're supposed to be the people who cared for you

Sure, we are irrational and emotional, but the whole idea of modern society is that we surpass those base level instincts into rationality and consistency. Consistency is still important and something that should be focused on

Then again, it's also really useful as propaganda of the deed

Until lossy compression compresses it out because it's not visible to the human eye

It's always endlessly frustrating when people don't realize, or don't want to realize, what you wrote