Brought a tear to my eye, yo.
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2025
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There's truth in that to a degree. But so long as mass media can stir the pot and create public anxiety where none existed before, even a strong egalitarian economic model is insufficient to deter interpersonal violence.
Americans bombarded by "Shoplifter Alert!" and "Murder Spree!" and "Rape Gangs Terrorizing Your Neighborhood!" news coverage are going to be deeply suspicious of anyone they don't recognize (and more than a few they do recognize). People will lash out in fits of paranoia and induced terror, then claim self-defense against their victims. And if we've instilled a legitimacy to this fear in the general public, they'll get away with it.
Yeah, but by doing all that you are oppressing the oppression which the lack of those very things makes so much easier, do you ever think about that??
No, you don't, because you only think of your face and never how the boot on it feels.
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On the flipside, the harder you squeeze the underclass the harder they work. (And they are kept in a state of safe distraction too)
So there's a balance.
You lessen crime by eliminating poverty. That part is correct. The other parts of this meme are more like incidental details what could happen when a society is richer, not the cause.
This is stupid, there will always be crime. These things should be happening simply because that's actually TAKING CARE OF YOU'RE CITIZENS.
No one in the UK started a drug empire to pay for chemo.