Drlee wrote:In all seriousness. When does this become mass murder? When are the politicians who do this going to face the hangman? These right-wing, pro death penalty (for blacks) shit heads are literally murdering people before our eyes a surely as if they shot them in the face.
But they will face nothing but genteel retirement with a couple of black servants to keep house.
I could not live with myself.
Many do not value all life equally and as long as certain people are not dying but only the plebs, then it's business as usual.
I always reflect on the French Revolution and how the terror which is spoken of is only minor except to the powerful whose heads were rolling.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1915/11/conscrpt.htmThe French Reign of Terror is spoken of with horror and execration by the people who talk in joyful praise about the mad adventure of the Dardanelles. And yet in any one day of battle at the Dardanelles there were more lives lost than in all the nine months of the Reign of Terror.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/989759-there-were-two-reigns-of-terror-if-we-would-butTHERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.
We're all just wood in the woodchipper for many.
Who cares for the routine deaths of gang violence, or the pregnant mothers who lack prenatal care in Texas and die of easily avoided or managed complications, or even the soldiers who fight the poor bastards in other countries under a false pretense. Nope, it is business as usual up to the point that it disrupts their lives and their goals such as making a buck.
https://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/pdfs/For%20Ethical%20Politics.pdf#page90
-For Ethical Politics