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I tried. It was exhausting. I'm better now.
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Wrong.
If your choice is two Hitlers, you kill both the fuckers. Full stop.
There is always another option, you don't have to accept shit.
Nothing says that other option is any better. In a binary situation, you have three options:
Deciding to do nothing is still a conscious choice, and it may be the worst one of them all. Choose not to act, and you may throw in your lot with the greatest evil.
No one said do nothing at all.
Killing politicians doesn't improve the system asshole
Not condoning violence, but this is historically inaccurate, lol
Enlighten me with your examples
French Revolution, Russian Revolution, Cuban Revolution, the assassination of Park Chung-Hee, Haitian Revolution, and more all generally resulted in improving conditions for their people.
Ah yes, power vacuums
They improved conditions, your statement was historically inaccurate. Done and done.
Correlation does not equal causation.
Guess the situations improved magically, then.
World War II.
Wars especially world wars are a whole lot more involved than just killing politicians. And not every party not even the victors stand to gain anything more than they loose
i wanna bet it's going to be "but we fought the Nazis" or some ML revolution shit that has never worked
I'm not an ML, but it's undeniable that the Cuban, Chinese, and Russian revolutions absolutely improved upon the dogshit, previous systems, such as fascist Batista, brutal Tsarist Russia, and agrarian peasantry in China.
Whether or not moving in a different direction would have improved society more is debatable, but it's undeniable that their conditions improved.
the Russian and Cuban systems primarily changed due to modernization and not anything the system did (don't make the liberal mistake of assuming the advances of modernity are inherent to the system at the time), but China actually got Worse until it "liberalized" its markets and started pulling foreign capital investment
Life expectancy actually doubled under Mao, it's not correct to say it got worse in and of itself. Mao made a ton of mistakes, famously so, but there were good things from it.
it's important to look at these kinds of numbers in context, the average life expectancy for the vast majority of Mao's rule was around 30, only going up to 50-60 in the last few years, still lagging behind even the farther east soviet provinces
Sure. It still happened.
I mean ya, but it's not that impressive, at that point it basically meant that the Chinese government stopped doing stuff that actively caused early death towards the very end of Mao's life
Yes, but transforming power structures doesn't equate to killing opponents. It is neither sufficient nor necessary. The success of some revolutions shouldn't be attributed to lethal violence.
That's a different point to your original, and one I'm more likely to agree with, though with the additional point that sometimes revolution is necessary to set a new base for a new superstructure, even if you can do so without violence.