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minus-squaresevenOfKnives@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·2 days agoThe credible threat of violence is often much more powerful than violence itself. See unions, the civil rights movement, mutually assured destruction. Society is very often an implicit contract of “do what we want or else.” Without the “or else”, the powerful have no reason to listen.
The credible threat of violence is often much more powerful than violence itself. See unions, the civil rights movement, mutually assured destruction.
Society is very often an implicit contract of “do what we want or else.” Without the “or else”, the powerful have no reason to listen.