• merc@sh.itjust.works
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    17 days ago

    You’re imagining a change to the power structure of the world without having to fight and die for it. It has never worked like that.

    The 8 hour day was the result of strikes that involved the strikers getting beaten and killed by the police.

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      17 days ago

      Deepseek gives these examples of instances where socialist policies were implemented without violence:

      • UK NHS (1948): Passed via parliamentary consensus post-WWII. No fighting.
      • German Pensions (1889): Enacted by Bismarck as top-down reform. No violence.
      • US Social Security (1935): Passed via legislation.
      • Nordic Childcare: Expanded gradually via labor unions and coalitions.

      I’m not saying that pacifist solutions are faster or more effective, but I don’t want anyone I know to to kill or be killed. It is possible to change the world without starting generations-long, unforgivable blood fueds.