Again, I will ask: is this knee-jerk reaction something demonstrated by actual electeds and/or candidates, or something posted by online randos? And if it’s the latter, what enforcement mechanism do you propose to keep them in line?
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“Ignore the suburban paranoia” == “indulge the suburban paranoia”, though.
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Are there any elected officials or candidates trotting out the line “there is no crime”, or is this just social media nutpicking? Because I’m not sure how you enforce party discipline over every lefty shitpoaster on the internet.
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Who exactly is saying “lol there is no crime”? That’s a very different statement from “crime is statistically lower than it has been for most of the time we’ve been keeping records”.
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The problem is that the only people who would be moved by this are the people who want full blown authoritarianism, so long as it’s focused on “those people”, the public existence of whom they equate with “crime and disorder”.
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Exactly. To this type of suburban voter, “crime” (read: visible poverty) is Glonzo.
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The point is that you can't neutralize Hamas by drowning Gaza in blood.
And people are not blind to that. Particularly when the Knesset sounds like a bunch of cartoon supervillains who don't care about it either.
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You could accept the fact that it’s impossible to kill an idea, and work from there.
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George Wallace, too.
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What I’m getting at is basically that revolutionary politics are frankly silly in any society where a critical mass of people can conceive themselves as having something to lose.
