• architect@thelemmy.club
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    4 hours ago

    Silly me I was constantly told we did exactly that yet here we are.

    How do you fix the fact that certain personalities that just happen to like fascism will do jobs that allow them to take advantage like police work and joining the military? You can’t force pacifists to be police. Most people seem to think I’m nuts for wanting mandatory military service (that way everyone in the country is trained for war). So to me this just seems like wishful thinking.

    These people voting for this had parents in world war 2, ffs. You can’t tell me they needed to be educated. They were! I was raised by world war 2 veterans. They CONSTANTLY spoke about what they went through!

    I wish you were right, but I’ve seen far too many damn bullies get punched straight in their heads and come out a better person for it that I just don’t buy what you’re selling anymore.

    • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net
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      3 hours ago

      You seriously just didn’t understand a word I said.

      You are still thinking those systems would exist as they currently do. That’s the entire problem.

      How do you stop people from taking advantage of police and military positions? By abolishing those systems and replacing them with one that isn’t built on hierarchical authority.

      You abolish the system of electoralism that is fundamentally hierarchical and replace it with an entirely different systemic structure.

      Please for the love of God educate yourself on different political systems and ideologies. You limit yourself by staying ignorant.

      And here is the thing, what I’m proposing is still inevitably going to lead to violence. It’s just a fact that the current authority will retaliate to oppress us if we begin to build alternatives to their authority. But we have to build those alternatives before we remove the current one, otherwise what comes after will just be worse than before.