• @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    224 hours ago

    It isn’t. The modern law is a fig leaf over naked plutocracy and apartheid.

    It’s what we have in the same way a knife in your back is something you have

    • zqps
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      423 hours ago

      And yet people would rather hold on to a terrible status quo than risk it. Especially in times of desperation, and as long as they’re aware things could be worse (for them personally).

      It’s the big catch-22 of modern civics and political engagement. Terrible conditions make many people look towards the systems and rulers that bring about those terrible conditions.