It’s really fucking common in the internet wild. It’s even common offline.
“Just pack up your entire life and move out of here if you don’t like it here. No one is holding a gun to your head to stay.” 
Oh, I did, but it took years of planning, preparation, savings, and an early retirement with the penalties that entailed. There was no gun, but I couldn’t whisk myself out of Bazinga Land in CA any faster than I could sell a flooded house to Aquaman.
That’s it. That’s the post. No one held a gun to my head to post this, but I did it anyway.
actually someone is holding a gun to my head. All legal constructs are an implicit threat of violence.
the version that’s been rattling around in my head for a bit is “laws are the codification of political violence”
part of the problem is that ruling class ideology defines “political violence” as something that attacks mainstream society, never the violence that mainstream society inflicts. police clearing a homeless encampment isn’t “political violence” it’s just they way things work.
All legal constructs are an implicit threat of violence.
A certain halfling that works at the post office taught me that.
All legal constructs are an implicit threat of violence
I’m a sapient corporate entity, there’s no threat to me
Worse case scenario, I’ll have to phoenix myself
“If you hate this country so much why don’t you just leave?!?”
Can’t. Costs 4.000$ to renounce your us citizenship.
cost aside you need to have a second citizenship in order to renounce your first one.
Is that actually adhered to? I know rendering someone stateless is a crime under international law but idk if states actually care.
where would they send you? I’m sure part of the bureaucratic process for this is them asking “what is your other citizenship and can you prove it?” and if you can’t they just don’t process it. Not because they necessarily care about your personal status but that it would become a bigger hassle to deal with some person who is legal nowhere than to just forgo the $4000.
Under capitalism there’s always a choice, that’s what so great it.
You can’t get a job? lol, I guess you should’ve not studied underwater basket weaving.
Can’t get a place to live? lol, guess you should move somewhere cheaper.
Lost your job to bazinga treat printers? Should have learned to code.
Lost your coding job to bazinga treat printers? Should have learned a trade.
Back gave out at the trade because it’s actually grueling hard work that punishes the body? Should have been born a failson.
Is this a cactar and tonberry reference?
I have no idea what that means
Ancient internet animated videos, one joke I still remember was “extreme underwater basket weaving”
the people saying “no one is pointing a gun at your head” support the outsourcing of violence and want to help capitalists have plausible deniability so the “voluntary labour exchange” myth can continue. “you can quit, no pointed gun” but then due to capitalism requiring a large unemployed labour pool, people will become homeless and then actually get guns pointed at them.
I’ve seen that shit said about women (CW: coerced sexual violence)
spoiler
getting coerced into “sugar daddy” arrangements where they have nowhere else to go and are expected to have sex with their effective landlords.
“NO ONE HELD A GUN TO THEIR HEAD TO EACH THEIR OWN IF YOU DONT LIKE IT DONT BECOME SO POOR YOU HAVE NO MEANINGFUL CHOICE”
That’s the beauty of denying people the human right of housing. You can create all sorts of great scenarios to trap women in sexually abusive situations. This is how the right gets STEMLords laid.
This is how the right gets STEMLords laid.
This is also how domestically violent
types maintained their abusive and toxic family arrangements for decades without challenge.Literally my dad!
It’s the rock-solid spiritual core of the MAGA movement, I nonjokingly believe: monsters that feel their cozy little monster lairs feeling vaguely threatened by the possibility of change.
TO EACH THEIR OWN
Oh, and work makes you free too!
I’m glad someone else knows about that death camp gate slogan getting flung around as profound unspecified ancient wisdom too.
Whenever I see this, I usually think “Thank you for explicitly saying where you actually stand.”
:wall:
My favourite Pink Floyd album.
I think they talk like this to themselves. Every time they realize how awful life is they silence their own critique with “gun to your head” discourse to dismiss their suffering as a self-created illusion.
I think you may be right; it’s a sunk-cost fallacy expanded over a lifetime where it’d be too painful to admit they were slowly fucked over by the system they supported.
The gun is collective which lets the people holding it all wash away their own liability for holding it - “not my fault, I was just getting my bag”
The moment the first corporate charter came into being, liability became limited, and that fake personhood allowed untold and perhaps unimaginable death and destruction ever since.
Gestures vaguely at all the forms of explicit violence if you can’t pay, are profiled or othered, elect the wrong kind of leaders, try to unionize, or contradict the status quo in anyway.
It’s that “Spongebob tearing down the wallpaper and pointing outside the window” meme, applied to centuries of capitalism saying “dae commies kill gorillion”
you’re guilty if you lock all the food away from a child and you’re still guilty if you lock all the food away from an adult
* while pointing a gun at your chest * no one’s pointing a gun at your head
Well see you could choose to not participate in capitalism and just die. That’s totally a choice you can make! I am super intelligent!
You’re not allowed to criticize capitalism if you have phone or Nikes.
Oh those primitives without phones or Nikes are in the way of humanity saving rare earth minerals. If they didn’t like getting invaded, they should have modernized sooner.
radical freedom!
Yeah try setting up a camper van on one of Bezos’ estate to find out how much gun pointing is used to enforce this political economy.
where did you go, i’m currently in bazingaland and i want to gtfo too
I live on the northeast coast of Burgerland. There’s local chuds and other problems here, but I have not seen a single ZYBERTRUKKK and absolutely no one has pitched internet funny money or startup grifts to me, and I haven’t had to hear a single peep from unsolicited strangers about who murderfucked who on whatever the current P R E S T I G E T V treats are.
I don’t even know what the current pop culture murderfucking sensation is because I didn’t have to absorb it unwillingly by sheer saturation and osmosis and I love it!
nice
well enjoy your new life and just be aware im jelly
May you escape the bazinga antlion pit.
with any luck at all
