• ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    4 days ago

    What do you mean by blind, and what do you mean by support? I don’t think anyone here is in a position to affect the outcome of this situation either way, the most we can do is decide how to feel about it. So the real question is “are we happy when corpos die” and like…yeah, usually.

    This one is so-so, not very high ranking and went out in an ugly personal way unrelated to her actions. I feel the same way here as I would about, for example, a career cop who dies of an overdose and is found by his young kid. It’s normal to have empathy for a person dying, especially from a cause that’s horrifyingly relatable because it cuts across all classes, like addiction and intimate partner violence. At the same time, it’s also correct to note an enemy down, and to extend that empathy to the many victims of the machine they were knowingly serving, whose purpose is to facilitate the visiting of profitable violence on millions of others.