If they can elect a felon to the white house, so could we.
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this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2025
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lmaooo
tangentially I feel like Batman could never jive with leftist ideology anyhow. His whole thing is beating and scaring the crime out of people, which is in contrast to the leftist idea that crime happens because the needs of individuals (physical, psychological, and social) are not met by their material conditions.
Like, why do people always jump to thinking there can only be one correct option out of multiple choices?
I am sure there are many people committing crimes because they can't fulfill their basic needs any other way.
But do you think Trump is lacking in material conditions? People are diverse and they commit crimes for diverse reasons.
Nah, you're right, it definitely isn't as simple as all due to the material conditions, although I do tend to think the majority of crime is due to them. At the same time, I'm not sure I'm using material conditions in the correct technical sense, and was thinking about including a , "someone feel free to correct my usage" note in my comment. I also wasnt really itching for a super in-depth conversation about it, even though your question
is a really interesting one that I'd need to think and talk about a lot. I think if we had appropriate non coercive controls against accumulation of property, while also living in a society that met the physical, psychological, and social needs of its people, Trump perhaps would not be a criminal.
This comes from my tendency to think people are more inherently good than evil, and that much of the evil comes from the patriarchal culture of accumulation
Because crime to account for material needs is the easiest route to lowering crime you just need to have a government that represents the people and not private interests, also consider that living in a corrupt unforgiving oligarchy isn't doing a god damn thing for mental health either.
You do realize none of what you wrote answers my question nor contradicts anything I wrote, right?
Lol responded to the wrong comment.
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