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The Definition of Political Violence (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by alphanerd4@lemmy.world to c/usauthoritarianism@lemmy.world
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… sure seems restricted to bodily harm to elites.

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[–] DessertStorms@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And some examples of domestic political violence off the top of my head:

partial list of Black people murdered by police

maternal deaths rise in states where abortion is banned

trans lives lost

deaths on the border

wheelchair using protestor attacked by police

armed police raid homeless camp

child working in meat processing plant

And there are many, many more (the treatment of Indigenous people, for profit healthcare, school shootings, food deserts, "the war on drugs", the prison industrial complex...).

E: since I'm not sure if the image ID 's are visible, just a quick description of each photo, from the top:

  • A partial list of Black people murdered by police
  • Rise in maternal deaths in states where abortion has been banned
  • A memorial for trans people who were murdered
  • Photos of people who disappeared attempting to migrate to the US
  • Police throw a Black protestor out of their wheelchair
  • Armed police raid a homeless camp
  • A child working in a meat processing plant
[–] vaquedoso@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Argentina should be red too. Look up Operation Condor

[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

Ummm... all violence perpetrated by the US police is political in nature.

They were, after all, invented to protect the property of capitalist parasites from the people the capitalist parasites exploited in order to become rich in the first place.

Violence doesn't get more political than that.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

Tfw I look up the history of the term Banana Republic

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Our country was literally founded on political violence. Explains the 2nd Amendment pretty well.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't think US & Canada are coloured right ...

[–] hamFoilHat@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And Mexico. There is no way in hell we haven't done stuff in Mexico.

[–] c0smokram3r@midwest.social 9 points 4 months ago

That is correct ✅ idk about Canada but CIA loves it south of the border 🪇

[–] kksgandhi@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Does anyone have the source for this image? The websites mentioned in the image seem to be down.

[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

Germany, did they want to assassinate Walter Ulbricht/Erich Honecker or what?

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If you count Kent State, you can include the US in that list.

[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz -5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ew, the america centric map projection, cut eurasia in half, why?

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What would the argument be for using a Euro-centric map for displaying data about US military interventions across the world???

[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz -1 points 4 months ago

No one ever uses this nonsense

[–] marcos@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't cut a large populated land in half. It's also the one everybody already know where to find anything.

But anyway, how the fuck the projection isn't symmetrical for the North and South hemispheres? How does one achieve that?

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

It doesn't cut a large populated land in half.

Why would that matter? This data has nothing to do with population.

It's also the one everybody already know where to find anything.

That's quite a subjective and eurocentric perspective.

But anyway, how the fuck the projection isn't symmetrical for the North and South hemispheres? How does one achieve that?

This appears to be a Mercator projection, or something close to it. The land in the southern hemisphere is generally close to the equator so it appears smaller as part of that distortion. Also it looks a bit weird because Antarctica usually balances that out visually, but is excluded for this map.

There's a lot of different options for displaying different kinds of information. For what this map is trying to convey, it makes sense for it to be centered on the US. The distortion doesn't really matter because distance is not important. Keeping large populated is not important because the map isn't conveying any information related to population. Is this the absolute best projection available? Probably not. But the Mercator projection is still far and away the most common today (and I see this is copy written 2010, so it would be been even more ubiquitous then).