For at least ten years, the Chinese Communist Party has been abducting its overseas citizens on EU territory and forcibly returning them to China - violating the rule of law and public security in Europe - a new report finds.
  • booty [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Consistency is when you can’t call an act of violence what it is if it’s cops committing the act of violence

    • 420blazeit69 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Are you an anarchist? I’m not. Like every AES state, I think it’s possible to have justifiable government actions. Governments have a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence, so yeah, a cop making a legal arrest is not the same as me hitting a stranger over the head and stuffing them in a van.

      • booty [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        32·
        8 months ago

        It’s not hitting a stranger over the head and stuffing them in a van. It’s “an arrest.” You can’t call it hitting a stranger over the head and stuffing them in a van, because of who’s doing it.

          • booty [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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            8 months ago

            This isn’t a theory discussion, it’s a fucking linguistics discussion. You’re insisting that the word “abduction” refers only to a legal term, which it does not. Obviously it does not. Idk what more to say.