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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      3 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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        3 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
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          3 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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              3 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.