born a bitter old man

We’ll finish patiently guiding y’all through how, yes, all cops are bastards because regardless of their intentions they’re still perpetuating a system of oppression, then before we can catch our breath we have to have the exact same conversation about landlords. Then once we finish talking about landlords, we have to explain that yes, this also applies to all politicians, and to all business owners, and to all bosses, and so on and so forth

Just get the idea through your heads now, please, and you can mentally copy-paste it onto the next issue. Oppression is systemic, it’s not because of individuals who personally have malicious intent but institutions that incentivize and uphold exploitation. It is not possible to change those systems from the inside, no matter how heroic your intentions, because their very existence is exploitative and that means your participation in them is exploitative as well. The only just course of action is to actively fight for the destruction of those systems and to build alternatives in their place