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amiyayuri

@nanazudina

Don't forget to train <3

flamingopudd

Horsey

99deetfree

the water parts for the ship of gold

normaloperafan

What people don't understand about golshi is that she's literally nice

crumpet099

Those are his fledglings man

guribot

its not right that i see less shakafai biting art than poketaki and sirinaka and the solution isn’t less pktk/srnk biting art. anyway she really thought she was onto something with the neckerchief

silvermoon424

Bro absolutely COOKED with this.

ohnoitstbskyen

If you ever hear the phrase "fascism is aesthetics as politics," that's what this post is talking about.

It's not about being tough on crime, because the absolute toughest most brutal measure you could take against "crime" as a social problem is to alleviate poverty, and increase access to education, healthcare and social mobility.

It's about performing "tough on crime" as an aesthetic by enacting violence against a prop, i.e. minorities and the impoverished, who are fetishized and objectified to represent "crime." They are brutalized as punishment for crime, but never with the purpose of alleviating the problem of crime.

This is why a lot of conservatives and other right wingers can get straight up angry when you suggest things like reform or social measures to reduce crime. They don't want crime to be reduced, they want an eternal war against "crime" because it provides an arena for the righteous to demonstrate virtue by brutalizing their enemies.