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Ok so I get that you disagree but how is it violence?

Oppression is violence [1]. The willful disregard of laws enacted by a democratically elected legislature (from Uber's disregard of Taxi Medallions, airbnb's disregard of occupancy laws, to 2008-era banking scandals) of the upper class (successful entrepreneurs) is oppression against the lower classes.

Usually, this is taken care of through the courts, wherein the judicial system punishes people for crimes -- again, an act of violence. However, in the absence of punishment or a judiciary aligned with the interests of oppressors, the oppressed are morally justified in enacting punishment and responding to violence in kind.

[1] Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1967.

Being against socialism is not violence. The idea that the taxi medallion system was anything but a cartel is very crude. I'm not even sure what kind of person writes these comments that are in stark disagreement to the founding principles of the USA. Authoritarian governments are the exact violence the USA was founded to get away from.

> Authoritarian governments are the exact violence the USA was founded to get away from

You might want to ask a black person or an Indian for their perspective on this.

I don't have to "ask an Indian" because my grandfather is on the Dawes Rolls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawes_Rolls

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