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		mschuster91 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt > It's not the people peddling cruelty, it's the system. The rules of the system are made by people. And yes, for quite some of them the cruelty is the point when making the rules.

ryandrake 7 months ago [–]

That's right. "The system" didn't just appear out of nowhere. It's built by people--increasingly built by people who believe the government should be used as a tool to exact cruelty and humiliation on outgroups they don't like.

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