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sop

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1. Great essay.

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Tue Nov 4, 2025, 09:53 AM

10 hrs ago

Necropolitics: Governance primarily viewed through a Social Darwinist lens of survival of the fittest, violence and social control, where certain populations and groups are deemed disposable by the punitive and punishing state.

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Trump's America is governed by necropolitics [View all] marmar 11 hrs ago OP

Great essay. sop 10 hrs ago #1

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