That’s all a councilman can afford? A pizza box with no basement? He needs to up his bribe and kickback game.
I only see six shots?
In the US, this probably counts as free speech…
Oh, look. Another “violence is never the answer” claim from the government.
While our government uses violence or the threat of violence to do anything they’ve wanted for the past 250 years.
Seems negotiating only ever works at all, if you’re carrying a stick and they know you’re willing to use it.
I don’t disagree. But its important to know that individual acts of violence are not helpful.
Violence absolutely is a helpful tool of resistance. But only in a manner that shows the weakness of the fascist state to that organized resistance.
A single act of violence on a state or ruling class leader does not help to organize the working class. This was the idea of “the propaganda of the deed”. But has never been a successful means of organizing resistance.
Organized and armed movements that take over factory floors, defend neighbors against ICE, and resist the actions of state violence are the methods that bring about revolution in the masses.
We are at a stage where the monopoly of violence that the state holds needs to be met with violence that gives people MORE protection, more stability, and more safety in the face of the fascist state. This is how that monopoly of violence is removed from the state. When the masses are shown that the violence used to against the state is in their own interest.
Single acts of violence are not personal enough to the masses to connect the “deed” to their own worsening conditions.
An act of solidarity, that protects the victims of state violence, is something that fuels revolution. The masses need to be shown that resistance can work, we can push them back. And every ICE agent that runs away from a group of people with whistles fuels that feeling within society.
We are at whistles now. But we will not be for long. So, save your bullets for protecting your neighbors. Don’t waste them on some politician or oligarch. They will be replaced the next day so long as the fascist state remains.
A single act of violence on a state or ruling class leader does not help to organize the working class.
It has to start somewhere.
Idk, insurance providers did change a lot of their policies right after Luigi
And then got sued by Blackrock for doing so. Capitalism will not relent until we force it to through mutual resistance.
They still did it though. You can fight for a strong lasting movement. But a murdered CEO every 6 months might work better.
Nature is healing 😌
Would you still be saying that if some of those bullets had hit his kid?
Maybe he’ll finally feel like the rest of us do.
Really. The mere existence of data centers makes you feel like your 8-year-old son has been shot.
While you correctly stated why I find acts such as these dangerous when not done very carefully, you are simplifying things a bit too much. Terry Pratchett correctly countered your argument in Going Postal:
Moist Von Lipwig: I’m just a con man!
Mr. Pump: You have killed 22.8 people.
Moist Von Lipwig: I’ve never so much as drawn a sword.
Mr. Pump: You have stolen, embezzled, and swindled. You have ruined businesses and destroyed lives. When banks fail, it’s not bankers who starve. In a thousand small ways, you have hastened the deaths of many. You did not know them. You did not see them bleed. But you snatched bread from their mouths. There will be no running.
I’m from Indiana. Yes, yes I would also say that for their father put them in harms way. This is Trump country and the politicians are less than human.
He’s worried that his son could have been in danger, while he gives no fucks about the hundreds of children who will be harmed.
What’s in this data center deal for him?
A donation to his reelection campaign.
Exactly. And they’ll make sure to build it far away from his house
This… Isn’t bad news.
For a moment I wondered if it even belonged here.
Wait this isn’t /c/UpliftingNews?
Fuck them clankers.
Too bad this dipshit (Ron Gibson) will learn nothing at all.
OK. So some asshole shoots up a local politician’s house, while he and his eight year old son are inside. Something that:
- Has only increased support for said politician
- Has strengthened his resolve to support said data center
- Will inevitably be used as evidence that anti-AI people are nuts
- Could easily have ended in the murder of a child, because, again, he was in the house this person indiscriminately fired into
And the reaction here is ‘good?’
If you honestly believe this way, you have been dangerously radicalized. Get help before you hurt someone.
You make good points but when politicians don’t listen to people and those people get desperate they also get violent. If politicians didn’t want to get shot at they shouldn’t have created a world in which that sounds like a good idea to damn near half the population. Actions have consequences and the people in charge have been ignoring problems for a long time. Sooner or later that’s going to bite them in the ass in one way or another.
The same logic used by people who murder abortion doctors, nice. I’m sure this guy’s eight year old son deserved it, too. Again–seek help.
Lol, seek help from whom exactly? Medical professionals in the US are pretty much required to report any individual which may pose a danger to themselves or others to the police. And the US police pretty much shoots first and sprinkles some evidence later.
Who exactly do you think is going to help people who are being radicalized by the complete breakdown of the services meant to help them?
You say “seek help” as if there’s still something there to give it. And even if there was, can one even afford help anymore?
“Seek help” is the secular version of a passive aggressive “I’ll pray for you.”
You’re welcome to your opinions on the topic but I don’t think you can refute anything I said. Desperate people often get violent and there are a lot of desperate people out there. That’s just the state of the world.
If you honestly believe this way, you have been dangerously radicalized.
Sorry, cheering for political violence is just normal now. The right has been pushing and supporting political violence so hard that its…just not radical anymore.
Sure, this time it might not have been somebody on the right, but it doesn’t really matter. Once political violence becomes normal, it becomes normal.
Hey I won’t say good, but how about indifferent? Crocodile tears about his family do nothing for me when his policies are bound to wreck a large portion of his constituents putting out of work and on the streets, on a systematic scale. Not to even mention the environmental catastrophe he’s invited in, for a meager $2.5M.
Yeah… Indifferent. Numb. Sucks for him. Will suck even worse for everyone else soon.
I really wouldn’t care if people were shrugging. It’s the gleeful celebration that’s getting to me.
Without this we would be pretty short on ‘wins’ right now.
I’m so tired of winning.
We could do with fewer “wins” that involve shooting at people and their kids.
Well, they should just back the fuck down.
Right, of course. It’s the fault of the guy whose house got shot up and family endangered.
He is killing children right now
How?
Do you understand the concept of “delayed consequences”?
By passing every shitty policy he can that fucks over everyone but these tech bros. He making housing and feeding people harder and harder. How else can you look at it?
So, that’s a pretty vague “he’s doing something that I consider bad and can be connected in some way to someone eventually dying” criterion.
If that’s all it takes for you to consider it okay to shoot someone’s children we’re in for a pretty bloody time.
I did not say it was okay to kill children.
“We have to kill AI artist” keeps getting repeated and whenever someone complains the response is “it’s just a meme bro.” Well, that’s a step along the path that leads here. Repeat a slogan long enough and loudly enough and someone ends up thinking it’s social permission.
Literally never seen “we have to kill AI artists” said in any space on the internet. Surely you could link to an example of this if it keeps getting repeated.
