• @[email protected]
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      29 hours ago

      What if I blew up a water tower?

      Or burned down every grocery store in the city? (At night, while no-one was there to get hurt)

      • @[email protected]
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        88 hours ago

        Who is the intended audience of that comment that you believe will equate sources of food and water to swasticars?

        • @[email protected]
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          27 hours ago

          He didn’t say “swasticars.” He said “property.” Property damage can absolutely be violence against civilians.

          My audience would be anyone tempted to think that planting a burning cross in the yard of a black family does not count as violence against civilians, because it’s just property damage.

          • guldukat
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            I wonder where you were when that guy showed up and beat Paul Pelosi almost to death with a hammer. Laughing probably, along with most Republicans

          • @[email protected]
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            Hahahaha, you went and one-upped your own stupid comment. Yes, clearly any rational person sees vandalizing swasticars to be just as evil as destroying essential infrastructure for human survival or terrorizing innocent people with racial hatred that has historically let to their murders.

            You’re a fucking idiot cosplaying as an iNTelLecTuAl.

            You’re also blocked because you’re a waste of everyone’s time.

      • @[email protected]
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        38 hours ago

        Then your act of vandalism/sabotage would have effects that harms people. Is this so difficult for you to understand? SMH.

        • @[email protected]
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          27 hours ago

          It’s quite easy to understand. But you said “Property damage is not violence against civilians.”

          Clearly property damage can be violence against civilians.

          • @[email protected]
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            Yeah, I get the argument that you’re trying to make, but this is a really shitty time to play devil’s advocate.

    • @[email protected]
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      Anything that’s not the state is civilian. That includes civilian property. And I, too, cheer on violence against the oppressive class.

      • @[email protected]
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        1211 hours ago

        I don’t consider property destruction “violence”. Violence for me can only occur if there is a nervous system involved. Defining it otherwise seems a bit disingenuous, imo. Vandalism is not the same as an act against a person or animal.

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          38 hours ago

          If I break into your home and trash the place, it’s not violence? You should speak to people who experienced that. Granted, this is between real people and not corporations. And there is a line, somewhere, between vandalism and destruction where it turns to violence. It’s compIicated. I just completely disagree with the statement that destruction of property is never violence.

          • @[email protected]
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            58 hours ago

            They try to make it equivalent so they can classify people who smash windows in protest as “violent criminals” in order to increase the penalties which is a complete mischaracterization. If the act of vandalism has knock on effects then those are separate from the act itself and should be dealt with separately.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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        1716 hours ago

        Property is not people though.

        Otherwise shorting companies would also be terrorism.