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> There's been progress on that front with several Trump administration officials confronted while dining for example. Normalizing the harassment of elected of

• staunch 8y ago
  It's the exact reason the Roman Republic failed! The powerful political actors realized they could just physically intimidate and impede their opponents with gangs. No one that believes in a functioning society should support politically motivated violence of any kind.
  • sincerely 8y ago
    What do you think a war is, if not "politically motivated violence"?
    • ihsw2 8y ago
      Do you believe the US is in a state of civil war?
    • staunch 8y ago
      Politics in this context clearly means internal politics but there are many different causes of war. Many wars have been fought in self-defense, for example to challenge a foreign invasion.
• jacquesm 8y ago
  You mean like when the now president of the United States did it?
  • ihsw2 8y ago
    There is a difference between exercising your freedom of speech and the social justice warrior crusading that the parent commenter is advocating. Nobody is above criticism, that much is certain, but we shouldn't cross the River Styx into a world where random acts of violence is the preferred method of political expression.
    • s73v3r_ 8y ago
      "There is a difference between exercising your freedom of speech and the social justice warrior crusading that the parent commenter is advocating." Tell us, what exactly is that difference? What's the difference between going up to Scott Pruitt (when he was the EPA director) and telling him what an awful job he's doing, and when Trump tweets out a gif showing him performing wrestling moves on a personified CNN? Or when he calls journalists the "enemies of the people"? "Nobody is above criticism, that much is certain, but we shouldn't cross the River Styx into a world where random acts of violence is the preferred method of political expression." And where the hell is violence being done? Last I saw, the calls for violence have been from the Trump camp.
  • mieseratte 8y ago
    > You mean like when the now president of the United States did it? Is this in regards to the "birther movement" or was he harassing politicians in the real world?
• commandlinefan 8y ago
  > politically-motivated random acts of violence Or see it headed off by declaration of martial law.
• Jonnax 8y ago
  Sure. But when the government is forcibly separating asylum seeking families up, and putting the children in cages. And the response from the government is that either it's fake news or that they just don't care. To a lot of people this is an injustice. And they have no avenue to demand change. These people ruin lives. Imagine what kind of mental trauma these children will have for the rest of their lives. And they get upset that people don't treat them with respect when they go about their lives.
• aseipp 8y ago
  It's a slippery slope to "politically-motivated acts of violence" in this country. Boom. A direct, slippery, direct path. We better watch out. Yelling at a bad person eating in a Mexican restaurant could be the new Fort Sumter. Anyway, gotta jet and get home. Probably gonna walk past the only abortion clinic within 500 miles that has bulletproof glass windows and got firebomed for like the 30th time last week and over the past 20 years by right-wing terrorists. This is normal and not strange at all. I do it every day I'm not working from home.