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There's many other reasons to torch his office. You should check out what his congressional district looked like.
That's not a reason to commit arson. You shouldn't go around burning things and causing destruction.
I mean, you do if you want to force change, punish more than a single person, want to disrupt activities, or want to make as big a scene as possible to gain visibility.
Violent protest may not be popular, but it can work.
The real problem here is that the moron doing it did it poorly, with little or no real planning, and ran the risk of unnecessary collateral damage. You gotta be careful with fire, and this wasn't careful
Really? You’re actually advocating arson as a potentially safe and effective way to effect social change?
Grow the fuck up. I’m so glad you people lost political power this cycle.
Apologies that leftists aren't too much of cowards to hide behind talking heads promoting stochastic terrorism. I mean it's not like leftists lying about what operations are being performed at hospitals led to bomb threats being called in or riling people up calling for trial by combat and needing to fight like he'll moments before people violently entered the capitol building. Or constantly threaten to run over protesters, and many times actually do.
I could spend more time looking up and pointing out all the right wing violence, but asymmetric bullshit principle and all that. Fuck off, progressive and left leaning people are tired of the double standard when it comes to political violence.
So you just gonna ignore all the times republican congressman and voters pushed for violence and actually committed it?
Talk about needing to grow the fuck up.
Yes you should.
This person was a Republican, that’s reason enough to fire bomb their face let alone a victimless crime like an empty office.
Only status quo lovers argue against individual violence while sucking off state violence.
You're only not a slave due to people going around burning things and causing destruction.
Interestingly, people are only ever slaves as a result of that same process