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TikTok ban cited in suspected arson of Rep. Glenn Grothman's office (www.fdlreporter.com)

submitted 11 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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FOND DU LAC – A 19-year-old man accused of setting fire to a building in Fond du Lac early Sunday that included Republican U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman's office cited the TikTok ban as a motive in the incident, according to authorities.

The Fond du Lac Police Department said the Menasha man was arrested after being found near a strip mall, 525 N. Peters Ave., that contained Grothman's district office.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago

Be gay do crime

Legislators should be afraid of the people

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Fuck Glenn Grothman.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Don't torch his office over it though

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

There's many other reasons to torch his office. You should check out what his congressional district looked like.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

That's not a reason to commit arson. You shouldn't go around burning things and causing destruction.

[–] southsamurai 6 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] Loss 2 points 8 hours ago

You're only not a slave due to people going around burning things and causing destruction.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The vote was overwhelmingly in favor of the ban, dude, on both sides of the aisle, and every other House member in Wisconsin voted in favor of it. Your one legislator is not the deciding factor on this.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

It was inserted into a bill for foreign aid to Ukraine and Israel. That's what had bipartisan support.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

More reasons not to vote for it. Quite the flex to say 'I had to vote for it, because it was in the must-pass genocide bill!'.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Hardly. It even had a unanimous supreme court decision to uphold the ban. The ban had bipartisan support up until what's his name started jerking everyone around.

Legally, this is all well-covered ground with the Grindr divest or ban law that was wrapped up the week before COVID lockdowns started. So most people forgot about it.

Because there's money involved, 47 wants to spin everyone around in hopes of ByteDance changing their mind and selling to one of his tech bro campaign funders so that big financial benefits from knowing the president can stay in day 1.