• NaevaTheRat [she/her]@vegantheoryclub.org
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    3 months ago

    I'm not a usaian, and I don't really care who did this or why but:

    "All Americans have the right to peaceful protest, but ugly attacks like this have no place in our democracy,"

    Isn't this a peaceful prostest (factoring in here that the speaker almost certainly does not consider the insects harmed worthy of dignity and respect)? Obnoxious and weird sure but peaceful.

    • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      Here in the US anything that results in even the mildest inconvenience or loss of face among the ruling class is violent by definition.

      • NaevaTheRat [she/her]@vegantheoryclub.org
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        3 months ago

        Fair, I mean similar stuff happens in aus but we're literally a prison colony of uptight dibber dobbers without even town squares lest uprising be facilitated. I thought you were calibrated the other way, like firing rounds up into the air is peaceful and civic jubilation :p

        Guess power is the same everywhere. I do wish the media parroted this stuff less. Normalising disruption = violence is how the remnants of our liberties die.

        • buckykat [none/use name]
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          3 months ago

          Firing rounds into the sky is peaceful civic jubilation, knocking over a trash can near a protest is violence