• ArachnidMania@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    It’s unfortunate but in a lot of cases it’s the only thing that will work. Peaceful protest can help when protesting against a group that could be viewed as rational, if not, most people won’t just lie down if the conditions they are protesting don’t improve, and more drastic action becomes one of the few options left.

    • VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      People here agitating for political violence are acting like this legislation is something like police reform or oil production rates when it’s actually just a relatively small thing which won’t negatively affect anyone in power and is generally considered popular.

      He’d probably have got it into the public dialog with a good pop song too.

      Honestly the reason this is interesting news is because it’s so uncommon, normally governments and the public shift away from whatever violent radicals support because they don’t want to be associated or don’t want to appear weak.

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        8 months ago

        it’s actually just a relatively small thing which won’t negatively affect anyone in power and is generally considered popular.

        It’s only popular because of the publicity gained by assassinating the country’s longest serving Prime Minister though. I don’t think a pop song would have hit the mark.

        It absolutely has affected people in power, as there were more than just him linked to the UC church (which his association with was the reason he was the chosen target) and they were removed from their positions. Thise still in power have cut ties.

        It is indeed an uncommon response though.

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      8 months ago

      The title of the post could’ve also been written “sometimes, murder is good”. I don’t think that’s anything to defend just because sometimes violence has resulted in a better situation later.