US Politics Mega-thread - Page 5283

On September 29 2025 06:30 JimmyJRaynor wrote:

Firstly, this is ill defined and vague. Secondly, you can easily shuffle around definitions and label almost anything political violence.

Here is a simple example about an ongoing legal back and forth between the state and the gay communities in Canada and the USA. Specifically , the battle over whether or not poppers should be legal. The state's actions can easily be framed as "political violence".

When A Sex Shop that sells poppers is closed down and the owner arrested in Toronto's gay village that can be framed as "political violence" by the state against innocent gay men. Poppers are illegal in Canada and the USA. According to gay men the law about poppers and its enforcement are political violence. In their view poppers should be legal. Any time the state shuts down a poppers manufacturing centre ... that is political violence according to gay rights activists.

I don't think a sex shop getting shut down and the owner arrested is an example of political violence. I can see why some people frame it that way though.

So you're making a vague statement about an ill defined activity, namely, political violence.

On September 29 2025 06:30 JimmyJRaynor wrote:

Firstly, this is ill defined and vague. Secondly, you can easily shuffle around definitions and label almost anything political violence.

Here is a simple example about an ongoing legal back and forth between the state and the gay communities in Canada and the USA. Specifically , the battle over whether or not poppers should be legal. The state's actions can easily be framed as "political violence".

When A Sex Shop that sells poppers is closed down and the owner arrested in Toronto's gay village that can be framed as "political violence" by the state against innocent gay men. Poppers are illegal in Canada and the USA. According to gay men the law about poppers and its enforcement are political violence. In their view poppers should be legal. Any time the state shuts down a poppers manufacturing centre ... that is political violence according to gay rights activists.

I don't think a sex shop getting shut down and the owner arrested is an example of political violence. I can see why some people frame it that way though.

So you're making a vague statement about an ill defined activity, namely, political violence.

“Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives. In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives.”

On September 29 2025 06:42 LightSpectra wrote:


I want the seconds I spent reading this comment returned to me.