Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 on Nostr: Popehat has noted that there's no place for political violence. Ken, honey, sweetie, ...

Popehat has noted that there's no place for political violence.

Ken, honey, sweetie, dear one. I understand. You're upset about the fact that a celebrity got his neck perforated. It's terrible, really it is. Death sucks.

But the Nazi Youth leader was already a creature of political violence. He promoted political violence at every turn. He was encapsulated by political violence. He encouraged people to commit political violence with his every word. His speeches were all *about* political violence. There's nothing he has *ever* said or done that wasn't.

And political violence is all that this administration has been about. (In a very real sense, it's all the US, Canada and Great Britain have *ever* been about.) Violence to its citizens, violence to everyone else, violence to itself. Violence to children for being in the classroom, violence to the chronically ill for being in the streets, violence to LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC folks for being here *at all*.

Just because it's delivered with a lead point doesn't make this any more violent than a person being told that their chronic condition won't be covered by insurance or that their military pension has been cancelled for a bullshit reason.

It's just more *visceral.* And you know, I do hate violence! But just because we can see the blood this time doesn't make it *more* violent than everything the government has been doing, and what are they going to do -- *accelerate* the already-accelerated building of concentration camps for anyone who's not them?

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