A new study says many Americans are okay with political violence. It found 39.8% think it’s fine to wreck Tesla dealerships. And 31.6% say killing Elon Musk could be justified.
The study shows a split by political beliefs. Among those leaning left, 57.6% are okay with smashing Tesla dealerships. Nearly half, 48.6%, think killing Elon Musk makes sense. And 55.2% feel the same about Donald Trump. That’s higher than the overall numbers, where 38.5% justify killing Trump.
Those are rookie numbers. 
We gotta get those up.
Normalizing violence as political speech is a slippery slope, and this isn’t the fallacy. You thought Jan was an insurrection? There were very few guns, and I believe less than fifty were charged with violence. Version 2 violent boogaloo is going to be crazy.
God I hope I’m wrong.
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not really, no. it was more like a deeply embarrassing block party. honestly i’ve been at house shows with more guns and i’ve definitely been to parties with more violence.
anyway violence gets shit done. you can debate the people in power until you die of asphyxiation and nothing will change in the slightest.
What? Am I going to do something about it? Protect Velveeta Voldemort myself? Am I supposed to feel bad if a fascist dies? Ignore the paradox of tolerance and defend their right to blame minorities? Who gives a fuck? If they first come for the fascists then I’m pogged the frick up
I couldn’t muster up the strength to feel bad if something happened, much less the @Civility@hexbear.net to not celebrate.
Taking violence off the table only benefits the ones who already claim a monopoly on violence.
Violence is already completely normalized as political speech, but only in the direction of it being used by the state and against the people. It’s totally normalized for fascist ICE agents to brutally abduct people off the street, for cops to murder people (especially people of color) without consequence, or to go into homeless encampments beating and cracking the skulls of the people trying to survive there while torching their meager possessions, for small armies of militarized police to kettle and gas protesters (those people who aren’t even using violence themselves but are still doing what they can to oppose its use by the state to conduct genocide), and beating them until they’re literally blind. And this isn’t even beginning to get into the utter normalization of the unimpeded mass murder of people in the global south to more easily steal their resources.
What is not normalized is specifically the use of violence by regular people aimed at the state. That is the taboo. That is what the pearl-clutching liberals immediately denounce as dangerous to “democracy” (because it is a threat to bourgeois dictatorship). But it’s a taboo that has to be broken if there is to ever be any hope of positive change happening within the imperial core. If it’s a slippery slope to normalize violence against the state, then let’s get to sliding down it! The statistics presented in this article, if they’re to be believed, are a hopeful sign.
its already normalized by the right. better to not just be the punching bags.
Only way out is political violence. But it needs to be organized and disciplined
Political power yadda yadda you know the line.
This is just cope, the liberal state uses violence all the time, it’s just you that isn’t targeted.
We didn’t think January 6th was an insurrection. Most of us don’t think it was a big deal