This is what I'm saying. Political violence is 100% a valid form of protest.

It's not the first pick, more like second or third, but we're WELL past that point.

Loving the recent "New York is a part of New England" trend.

A joint northeastern political identity will help with soft balkanization.

Is this bait or are you actually 14? There are a group of people engaged in genocide and performing a fascist coup, this guy ran on a "stop the genocide and fascist coup" platform. Barring the existence of a legitimate alternative (and let's be honest, there wasn't) please, for the love of god, explain to me why I should care about literally anything but the fact that he wants to stop the genocide and the fascists?

When the gestapo come to your door and you need to defend yourself are you going to not reach for a gun because that would imply tacit approval for the gun lobby?

They're a fed. Or a useful idiot. We lost this week. With the margin being what is is we may have lost overall.

As entertaining as that would be, no.

BUT, I do think he would be willing to violate the constitution in order to attack political enemies.

Listen I know the talking points whatever GS-13 you work for gave to you imply people don't have an appetite for this but take a look at the recent polling.

Most of Platner's voters supported him staying in.

I don't think he cares about non-whites like you may. I think he hates capitalists, or billionaires, or whatever homunculus he's created in his mind that embodies the ruling class. That's useful; a bitter, violent man with a grudge. That's good, that's very good. The US war machine is built off the backs of people like him for a reason.

I think given the opportunity he would be an asset in harming US imperial interests. He's an angry killer and we gave him something to go after. I'm starting to notice a lot of "leftists" don't have the stomach for the kinds of things were going to have to do to bring every single fascist in this country to heel.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, don't you have like an hourly report to be sending to your supervisor fed boy?

His opponent is complicit in genocide and the fascist takeover of the united States.

Precisely how many white women need to be raped to be equivalent to that? It sounds like one. This is simple utilitarian calculus. He represented more net good than his opponent. We have all collectively agreed, based on this race, that genocide and fascism are fine as long as no white women are hurt.

All that is true.

And with any luck he may have been willing to show the same behavior to the enemy. The left could have had their very own psychopathic killer who likely would have been very amenable to brutally crushing republican opposition In a bloody pogrom.

Alas, we'll just lose sanctimoniously.

I appreciate your sense of hope and optimism though I agree that we will certainly not see eye to eye here.

From my position I view the United States as the most direct and immediate threat to long term growth for the human race. I'm an engineer first and everything else second so for me it's a question of optimization. The US is holding back more efficient systems of resource allocation which is sub-optimal and that is fundamentally unacceptable.

I've appreciated the back and forth :)

Open source the program?

What do you mean we're not at the point of gestapo pulling people from their beds? What the hell is ICE doing?

You act as though this is still a legitimate government with legitimate laws. It is not. The US government is no longer legitimate; we are in a high functioning failed state. The legality of the rioters is irrelevant, they are a part of our tribe and our tribe is targeted by a rival tribe. We cannot act like there is such a thing as the rule of law, we will bury ourselves in our sanctimoniousness.

The goal at this point is embrace, extend, extinguish.

EDIT: Also, to be clear, when you say things were going back to normal you're referring to the US just being a regular imperialist hell hole? "Holding steady" in that context is equally unacceptable.