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Russian and Chinese Bots Fueling Online ‘Violence’ After Charlie Kirk Shooting
(www.thedailybeast.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2025
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Well, if you assume any action wherein someone loses and someone wins is violence... sure. Economic sanctions? Violence. Political action? Violence. Organized non-violent protest? Better believe that's violence.
There are some people who only respond to violence because they act with violence... but by no means is that the only thing any bad actor ever does.
And yet they have to keep doing it. Over and over and over. Almost like it doesn't actually fix things, just look at France. They've been through six republics and they still haven't had lasting positive momentum. They've had violent protests almost non-stop about just about every issue there's been in the last decade or more... and yet things haven't really been fixed. The people in power still do what they think is best, often to the benefit of themselves and the detriment of the rest of the populace.
Even if violence can promote change... it doesn't promote solutions.
You have to be at the negotiating table to form a solution. And you can't get there without violence. Implicit or exercised. You need it to reqch the negotiating table and you need it to back your play.
If you aren't at the table. You're on the menu.