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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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How do you define the term political violence? Genuinely asking because I think we might be speaking past eachother if you don't consider the civil war, and a lot of the civil rights movements to be examples without political violence.
I was very specific about what I was talking about. Search in these comments for "assassination" and "shooting" to see when I discussed it precisely.
I'm not trying to talk about "political violence" in the abstract, specifically because it can mean different things to different people, and I don't see the point in getting tangled up in definitions. So in that sense maybe we're talking past each other. You said "political violence," but instead of dealing with that topic in the abstract, I narrowed it down to the specific Charlie Kirk incident, and then talked in specifics about what types of things I do and don't support. You can search for "will of the majority" to see me talking positively about some things that it sounds like you might define as political violence.