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> Violence is not a panacea, but often, the outlet.

Violence - specifically violently destroying society as it stands now - is often the goal. AI is an excuse.


Categorising non-violent things as violence takes away resources from actual violence.

No, things that aren’t violent are not violent, speak to anyone with experience of violence.


Weirdly enough, I find that victims of violence who weren’t engaged in a greater act of violence (i.e., the domestic abuse victim versus a soldier in a conflict) are often the staunchest advocates for unwarranted harm towards others to preserve their personal sense of safety. They will carefully carve out a definition of violence that speaks to the specific harm they suffered and requires explicit physical action, and then use that qualifier to reject any other notions of violence.

A recent example is the domestic abuse victim in my complex who has setup private surveillance cameras in the indoor common areas that are heavily trafficked by other neighbors, none of whom have given their consent. She does not consider warrantless surveillance of others (or calling the police on those of us who do not wish to be surveilled in a secure area of the building by her personal cloud camera) to be a violent act, nor does she consider threats of calling the police on those who shield themselves from her camera’s view to be an act of violence.

Violence is not limited to physical actions that induce physical harm, it is any action intentionally designed to reduce the safety or security of others - physical, mental, fiscal, political, etc.


> Violence is not limited to physical actions that induce physical harm

Yes it is. Safety is also physical. People deserve not to be beaten, they don’t deserve not to be mentally challenged.


The sole reason the concept of "physical violence" exists is because violence without that qualifier is not necessarily physical, but still violence.

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Not to appeal to authority, but because I think it's useful, here's how the WHO defines it according to Wikipedia:

> the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation

Note words such as "power", "psychological harm" "maldevelopment" "deprivation".


Oh, you'll give 'em something to cry about?

There are no mainstream sources about the police park story when I looked. I’m pretty sure it’s a hoax.

It’s performative. They’ll never care about Obama imprisoning John kiriakou the same way they’ll never care about the Iranians murdered in January.

It’s low latency for realtime. Discussion of these things have been public for twenty years since Red hat released MRG, and this is a conspiracy theory website.

I got into this guy via this Leftfield collab, it’s a great video: https://youtu.be/KvxbFWY2Hsc sad to hear he was a creep.

What does the abbreviation stand for?

"That part of Twitter."

twcu

It’s pretty relevant in the UK and globally in tech too.

“A man can never be a woman” and “ok dude” got people banned on old Twitter.

Well the first is just plain old bog-standard bigotry. What was the "ok dude" in response to?

No ‘a man can never be a woman’ is a fact and mainstream view. Disliking your sex isn't an innate characteristic and you have no right to force others to believe your illusion or participate in your gender performance.

More to the point you just claimed discussion of these matters wasn’t ever suppressed and then attempted to suppress discussion of them by claiming this was bigoted.


You're denying the existence of a marginalized group and claiming, "there is no bigotry here!" You see that that is risible, right?

People with gender dysphoria exist. THey are not marginalised: they have the same rights as every other person has. It is not bigotry to not participate in their gender performance, because gender performance is not an innate characteristic, as already mentioned to you in the comment you're replying to.

Check out the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, they support anonymity, privacy and free expression:

https://www.fire.org/


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