Downvotes might just check out for once.

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Or… maybe, just maybe, people can have the opinions they want and have their reasons for them.

The idea I have to consider my parents’ role as my parents undermined if they did something scam-ish is arguably appalling.

This is turning into a collective shame kind of culture.

Not to mention one did their act in NYC and fled to suburban Pennsylvania while the other had to deal with police from a far more mundane environment. People who think the comparison can be used to paint police intentions (as if they’re even a single body like some army of droids and not individuals who have free will to show up) are just sad, it would be like saying “the 1918 plague was not as widely reported or is as known as the smallpox plague, therefore it killed less or was less a priority”. People are sadly disproportionate, that’s just how things seem to have worked in history.

“Yes to violence” is never the answer.

It’s because of the circumstances of how both were found.

Why does this surprise anyone? Doesn’t anyone know what terms of service are? This place is the same way.

Not everyone we persecute is in a leadership position with high amounts of pressure from the population to do the things we’re punishing them for.

Do they think nobody is going to replace them and resume the conflict?

Sounds like you’re saying “anyone who isn’t with me is against me.”

That would’ve happened anyways.

You say that as if voting for the lesser of two evils is by definition worth it.

Well they’re certainly not now.

A vote spent dishonestly is what I’d call a pissed away vote.

Is it not better, by definition, than spending time dishonestly?

By that logic, everything is a waste of time if more people are spending it some other way.

The whole point of a democracy is people speak their minds, is it not?

If you vote third party, your vote is an extension of your true self. If you vote for a potential winner just out of the likeliness they’ll win, is that really “you”?

Same logic if you don’t vote. In Australia, voting is a requirement for all citizens, and it’s disastrous because you end up with people who just don’t care filling up some random candidate’s score, so the outcome doesn’t reflect what people actually want.