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Without exaggeration, doing this now (depending on the person) would risk life imprisonment for bioweaponry terrorism, or just getting shot
Yeah, pretty much. A large part of what made the face-pie so effective was simply the “we can still touch you” reminder. It’s a powerful message, because it reminds them that their bodyguards only need to fail once. It’s the old “you need to protect yourself every time, we only need to touch you once” thing. Which is why they’ve captured the courts and police, to deter attacks even when they aren’t under constant protection.
I remember a few years ago, there was a big to-do about people throwing paint on their yachts lol. Even that was enough to scare them.
If they want to charge people with bioterrorism over pies, then the pie throwers might start throwing brick pies given they will face similar charges.
I think the natural conclusion is if you're going to charge someone with bioterrorism for throwing a pie on you then they might just throw acid on you instead, as both lead to the same outcome.
Because we stopped doing shit like this and gave in to bullshit civility politics. That shit only benefits the fascists.
Did we? Or was this always a rare and remarkable incident, both in that it happened at all and it was captured and preserved for us to talk about today.
Certainly, you can talk about the no less than three different Trump assassination attempts. Or the Luigi Mangione shooting. Or the fatal stabbing of Bob Lee, CPO of Cashapp. Or the assault of Bryan Kobel, CEO of TC BioPharm, after a dispute with his Uber driver. Or the vigilante attack on Paul Pelosi. Or the Doohickey assassination of Shinzo Abe. Or the Charlie Kirk assassination. Or just run the numbers annually for violence targeting C-level officials
But I'm not seeing any evidence to suggest we "stopped" doing any of this. On the contrary, it looks like we've got a rising tide of stochastic violence, both from within the state itself and against state and private leadership.
Great research and insight thank you
Interesting points. Don’t know if I recall all those offhand. But the Cashapp guy for instance, that was a fight between two people of essentially the same class over some family / dating / cocaine issue. That doesn’t really fit the pattern we’re talking about here.
Bruh I'm just talking about throwing pies in assholes' faces I don't need all this jeez louise
Easily get shot these days. Most of the big names are surrounded by exSF who are carrying far more firepower in their briefcases than any one of us can ever purchase.
Most of the time they are even carrying firearms that are illegal or never properly gone through NFA. A few rappers and their bodyguard occasionally get a weapons charge but you never see Musks or Fuckerberg get in trouble.
I seem to recall some video of Musk going through security at a courthouse, and hoping he would slip up with a gun or a bag of cocaine. I’m sure nothing would have happened to him.
Without exaggeration, doing it back then risked much the same.
These were brave acts then. They'd be brave acts now.
Yup.
What changed is not the risk, just how we perceive it. Not long ago living under fascism was literally considered a fate worse than death
I mean, there are face tracking cameras everywhere and everyone has a camera in their pocket. Being anonymous is very difficult
Granted, but people were also just less afraid of putting their face to their actions and being "hunted" by the enemy
What happened to the dude who shot syringes of his piss at Ilhan Omar?
Aka a literal biological attack?
Ooh did you say this is how to get.. Into a tickle fight?
Is that because modern food is so unhealthy?