politics

This is a terrible, myopic way to decide who becomes your representative, and I'm honestly sad Lemmy is even upvoting this.

You need a points system, otherwise everyone's going to min–max on the low-hanging fruit. "The most" is too basic a metric, but of course as always, Lemmy doesn't understand the practical realities of politics.

Every flock camera is 1 point, every firebombed data center or Tesla manufacturer is 5. Winner gets my vote!

Not if you didn't miss.

Eh, bird shot would likely be enough to fuck a camera up and is highly unlikely to damage anything on the way down.

That's not how we do it in TN

Shotgun with birdshot would be safe.

Yeah, but Donvict didn't conduct his crimes against property like this guy.

To hear the cons tell it, BLM riots set entire cities on fire, and the property of businesses were harmed. This, plus mandated shutdowns were the "real" crimes we should have all been more concerned about, as opposed to murder-by-cop or a bungled Covid response that kill a huge surplus of Americans that didn't have to die.

I'm just sayin' - the cons tend to place far more value on property. If Donvict raped some children and some women that's gonna be met with a collective yawn by the conservatives because no property or businesses were harmed...

You're supposed to admit to your actions openly for civil disobedience. It gives you standing to challenge and opportunity to drag things to light. Even now, everyone being tried for this creates headlines that unattributed destruction does not

At higher levels, it can also clog the justice system and make it expensive to continue targeted policies

Without all that, it's just property destruction. Flock could probably have examples made of people caught (seeing as somehow they seem able to sidestep the law), but that frames the issue in a better way for flock

Taking the justice system head on is just a much more effective method of forcing change... Granted at a personal cost, although getting caught by the big brother machines themselves seems likely

Or it could be for political advantage...I mean, the cameras are wildly unpopular and badasses who cut (or shoot) through red tape are very much currently in style

Vandalism generally rises to a felony if the property damage exceeds a certain monetary threshold. This is similar to classes of theft.

It probably has something to do with using a gun.

The 2nd amendment only protects your right to purchase and own a gun. Not only is using a gun often illegal, it's grounds for summery execution. You know, freedom.