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David Jenner's avatar

My two cents on the substack app stuff: this is one of *very* few comment boards that isn't full of disgusting stuff and I think it works pretty well. I'd be very wary of switching things up or messing with success here.

I think political violence is pretty easy to categorize. Scalise, Pelosi, and Giffords' assailants were all ticking time bombs. Most of those people are going to do anti-social stuff at some point, frequently violent. It might be political, it might not be (people with out of control SMIs also frequently engage in violence against their partners and kids).

The political violence that concerns me the most is J6, BLM riots, CHAZ, the Proud Boy-Antifa organized street fights, because while a lot of those people have very shitty opinions, they aren't the seriously mentally ill and don't all have problems in the glossary of the DSM. It used to be really really rare to have not crazy people engaged in political violence, but starting the Trump era, it seems like it's all the time. Very scary stuff IMO.

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MProvenza's avatar

The comments section already seems like a chat for us.

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