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That doesn't follow. It's OK to say you wish a politician was dead. It's not OK to pay someone to kill them. It's OK to say that you support some criminal ac

• x-complexity 10d ago
  > It's OK to say you wish a politician was dead. It's not OK to pay someone to kill them. Both actions are equivalent, as such words are (social and/or political) capital bounties offered to the masses in return for fulfilling the death of said politician. Capital always exists, even in the form of words. To deny a variant of capital whilst allowing another variant is inconsistent/doublespeak. Just because it's not printed onto a piece of denominated paper, doesn't mean that such capital doesn't exist.
  • Arainach 10d ago
    > Both actions are equivalent, as such words are (social and/or political) capital bounties offered to the masses in return for fulfilling the death of said politician. Neither the law nor common interpretation of words agrees with this. There is a significant and crucial difference between words and actions.
    • x-complexity 9d ago
      > There is a significant and crucial difference between words and actions. The difference is artificial, and delusionally blinds itself to the base reality that social/political capital exists. Again, just because there isn't a cash figure attached to that bounty, doesn't mean that a reward hasn't been attached to it in the form of social/political prestige.