• stephan262@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    It kind of is actually. Throwing a milkshake isn’t likely to cause much harm, and would probably result in an assault charge. Throwing acid can cause serious disfigurement and possibly death, and a far more serious charge.

    You can condemn her actions without the hyperbole. This happened before and it didn’t result in a wave of acid attacks and I’ve no reason to think this time will be different.

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      5 months ago

      I mean, we’ve literally had two MPs murdered in the last 8 years.

      It wasn’t “just a milkshake” then, was it?

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        No, the stepping stone drug that is a milkshake was probably the start point though. Then protesters craved harder and harder objects to throw at politicians and it ended, as we could all have predicted, by those two poor politicians being crushed under a gargantuan boulder.

        If only we had stopped the milkshakes.

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        No, but anyone who would try to establish an equivalence between a milkshaking and a murder is, to put it kindly, perhaps not thinking it through fully.

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          5 months ago

          My point is that all of these types of incidents just mean that politicians are going to end up being more out of reach of the average person, and more out of touch as a result.

          People complain about politicians not meeting ordinary people, and this stuff is precisely why they don’t.