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TikTok ban cited in suspected arson of Rep. Glenn Grothman's office (www.fdlreporter.com)

submitted 22 hours ago by [email protected] to c/nottheonion

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FOND DU LAC – A 19-year-old man accused of setting fire to a building in Fond du Lac early Sunday that included Republican U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman's office cited the TikTok ban as a motive in the incident, according to authorities.

The Fond du Lac Police Department said the Menasha man was arrested after being found near a strip mall, 525 N. Peters Ave., that contained Grothman's district office.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 19 hours ago

Be gay do crime

Legislators should be afraid of the people

[–] oakey66 14 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Fuck Glenn Grothman.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Don't torch his office over it though

[–] oakey66 15 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

There's many other reasons to torch his office. You should check out what his congressional district looked like.

[+] [email protected] -11 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

That's not a reason to commit arson. You shouldn't go around burning things and causing destruction.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, you do if you want to force change, punish more than a single person, want to disrupt activities, or want to make as big a scene as possible to gain visibility.

Violent protest may not be popular, but it can work.

The real problem here is that the moron doing it did it poorly, with little or no real planning, and ran the risk of unnecessary collateral damage. You gotta be careful with fire, and this wasn't careful

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Really? You’re actually advocating arson as a potentially safe and effective way to effect social change?

Grow the fuck up. I’m so glad you people lost political power this cycle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

You people?

[–] blackbelt352 4 points 8 hours ago

Apologies that leftists aren't too much of cowards to hide behind talking heads promoting stochastic terrorism. I mean it's not like leftists lying about what operations are being performed at hospitals led to bomb threats being called in or riling people up calling for trial by combat and needing to fight like he'll moments before people violently entered the capitol building. Or constantly threaten to run over protesters, and many times actually do.

I could spend more time looking up and pointing out all the right wing violence, but asymmetric bullshit principle and all that. Fuck off, progressive and left leaning people are tired of the double standard when it comes to political violence.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 5 points 9 hours ago

So you just gonna ignore all the times republican congressman and voters pushed for violence and actually committed it?

Talk about needing to grow the fuck up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

You're only not a slave due to people going around burning things and causing destruction.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 hours ago

Interestingly, people are only ever slaves as a result of that same process

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The vote was overwhelmingly in favor of the ban, dude, on both sides of the aisle, and every other House member in Wisconsin voted in favor of it. Your one legislator is not the deciding factor on this.

[–] cowfodder 17 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

It was inserted into a bill for foreign aid to Ukraine and Israel. That's what had bipartisan support.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

Hardly. It even had a unanimous supreme court decision to uphold the ban. The ban had bipartisan support up until what's his name started jerking everyone around.

Legally, this is all well-covered ground with the Grindr divest or ban law that was wrapped up the week before COVID lockdowns started. So most people forgot about it.

Because there's money involved, 47 wants to spin everyone around in hopes of ByteDance changing their mind and selling to one of his tech bro campaign funders so that big financial benefits from knowing the president can stay in day 1.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

More reasons not to vote for it. Quite the flex to say 'I had to vote for it, because it was in the must-pass genocide bill!'.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Again with this "Ukraine is committing a genocide against Russians?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 52 minutes ago* (last edited 48 minutes ago)

Israel is the one committing a genocide, why would you think it's Ukraine? Did I miss an ICC ruling?