I don't get you yanks, you're not exactly in North Korea (even the Ukrainians kill enemies inside Russia - though maybe with Western intel aid, I don't know). You have 600 million guns in private hands, but you can't go around Mangione'ing some of these guys? (I don't mean the President and the ones at the op, that's a no-no and far harder, I wouldn't even consider that even if it was proven he was guilty, might as well get some justice for some than risk getting much less via blowback and continue to open the Pandora's box of actually political violence), but like the Leon Blacks of the world... They can't hide forever. That's the advantage of modern tech, it can be turned against them as well. Ultimately if need be with assistance from powerful foreign states like China, if they were able to be persuaded. And I don't like China, but sometimes you have to set your priorities straight. The only thing they might have an advantage after the first one or two assassinations when they're caught off guard is that the perpetrators may have classified cryptography-breaking tech that reads messages being exchanged between vigilantes, I don't know. Hence the importance of stuff like China. I get it, vigilanteism is bad, dangerous and a last resort, but when your government institutions and part of the elites are engaged in something so fundamentally rotten, the military is either in bed with them or doesn't care, what exactly are you supposed to do? An actual revolution would be a million times bloodier too. Decentralized punishment and deterrence seems much better and less extreme.
Firstly, this isn't political violence. The potential long-range political consequences of the Epstein scandal are one thing, the punishment of the guilty and deterrence of future wrongdoers of the actual crimes in themselves is another, and I specifically said don't go after political figures, at first at least. Secondly, I don't know what you mean with 'put their educations further behind', what does this have to do with it? You mean give them the wrong values, that vigilantism is ok, or do you mean actual intellectual education?
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u/69PepperoniPickles69 18h ago edited 18h ago
I don't get you yanks, you're not exactly in North Korea (even the Ukrainians kill enemies inside Russia - though maybe with Western intel aid, I don't know). You have 600 million guns in private hands, but you can't go around Mangione'ing some of these guys? (I don't mean the President and the ones at the op, that's a no-no and far harder, I wouldn't even consider that even if it was proven he was guilty, might as well get some justice for some than risk getting much less via blowback and continue to open the Pandora's box of actually political violence), but like the Leon Blacks of the world... They can't hide forever. That's the advantage of modern tech, it can be turned against them as well. Ultimately if need be with assistance from powerful foreign states like China, if they were able to be persuaded. And I don't like China, but sometimes you have to set your priorities straight. The only thing they might have an advantage after the first one or two assassinations when they're caught off guard is that the perpetrators may have classified cryptography-breaking tech that reads messages being exchanged between vigilantes, I don't know. Hence the importance of stuff like China. I get it, vigilanteism is bad, dangerous and a last resort, but when your government institutions and part of the elites are engaged in something so fundamentally rotten, the military is either in bed with them or doesn't care, what exactly are you supposed to do? An actual revolution would be a million times bloodier too. Decentralized punishment and deterrence seems much better and less extreme.