Not just politicians and definitely not only Americans. No one spouting the ‘violence is not acceptable’ actually means it. They don’t mean to abolish the police, military, prisons, taxes, mandatory school…
It’s just doublespeak, the violence I like is not violence so if someone responds to it with more violence I can condemn them, they are the violent ones not me.



I posted this comment just yesterday and it fits perfectly here, so I’m copy pasting it.
How is that an insult? In fact the only thing I would say is incorrect is the word ‘failures’, since I think they (the liberals, be it the Democrats or the equivalent in other countries) haven’t failed at all, quite the opposite, they’ve played their part masterfully to bring us here. And before the liberals around feel attacked, this is not a ‘both sides are the same’ comment. That’s not how controlled opposition works. It’s more ‘both sides work together, even when they do very different things, to achieve the same goals’. Just an example. While Trump’s DoJ is prosecuting people only because they are political opponents, Biden’s didn’t prosecute actual criminals (specially an orange one) because ‘they were political opponents, and it’s a bad look’. They disguise their inaction as civility, when it’s clear as water they’re doing it to further the plans of the people paying them, which is the same privileged class that’s paying the other side. Even this side of the pond, without a ‘first pass the post’ system, with lots of parties, coalitions, and what not, it’s still exactly the same play.