Fuck off with this shit. Normalizing political violence of any kind is not okay. It’s all fun and games until they start shooting at the people you support, and that’s a ratchet that tends to go only one way.

how about when elected politicians bend the knee to private interests, giving preference of basic resources like water or electricity to datacenters over their own cities? How are citizens supposed to react?

I’m sure we can find some middle ground between nothing and shoot-the-place-up.

Drag the offenders into the street to be tried by televised mob justice?

Seriously, until multiple people responsible get serious consequences the situation will continue to devolve.