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Re:Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records te... by jonas21 on Thursday August 04, 2022 @11:54PM (#32351390)
Compared to public hearings where I live, which often devolve into shouting with people forcibly removed from the room, this seemed very mild. They even said "please" and "thank you".
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Re:Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records te... by tptacek on Friday August 05, 2022 @12:02AM (#32351451)
It's "violent" in the sense of "I violently agree with you". I read a lot of public comment (I'm peripherally involved in local government) and language like "please IMMEDIATELY REMOVE all multifamily zoning overlay projects" is unusually forceful; it's not even attempting to persuade, but rather making a direct demand.

At any rate, none of this is any kind of woke words-as-violence drama; it's a word being used in a colloquial sense that people here happen to have an unproductive hair trigger about.

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