Re:Molotov Cocktail Is Hurled at Home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
by anon291 on Saturday April 11, 2026 @10:46AM
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State violence as you call it pales in comparison to the regular criminality that actual people face. A brown man is more likely to be murdered by a random attack from a criminal than the American government. The only people who don't think this are HN.
It seems the option is you have to accept rampant crime or we are going to bomb your house
This is just terrorism.
I'm not some trump fan, but the fact that people are this thick headed is scary, and makes me think Trump is correct in his characterization of the left.
But where people are "OK with violence" is with state violence.
State violence include police violence (>1000 people are killed every year in the US by police), prison violence, violently rounding up immigrants and putting them in concentration camps, criminalizing homelessness, denying people life-saving medical care, evictions while landlords collude to raise rents, genocide, sending random people to a maximum security prison in a foreign country (ie CECOT), mass shootings, going with a firearm to a protest to instigate an incident and get a legal kill, intentionally creating the opiod crisis and so on.
For a large number of people some or all of these incidents will get a reaction somewhere between "thoughts and prayers" and "no, it's good actually".
Compare the state's reaction to one healthcare CEO being murdered and the perpetrators that are implicated in the Epstein files. Epstein himself was known to authorities since the 1990s and got an absolutely sweetheart deal in 2008.
So I'd say the real problem is what people view as violence and who's allowed to do it, seemingly without oversight or consequences of any kind most or all of the time.