Punching People Doesn't Work
So Drew DeVault has just said this in his blog:
![Kling has had a few things to say about Kirk on Twitter lately. Here’s another one – give you three guesses as to which “[group]” he objects to punching.](/i/2025/09/punching-people.png)
To be clear, punching people or encouraging people to punch people leads to measurable problems. Both "sides" do this and it typically leads to a cycle of aggression, both verbal and physical, as we said on 9/11. It only emboldens self-styled "assassins" and society abandons the Rule of Law when punching becomes a "joke" or "prank"*.
So please, do not participate in this. Do not try to justify this.
The rhetoric/spirit of violence certainly helps hate preachers like Microsoft Lunduke. It makes nobody any safer. █
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*From what we plan to show the Judge: [1, 2]
- [E14] Matthew J. Garrett speaks of wanting to stab colleagues
- [E15] Matthew J. Garrett speaks of axes and murder fantasies in his own homepage (the blade theme is prevalent)
- [E16] Matthew J. Garrett speaks of wanting to punch Bruce Perens, the man who started "Open Source" (or OSI)
In his country, Microsoft also bribes politicians to publicly promote GitHub [1, 2].