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Exactly. A lot of people acted like the attacks on Waymos during the ICE protests were random but they were anything but. All the local organizers are well aware of Google's contracts with ICE as well as the tributes Google paid to Trump.

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How is this relevant? Just because you disagree with some vague connection between two entities doesn't give you the right to destroy property. That's the definition of a childish tantrum. Inflicting blind pain on random, unrelated people because you don't get your way.

There's a rhetorical dodge in this argument where it transitioned from talking about property destruction to talking about harming people.

One can cause the other, but the burden of proof is on the claimant that wrecking a mass-produced special purpose autonomous vehicle did more tangible harm to a human being than make some engineer sad before they rolled up their sleeves and built a replacement.

The Waymo emphatically did not care it was destroyed.

It's relevant because Waymo is Google

How can you justify anarchist vigilante violence?

Should I be legally allowed to assault you or vandalize your property because I think your political orientation or that of your company is not "on the right side of history" ?

Come on. Not that I support destroying anything, private or public, for rhetorical effect. But assaulting someone or destroying their property has an incomparably larger impact on that individual than destroying a vehicle that won't even show up in Google's balance sheet.

>an incomparably larger impact on that individual than destroying a vehicle that won't even show up in Google's balance sheet.

Same re*arded argument people use to justify shoplifting. Now tell me genius, what happens to the shops in areas with high crime?

I didn't justify anything. Just pointed out the false equivalence. We could also argue about the effect of systemic shoplifting, but that is also neither here nor there.

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