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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 243 points 6 days ago

"Those who make peaceful reform impossible make violent revolution inevitable."

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 days ago

I've heard people suggest that school shooters stop butchering our kids, and instead throw their lives away doing something useful that will have them remembered as heroes.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 days ago (2 children)

That's fine, I'm pressuring the neighborhood schizophrenics to directly pressure healthcare CEOs.

Pressure is fun, right health insurance leaders? It can make all sorts of fun things happen. Brian ~~knows~~ knew this, if only for a few seconds.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I agree with you about CEO's but please stop using schizophrenic people as a joke or prop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Right? They probably mean Dissociative Identity Disorder too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Idk usually that's the case, but when I think "mentally ill in a way that's susceptible to being pressured to kill rich people" I'm more inclined to think paranoid schizophrenics than did folks. Still shouldn't use them as a joke like that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

This reminds me of a neat history lesson:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-the-tragedy-at-buffalo

History doesnt repeat, but it certainly rhymes.

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable."

It wasnt Czolgosz or Mangione that sat at the reigns of a murder machine sanctioned by baron-owned-state monopoly of violence.

Goldman, for her part, had such a big heart for those driven to desperate acts.

Throughout her detention and after her release, Goldman steadfastly refused to condemn Czolgosz's actions, standing virtually alone in doing so. Friends and supporters—including Berkman—urged her to quit his cause. But Goldman defended Czolgosz as a "supersensitive being" and chastised other anarchists for abandoning him.[75] She was vilified in the press as the "high priestess of anarchy",[76] while many newspapers declared the anarchist movement responsible for the murder.[77] In the wake of these events, socialism gained support over anarchism among US radicals. McKinley's successor, Theodore Roosevelt, declared his intent to crack down "not only against anarchists, but against all active and passive sympathizers with anarchists".[78]

Berkman wasnt shit. Emma was a real one

[–] [email protected] 136 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You mean to tell me that going from the street to trial in less than a month, from what would normally be a single murder charge isn't the normal way of things??

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

He's only made his plea. Yes, that part happens quickly.

EDIT: Look at the upvotes on the parent comment. Y'all are really dumb enough to think this man is going to trial right now.

It's misinformation, it's ignorance, it may even be a lie. Downvote this crap.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

thank you for having some sanity….
i’m pro luigi, anti health industrialization… but yes obviously the doj will charge you for shooting someone.
the terrorism charge is probably where the pressure went

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

No, it's not obvious. The DOJ rarely charges anybody with murder. It's almost always charged under state law, in state courts. Sebastian Zapeta-Calil hasn't been charged with a federal crime, and probably won't be.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (4 children)

the interstate aspect of it makes it kinda federal…

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There was a school shooting on the same day Thompson was killed. Without looking it up, can anyone name a single victim?

I'm not saying I support murder, but I don't understand why I should care more about his life than those who are objectively more innocent.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

We don’t care about his life either. It’s what he represents and how life goes on without him (possibly improved for people saved after execs have to fear for the policies they adapt).

[–] [email protected] 133 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh, look, they did a corruption

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

For the rich, that's an "oopsie 🤭"

For the poor, that's a paddlin'.

[–] [email protected] 105 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Privatization of the government working well

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago

Drain the swamp so the water feature can be filled with leopards.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

Merrick Garland showing he was always a Republican.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 6 days ago (2 children)

When are we going to pressure the DOJ to prosecute health insurance leaders for the deaths (just one example) caused by their actions?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

about the same time we hold politicians for the people they murder.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The Department of what, now?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Corporate Justice. The C is silent.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago

it seems dangerous that they would explicitly name Lisa Monaco, Benjamin Mizer, and Elizabeth Prolegar as the corrupted DOJ people who support the health insurance cartel over the citizenry.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 6 days ago

The state is just the armed wing of capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago

Who are these leaders? Names? Addresses?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

I'm shocked! Shocked I say!

.... Well, not that shocked.

I mean, really, who didn't see this one? It was pretty blatant. The fact that we have confirmed reports of it is nice, but c'mon.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 days ago

Kill them, too.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 days ago

Bought and sold

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

Of course they did, wouldn't expect anything else.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 days ago

Nah he's not a white collar criminal who destroyed the lives of millions.

Biden might be willing to posthumously pardon Brian Thompson for his insider trading crimes though.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

And my cats could be appointed alternating empresses of Romania.

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