"accessible" 🙄
No amount of deepthroating rich murderous boot will save you when your turn comes to face off to your insurance company, and it will come.
I'm in the UK, we have the NHS, and several "sin taxes", and they still pretty much exclusively penalise the poor (as does the NHS which has been defunded to oblivion in favour of rampant privatisation, so those who can't afford to go private are left with the ruins), while those selling the "sinful" products (and private health insurance) continue to rake it in.
There is no taxing or legislating or regulating our way our of capitalism, which is exclusively responsible for those in power exchanging the health and well being of the population and the planet for profit, and they will never allow any tax or legislation or regulation to pass that would put them at any kind of disadvantage. The fact that some people still think they would, is frankly quite terrifying.
He also wouldn't have made it to this point alive were he Black, nor would he have the same kind of support had he previously spoken out about Black liberation or the Land Back movement for example, rather than how "wokeism" is the cause of racism.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - him shooting a CEO was good and inspiring, putting anyone up on a pedestal, starting a cult of personality, and ignoring some or all of the different systems of oppression at play, is definitely not.
we need a good candidate to fix our problems
As long as you continue to expect playing within the rules those in power have set out for you to free you from their system, you are wasting your time and energy, exactly as intended.
Electoral politics are nothing but theatre and a sham designed specifically to ensure the people have no power to structurally change society.
Stop expecting it, and someone else you place in it to "represent" you, to save you.
We’re also no strangers to rich cunts dominating our politics. Musk is child’s play compared to the damage the Murdoch’s have rought on our shores…
Don't forget the original rich cunts that have never stopped dominating our politics (despite swarms of bootlickers insisting they don't get involved despite masses of evidence to the contrary) - the royals and their gentry.
I get that OP is trying to do a good thing, it's a nice gesture, but it also feels like they've only just now started paying attention, while some of us, especially on this more left leaning site, have been aware of and dealing with how fucked we (as Brits, but also as a global working class) are for quite a while longer (and no, I don't mean Thatcher-Reagan, but much further back).
Trump isn't the problem, he is a symptom, and focusing on him is counterproductive - if he died tomorrow (🤞🤞🤞) or got jailed for his crimes (never going to happen) nothing would change, because the systems that enabled and encouraged him to the top will remain in tact and continue chugging along uninterrupted, pushing the next wannabe dictator to the top.
Abolish capitalism. Abolish monarchy. Abolish the state. Abolish hierarchy.
It's the only way out with some hope at the other end.
I now have the hilarious image in my head of a toddler giving their granny a pat down (image of one in case the term isn't familiar to everyone), thanks! 😂
E: replied to wrong person, oops! 😂
Was killing a murderous CEO a good and inspiring thing to do, and do we need to see more of that kind of direct action? Abso-fucking-lutely.
Is putting anyone, however much you might admire an action/s they took, up on a pedestal, ever a constructive thing to do? No.
Is spouting bigotry ever acceptable? Never.
And the only thing overlooking and brushing off bigotry achieves is more bigotry, and sending the message to the marginalised people around you that you care more about venerating a stranger who causes them harm but made you feel warm and fuzzy for a minute, than you do about ending their oppression.
This is why "no war but the class war" fails every time - intersectionality is essential, and if you don't use your privilege to prioritise protecting those who are more marginalised than you, even from supposed allies (which a frankly terrifying number of people seem entirely reluctant to do) - then what the fuck are you doing? (enabling and participating in bigotry is what)
If you can't deal with valid criticism of someone you consider a hero, you're not a fan, you're a cult follower, and nothing good has ever come from being part of a cult.
E: Just adding what I've seen so far, if your knee jerk reaction is to defend these posts, or brush them off as "error in judgment" or whatever (especially if you would be outraged if, say, some random MAGA had made similar statements, as I'm sure many have), you are saying that their content, and the people it is aimed at, are acceptable collateral damage to you.
ID: white text on a black background around a faded photo of a person with a black face scarf on and a hat that says "illegal" on it:
"But it's illegal"
"Saying that something is illegal is not an argument, it is an appeal to authority. Laws are arbitrary dictates to control a population, not universal standards of morality.
Credit: freethouchtproject.com
Image ID:
ID: the top half of the image is set on a grey background. It says: "Stop buying your loved ones BORING gifts like: Severed Plant Genitals" next to a crossed out graphic of flowers, "Roasted Bean Bar" next to a crossed out graphic of a bar of chocolate, and "Shiny Rocks" next to a crossed out graphic of a diamond ring. There are also a couple of sad emojis.
The bottom half of the image is set on a bright sparkly background. It says: "Instead get them something they'll REALLY appreciate: Heat Death of the Universe" next to a graphic of the universe in flames with a green tick next to it, "Rift in Spacetime" next to a graphic of that rift with a green tick next to it, and finally "Cursed Knowledge" next to a graphic of an ancient looking book with a green tick next to it. There are also a couple of starry eyed emojis.
ID: A scene from The Addams Family, we see an engraved gravestone, Morticia reads it out to Fester: "Our credo, "Sic gorgiamus allos subjectos nunc.". She adds: "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us." "Not just pretty words."
ID: image titled "Health Insurance CEOS and their pay:" above 8 photos of the CEO
Cigna, DAVID CORDANI $21M
WellCare, MICHAEL CARSON $23.5M
Humana, BRUCE BROUSSARD $16.3 M
CENTENE Corporation, SARAH LONDON $18.6 M
MOLINA HEALTHCARE, JOSEPH ZUBRETSKY $21.4 M
CVS Health, KAREN LYNCH $21.6 M
Elevance Health, GAIL BOUDREAUX $21.9 M
United Healthcare, BRIAN THOMPSON $10.2 M
ID: Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck next to a poster saying "CEO season" with a photo of Elon Musk
ID: On the left is a chart of "Claim denial rates by insurance company", ranging from Kaiser Permanente at 7%, through the Industry average at 16%, all the way up to UHC at 32%. Based on available in-network claim data for plans sold on the marketplace.
On the right is a photo of Brian Thompson on a cloud, bellow him is text: "Today we remember the legacy of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson." -Ken Klippenstein
ID: Drawing of a duck billed platypus underwater, they're wearing a rainbow coloured t shirt and a pink bum-bag, and saying: "Ally is not something you can self-identify as, it's a title that you earn. Let your actions speak for themselves!"
Credit: Sophie Labelle
ID: screengrab of a list of tips and tricks for the game Pocket Build, it says:
When making a circle with walls or fences, make a line in the middle first as a guide then proceed to place the fences while changing the angle one notch at a time. The change in angle has to be consistent for it to be a perfect circle.
When you place a fish, you can scale the number of fish that appear but not their size.
Since People and Goblins don’t disappear once they die, you can use their bodies for decoration.
ID: Person A posted: "Gen Z is too afraid to ask a waiter for extra ketchup, but will bodyslam a cop"
Person B replied: "We respect those who actually serve"
Person C says: "BRUH"
ID: An edited image of two people looking at each other and smiling, maybe about to kiss, the background is black and the details are outlines which repeat, slightly overlapping, in neon red-green-blue. At the bottom is stylised text: "Ho Ho Ho mosexual"
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-how-nonviolence-protects-the-state
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/romeo-kokriatski-respectability-politics-or-you-gotta-be-nice-to-monsters