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“I wouldn’t pull the trigger myself but I sure wouldn’t get in the way of anyone who would.” 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
The news today and the media responses to it really put into contrast how differently white collar murder and blue collar murder are treated. On principle, the only time I would be okay with vigilante justice is when justice is otherwise impossible. This was one such time
Brian Thompson was a white collar mass murderer and should be remembered as such. I wouldn't pull the trigger myself but I sure wouldn't get in the way of anyone who would.
I have been vacinated about 30-45 times in my life. Do you know how much I paid for it? Not a dime.
My great-aunt had a tumor and had to treat it with radiotherapy and chemotherapy. She was fully recovered. Do you know how much she paid for it? Not a dime.
One of Brazil's most famous tv show hosts who has been in show business for over 40 years with over 30 milion views had a kidney transplant this year. Do you know how much he paid for the transplant? Not a dime.
When my mother is bored she walks a block up to the public health center and gets a check up. Do you know how much she pays for this? Not a dime.
My mother has been going to the psychologist. Do you know much she has paid? Not a dime.
Does this enrage you? It should. When Luigi said "this" was a insult to the American people's intelligence he probably meant the mediatic circus around his person, but if we're fo be honest you could say the same about USA's healthcare politics. Do not let them tell you it "has to be this way" and "there is no other way." There is. You CAN have better healthcare. You DON'T have to sell your house to pay your medical debt. They are MAKING you do this ON PURPOSE. Don't forget that.
I don't usually have any kindness to spare USAians, but we are with you in this one. The world is watching. You CAN turn this around! Don't let them desincourage you.
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Remember that the supreme court said that the KKK can threaten as much as they want as long as it’s not a clear and imminent danger to everyone? The second the rich are in the crosshairs that goes out the window. Remember who the state was built to protect. Brandenburg V Ohio(1969)
Can we please acknowledge the "Women have the hots for Luigi, x amount of women showed up to support him, x amount of women are protesting for him purely because he's hot!" as the misogynistic red herring it is? There are plenty of men showing up in support but the media is focusing on the women because they take you for a fucking idiot, and they take those women for fools too.
Remember earlier this year when Boeing very clearly had a whistleblower executed? And law enforcement didn't even look for anyone or release any info about it or anything?
People keep comparing Luigi Mangione's case to the subway murderer who got off because of systemic eugenics, but I think there's something more apt about the fact that a CEO had someone executed in recent memory, with zero attempts to find a culprit, while they spared no expense at all to find (and probably frame, it's beginning to look like) someone who shot a CEO. It's always fine to slaughter if you're rich, but if you kill the rich, they will hunt you down.
Hey by the way next time that some normal person is murdered and the cops "aren't able to find out who did it" remember that they've spent over a week and unfathomable resources relentlessly conducting a nation-wide search for someone who murdered a CEO, and it APPEARS that they've got him (IF it's even him) --- so next time they tell you that they Just Don't Know Who Killed That Civilian And They Can't Find Out, And Don't Have The Resources To Try Harder, know that it's total and absolute bullshit. It's just that a regular civilian is less important than a CEO. Finding the guy who murdered a vicious parasite is more important in maintaining the status quo than finding someone who murdered your loved one, or that person you know, or the guy who runs the corner store, or the stranger who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Go ahead israel shills.
Go ahead and disprove this.
"we want to take care of each other, and if that's 'radical,' then something is wrong."
saw someone else write this in a comment section and i couldn't say it better myself. human rights issues are so often reduced to political partisanship---and the weaponization of this kind of rhetoric restrains the social progress of humanity, whether consciously or not. it allows us to dismiss real hatred and discrimination that goes far beyond partisan politics in the name of political civility. and for those who don't participate in the idea of political civility, it further distorts the innocuous movement for the equal rights of all people into a targeted, malicious and personal attack on someone's values, pitting two sides against each other over humanitarian issues that should be entirely non-partisan.
supporting ideology that calls for the extermination or oppression of a group of people should not be considered a "political opinion." these are issues that threaten people's right to dignity and life. the mindset of "it's just politics" and "it's just an opinion that everyone is entitled to" is a dangerous and slippery slope, one that has facilitated those in our past to turn a blind eye in the face of horrific mass genocide. it's damaging to mask bigotry and oppression under the misnomer of politics.
it should also not be the norm that, if one chooses to ignore or uphold the clear violation of another person's human rights under the guise of political civility, it is seen as "peaceful," or ironically, in our christocentric country, as "loving thy neighbor." these are issues that challenge our fundamental right to be human day-to-day, and this is a conversation that everybody is a part of regardless of whether they think it aligns with their political beliefs and regardless of whether they want to be involved or not. so no, i do not believe that it is correct to say that, for instance, in the recent 2024 election, it is "contributing to a society of division" when a person questions their relationships with people who support the trump campaign's hateful and oppressive beliefs, or that it is "radicalized" to stand firmly in protest of them. because truthfully it isn't based on political differences, but on the reality that the 2024 election was an election that trivialized human rights.
i acknowledge that social politics are largely what define partisan politics today and that it is nearly impossible to separate the two, as social politics are often presented by our politicians as issues that affect all the other areas of politics as well. however, i believe that this is an idea that has been long built and established by the two-party system to develop the political agendas of each party, muddying our ability to distinguish the difference between when we should use pragmatism, empathy, or our identity to guide our beliefs. this is not so much a rant focusing on political extremism or the far-right, but to highlight the pernicious nature of conflating humanitarianism with politics. it's not a left-wing problem or a right-wing problem, it's a universal societal state. i hope for a day we are able to, as a society, understand that advocating for the basic rights of others is a choice that transcends political sides---a choice that is deeply rooted in who you are as a person, who we are as a people, and the future you're choosing for our world.
still looking for evidence -> they didn't have the evidence before
they're just straight up admitting they didn't have evidence for the terrorism charge when they indicted him. they just made that up. they charged him with terrorism because they felt like it.
Insulin is a perfect counter to the "without a profit motive no one will invent anything" bullshit.
The inventors of insulin wanted it to be free and avaliable to everyone who needs it. The inventors invented it without a profit motive.
Then, capitalists inserted themselves as middle men in order to extract profit from it. It's now ridiculously expensive and people need it to live.
People are dying. The tool to save them exists. Capitalists hijack the lifesaving tool and hold it for ransom. Because of that, people die.
Capitalism is pure evil. Capitalists are murderers.
I don't really think it's fair to dismiss the idea that that guy might have been framed for killing the CEO as like an unfounded conspiracy theory when NYPD has a proven history of planting/fabricating evidence on people. in 2011 there was a massive investigation of the NYPD and hundreds of cases against people were dismissed after a former police officer testified that they literally have a name for planting evidence on people: flaking. you cannot be out here acting like considering the possibility that cops who do this shit under normal circumstances might possibly also do it when they're under intense global pressure and scrutiny is the same as republicans thinking democrats run a secret pedophile ring in the basement of a pizza restaurant
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hate when people are like "trust your gut! listen to your intuition!" like okay well my gut is telling me every person i lay eyes on is hunting me for sport and my intuition is saying i should find a secluded cave and live there forever so what do you suggest i do with that information