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    11 days ago

    It should go without saying that such violence is not good and not supportable.

    That said, I also think those who make monopolistic fortunes off the sick while also dictating refusal of care to the sick are categorically not civilians. It is what it is.

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          And expect the health insurance industry to act on that.

          Well Mr Johnson. We were looking through your onboarding package with Innertrode and can see you have a 6 year old daughter. We need to put her on the Uvalde plan because she is a child and they are prone to lead poisoning and mass hemorrhages which we won’t be covering. But if she gets the sniffles, we have it covered because you are family. Also we’ll need to talk to you about her reproductive health once she reaches marrying age next year

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        I mean life has a 100% mortality rate, it’s just a matter of when.

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          I’m not sure we have the data to support that statement. 8.2B / 108B = 7.6% of everyone who has ever lived is currently alive. Perhaps some fraction of that is immortal.

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        Why should this piece of shit get more sympathy than a convenience store cashier who gets shot during a robbery?

        Because the mods get off on simping for the rich it seems.

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        It’s apparently against community rules to discuss violence in any form.

        So instead let’s talk about giving CEOs bunnies. Everybody loves bunnies and maybe putting a bunny in a CEOs lap will show them the love they are sorely missing.

        Give every CEO a bunny. Give them 20. Give them bunnies while their backs are turned, surprise them with bunnies. Send them bunnies to their homes. Let them y know they are loved even while they’re away from work. Put bunnies in their beds, in their cars. No billionaire CEO should ever turn a corner without knowing a bunny is there waiting. Let the billionaires know the true depths of our love. With bunnies.

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            you can use alcohol to eliminate those, and there’s really no reason to retain those or even the uhhh. bunny cage? if they’re properly cleaned, because caliber can be determined just by forensics and is totally useless for most LE to know, unless you’re getting really weird with it. yeah. bunny caliber, the caliber of bunnies.

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        Violence is the reason every judge tip toed around Trump. Violence is possibly the only factor America will listen to. It’s certainly the only language they speak.

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        Even well executed and thought out peaceful non compliance only worked after taking a lot of beatings and with a bit of luck.

        And most importantly, with the threat of violence as the alternative.

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        Peace can work too, but the Ivory towers types need to learn that ignoring peaceful protest, and undermining accountability and regulation, will inevitability lead to violence. He brought this on himself.

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            Improvised bunnies in their cars, high powered bunnies 200 yards away in the bushes.

            They deserve bunnies.

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              You give them to the CEOs, the billionaires.

              Bunnies at every turn. Let them know that they can’t go outside without seeing a bunny. That they will know the love a bunny can give at every breath they take.

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      Guillotines and the French Revolution disagrees with you. But good on you to pat yourself on the back with your superior morals.

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        I don’t know if it’s morals, I just don’t have the stomach for violence. That’s kind of a weird thing to say to a person anyway.

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          I just don’t have the stomach for violence

          That’s exactly what rich people are counting on. They want you to roll over and take it up the ass.

          The freedoms you have today were obtained through bloodshed. So I’m not really sure what point you’re making other then you’re not willing to fight for anything.

          So you’d rather give up on everything and fight for nothing. Nice dude.

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            Interesting, are you recruiting me to do something specific with you? Or should we just keep discussing how it’s immoral not to do violence on an extremely public forum?

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      I almost commented that UnitedHealthcare doesn’t have a monopoly, but that’s really only true at a national level. In some US states, they’re the only option.

      The disgusting profits are a product the health insurance industry, they only make money by denying coverage. It’s an environment that encourages human suffering.

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        “those who make monopolistic fortunes off the sick while also dictating refusal of care to the sick” is hardly arbitrary, though, is it. It’s quite a high bar to clear, that. It’s rational too, since they do many orders of magnitude more harm than e.g. a death row inmate, whom society is content to destroy.

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            This man isn’t the system

            This oligarch is the system… This oligarch made the decisions to implement those policies. They are, after all, the CEO.

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              Bro you really think the shareholders wouldn’t just kick him out if he didn’t deliver? He’s not the owner of the company and he didn’t implement this political system

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        Buddy if you think it’s just the left operating this way I have some beach front property in Arizona for a good price.

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        being judgmental towards the only person in the comments being even vaguely critical of murder because you can’t read

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        It should go without saying that such violence is not good and not supportable.

        I am not celebrating. It’s a tragedy, even if a predictable one. We’ll all do better with a little more cooperation and a lot less greed.

        I don’t like it when people die, or get maimed.

        If I say that I can understand how something like this happens, it’s not out of sympathy for the murderer. It’s just an accounting of facts amidst the fact that billions of people exist so obviously someone is going to be willing to kill for their perceived injustices. Especially when injustices are a lot more concrete than abstract.

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          It’s a tragedy,

          Technically, and in reality, it’s not a tragedy. Technically, dying from a pre-existing condition as a health insurance exec is a comedy. In reality, it’s a net positive for society.

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            Life is a comedy to those who think, and a tragedy to those who feel.

            I’m thinking a lot about this one.

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              I’d agree. He likely got great comedic value from the people dying as a result of his decisions; and thinks those people being healthy is a tragedy.

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        The ruling class isn’t a “civilian”, because they literally command armed forces.

        While not always called “armies”, their function is the same: Secure the interest of the capitalist class.

        Just like I wouldn’t call the POTUS a “civilian”, as the POTUS commands an armed force.