• reksas@sopuli.xyz
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    18 days ago

    it doesnt matter. It wouldnt matter if he killed him because he didnt like how he tied his shoelaces.

    what matters is we have unifying event and if its allowed to be wasted then its all fucked. And i dont mean rallying people to start killing everyone but rallying people to stop being apathetic and demand change together.

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    18 days ago

    It’s still a warning sign that a large number people no longer feel peacefully working within the system can address societal issues.

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    18 days ago

    I go from it being a statement about the times to a mundane murder that warrants no coverage.

    He had a sweet life until he didn’t. Still don’t feel bad. If that makes me a bad person, well, America doesn’t care about that either clearly so guess it is what it is. Shrug emoji

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    18 days ago

    Doesn’t change much for me. Violence is a consequence of a broken system. Whatever the motive was, fixing the system is the solution either way.

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    18 days ago

    That’s what I’ve been wondering, we really don’t even know what the motive was, but the one thing that kind of elevates this beyond him being a “basic murderer” is the carved words on the bullets. That seems to suggest some kind of motive above just him being a hitman or just killing some random person.

    Regardless, I think most people are having the reaction they’re having to this because of our ridiculous healthcare system, everyone recognizes it as a problem and alot of people have a loved one who has been wronged by it. Almost any other issue would’ve created a partisan split where Republicans took one position and Democrats took the other position. That a set of clear Left/Right narratives haven’t emerged yet kind of suggests that alot of people aren’t particularly bothered by it. Where this goes though is anyone’s guess, maybe it’s just a single unified moment that is quickly overshadowed by some other bullshit that comes along.

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    18 days ago

    Your hypothetical makes no sense because murder is not ordinary or basic. But even if it were… “Couldn’t have happened to a worse person.” Right? “Karma’s a motherfucker.” Right?

    Many Americans are so blindly patriotic that they don’t realize their health insurance system is much worse than dozens of other countries. At the same time, many of these Americans also know that they’re being scammed. It is interesting to look at that cognitive dissonance. And it is interesting to look at mainstream media, so afraid to point out how screwed everyone in the country is, because of some evil rich assholes.

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    20 days ago

    Well, the bullets had the motive written on them in sharpie, so I don’t think there’s any chance this is a random murder, right?

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      20 days ago

      Hypothetical: he picked his target at random. Researched. Finds out he was an insurance CEO. Devises this plan to throw investigators off the scent.

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        Then we’ve discovered the world’s most inefficient try-hard serial killer. If you have the slightest modicum of common sense then when you realize that the “random” target you’ve picked is a mega-rich CEO then you just pick a different random target.

        And it has no significance whatsoever with regards to the general public’s reaction. At this point the true motives of the murderer are irrelevant, the general public has imagined him into a hero and that’s the important part.