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[–] [email protected] 139 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah it is alarming.

Just not for the reason you think it is.

[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's alarming how surprised the oligarchs seem to be. Like they didn't realize they were the baddies.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I expect many of them have spent their lives so immersed in capitalist indoctrination that they genuinely have no idea others view their activities as exploitation and a bad thing. To them, accumulating wealth through whatever means you can is just what you do. And they tend to think that anyone who doesn't do this is just a bit stupid and hasn't figured out what life is about. Don't underestimate their narrow-minded blinkeredness.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

Nah it's just weaponized "concern trolling" in an attempt to quell support. I'm sure the red coats used similar language when talking about people like George Washington back in the day too.

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[–] [email protected] 126 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It’s incredibly enlightening that all these pearl clutching fuckers like Mayorkas decry violence and violent rhetoric but see no violence in the way this industry hurts and kills people en masse every day.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"When the rich rob the poor, it's called business. When the poor fight back, it's called violence."

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What we need is a leftist party that isn't afraid to fight dirty. We need scorched earth policy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not that I don't get where you're coming from, but taken in isolation that quote is obscenely ironic.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Context is everything

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 day ago

The social media rhetoric is a response to the material conditions. If people weren't regularly pushed to bankruptcy or left to die by the "Delay Deny Defend" industry, they wouldn't have any malice towards the industry's leaders. If the industry didn't give nearly everyone a reason to hate what Brian Thompson represented, they wouldn't have celebrated his death.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some are alarmed, others encouraged.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Even for those who don't approve of killing the exploiters, this sends a refreshing message of "Maybe we don't actually have to put up with their shit." It clearly has them worried that maybe we won't.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

I approve. I will pre-authorize it.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As alarming as corporations being legally allowed to act as death squads?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Yes, that is by far the most appropriate. Considering that is the terminology that was used to demonize the possibility of public healthcare in the US.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Some murders are self defence.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

I call this "societal self defense".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

No killing in self-defense is murder.

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