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    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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        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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        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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      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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      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 love the “arbitrarily redefine what a civilian is” method of handwaving away a murder. It really shows that deep down, you would have an excuse to kill anyone.

      Exit: Downvote me all you want. If openly celebrating murder is how the left operates now, the left is even more doomed than I realized.

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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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          I never said the system was justified. You can’t both-sides this.

          This man isn’t the system, and he was murdered. That’s why it was murder. Like our healthcare system, it was unjust. I’m not celebrating injustice, no matter who it’s visited upon.

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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.