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    On top of killing people as his day job, Brian Thompson was also convicted of drunk driving, insider trading, and fraud.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1ha7u3e/comment/m16t6db/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

    Thompson was a rich 3 time loser felon so why was he walking the streets at all? He could have been safe in jail if the justice department did their jobs. That includes you Mayorkas, so thats enough with your complaints.

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    I love that on SNL last night the mention of Luigi on Weekend Update was met with enough cheers that made Colin Jost have to stop and wait for the cheers to die down before telling his joke.

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    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.

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    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.

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    What’s alarming is people have been pushed to the point where they would consider Luigi’s actions justified.

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      Yeah, I’d rather people not have to get shot for the government to realize there’s a problem, but here we are. It got to the point where some dude went out and shot a rich guy. And now they finally notice? Doubt.

      It’s all just theater.

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    Ya know what’s extremely alarming? Children dying of preventable causes because an insurance exec and their board want more profit. What’s not alarming? A CEO became another statistic.

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    “Are we the baddies?” is for sure an extraordinarily alarming moment of clarity

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    Another out of touch gasbag. Take his pension like C suite jerks have taken other people and he would get it.

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    I bet. He’s the domestic spy chief. He knows how far it goes. How mad people are. And exactly how widespread that sentiment is.

    I’d love to be a fly on the wall of those classified briefings he gives to the politicians.