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[–] [email protected] 121 points 22 hours 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] 60 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 20 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 60 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 21 hours 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] 6 points 19 hours ago

Context is everything

[–] [email protected] 75 points 22 hours 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] 50 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Some are alarmed, others encouraged.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours 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] 13 points 20 hours ago

I approve. I will pre-authorize it.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 18 hours 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] 29 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Some murders are self defence.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago

I call this "societal self defense".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

No killing in self-defense is murder.

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