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Jan 6th insurrectionists tried to violently overthrow the US government - beating and killing officers of the law in the process. Not one was charged with terrorism.

Dylan Roof killed 9 black people attending church because he wanted to start a race war. Not charged with terrorism.

Mass murders slaughter scores of CHILDREN in the US on the daily. Not charged with terrorism.

But kill ONE POS CEO under investigation for insider trading, who has probably killed scores of people with a waive of a pen and a cashing of a big bonus check and - TERRORISM.

Get the living fuck out of here. Not only is America a piece of shit country, it's also an oligarchy, and we need to admit it already. 🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼

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Get the pitchforks. Break up the monopolies. Protect the consumers. Stand with labor.

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suck, and i cannot stress this enough, my cock to the fucking base

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CNN suggested that Luigi Mangione stage a boycott instead of what he did. a boycott of the health care industry. exercising my right to protest by fucking dying.

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let's recap what we've learned about the United States in the last few days.

things that are terrorism:

allegedly shooting a healthcare CEO whose company generated more pure profit (not revenue, profit) in a year than the GDP of 94 countries, exclusively by denying coverage to people who pay for it

a 42-year-old mother of 2 using the wrong combination of 7 words during a heated conversation with a call center employee at a health insurance company who was in the process of denying her health coverage.

things that are not terrorism:

mass shooting in a Black church to incite a race war

going to a BLM protest specifically to kill protestors

a neo-nazi running over a crowd of people, killing a woman

targeting and killing 23 latinos in an el paso, texas walmart

killing 12 people in a theatre, shooting 58 others, rigging your apartment with explosives

a QAnon groyper killing 7 and shooting ~50 at a 4th of July parade

killing 3 people and shooting several others at a Planned Parenthood in defense of the unborn

stalking someone relentlessly and then killing them and their child despite months of the victim making police reports

any one of the 1,200 murders committed by US police yearly, the vast majority being minorities

tightening your border while ~100 immigrants (including children) drown every year in the Rio Grande

United Healthcare killing an unnknowable number of elderly people by using faulty AI to deny medically necessary coverage

Aetna killing a woman by refusing to cover her cancer care

Blue Cross killing a 6-year-old by denying her appendicitis surgery

Cigna killing a 17-year-old child by denying her liver transplant

the pharmaceutical industry killing half a million people with opioids in the name of producing revenues in 2023 that rivaled the GDPs of countries like Spain, Mexico, and Australia.

the United States killing 45,000 people a year because they can't access health coverage

make sure you keep this guide handy the next time you find yourself interacting with your insurance company or any other millionaire, billionaire, or an individual who is part of a protected class such as a CEO or president of a corporation.

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Can we talk about how a lot of body positivity tools that are available to cisgender people don't work for transgender people? Like, from my perspective, even if you aren't happy with the body you have, you can still remind yourself that you are still a woman or are still a man (and you have the anatomy to prove it).

It's a pretty fundamental thing that, to be trans, you aren't happy with your body to start with (maybe there are exceptions, but idk), and while that CAN get better with time, it's always an uphill battle to convince yourself that you are no less your gender than anyone else.

Cis people can remind themselves that, even if others judge it, their body proves their gender. Trans people can't.

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It has begun

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Well, if they give him the death penalty, they'll have successfully failed.

They're trying so hard not to martyr him and it's not working.

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Wow i just found two new articles with headers that fucking completely misrepresent that wat Michael Moore's recent open letter said:

what the fuck man, are you expecting people not to actually read the rest of the article?

do you think people aren't going to read this part?

fuck off with that, the man is 100% cool with Luigi

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$51,791 was raised and will now be refunded as they caved because of public outrage

UPDATE: she is under house arrest and is still facing charges (December 14, 2024)

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To put into perspective my feelings on the United Healthcare CEO story, I'm gonna tell you a super fun story.

Around six years ago I was dying of organ failure.

Like, full on organs-shutting-down-couldn't-eat-anything-for-weeks-could-hardly-function organ failure. I had surgery scheduled to help reverse some of this. Hope was on the horizon. I was going to live. I was going to be okay. I just needed to get to my surgery date.

And then the day before that surgery I got a call.

"We've been fighting with your insurance company for weeks," said the lady on phone. "They keep telling us your procedure isn't 'medically necessary'. Dr. [Surgeon] screamed at them for a half an hour yesterday...but they still refuse to cover it."

I was given a choice during that conversation: go ahead with the surgery anyway and be on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars...or don't get the surgery...and almost certainly die.

I'm sure you can guess which one I chose.

I'm sure you can also guess what the name of my insurance company was at the time.

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Okay, so, friends. Occasionally I see an American post on here about “guillotine the rich,” and it turns out that “rich” means “anyone making over $50k.”

We need to clear this shit up REAL fast, because otherwise it’s gonna wind up like the French Revolution, where more middle class and poor people were killed for being “class traitors” than actual nobles. (Did you know that France has more nobles today than during the French Revolution? While there were a few showy executions, many nobles did just fine or experienced minor setbacks.)

If someone makes $60,000 a year, they are making about twice as much as a full time worker making minimum wage in California, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, DC, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, or Washington State.

Brian Thompson, the CEO of United HealthCare who was just assassinated in New York City, earned $10 million a year, which means he earned 333 times minimum wage in those states. Basically, he cleared an annual minimum wage salary in just over a day. And that “rich” person making $60k/year that you want to guillotine? He made their salary in a bit over two days of a year.

So he was rich, right?

Well. Tesla is trying to give Elon Musk a pay package of $101 billion. That is 10,100 times what Brian Thompson earned and 3,366,667 times more than a minimum wage worker. (Tesla hasn’t been successful yet because of a complicated lawsuit from a shareholder, but they’ll get there.) If you are a minimum wage worker, Elon Musk makes more every SECOND than you do in a year. And that “rich” person who you want to guillotine? He makes their salary in about 1.6 seconds. Even when he’s sleeping.

Now, remember. The Muskrat also is the head of SpaceX, the Boring Company, X.ai, and X.com, so this is just ONE pay package for him.

What I’m saying is — you have much more in common when it comes to economic grievances with someone earning $60,000 (or even $200,000) than the ultra wealthy that have real power. They are not the people you should expend your energy on.

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"Defend. Deny. Depose

Luigi Mangione, world hero"

Sticker seen in São Paulo, Brazil

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Briana Boston didn't threaten anyone.

When my grandmother was sent a death threat through text message, I reported it to the police. The officer told me that "it's not considered a death threat unless the message mentions a weapon and a deadline".

As a result, they didn't do anything. Not even a verbal warning to that person.

Or, there's a double standard when it comes to billionaires and big corporations. Who'd have thought.

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I think there's something to be said that saying the words "Deny, Defend, Depose, you're next" to an insurance sales rep can get you arrested for 'threats of mass homicide' or whatever with a threat of 15 years in prison

But when I was a manager in a fast food restaurant I've had customers throw food at me, demand for my personal phone number with an added threat of "Well I'll just have to FIND it", customers charging past the front counter to physically intimidate me and my coworkers, screaming and swearing, demands to know what time I get out of work, demands to know when my manager would be at work as a threat, people sitting in their car waiting for me to finish closing because they were angry at me, causing me to stay in the office watching the camera waiting for them to drive away...

But none of those incidents are arrest-able offenses, not one, any time I called the cops on any customer I would just hear excuses like " "there isn't anything illegal about calling a restaurant", that nothing physical happened and therefore there's nothing they could do, to call back and let them know if anything else happens

Idk, just think it's A TEENY TINY BIT ODD

Cop in the news goes "words have consequences" as if people don't berate and threaten fast food and retail workers every day

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If nothing changes, there will be another shooter.

Every day, things get worse. Food costs more, rent costs more, we pay more for a worse version of what we had a decade ago. Suffering has never been more profitable for the 1%, and they have been free to hurt others as long as they pay the right people.

Luigi Mangione isn't an outlier, he's the predictable result of the numerous failings within the US government and corporate America. The struggles he faced are not unique to him, nor is the dire outlook he holds.

When a system makes it clear that it means to kill someone, that person no longer has anything to lose. They will die either way. It pushes one to the brink, and the harder it is to ignore the ways life is being squeezed out of you, the harder it is to contain the emotions that result.

Two options present themselves for people who find themselves trapped in a system that has demonstrated an intent to kill you: passivity, or activity. Passivity is the suppression of the immense emotions experienced by these people until they eventually die; activity is to act on them. For those who choose action, it becomes clear that there doesn't appear to be a downside to revenge.

If one already considers their life to be forfeit in compliance to a system, then fighting the system bears no consequences and the faintest chance at success: at something more. Even if one fails, the path is made easier for those who come after.

So I say this, not as a threat, but as the obvious conclusion drawn from the premises of present circumstances. If things don't change, there will be another shooter. And there will continue to be shooters so long as the systems that constrain these people demonstrate an intent to kill them