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i don't quite agree with the "it's not left vs. right, it's up versus down" meme- while "up vs down" (ie owning class versus working class) is of course the primary conflict, "left vs. right" does relate to like, significant differences in approach to how to address the "up vs. down" conflict, and one of these approaches is obviously better than the other in this regard.

but i will say that a right-wing working class person is, usually, someone you can and should try to win over.

and a "left-wing" wealthy person is a scorpion on your back. they cannot change their class interests.

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His name is Luigi I'm going to fucking throw up with laughter

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On Monday, 26-year-old Daniel Penny was acquitted after killing Jordan Neely, a desperate Black homeless man on the subway, on the grounds that he was trying to protect others. On the same day, police detained 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, who is suspected of killing the CEO of a company that has denied thousands of life-saving healthcare claims.

Penny walks free after killing a man victim to the system. What will be the verdict for Mangione, who is suspected of killing a man symbolic of it?

As many have remarked, Brian Thompson’s tenure as CEO of insurance giant UnitedHealthcare was grisly. Thompson (alongside other higher-ups) allegedly conducted insider trading, selling millions of dollars of stock upon learning that the Department of Justice re-opened an antitrust investigation into UnitedHealth. While the company was on an upward profit swing, it has been awash in allegations and revelations of limiting mental health care coverage via algorithm, denying healthcare services needed after hospitalization at drastic rates via artificial intelligence, and denying insurance claims at a starkly high rate.

A gun killed Thompson. Paperwork has killed thousands.

Each case, obviously, is its own. But in each, contradictions of who is human, questions of who merits sympathy, and inquiries of what sort of society we tolerate, ring loud and clear.

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Yeah, Governor, in America they kill people from behind a desk in a nice suit and get a massive payday for it.

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video game graphics did not need to surpass the ps vita. we didnt need to go any further than that in terms of fidelity

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Takua after being forced into a Matoran Sphere

Takua in full of his sports (with his Blue showing).

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what if someone loved me so much and wanted to love me forever lol what if

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Worst coup ever.

Good.