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Remember remember!

The 4th of December

A CEO dies all alone;

On the street he was lain,

cold, pale and in pain,

thousands of deaths that he own.

The decisions he’d struck,

Layers removed from the slaughter,

Were a shareholders treat,

Your dead mother or daughter.

Those investors all wait, on that cold winter morn,

Still unaware of profit potential they’d mourn,

Poking at hotel breakfast, bored looks on their face

As Brian’s when he denied and delayed at great pace

Endless growth, deposed, on behalf of us all

Luigi didn’t do it, we were hiking in Nepal.

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This is SO good.

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Thanks :)

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7 points

The problem is that the guy would be a third party candidate, which means he would get treated as a sinkhole for the voters of the opposite party. This would work specially well for the GQP since they could just have a candidate adopt his ideology, throw a lot of money into news, media, and rallies to trump up support, and then easily turn around and just not fulfill it when they win. Meanwhile, there will be plenty of people in the other side of the flawed bipartisan system who will just blame democrats for not choosing their third party candidate regardless of the actual consequences voting third party has in USA’s democratic facade of a system.

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Why would the 1% be nervous?

It’s not like the Americans will actually do anything. At most there will be some light trolling, some graffiti and maybe a twitter hashtag. Tjen everyone will pat themselves on the back and feel slightly superior before returning to their slave jobs, without healthcare

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Are you familiar with the term Stochastic Terrorism? The upshot is that enough public support may encourage individuals to take action against high-profile targets.

Imagine, for a secone, that you’re one of those 1%. According to the census, there are about 340 million people in the US. If just 50% of them hate you, that’s 170 million. If 99.9% of them do nothing, that still leaves 170 thousand willing to act. Statistically, you’d have one potential killer every two thousand people. Sure, the actual figure might be much lower. Do you know for sure? How would you estimate that?

Let’s run with that statistic for now. How many people do you interact with or pass by daily? Weekly? Monthly? How many of those potential 170k might intentionally seek you out? The more wealthy or prominent you are, the greater of a target you become, but it may also depend on personal wrongs, leaving a lot of uncertainty and hard to predict variables. How would you know whether there’s a target on your back? Or multiple?

If you thought you were invincible, that deterrence by law enforcement and public distaste for violence would prevent any such events, that illusion has been shattered now. All it takes is one slip-up of security, one person with nothing to lose and the right luck.

Would you feel safe?

Until recently, we all thought nothing would happen. Now something has happened. I think at this point it’s impossible to predict whether that will inspire copycats, whether the public approval may encourage more disruptice mass action or whether it will actually go back to complacency and stay an isolated incident. That unpredictability should give them pause.

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I remember posts like yours from a while back… and then one day a young man with a bright future and as lot of advantage chose to leave that behind to shoot a CEO in the back of the head on the open street in broad daylight.

“Why would the 1% be nervous”

Your post is a weak attempt to sow defeat in the hearts and minds of those who started to perk up and think a bit more after seeing what Luigi decided needed to be done. On balance, your post reads like you’re actually nervous.

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8 points

I mean, the internet does nothing better than slacktivism.

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I mean, “nobody wants to work anymore!”… Maybe you’re just repeating buzzwords because the blind repetition is comforting enough to help you feel sure about an unsure world? Maybe you’ve long since stopped questioning the meaning of these catchphrases and their perceived validity before you plainly parrot them, as designed.

How about people actually do shit, take action in real live, and then they supplement that with additional online activism. I’m out marching, I’m picketing, I’m supporting unions, I’m researching candidates and their funding and I’m voting. I’m educating younger people who are curious and welcoming back misled friends and family when they wake to the tactics of conservatives and realize they need to stop refraining or voting against their best interest.

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Sure, but rumors have it there are people that go out and actually touches grass between their slacktivism sessions.

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Technically wasn’t broad daylight, it was just before sunrise. But that doesn’t really affect your point.

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Wow, the CEOs really do wake up early and work hard /s

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Hitler wore a brown hat

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I’ll be honest. I’m not sure. I grew up outside the US. Things were far worse but in some ways, less bad division wise. I was mostly a child or a teen but I did live thru two revolutions. Both regime changing.

It all starts rather complacent and lazy. But the bubbles. They are not feeling new to me.

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They don’t see us as human and are just finding out the feeling is mutual.

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28 points

FAFO

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Whenever he gets cheers and applause in a news comedy show, the host always looks uncomfortable. You can almost see the leash of their corporate overlords being tugged.

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Not all “news comedy”, FWIW — though I think you were referring to Faux “News”, Twatter, FB, MSNBC, et al.

That’s not the expression in those moments. Take another, longer look.

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I mean, it’s not just that. it’s legal liability. part of the reason they charged him with terrorism is to tie any show of support to a crime as well. supporting him is like supporting al-qaeda now. so I ask you, DO YOU CONDEMN HUMMUS? DO YOU CONDOM MORDOR OF CEOS?

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Yes, I do condom mordor of ceos

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OH SO YOU SUPPORT HUMMUS THE SILENCE SPEAKS VOLUMES

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But how do you feel about hummus?

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Didn’t Hillary Clinton stated in one of those leaked mails that AQ was with the US or something?

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It is perfectly legal to advocate for illegal activity. The first amendment has broad protections for this. SCOTUS has ruled on this even recently. You need to be able to advocate for illegal activity if you want people to have any chance to change the law.

It is perfectly legal to come right out on national television and say, “Luigi did nothing wrong. The president and governor should pardon him, and the mayor of NYC should throw him a parade.”

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Like the incoming Christo Gestapo crew will give a shit about that when they start rounding up potential “wrong thinkers”

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lol… those who remember the 2000s know that’s all out the window if the government says anything is terrorism.

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All it did was show a lot of people what bullshit a charge of “terrorism” is.

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School shooters should be getting hit with terrorism charges

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Also, lets not forget who will be president soon… Trump and his fellows have hinted at going after fake news media before. Going after terrorism supporting fake news media is even easier.

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Also GOP: “We are all domestic terrorists”

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Wait, “condom” and “mordor”??!? What the hell sub is this??!!

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Ugh Senator Foghorn Kennedy is a fucking embarrassment to the English speaking population.

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Ok then, sure, make the average person a terrorist. That will be fun!

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It’s also just the purview of the liberal elite. So rich and far removed from society they think murdering someone makes you evil and there’s never any reason to do it.

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Meanwhile our media is absolutely jam packed with freedom fighters and underdogs and man against the system… ultra gore.

So like idk what message the elites have been getting out of the media but the really popular stuff is always the stuff that speaks to the masses… and feels relatable.

So sitcoms and… horror dystopia, yep.

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They obviously don’t have a problem with murder (they have a murder problem!) unless it’s one of them receiving the murdering

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