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Not really murdering for profit. More like stealing their money while leaving them for dead.

We really need to end health insurance all together.

And also probably pull out the guillotines and remind the aristocracy how many of us there are and how much they actually do depend on us.

I honestly believe a general strike across the country would very quickly put things back on a course for the better.

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When people are healthy, they can work. This is profitable for companies. When someone is sick, they can’t work. This is not profitable for companies. So it’s better to kill the ill. Just like in Auschwitz. Right, insurance companies? Right, Musk? Right, Trump? Right, most Americans who voted in favor of this system and empowering mega corps at the cost of most people by voting for Trump?

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Issue is, most people’s main issue is with the people in the system. They think, the right people will make the system work.

A lot of right-winger, who agrees with the CEO killer would say the CEO’s main problem was going after good people, and not the “drug addicts”, etc.

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Ah, yeah, the drug addicts. Mostly created by the same system. Which created drug addicts from these “good people”, as rich white people got loads of Oxycontin prescribed. I don’t know what’s in the food in the US, or what it’s lacking, but making connections as simple as 1+1 is for most too difficult.

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When you have shitty insurance and you’re working 60hrs a week to barely make ends meet. Then, you hurt your back or fuck up a joint.

You can’t stop working because you can barely afford to live. Workman’s comp is a joke and you’ll get fired if you try and get your job to pay for your work related injury.

However, there for a while, they were handing out oxycontin like it was candy. You can kill the pain and keep working. Until they won’t give you anymore pills. Then you buy pills from a buddy or a friend of a friend. They’re fake, the fentanyl in them hits different. Pain is still mostly killed. You can still keep working, keep food on the table for your kids.

But yeah, it’s a rich white people thing because of something in our food.

Unless you’ve been in it, you don’t understand the suffering built into the system. Lots of people that are suffering don’t have the time, energy, or resources to do anything but tread water to keep them or their family from drowning.

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These people couldn’t connect the dots to pass kindergarten.

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Fun fact: did you know Kamala’s campaign spent $1.5 billion in just 15 weeks compared to Trump’s campaign spending only $382 million?

I think people voted for Trump more for his promise to fix the economy and to deport the illegals. I guess we’ll find out over the next 4 years, if we don’t end up destroying the planet in that time. It’s also worth noting that even Kamala wasn’t planning to get rid of privatised healthcare.

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That’s because the majority of the democrats are also really right. As soon as a more left oriented candidate steps up, like Bernie Sanders, they’re called a communist and people run to right oriented big corporate pawns instead.

The end candidates of the 2 parties (which is a dumb system itself) are a product of what the entire party chose to represent them. Maybe the situation this time is a bit different, with Biden stepping down and formally pushing Kamala forward, but Biden is also a product of the democrats. He was chosen to represent them. Biden is also right wing. Mildly compared to Trump, but strongly compared to what the rest of the world considers to be left. The entire states shifted further to the right. And never was left in the first place. I mean, slavery is still legal. Wtf.

The US is shifting further and further towards an autocratic state. Everyone claims it’s the land of the free, chooses for leaders who will take away their freedom and then complain they aren’t free anymore. Yeah, well, you get what you paid for. It’s just fucked up the decisions these people made will fuck up a lot of people their lives. “I want all those other people to suffer, but I didn’t think it would also harm me.”

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“I want all those other people to suffer, but I didn’t think it would also harm me.”

I don’t think anyone wants others to suffer, they just want better management and accountability on how public funds are being distributed, because the consequence of bad management has been the steady decline of quality of living in America the past few years. My taxes are being spent on housing illegal immigrants instead of homeless veterans. Politicians we elect to office don’t know how to do their job. Biden got us mixed up in two wars instead of de-escalating. Billions down the drain. Things felt generally better under a Trump presidency because he was “America first” (sorry non-Americans), and they’re chasing that feeling/hope that he can do it again. The majority vote was for Trump, so unless there was election tampering, it’s safe to say the majority of Americans feel that way. I personally didn’t vote in the election, because I didn’t like either candidate. I’m somewhere in the middle, so I understand why both sides voted the way they did. I used to be more left, but over time I started to clock the hypocrisy in the party. Especially with Kamala.

People like Bernie never had a chance because the rich control what the media covers, just like they control elections to a certain extent like with Elon funding Trump’s campaign. It’s just the way the U.S. works, sadly. The only other effective way to change things quickly is to send a message to the rich like Luigi did.

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Kamala’s campaign spent $1.5 billion.

This is the real election prize, not the presidency.

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This is a reason why I don’t think the shooter did anything outside of act in self-defense.

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Or possibly community defense.

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We have class-action lawsuits, and self-defense as a legal defense against murder charges. In this case, a think we should combine the two into a “class-defense” legal doctrine.

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Should Photoshop that coffee cup to get rid of cuckface crowder with D.D.D.

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I heard the other day if billionaires were shot at the same rate as schools kids, we’d run out of billionaires in 2 months.

But frankly, that’s one of those things you’d have to see to believe.

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Missouri

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Missouri

Don’t you mean Missoura?

https://youtu.be/dpMqFz7mw64?si=_s9iDGeu8M-0pPPu&t=49

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Misery

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I know that’s Francine without opening the link. Time to hit the or-a-gone trail.

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can we change it to millionaires and give kids guns instead?

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Millionaires are still about a billion dollars away from being billionaires

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People don’t realize the gulf between the two.

1 million seconds is 11.57 days.

1 billion seconds is 31.8 years.

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So just kill people for having had the good luck to buy a house when prices were reasonable?

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