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HalfSalesman@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Sorry for the late response, I only have access to this account at work.

Closer to virtue, but more on the practical end that it’s not a sustainable model. If you recognize terrorism an an effective political tool, where does it end? That’s a rabbit hole that should not be explored IMO, and the only form we should get anywhere close to supporting is a popular revolution, which isn’t terrorism because it’s popular, and even so it should be used incredibly rarely.

Assassination could not also be popular? Given Luigi’s popularity I’d argue that we quite literally see that is the case.

A popular revolution would be far more bloody.

Execs that break the law should be jailed, not shot.

“Breaking the law” isn’t the issue. Its making decisions for the purposes of self gain that results in social deaths. Under-insured people dying to preventable disease en mass.

That said, sure, if we could jail them that would be preferable to killing them, but I don’t think what we do to the CEO is that important in comparison to the reason Brian Thompson was killed.

As in predestination? Or as in, we’re all automatons/there’s nothing “special” about humanity?

We are all biological machines operating in a physical reality. Our will is not free from anything, our will is dictated by that physical reality. Specialness and predestination are both red herrings.

Real change comes from getting the quiet majority on the same page and energized to do something about it. A lone gunman isn’t that.

Except that Brian Thompson’s assassination is literally inspiring a large group of people on the internet to gush and post about him and there are top down censorship activities to quell it. Maybe even inspiring enough to start a popular revolution.

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