• @scarabic@lemmy.world
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      There are like 50 sentences of basic reality in there, but I suspect that a lot of the moderation challenge comes from one small phrase dropped into the middle: “it had to be done.”

      With the inclusion of that, the 50 sentences of reality are recast as not just true but a valid justification for murder, even an argument that it was a duty, and that’s the rub.

      • Ziglin (it/they)
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        25 months ago

        It certainly doesn’t state it explicitly. It just says that the killer was the “first to face it” that way that implies that there is a possibility for more but the way I understood it was that current measures being taken aren’t enough, that doesn’t mean that other people wanting to take action should do so violently.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      95 months ago

      So if its apparantly okay to use violence against alledged thieves (which is not okay btw, stealing should never equate a death sentence), then it must be okay to use violence against mass murderer CEOs.

      The reason violence against “looters” is permitted stems from their violation of the principles of the American caste system

      Contrary to popular belief, you are not allowed to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. You are only allowed to help yourself when you’ve received lending permission from a state recognized philanthropic sponsor. Otherwise, you are supposed to quietly drown in your own filth, where it isn’t inconvenient for anyone higher on the totem pole than you.

      The caste system is sacred. Brian Thompson earned his position. Luigi Mangione deserved his miserable fate.

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod
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    875 months ago

    If sharing Luigi’s manifesto is glorifying violence then so is sharing the Declaration of Independence.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      If only Thomas Jefferson had somehow managed to cap a member of English Royalty. Instead, then Jefferson crossed the pond to suck up to Louis XVI, shortly before the man went full Ropespierre’s Necktie.

    • But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and provide new guards for their future security.

  • @letsgo@lemm.ee
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    385 months ago

    Of course not, it’s just Spez sucking up to the billionaires in the hope that one of them will be dumb enough to toss him a few million for his shitpile.

  • pachrist
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    355 months ago

    No, it’s not.

    It’s an acknowledgement that there’s a massive problem.

    These companies are literally willing to bankrupt you to death. Their behavior is inexcusable. They profiteer off of human suffering.

    We live in a country founded by people who were unhappy with the status quo and were willing to pick up a gun to change things. We shouldn’t act surprised that it still happens. I don’t think we should celebrate it, because it’s sad that this is happening in the first place, that someone feels they need to do this. This problem is solvable, and it can be solved civilly, or it will be solved uncivilly.

    • @Delphia@lemmy.world
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      Thats exactly how I feel “Its sad that this is looking like the solution”

      Like, it had to come to this? You couldnt just set up your little racket and keep the golden goose fat and happy? Or atleast adequately provided for and left alone?

    • We’re are explicitly given the right to bear arms as a check to tyrannical governance.

      Our government outsourced their tyranny to corporations.

      Corporations should be well aware of strings being attached.

    • GVasco
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      Agreed! Sad that all the debt and death these companies allow is ignored in these discussions.

  • @TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee
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    See, then you are giving a murderer’s message publicity. As opposed to UnitedHealthcare, responsible for far more many deaths, having the ability to have as much publicity and as many lobbyists as they want.

  • @Gemini24601@lemmy.world
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    Anyone with half a brain can see that it isn’t “glorifying” violence, it’s merely giving an explanation of why Luigi did what he did. Glorification would play more into pathos, but the manifesto is mostly ethos

  • @Bronzebeard@lemm.ee
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    225 months ago

    Reddit also thinks appealing a ridiculous van is harassment, so not exactly the brightest bulbs over there.

      • @MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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        155 months ago

        I started to realize that the thing I liked about Reddit were the analytical and thoughtful people like me on the platform. When I came here, I found that many came over. When I visit Reddit, either because I’m nostalgic or because I have a specific need for something there, I’m finding more and more recent posts that are mostly filled with trash. Sure, some of the insightful, thoughtful and analytical people are still hanging around, but the vast majority has shifted away from that type of person. Reddit has also become so mainstream that is a stone’s throw away from xitter or Facebook in terms of quality. Everyone and their mother is starting a Reddit account.

        I miss when old.reddit.com was just reddit.com.

  • @selokichtli@lemmy.ml
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    I’ve always thought well educated people have a great potential to be dangerous and achieve transcendental goals if organized. A group of engineers, of chemists, physicists, biologists, computer scientists after specific goals may be formidable enemies if they wanted. The 0.001%, the dirty rich, should now be aware.

    • @trolololol@lemmy.world
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      I think I saw a report many years past that engineers make a bigger than expected proportion of radicalized people, in the context of middle east insurgencies.

      • @peoplebeproblems@midwest.social
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        15 months ago

        Engineers tend to be less accepting of the “debate and theory” part of science and more of the “analyze and act” part.

        As in, the debate is stupid, the theory is that the rich have fucked us all, now let’s see what we can do immediately to make it work.

  • Phoenixz
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    Reddit said so because it’s CEO is known to be a greedy bastard who threw everything and everyone Bunder the bus for money. Luigi would not approve