• Toneswirly@lemmy.world
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    Stop struggling and accept that lots of people are ok with advocating violence against evil people.

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    I’ve been pretty impressed that the shooter has so far evaded police. I can only imagine that there have been at least one or two incidents thus far where people, be it cops or witnesses, had a clear opportunity to take actions that would lead to his immediate capture, but decided not to.

    From what I know, cops often rely on the cooperation of the public to resolve crimes, but they may not be getting any on this one.

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    I couldn’t help but notice Blue Cross rescinded its very dangerous policy placing a time limit on anesthesia the day after the murder.

    I don’t want a reign of terror, but perhaps just a little bit of terror will have CEOs thinking they could be next when considering especially harmful policies.

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      In France, during the Nazi occupation in WW2, a few people turned to the Resistance movement which was also a terror operation: they would target military objectives but also conduct assassinations of nazi officials designed to inspire fear in the others and spark support in the population.

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        No, it’s terror. It’s just that that isn’t always the negative we’ve tended to think it is.

        Typically we’ve been citizens in a country on the “power” side of the dynamic, so using terror like that meant using it on us, and so we learned that it’s bad.

        This time we’re on the other side of the power dynamic, so it’s seemingly… Good.

        The bad thing being good creates cognitive dissonance.

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          This is a direct consequence of “the war on terror” attempting to redefine the military strategy of asymmetrical warfare as terrorism and inherently immoral.

          To sell the bullshit “war on terror” the easiest way to make the US seem righteous was to degrade the public’s sense of why people violently resist and reduce it to the act of violently resisting an organized traditional military is immoral unless the thing resisting is also a traditional organized military.

          I am glad that narrative is breaking down though as the distortion of how and why violent conflicts occur is dangerously blinding to a basic understanding of the world.

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            Killing people who were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time is always wrong.

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                I think you will find Palestinian citizens agree with you on that point.

                Yes. And the Israeli hostages.

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        Robespierre thought killing tens of thousands of people was defense. History has not been kind to that position.

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      Technically they didn’t fully rescind it. They rescinded it in some places but not others, and for some patients but not others. It’s just PR, they have no intention of actually changing things.

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    Man, this shit just keeps being funny. The longer it stays funny, the better it affects all involved.

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    Good, the spineless hand wringing bootlicking fucking scumbags are losing. Wonderful to see.

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    On the 4th of July, American’s don’t celebrate that British soldiers were killed, we celebrate the society we won in the process.

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    How fucked up is it that the day after the ceo of a major health insurance company was murdered in broad daylight,

    The next day another health insurance company said they would no longer limit anesthesia during surgeries.

    This makes me realize something, and it’s not what our sponsor or corporate donor wants me to believe.

    Edit: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vwSRqaZGsPw

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    I think this is as funny as the next person but realistically what will change?

    Won’t they just elect another scumbag and keep going?

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    Serious? People are reacting with laughing emojis? Really?

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