I honestly don't know if Americans have what it takes to change the path we're headed down. I haven't really got much faith left in our society. We're pretty pathetic.
Hope I'm wrong.
this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2024
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With all the uneducated, divisive disinformation, and faith-based worldviews out there it's hard to even get people to agree that a problem exists, and therefore even harder to convince the electorate how to appropriately address it. Public medicine would fix this problem like it has in the rest of the world yet still many Americans believe it's Marxism for some stupid reason.
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Yeah there's 350 million of us but only one of these incidents in the decade+ since Occupy Wall Street?
We don't have the guts.
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All we can do it keep moving forward and try to take care of each other as we go.
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I've always said this but got chased out of the room (downvoted to hell), peaceful protest is a bunch of bullshit and won't do shit. It never will. It's always just ignored. Rioting and violence IS the only option when protesting peacefully is ignored. I mean look at the George Floyd protests and how they actually made change. Look at the French and their protests.....etc. Peaceful protesting is quite literally a bunch of people kidding themselves.
People love to use examples like MLK and Gandhi as the poster children for peaceful protest achieving results, and years ago I'd have naively agreed.
But the reality of it is that they could not have succeeded without the threat of violence from more militant alternatives, such as Malcolm X/The Black Panthers or the Ghadar revolutionaries/Babbar Akali Sikhs.
It's the carrot-and-stick metaphor. The powers that be will ignore any nonviolent attempts for reform until a violent movement makes the nonviolent alternative more appealing.
Capitalism has long asserted that there are checks in place to protect people. Consumer protection laws, industry regulations, collective bargaining, and voting with your wallet are some of the myths that capitalism says are supposed to stop bad businesses from hurting people. But when we see these systems failing en masse, and the powers that be refuse to do anything about it, what recourse is left?
Both are necessary. The first creates public support. The second "creates government support"
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The one time I resorted to violence, it 100% solved my problem. I slapped my bully in class so hard people's ears rang. We ended up becoming friends later on lol.
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That looks like something that could have been written on here or reddit a week ago and would have been met with at least modest approval in regards to the oligarchy.
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Oh good lord. He kept the gun and the fake ID?
I guess MS in Computer Science doesn't mean you're smart.
I spend my working life surrounded by PhDs, have done so for ~28 years now, and let me assure you: education and intelligence are orthogonal.
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I'm guessing he kept it all intentionally. He had the manifesto on him, probably expecting "accidental" suicide by cop in hopes that his message would continue and not be painted over by the media. Yeah, he could have ditched the gun, but again, perhaps he didn't want there to be any shadow of a doubt that he is guilty. This was an intentional sacrifice in hopes of making a change.
Yeah, I realized about 30 seconds after I wrote that... "he wanted to keep the gun and the ID as proof that he was the guy".
He escaped clean, and then let himself get caught so he could make his case in court.
Let's see if he plays the next hand: plead 'not guilty', refuse all plea agreements, and demand a jury trial.
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This guy gets a free pass on wierd beliefs to me. Sucks that the first ceo assasin was caught though. He really showed how possible it could have been to get away with it though.
Part of him probably wanted to got caught. The guy showed an extreme respect for justice, more than the current US legal system, and he knew what he had done.
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So if you read into Kaczynski a bit, in a way he's kinda history's first incel too. He went off into the woods because he was upset about getting rejected by a girl and went super nice guy™ on not just her but life too. He blamed technology on his inability to read into a woman and he was too insecure to learn from it.
This guy is doing something else, he attacked the elite not because of technology and their relationship but because of their wealth and direct actions.
history’s first incel
What definition of incel are you using that eliminates the rest of history?
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I’ve scouered his Goodreads, Instagram, Twitter accounts.
He looks like he’s a tech bro who went to University of Pennsylvania. He had some cool somewhat anti-capitalistic takes, and criticised Elon Musk. But was also following and reposting a couple alt-right accounts like RFK Jr and Joe Rogan. He seems to have been a big consumer of the capitalistic self-improvement type industry.
Here’s his github picture and account
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While I am too old to advocate for violence, this line hit me pretty hard:
"Violence never solved anything" is a statement uttered by cowards and predators."
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I don't know if I've ever resonated with something so much in my life.
If you've never read Ted K, I recommend it. It's not an easy read, but he wasn't wrong.
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The online fundraiser for him has already raised about 19K. Seems to have just started today.
Remember when in the french revolution everyone just asked the nobles pretty please?
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