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[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago

That take is rank fucking idiocy

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This meme is astroturf propaganda to try to discourage the working class. There are plenty of stories of insurance companies reversing their decisions and approving procedures that they had denied the day before, or not going through with plans to reduce coverage.

That is what happens when the 1% are reminded that they are outnumbered 99 times, and that those with nothing to lose have nothing to fear.

[–] surph_ninja 12 points 1 day ago

Yep. This never depended one the efforts of one person. It’s going to take all of us working together, and filling in where we’re needed to do our part.

[–] pjwestin 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You really think this is over? Columbine was a shocking, once in a lifetime event when I was in middle school. By the time I was in college, school shootings were a fact of life. The only difference is that people weren't rooting for school shooters. They may have caught this guy, but a new era of gun violence is just getting started.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Let's watch how hard gun control gets pushed when the barrels are aimed at the puppet masters.

Fellow lefties: If it's safe for you to do so, acquire, train, and responsibly store. That is all.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Let's watch just how nice conservatives are to their reps when someone puts gun control on them.

I've kinda always wanted to see it.

[–] pjwestin 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, someone literally drove up to one of their softball games and tried to kill them all, and they still didn't support gun control. It won't be until the majority of their billionaire oligarchics tell them it's OK that they'll start supporting it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

That guy failed. It makes a big difference when they actually get killed.

[–] pjwestin 4 points 1 day ago

Sure, Congress will act, but the Supreme Court has spent the last 15 years making sure that even the most moderate, milquetoast gun reforms get struck down. I know the current Justices are hypocrites that make a mockery of precedent, but considering they're the ones that created the precedent (particularly Alito, Roberts, and Thomas), it's going to be hard for Congress to write a gun control law that doesn't force several Justices to either strike it down or invalidated their own opinions.

A constitutional amendment isn't impossible, but I think the NRA would still have enough juice to prevent Congress from reaching a two-thirds consensus, and definitely enough to stop three-quarters of states from ratifying it. The billionaire class has spent a lot of money making gun control extremely difficult, and I think that's about to bite them in the ass.

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[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe 42 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Nonsense.

It was a wake up call for execs to quit their bullshit. It was a wake up call for the working class to band together.

And there is still a very slim chance he gets acquitted/a not guilty verdict.

The conditions that caused this event haven't gone away. And all of the school shooter types have just been taught that you will be widely regarded as a folk hero for shooting an exec, so they may opt to change their targets for the better. We will probably see more exec shooters.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Less dead children, more dead asshole? Might even reduce therapy cost for parent.

Win win win

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe 1 points 20 hours ago

One can hope

[–] Lennny 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

And a dead CEO. Take your wins where you can, it's almost fascist season.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's gonna be a hot fucking summer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Hottest on record, I hear!

[–] Soup 188 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That douche bag CEO isn’t gunna get his life back and so on top of the reviews we got:

  • One dead asshole, hell yea.
  • That one company rolling back their decision to charge even more for anesthesia.
  • A whole lot of people learning even more about how fucked up healthcare really is.
  • A bit of an uptick in class solidarity
  • One step in the right direction.

Shut the hell up, is what I’m trying to say.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

It gave us a tiny fleeting look into a world where a united working class has power and outnumbers the ruling class.

[–] theunknownmuncher 56 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

FYI they only rolled back that change in one single state. The change will still happen in other states.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like we need 49 more adjustments.

[–] pigup 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But that requires more Luigis

[–] Mango 8 points 1 day ago

Well I have some kinky shit I wanna get into before I go to prison.

[–] [email protected] 99 points 2 days ago (11 children)

....and a cold dead CEO responsible for stealing our money and leaving us to die. You left that part out.

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[–] Sanctus 117 points 2 days ago (5 children)

What kinda fuckass McDonald's worker calls the cops on a folk hero? This is why we will continue to be curb stomped by the boot.

[–] themeatbridge 111 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Somebody who needed $60k for medical expenses.

[–] Sanctus 74 points 2 days ago
[–] Allonzee 43 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

A well trained, well beaten dog.

An economic Uncle Ruckus. They train us from birth to see shame in not being wealthy, it sadly works. Some of our economy's victims internalize their own dehumanization and see it as the natural order to report on their fellow inferiors to their betters.

The same people mourning BriBris loss by hilariously trying to shame everyone for not condemning his murder while conveniently ignoring all the people he murdered through policy, and whose policies murdered people yesterday, and will today, tomorrow...

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago

economic Uncle Ruckus

The rich man provides us with meaningful work and purpose and we throw it back in his face by unionizing and wanting to take more of his money! We nasty poors must follow the rich man's example and one day we may be as cultured and decent as he is.

Praise the rich man and his benevolent ways!

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[–] MooseTheDog 9 points 1 day ago

Certified Fed Post

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Someone mentioned how the first time there was a school shooter, everyone took note. And now we have school shooters. It'd be interesting if this became a thing.

[–] JusticeForPorygon 122 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

Jesus christ that's...amazing.

[–] ieatpwns 10 points 1 day ago

It hasn’t even been 24 hours yet

[–] Voyajer 44 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Pennsylvania disappoints again

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago (12 children)

Did you expect some kind of mass uprising to happen the very next day? A hundred million people out in the streets, all armed to the teeth, hunting CEOs for sport?

In this cartoon fantasy world of yours, what does "something coming from this" look like? Was his next stop going to be the White House where he would hold Biden at gunpoint until M4A is implemented?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Honestly my only hope is.. that the lone gunman suicidal "I want to go down in a way to be remembered" kinds of shooters. Learn from this, and consider shooting a wealthy CEO instead of a school or movie theatre etc...

I in no way want more violence... but I believe it would be nice if the "we can't do anything about" violence, were more top of the power chain instead of bottom.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Realistically, if all the school shooters start going after CEOs instead (I certainly wouldn't complain if they did) you'd very quickly see gun violence go from "unsolvable" to "very solvable".

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