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Paranoid much?

They'll let it play out normally and the next interesting thing will distract the majority of Americans.

Oh it's almost January? Here comes Trump News every day

There's no need to indulge in conspiratorial thinking, here. Whatever you think of Mangione's motives, it seems overwhelmingly likely that he did it and, if so, he will almost certainly be in jail for the rest of his life. There's no need for them to do anything else to him. It seems as though he acted alone, so a broader anti-terrorist crackdown is possible but unlikely, and even less likely to be effective.

As for the CEOs, I imagine a lot more money is going to be spent on security and they'll probably demand the businesses they work for pay for that, which actually seems fair, as far as it goes.

While I don't have any sympathy for the Republicans, they didn't seem to even consider more gun control even after Trump was actually hit by a would-be assassin's bullet, so I doubt they will now. They might pass a law against 3D gun printing, but it's not even slightly enforceable; I believe owning such a weapon is already illegal but, as Mangione has demonstrated, there's not much to stop someone making or using one.

At this point I just let my imagination run wild and look for worst case scenarios, then trim off only the most outlandish.

The first step is going to be encouraging and enabling "VIP Protection." Restrictions on things like where you can carry a gun will be relaxed for people acting as security for "People at elevated risk," which will mean "The rich."

Next there will be new laws that increase the severity of punishments for actions against the rich. It'll be similar to hate crime rules, escalating the punishments beyond just what was done.

There may also be changes in "Self Defense" cases loosening the requirements to justify lethal force if the one defending themselves is "Economically Maligned," so basically if you're rich you can kill someone in self defense just because they looked at you while poor. VIP protection details will be legally permitted to subdue and detain anyone they suspect of "ill will toward" their wealthy client, including everyone poor in and around whatever location the VIP wants to visit.

Finally Republicans will finally "compromise" on gun control by allowing new fees and taxes that are solely intended to move guns out of reach of the poor.

It will all be in the name of "fighting class warfare" and "protecting job creators from the radical left."

They don't need to do anything.

No one is calling for a reform of private healthcare, they have lobbying capabilities that will make any legislation to curb them meaningless.

This is not an event that will spark much change if any change sadly.

I heard a coworker talk about how the CEO was going to testify against Nancy Peloci and they were old family friends or some convoluted story. So there's that one floating around.

Funny you should ask. Realistically though they will try every tactic available to them, from trying to shape public opinion, to lobbying Congress to pass a new law providing taxpayer funded security for private corporations, and drafting legislation placing themselves as a protected class of people, so that actions against them can be charged as hate crimes or terrorism. Probably the latter, since under the Patriot Act they can then hold people indefinitely without charge or trial, and torture them.

They will tell anyone left of center that he's a far-right nutjob, then simultaneously tell anyone right of center that he's a radical marxist trying to bring down America, then people will fight each other.

I mean, that's what I'd do if I was in charge of intelligence agencies.

Edit: As someone who leans left on the political spectrum, Idgaf even if he turned out to be right wing, the deed itself is good, and even if he was right wing, I still blame the media for those views that he has, he's probably still a good person at heart.

Spend more money on PR and security. Pass those costs on to customers.

One of the outcomes from Russia's war on Ukraine is the knowledge of how to build killer FPV drones.

The rest is covered in the short film "Slaughterbots".

No, I don't know how anyone will counter that future.

"Oh, there wasn't any political agenda we need to acknowledge. He only did it because he plays radical, violent video games like Among Us. I wouldn't be surprised if he committed suicide in prison after beating himself unconscious while all the cameras were unsuspiciously turned off."

If we're just pulling shit out of our ass, maybe this will encourage conspiracy nuts to actually learn about political organizing and the rich history of well-documented movements from the last 100+ yrs that have resulted in real change/benefits for the working class

Hell, maybe people will even start reading more! Like, stuff written by authors and shit. lol. Now, that'd be some crazy. lol. I wonder if Musk "and his friends" could ever pull that one off - getting Americans to read/learn - even with their infinite money hacks

Crazy stuff. Now, hurry up and pass that shit! You're hoggin it

I think the smart move, from Trump, would be to announce he supports public healthcare. That the American people have spoken and bla bla bla, he's the voice of the people. He would immediately jump 15 points in popularity.

of course a lot of people would lose money and there's an ingrained power structure that will fight that tooth and nail. but Trump has dismantled and taken over powerful existing power structures before (ie the GOP).

this would help him if he really does want to radically change the country into a psuedo-fascist oligarchy thing which seems to be Musk's and Thiel's goal

I can see a ban on silencers for sure. Probably a push for more surveillance and internet monitoring.

You literally made up fake situations in your head and got mad from it... They won't do anything, people have the memory of a goldfish. It will blow over in a few weeks.

Found “evidence” that Luigi is a pedophile?

Seems to be their M.O. After already putting him in life in prison, first, of course. The CSAM planting stuff is just to run his name through the mud and make sure no one ever speaks positively about him again

Board members will likely approve additional pay and security detail for CEOs given the new risk associated with the role.

The NSA will intercept all of our communications and the FBI will arrest anyone they're suspicious of

Why does everything have to be a conspiracy

Security obv