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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not really murdering for profit. More like stealing their money while leaving them for dead.

We really need to end health insurance all together.

And also probably pull out the guillotines and remind the aristocracy how many of us there are and how much they actually do depend on us.

I honestly believe a general strike across the country would very quickly put things back on a course for the better.

[–] LordWiggle 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

When people are healthy, they can work. This is profitable for companies. When someone is sick, they can't work. This is not profitable for companies. So it's better to kill the ill. Just like in Auschwitz. Right, insurance companies? Right, Musk? Right, Trump? Right, most Americans who voted in favor of this system and empowering mega corps at the cost of most people by voting for Trump?

[–] ZILtoid1991 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Issue is, most people's main issue is with the people in the system. They think, the right people will make the system work.

A lot of right-winger, who agrees with the CEO killer would say the CEO's main problem was going after good people, and not the "drug addicts", etc.

[–] LordWiggle 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ah, yeah, the drug addicts. Mostly created by the same system. Which created drug addicts from these "good people", as rich white people got loads of Oxycontin prescribed. I don't know what's in the food in the US, or what it's lacking, but making connections as simple as 1+1 is for most too difficult.

[–] Machinist 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When you have shitty insurance and you're working 60hrs a week to barely make ends meet. Then, you hurt your back or fuck up a joint.

You can't stop working because you can barely afford to live. Workman's comp is a joke and you'll get fired if you try and get your job to pay for your work related injury.

However, there for a while, they were handing out oxycontin like it was candy. You can kill the pain and keep working. Until they won't give you anymore pills. Then you buy pills from a buddy or a friend of a friend. They're fake, the fentanyl in them hits different. Pain is still mostly killed. You can still keep working, keep food on the table for your kids.

But yeah, it's a rich white people thing because of something in our food.

Unless you've been in it, you don't understand the suffering built into the system. Lots of people that are suffering don't have the time, energy, or resources to do anything but tread water to keep them or their family from drowning.

[–] LordWiggle 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yet the majority chose for Trump, who gives the biggest tax cuts to the rich and barily any to the poor. While Kamala would have given a much bigger tax cut for the poor and middle class, much less for the rich. Plus they want all the immigrants out, you know, the people who build houses and stuff. But who cares about a housing shortage, not like that's going to increase rent or anything right? Honestly, how long will it take until all the water in the US is replaced by Gatorade? It has electrolytes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

The real majority didn't vote.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

These people couldn't connect the dots to pass kindergarten.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is a reason why I don't think the shooter did anything outside of act in self-defense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

We have class-action lawsuits, and self-defense as a legal defense against murder charges. In this case, a think we should combine the two into a "class-defense" legal doctrine.

[–] AngryCommieKender 4 points 1 day ago

Or possibly community defense.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Should Photoshop that coffee cup to get rid of cuckface crowder with D.D.D.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

Every hear of suicide by cop? Now hear me out, what if it wasn't a cop who pulled the trigger but just a regular person? Hmm...

[–] givesomefucks 92 points 3 days ago (8 children)

I heard the other day if billionaires were shot at the same rate as schools kids, we'd run out of billionaires in 2 months.

But frankly, that's one of those things you'd have to see to believe.

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[–] FlyingSquid 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fuck Matt Walsh.

Ok, carry on.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Fuck 'em both but yeah this meme is Crowder.

[–] FlyingSquid 9 points 2 days ago

Whoops. Yes. I did mean to say fuck Crowder. But fuck Walsh too.

[–] DizzoMyNizzo 4 points 1 day ago
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