Donkter

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[–] Donkter 1 points 8 minutes ago

Unfortunately, the people doing it are the media It's a quintessential "man bites dog" story. Normally it's the insurance companies killing civilians. Everyone is going to cover it. The police had a manhunt because it would look ridiculous if they didn't solve such a high-profile case.

It's kind of a symbiotic relationship, the media covers it, the police react harshly, the media covers it more.

[–] Donkter 1 points 6 hours ago

You can't compare how anyone feels at all. Feelings are subjective, relative, and are only able to be compared by actions (including words). Even then they are famously difficult to communicate and compare. All I'm saying is that if you're going down that road you quickly hit the "technically we can't compare anything" wall.

So you're either stuck floating in apathy, being able to react to anything with "meh, we can't really know anything." Or you have to infer feelings based on actions and words.

Hell, I'm not even going to the mat for Luigi in particular, I just thought your response was silly. Actions alone can't compare how people feel, but unfortunately for us actions alone are all we have to compare.

[–] Donkter 3 points 2 days ago

As many people say, the horror of the Nazis wasn't just that they killed so many people, but that they industrialized it, turned it into an inhuman factory process like they were mass-producing shoes.

In a similar way we have modern corporations that have brought neo liberal styles to the idea of murder. Instead of the industrial style of the Nazis, this style serves to alienate the murder from the murderer, putting a price tag on deaths and profiting from the lives they're destroying all veiled by the size of these companies and the corporate double-speak that places all the lives they have control over into their sterile profit-centered game they play.

[–] Donkter 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh I hope so too. It's still early so there's a chance, but the way it's going it's sadly looking like an isolated incident.

[–] Donkter 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Meh, that makes your point even more invalid than mine. Anyone could do anything for any reason and there's no real way to know anything for sure. Might as well sit in my room watching paint dry.

[–] Donkter 1 points 3 days ago

I'm thinking about getting a tattoo of my cat outlined by my scratch scars when he passes.

[–] Donkter -5 points 4 days ago

I dream of a road paved with deer.

[–] Donkter 49 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Evidently you don't feel as strongly as he did to throw his privileged life away.

[–] Donkter 3 points 6 days ago

1891???? You're grasping at straws and ignoring my comments.

[–] Donkter 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

He acknowledges that work in the writing, saying that there are others that who had laid out the arguments about class conflict better than him. The "facing it with brutal honesty" he was referring to was shooting a CEO in the street. Not writing anarchist newspapers and starting leftist collectives. And again, his perspective is clearly from the last decade or two when this kind of action is happening even less in the U.S.

[–] Donkter 10 points 1 week ago (5 children)

1920? A horse drawn carriage bomb lol. Surely and clearly he was talking about modern day. Dudes 26, been remotely conscious for like 15 years maybe, people have grown complacent.

 

Do you just pronounce it like "Travises" like we do colloquially? Or is there some way to do it.

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