I would just like to say that trophy hunting the aristocracy is disgraceful: the motto is Eat the Rich! Don’t just ride away on your bike, start a fire and everyone grab a kebab.
He hadn't lived with his wife and children for years, they had separate houses.
That fact doesn't negate the pain his family would be experiencing, just that the 'family guy' image projected by legacy media is as cracked as anyone else who has failed relationships behind them.
I definitely feel for his wife and his kids. It's just clear that corporate media is ideologically blinkered and can only empathize with people in a certain socio-economic strata. Also, health insurance companies and Big Pharma are some of their biggest advertisers, so it doesn't take a conspiracy theorist to see why they're not going after the healthcare system. Instead of asking the question of why Americans seem unified in responding this way to the murder of a CEO and what pathologies this reflects in society, we just get another sterile debate about what are the correct manners to respond to a news story.
"we just get another sterile debate about what are the correct manners to respond to a news story"
Ouch. Stinging and accurate.
Even from all the way down under, I can feel that the rage is real. The murder of a single man blew off the safety valve. The overlords are flailing with confusion. Did they really not understand what was bubbling barely under the surface?
I understand the anger, but we have ALL lost our way if we applaud the death of any human being. Yes, for the moment, 'we' who have been wronged feel a sense of being recognized and a strange justice but violence is never the answer. Give me one example where killing someone has made the world a better place? Until business models seriously put humanity over profits, our nation and the people in it are for sale. The rich and powerful are so detached from working people because they live under different rules and in large part 'we' are responsible in that we elevate them to a higher status because we worship people who have money, fame, and celebrity. Let's kill that culture, that privilege, the rules that grant them privilege (like pardons btw), not the people.
None of this is indicative of a society that's doing well. The social contract is broken and the rich have gotten away with looting the country because they own the government. It would be better for people like Brian Thompson to be held accountable through taxes and regulation, but since our government has been crippled by regulatory capture, it just makes violence more likely. This was the case in the Gilded Age. The internet is the internet and it incentivizes cruelty, but unfortunately, this speaks to much bigger issues of cultural decline.
I would just like to say that trophy hunting the aristocracy is disgraceful: the motto is Eat the Rich! Don’t just ride away on your bike, start a fire and everyone grab a kebab.
Gotta put some fresh meat on the Traeger!
He hadn't lived with his wife and children for years, they had separate houses.
That fact doesn't negate the pain his family would be experiencing, just that the 'family guy' image projected by legacy media is as cracked as anyone else who has failed relationships behind them.
I definitely feel for his wife and his kids. It's just clear that corporate media is ideologically blinkered and can only empathize with people in a certain socio-economic strata. Also, health insurance companies and Big Pharma are some of their biggest advertisers, so it doesn't take a conspiracy theorist to see why they're not going after the healthcare system. Instead of asking the question of why Americans seem unified in responding this way to the murder of a CEO and what pathologies this reflects in society, we just get another sterile debate about what are the correct manners to respond to a news story.
"we just get another sterile debate about what are the correct manners to respond to a news story"
Ouch. Stinging and accurate.
Even from all the way down under, I can feel that the rage is real. The murder of a single man blew off the safety valve. The overlords are flailing with confusion. Did they really not understand what was bubbling barely under the surface?
I understand the anger, but we have ALL lost our way if we applaud the death of any human being. Yes, for the moment, 'we' who have been wronged feel a sense of being recognized and a strange justice but violence is never the answer. Give me one example where killing someone has made the world a better place? Until business models seriously put humanity over profits, our nation and the people in it are for sale. The rich and powerful are so detached from working people because they live under different rules and in large part 'we' are responsible in that we elevate them to a higher status because we worship people who have money, fame, and celebrity. Let's kill that culture, that privilege, the rules that grant them privilege (like pardons btw), not the people.
None of this is indicative of a society that's doing well. The social contract is broken and the rich have gotten away with looting the country because they own the government. It would be better for people like Brian Thompson to be held accountable through taxes and regulation, but since our government has been crippled by regulatory capture, it just makes violence more likely. This was the case in the Gilded Age. The internet is the internet and it incentivizes cruelty, but unfortunately, this speaks to much bigger issues of cultural decline.
1. I don’t know what eternity looks like, but I hope Thompson’s is a just a nonstop roll call of people whose lives he had a hand in ruining.
2 Rupar can fuck all the way off.
Hell yes to both.
And what exactly do you mean, Sam Colt? Or is this a level of cleverness way above my paygrade?
What do I mean about what?