Luigi Mangione = Hero

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  • DaveO-6

    Kinda gross that someone's dad got killed in the street and everyone is ignoring that because the shooter is cute and the victim worked for a bad company. I hate the US healthcare system as much as anyone else but the two kids who will grow up without a dad really don't deserve this.

    • https://giphy.com/gi…YakuZoku
    • Yes without their father they will live in absolute lavish life of privilege and luxury and their lives are ruined.monospaced
    • I've heard this argument used before but it's dumb. Would we say the same for Stalin or Ted Bundy or Bin Laden?_niko
    • What about the millions and milions of poor kids suffering after losing a loved one due to the health companies' shinanigans? kids who aren't set up for life_niko
    • ...with insane trust funds? Yeah sorry fuck his little kids, I hope they grow up to realize what a shitty human being their father was._niko
    • it would be funny if his life insurance claim was deniedYakuZoku
    • not only justify killing but releshing just like Mao during the Cultural Revolution or Castro did. look at how upset they were that Trump wasn't murdered..hotroddy
    • and they call me a fascist.hotroddy
    • you are a fascist, we're just absurdists. And see the inherent ridiculousness of life and the world..and the cunts running it._niko
    • Absurdists, no. Callous, hypocritical, virtue signalling and inhuman. Much like the dead man. I’d bet a shiny gold coin we’re all part of the 1%...Morning_star
    • ... you rail against so ineffectually.Morning_star
    • i think that's why there are always +50 upvotes on the money luck postshotroddy
    • You won’t catch me celebrating murdermonospaced
    • but murder is awesomeYakuZoku
    • The system is designed to let people die.PhanLo
    • A political system that can be bought is the real issue. A ‘democracy’ that is this ineffectual against commerce is the true horror.Morning_star
    • :D... MS yet to google 'what is Capitalism' after all these yearskingsteven
    • Enlighten me KS, please.Morning_star
    • +1 MSYakuZoku
    • MS just described Australia, on track next year for their own version of Backfat Mountain featuring Voldemort and Jabba the Rinehart.MrT
    • @ms in an attempt to avoid using (big c) 'Capitalism' you've used a broad definition of 'commerce' when the issue your refering to is one of Capitalism andkingsteven
    • not of commerce.kingsteven
    • @KS no, I meant ‘commerce’. The effective regulation of ‘commerce’ in BOTH the private and public sector is not happening. Education, military, etc is ...Morning_star
    • ...hamstrung by the private sector exploiting a system that allows the fucked up practices it employs.Morning_star
    • Commerce will regulate itself.palimpsest
    • naaaah yeaah naah it sucks for the guy's family, but he's wrought suffering on thousands of families. So naaaahProjectile
    • I said below that nobody deserved to die. The American medical system is fucked. It doesn't work for EVERYONE. Health inequality causes thisIanbolton
    • @MS it would seem you're just jumping through hoops not to admit that anti-capitalists have a pointkingsteven
    • Capitalism, like Communism is an inert system, neither are inherently bad or good. Anti-capitalists, like anti-police or anti-communism is a populist...Morning_star
    • ...catch-all description with little to no real meaning.Morning_star
    • its easy, commerce and trade exist across countless economic systems, capitalism commonly refers to the current economic system (as i said, 'google Capitalism')kingsteven
    • even by conservative definitions, the extraction of value to shareholders is a defining feature and anti-capitalist critique is logical: extraction of valuekingsteven
    • from the marketplace inhibits commerce + generally not to the benefit of society. you're so caught up in generalising a populist movement as idiotickingsteven
    • and "yet you participate" gambits you fail to admit commonality. CEO shot because Capitalism, done. No failure of democra... *summons zeitgeist* NEO-FEUDALISM!!kingsteven
    • Apart from your insistence that you know what I think, we are in agreement. Potato, potato. If you wish to analyse the event as ‘CEO shot...etc’ I think you’re....Morning_star
    • ...over simplifying. A strong regulatory system is vital in ensuring capitalism can work.Morning_star
    • So Adam Smith was wrong?palimpsest
    • yeah, i'm not in disagreement. i just thought it was funny that in that statement you used a broad definition of 'commerce' as not to appear anti-capitalist.kingsteven
    • when your shtick for years is not to falter from a narrow definition of capitalism. but in this case even that would be more correct than 'commerce'kingsteven
    • When we justify murder in the streets because it aligns with our causes, the world is very much, fuckedDaveO
    • but it already is, so might as wellYakuZoku
    • there is a direct correlation between a country's airports and their nation's health benefits. if you're mistreated by underpaid, uneducated TSA agents...hotroddy
    • your public healthcare experience will be on par, except for more bureaucracy, corruption, and inefficiency.hotroddy
    • A better analogy is public transportation. If it’s dirty, unsafe, and a poor experience, it’s hard to have much faith in the quality of public healthcarehotroddy

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