Who do we charge with terrorism for people being forced to watch their loved ones die from preventable causes that were denied treatment and cures by insurance companies? Asking for some revolutionaries I might or might not know.
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Rumor has it, if you say, "deny, defend, depose" in your phone 3 times, you'll get charged with terrorism too. Hopefully you're an American citizen or else it's off to Guantanamo bay for you.
If you say "Gitmo Bay" three times in the mirror, a dark universe Obama appears and snatches you.
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The unconstitutional Patriot Act says they can do that to citizens too, as long as they're suspected of terrorism. That's why everything is "terrorism" these days, because under that accusation they'll strip you of your constitutional rights and do whatever the fuck they want. It's tyranny.
Still, as a person not interested (usually) in agreeing with my counterparts, notice how this is a "good guy with a gun" situation. So maybe militia movement has a point. They just don't know how to use their correctness outside of their one part of society's fabric, but that's up to those who know those other parts. Cooperation and collaboration, all that.
And almost any "good guy with a gun" can be called a terrorist formally. It's an arbitrary separation.
So maybe gun rights really are human rights.
You've probably noticed how in any group the best decisions are made when every opinion is respected, and if it's incomprehensible, made comprehensible with good and kind effort, and where aggression and expulsion are minimized.
It's the same in politics.
Lefty here, yes, that is what we, including George Orwell, have been saying for years.
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As a person who grew up in American schools post-Columbine, with kids in schools now, and none of us are CEOs, this is probably the take that saddens me most about this whole event. It’s our kids, and the argument used to be about freedom. Soon, we won’t even have that. What was the fucking point? (Rhetorical: profit)
I know we’re all alive at a special time in humanity. We think we’re so civilized. Then I look around, and it’s the same history playing on repeat. When do the monkeys figure out it’s one species? (Rhetorical again: 😬)
On the plus side, maybe this will actually result in some kind of reasonable gun legislation that will trickle down to a reduction of general gun violence. Maybe. Hopefully. Sometimes all it takes is showing the leopard party that their faces are also in danger.
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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.
You know what looks even more ridiculous? Only taking action on anything when the victims are wealthy. Go read about how ridiculously lax NYC laws against crime are. But some rich dude gets shot and all of the sudden the cops are Columbo, and the court prosecutors are Matlock (yes I'm aware how old those references make me seem).
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Because all the dainty little devils are terrified
This is because the Government with Republicans and Neo Liberals are about business interests over the American people. People need to just start sharing their denials from United healthcare every time they right a piece how Luigi is evil. So tired of this bullshit. And here is another thought pro lifers need to start protesting for universal healthcare to be consistent.
False! Corporations are people in the eyes of the law, and the only "people" who matter to the institutions.
They'll make it illegal to share "sensitive information" like healthcare insurance denials, and they'll punish you for releasing your own sensitive information.
And then they'll go after anyone reposting it for violating your rights, they'll charge them on your behalf regardless of whether you protest that you don't want to charge them.
They'll violate you in weird ways.
What a shocking surprise. Why stop there? Why not charge him with genocide? Bring him to The Hague and charge him with war crimes?
Billionaires are reading this post and thoughtfully taking notes.
Who exactly is terrified here?
Shareholders.
Translation: majority shareholders
Translation: the obscenely wealthy that run the country
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Keep highlighting the issue.
Wont be surprised if he ends up executed. Can only hope that people learn something from this
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