• 2Password2Remember [he/him]
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    11012 days ago

    i have been saying for literally YEARS that if bin laden had flown the planes into the headquarters of a health insurance company he’d be the most popular man in america. ive never felt more vindicated in my life

    the corpse of brian thompson is the gift that keeps on giving

    Death to America

    • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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      I mean… they basically did. Empire Blue Cross, Blue Shield, Morgan Stanley, Lehmann Bros, New York Stock Exchange, a shit load of insurance and investment firms / hedge funds that weren’t particularly well known then but sure as shit were after 2008. In a way it would be kind of interesting to see what the reaction would have been if 9/11 had been in 2009 for example.

      (Assuming relatively close timelines, that you actually believe the official narrative etc)

      • 小莱卡
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        911 days ago

        Yea lol they couldn’t have picked up a better target honestly

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      6012 days ago

      Without fail people with reddit usernames like “pleasant_excitement40506987” have dogshit opinions to people with usernames like “sack_slapper69” who’re always right.

          • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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            2012 days ago

            holy shit has that sub degraded over the past year or so, I was there today and there was a thread talking about how Russian Imperialism is just as bad as American Imperialism, and that the only “good guys” in Syria are the SDF/YPG.

            They’ve actually devolved into 2016 liberals

      • AmericaDelendaEst [comrade/them]
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        3212 days ago

        90% of them are literally just bots, most actual people will think up some kind of fucking username for themselves and not just let it auto generate

        • FreakingSpy [he/him]
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          12 days ago

          If you create your account through the website instead of the app, it automatically generates an username and doesn’t let you change it for some reason.

            • @redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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              311 days ago

              Adding ‘Reddit’ to a search query is about the only remaining way to find useful information on the general internet but it only works if you view the old site. Reddit will break itself and the internet when it disables the old version. It will happen because they’ve slowly been killing the old version but hopefully they’ll be satisfied if enough normies use the new version. Absolute dogshit website other than that, though; those who regularly use the new site deserve it’s hostility.

          • QuietCupcake [any, they/them]
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            812 days ago

            Unless they changed it really recently, that’s just not true. Like AmericaDelendaEst, I only use old.reddit (and i only use reddit if I absolutely have to or if I’m in the mood to troll/spread leftist agitprop and subsequently get banned) but I’ve tried account creation on regular web reddit and old.reddit and in both cases it let’s you choose your own username. It always automatically suggests a pre-made autogenerated username but you don’t have to choose it.

            For anyone who wants to agitate on reddit and also stay truly anonymous, here is an excellent guide to doing so from @marcie@lemmy.ml

            https://hexbear.net/post/3789920

      • egg1918 [she/her]
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        1112 days ago

        I’m pretty sure those are usernames that reddit suggests before you pick your own, so a lot of bots have that name pattern

  • @goferking0
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    9412 days ago

    To the numerous people reporting this post - this doesn’t violate any rules. It’s not threatening violence, it’s not a “witch hunt”, it’s not spam. OP is simply pointing out how society is reacting to someone’s death in comparison to another. Just a friendly reminder that knowingly making bad reports is also a violation of Reddit ToS.

    Good mods

      • godlessworm [comrade/them]
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        4512 days ago

        one reddit mod who was at the scene of the shooting was questioned by police, even he refused to give up the shooter. “the brim of my fedora was in my eyes, i couldn’t see anything. i was jacking off to loli, i didn’t see anyone get shot”

  • AmericaDelendaEst [comrade/them]
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    6712 days ago

    I ffucking told y’all yesterday that Reddit was going nuts over this shit. I just saw a long comment chain in fucking /r/technology out for CEO blood

    It’s really like the astroturfers have been turned off. They don’t know what message to push, or they just can’t drown out the real people this time, it’s wild and glorious

    • godlessworm [comrade/them]
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      3412 days ago

      gamers are about to start rising up. todd howard is next on the chopping block. he’s gonna get what he deserves for lying to us for a decade about starfield and then releasing some bullshit.

        • godlessworm [comrade/them]
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          611 days ago

          i think bethesda just put the game out, not worked on it. i’m waiting for a couple patches and then i’m gonna pirate it lol

            • godlessworm [comrade/them]
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              411 days ago

              shit maybe i’ll go ahead and check it out then

              the least buggy game I’ve played in a long time

              that’s how you know bethesda didn’t actually work on it lmaooo

              • marx_mentat [he/him, comrade/them]
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                These are my impressions after about 5 hours with it, but I don’t anticipate the quality taking a dive. I’m definitely looking forward to playing more tonight, solving archeological puzzles and spamming the classic Indy punch sound fx in every minor or major fight
                nazi-punching (insert gunshot noise)

        • peeonyou [he/him]
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          512 days ago

          oh thanks for reminding me about that… i heard it looked like it might be a winner… 112 gb tho… damn

          • marx_mentat [he/him, comrade/them]
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            I’m really enjoying it a lot. I heard rumblings that it was good from trusted sources and wanted to support machine games, so I prepurchased the story dlc for the early access. Fascist Puncher 2k25

    • DocCrankenstein [none/use name]
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      2812 days ago

      They are coming out now with the ToS Hammer threatening to close subs that don’t reign in the “glorification of violence”.

      Mods have been making posts about cracking down on the language being used, basically saying “sanitize y’all’s post or else Big Brother is gonna get mad”

      People need to keep up the conversation. This is the time when ideas begin to take root.

    • peeonyou [he/him]
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      912 days ago

      there are no real people on reddit… and at the end of the day its still a libshithole

  • macabrett[they/them]
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    6212 days ago

    Imagine if this event is what radicalizes America (it won’t be)

    its been a fun week, I don’t want this week to end

    • Des [she/her, they/them]
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      3012 days ago

      i feel like we are in uncharted territory here. with the way media works today a single propeganda of the deed style action might actually create some real lasting class consiousness.

      or at least provide an actual basis for solidarity that can be called upon again if a mass movement ever gets off the ground.

    • DocCrankenstein [none/use name]
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      This is the time to start talking to people. This moment is a great segue to talking about the root of people’s frustrations and why seeing this CEO eat lead made them feel better.

      The moment only radicalizes people when people start talking about it.

      Reddit and other Social Media are gonna crack down hard on the language being used, and that’s what kills radicalization efforts.

  • stigsbandit34z [they/them]
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    You’re going to have a hard time convincing people that deaths caused with excel are comparable to ones caused by a plane

    This is actually extremely interesting from a sociological POV and while I can’t prove it, I’ve had this conversation before and somehow it’s always (conveniently) “different”

    • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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      5612 days ago

      There’s a quote from the Vietnam war (I wanna say Phil Caputo?) about morality being a measure of distance and technology. If you kill people up close with a bayonet, it’s horrible. If you kill people from afar by ordering an airstrike (or denying people insurance coverage they need), it’s more acceptable.

      It’s a vision of morality where we judge actions by how icky they would make the perpetrator feel by doing them, rather than the harm the actions cause to the victims. The Master’s morality, I suppose?

        • AmericaDelendaEst [comrade/them]
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          3412 days ago

          You put enough steps between things and all of a sudden people have to use their brains to see it all working together. Americans aren’t really taught to use their brains

        • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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          3012 days ago

          I think some of it is framed as “well the insurance company doesn’t have to give you anything, so it’s not murder to deny coverage when they don’t really owe you anything anyway.”

          But that just indicates the person saying it doesn’t understand that our healthcare system is so fucked up because of the insurance industry. The price, the administrative bloat, the declining quality, all in some way directly traceable back to these piece-of-shit insurance companies and their fucking lobbyists.

        • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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          712 days ago

          because if we take the conclusion they are equally evil to its logical conclusion, it leads to some very uncomfortable truths - including the absolute barbarity of the status quo. Most people feel uncomfortable as they follow that line of thought, so terminate it early and obfuscate it

      • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1512 days ago

        Except instead of killing one stranger to save five you are killing one person to earn $10 and saving no one and then repeating the process, letting you kill more people to earn more money. Still apparently a moral mystery to some people, but I think framing it around an operator of public transport starts to fall apart.

          • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
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            1212 days ago

            Trolleys are wonderful and I use them in my daily life to get around. I don’t want to be late because they’re cleaning the Thompson cartiledge out of the tracks just because you can’t frame your moral problems around high intensity lasers or something else that doesn’t affect my commute.

    • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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      the entire liberal world order is premised on the idea that social murder is “different” than normal murder

      the central axiom is that letting someone starve or freeze to death outside has no perpetrator, nobody to blame, it’s just a bad thing that happens naturally.

      If there’s a large socialist state attempting to cover everyone’s needs and if they miss 1 person, THAT is murder according to Liberals. But in a capitalist society where nobody is attempting to cover everyone’s needs the deaths of thousands are just natural. Thus, to a Liberal, the morally correct thing to do is not even attempt to try and just let thousands die. Touching the trolley lever makes you guilty, so it’s best to never try to improve anything.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2912 days ago

    This is allowed but I got permabanned for posting

    Not that it’ll stop me, but god damn.