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What we know about CEO shooting suspect

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ks2048 wrote: post #187
imglorp wrote: post #75

His Goodreads comment on Ted Kacyzinski's book (better known for other work). https://i.redd.it/j9n3oplojv5e1.jpeg

Final sentence is telling (among others): "Violence never solved anything" is a statement uttered by cowards and predators. Although I'm not sure what "predators" means here. Don't predators use violence?

He's basically correct though. This statement has also sat terribly with me. Especially given how much we glorify documents like the constitution or declaration of independence.

Like many absolute statements, this claim is just plain wrong. America (and many other countries) were started by revolutions. The revolutionaries had guns.

Countries like India are unique for gaining freedom without violence.

I mean just look at Syria. I don't have any feelings good or bad towards the rebels. But people have been trying to get rid of Assad for ages and it just took the right people with guns.

One man's violence is another's righteous revolution. All political power is at the end of the barrel of a gun.

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matrix87 wrote: post #368

I don't know if this has been posted already, but here is his manifesto https://archive.is/2024.12.09-230659/https://breloomlegacy.s... Sounds like both he and his mother were suffering from chronic pain and UHC dicked them around and refused to act in good faith

Some say it’s fake, some say it’s real. I think it’s very well written and raw and therefore if it is fake, it’s very convincing.

He could have help on the outside to post things also.

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iambateman wrote: post #382

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> And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast--man's laws, not God's--and if you cut them down...d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.

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Post by numbsafari »

bushbaba wrote: post #376
matrix87 wrote: post #368

I don't know if this has been posted already, but here is his manifesto https://archive.is/2024.12.09-230659/https://breloomlegacy.s... Sounds like both he and his mother were suffering from chronic pain and UHC dicked them around and refused to act in good faith

Hopefully this is the catalyst to major reform. Insurance companies have a deal with us, yet constantly find ways to deny claims. Even pregnancy I had a claim denied, from a procedure the INSURANCE demanded I get.

Expect no changes.

He’s been caught, Atlas shrugs.

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carlosjobim wrote: post #388
iambateman wrote: post #382

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"Society" also sends millions of innocent young men to the trenches to brutally murder and be brutally murdered by other innocent young men. With shells, machine guns, flame throwers, land mines, bayonets, drones, nerve gas, sniper rifles, and even nuclear bombs. Not that I find him a sympathetic character. But the concept of "society" is one of the most evil demons to have ever spawned.

> But the concept of "society" is one of the most evil demons to have ever spawned.

Completely agree. If we just lived in little old villages without the support systems for advanced technological systems, people like his mother would have just shrieked in pain while we sprinkled her with various herbs, and he wouldn't even have any idea of shooting someone for the unfairness, because we'd just accept our fates with aplomb.

(/s if not obvious)

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relaxing wrote: post #197
ks2048 wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Final sentence is telling (among others): "Violence never solved anything" is a statement uttered by cowards and predators. Although I'm not sure what "predators" means here. Don't predators use violence?

Yes. They say it because they want to be the sole wielders of violence.

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Post by nixosbestos »

byteknight wrote: post #31
BryantD wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eric Adams doesn't have a strong reality filter, and it's usually good to cross-check things he says, especially if he's the only person saying them. I don't think he consciously makes things up, he just tends to gravitate towards saying things that sound good in the moment. Or, if we're being really charitable, they were chasing the wrong guy.

All you did was make the phrase "makes things up" more palatable. It still means the same thing. He lies.

Jesus Christ thank you. I understand the political climate means the word "lie" is somehow a bad word but thank you for saying it. It's still a fucking lie. It might even be worse, because the bullshitters like that are often so oblivious that it makes it harder to tell they're lying. And yet, it has the same damn effects in every measurable way.

It's a lie. Call it a non malicious lie, sure, whatever. But it's still a lie. I swear. The bar is buried under the fucking ground. In the US, anyway.

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