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That's because Brian Thompson was functionally a serial killer.
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And if the tradeoff was grandma's health for child's health, people would be sympathetic to what you are saying. But the tradeoff was your health for his profit.
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Certainly not. Nepal's Gen Z literally overthrew their government due to inequality and corruption. https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2025/09/nepal-gen-z-t...
They were "helped"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_in_the_American_Revolut...
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People are apathetic at this point. When a large amount of americans can barely afford to live while threatened with replacement while the economy booms on the backs of their claimed obsolescence, they don't care that a billionaire could've gotten hurt, especially when that billionaire is working against their interests.
I mean, it's also scary because I don't think it works. People should demand a new deal and lobby for that. Throwing molotovs doesn't help with that.
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These are message boards. The obvious sentiment, that firebombing attacks are awful (perhaps cut a little bit with "the perpetrator appears to be someone deeply in need of help) is boring. This is an availability bias issue: the only sentiments that actually spool out into threads are edgy. Once you learn to spot these effects, message boards make a lot more sense and are less jarring.
Another good thread to follow is the murdering of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42317604 It's an interesting exercise to compare these threads. My own position on the matter is the not an edgy one: political violence of any kind, is never justified, but it does signal that something deep in society requires a change.
I'm genuinely curious about how you reconcile this with the world around you.
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The top comment there mentions the French Revolution. You think people will put up with wildly accelerating inequality forever? It’s going to explode, the only question is when.
> You think people will put up with wildly accelerating inequality forever? No. Nor do I think they should. But UBI, higher income tax at the top and a wealth tax for the ultra rich sound like a much better plan to me than to blow a bunch of things up.
Putting millions of people out of work comes with consequences. We are going to see more and more of this.
Which jobs? Most of that is still AI hype.
Whether "the jobs" have been lost or not is irrelevant. There's something to be said of the leadership here raising a trillion dollars to do that very thing.
It's not hard to imagine an outsider taking him at face value.
If this guy says publicly, "I'm building a robot that is going to fundamentally change the economy by making most knowledge based jobs obsolete." Then proceeds to play a major role in propping up the economy on this idea.
At some point, people are going to get concerned.
I don't think most people in tech are quite aware of the level of visceral AI hatred amongst non-techies. I've personally witnessed the worst Thanksgiving dinnertable fight I've ever seen (after someone revealed that their recipe was AI-generated, a couple people literally spat out the food they were enjoying and threw their plates in the trash), and a divorce (a very solid marriage between two people who were once b…
Politics really is a substitute for religion in America
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What I think is different today is -- regardless of how many people organically think this way -- social media is normalizing the idea. We're all being exposed to it. It's only a minority of people who are radicalized, but it's a growing minority. Radical ideas are more accessible than ever for people to latch on to. Radical views on violence, social relations, science, politics, distrust of institutions, etc are all…
> but it's a growing minority I’d want to see this interrogated with rigor. The alternate hypothesis, and my null, is a relatively fixed fraction of folks is more connected and visible today than before.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/01/nx-s1-5558304/poll-political-...
> Respondents were asked if they agree with the statement, “Americans may have to resort to violence in order to get the country back on track?”
Agree:
- March 2024: 20%
- September 2025: 30%
- March 2024: 79%
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“ever”? So we’re not limited to reality or likely scenarios? Just anything I make up as if I was writing a creative fiction novel? I’m not sure how much this question actually measures propensity towards violence, than it does creativity and imagination.
Yes political violence is NEVER justifiable. That is the one and only correct answer if you wish to live in a modern society. And believe me, you do not want to live in the other kind
Political violence is a daily occurrence in modern society. You find it acceptable because it is sanctioned.