• F/15/Cali@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
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    Love that the entire internet, left, right, authoritarian, liberal, and everyone in-between came out to say “lol, get rekt, oligarch.” Nothing I’ve ever seen has been as unifying as this. Running for office under the banner of beheading CEOs might sincerely get you elected.

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      I think the powers that be underestimate our thirst for justice. This is the closest thing to justice for the rich we’ve seen in - maybe our lives?

      I don’t want to live in a world of vigilante justice but this kind of thing is inevitable when the system fails us for as long as it has.

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          I hope we never find out who did it. The killer just becomes this DB Cooper-esque legend who came out of nowhere, kill a CEO, and disappear never to be seen again. And even better, proving the complete and utter incompence of the NYPD, when they can’t manage to catch someone who killed in broad daylight in a city of cameras.

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          Is it preferable to status quo? It may even be morally justifiable. But the world I’d want to live in is one where people like this face justice through the same system you and I would.

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            the system changes the laws to make this behaviour legal. therefore no crime. no trial. no retribution. lots of profit for investors.

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          Deny that you know or even saw them. Defend them if they do get caught, through protest, fundraising, bail, etc. Depose those who put them in jail if they are sentenced.

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        This is the closest thing to justice for the rich we’ve seen in - maybe our lives?

        That submarine popping.

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      He’s not even an oligarch. He’s the oligarchs’ toadie.

      If this reaches the real oligarchs, we might see some change—and backlash but backlash is inevitable if before real change.

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      “Running for office under the banner of beheading CEOs might sincerely get you elected.”

      Found my quote of the year.

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      I couldn’t agree more, every Trump supporter I’ve seen or talked to is just gleeful about this. Liberal, Conservative, Progressive, Oldschool, it doesn’t matter, everyone in the 99% loves this. The day Brian Thompson was shot put a smile on the face of America.

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      Everyone except the sh.itjust.works mods who keep tripping over themselves to blabber about how he was such a great man and should be respected for his hard work and stuff.

      Ninja edit: wrong instance

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      What? The politics of right / liberal free market capitalism creates those! Did anyone read Marx and Piketty?