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    12 days ago

    You do something like that today they’ll try to put you away for 30 years on terrorism charges.

    • Honestly it’s only bad once the shock were off and you don’t have more pain meds because insurance denied you getting more. Being stabbed is worse, unless it hits something major enough to cause shock in the first place. Then insurance will only approve mild localized anesthesia to fix it and ibuprofen but as long as you don’t have to move, breath, or otherwise exist as a person, you’re good!

      Guess which country I’m from…

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    Funny story, here in Sweden, our speaker of the parliament was visiting a school to speak. Someone threw a “banana or part of a banana”. Bodyguards “aprehended” the boy until police arrived and the boy was interrogated at the police station.

    The speaker then started a criminal suit against the boy (who was 16) with the charge of disorderly conduct. The damage was noted as, “a stained shirt”.

    According to the speaker, incidents like this could cause politicians to not want to speak at schools (oh no… how will the children cope?)

    Anyway, people are calling him out as the clown he is. And i’d be very surprised if he gets to keep his post after our election (regardless of who wins)

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    Cops will execute you for throwing pies at the wealthy elites these days, may as well skip straight to throwing Lucy Parsons special pie.

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    Remember when we used to hang or behead powerful people we didn’t like? Yeah, that wasn’t just one time in France either.

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    We’d probably have a better chance of getting away with it in groups of 1,000+ gathered around/transporting guillotines.
    What? I’m just tossing out hypothetical ideas here. *wink

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    11 days ago

    Remind me please, the cake at Bill’s face, did it change anything? How about “the cake” from Luigi Mangione, did this one change anything?

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      Talk to a doctor or nurse - the ease with which insurance requests went through for at least a month afterward was comical.

      I’m not sure about how things are now though, maybe more pie is needed

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      Despite it mostly functioning as a self serving tax write off, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation did some good stuff before the pie to the face wore off. I’m sure that’s Some with an asterisk. It felt like they threw money at everything for a couple years in the 90s.

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      It started conversations, but then they all stopped when arrests were made. Now if more people threw pies all the time, and did so anonymously, and at more targets, we might have a chance to change things. We can’t just let one person take a stand and then take the fall while asking if it meant anything. It means something when the example is followed.