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Self Esteem

(1,751 posts)
Mon Dec 9, 2024, 06:00 PM Dec 9

I'm sure another white, 20-something male will assassinate someone for a reason important to them...

I guess we just hope the next time, it's a person we don't like either and not someone we're sympathetic to.

After all, look at how crazy popular this dude is now!

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newdeal2

(1,108 posts)
1. Anyone who works in the service industry
Mon Dec 9, 2024, 06:02 PM
Dec 9

Or deals directly with customers should not be cheering this event. Karens with guns is not far away.

Self Esteem

(1,751 posts)
2. It's easy to cheer when you feel aligned with the sentiment.
Mon Dec 9, 2024, 06:06 PM
Dec 9

But wait until some 20-something white male guns down a doctor for providing trans care or something.

This is the problem with treating this dude like a hero: it's encouraging others - and not everyone who's encouraged to do something like this is going to be people who maybe have the same sympathies as you.

ck4829

(36,101 posts)
3. On this very site, I see "There's nothing we can do" or "We just have to accept the system we have"
Mon Dec 9, 2024, 06:08 PM
Dec 9

in regards to healthcare.

He might have heard that too.

How do you tell someone to just be OK with injustice and corruption?

How do you expect them to believe it?

You're a white, 20-something male... would you rather grow up, get married, have kids, and grow old in a world where you're just supposed to accept injustice and corruption or do something about it?

Self Esteem

(1,751 posts)
5. Let's just hope the next person who does this kills the right person.
Mon Dec 9, 2024, 06:10 PM
Dec 9

...and not, say, a doctor providing trans care because they've been told how big of an injustice it is to society that trans kids exist and want to use specific bathrooms.

Silent Type

(7,280 posts)
11. Blame Congress, they've had 60 years to do something and have failed. I'm primarying any rep who is not
Tue Dec 10, 2024, 11:15 AM
Dec 10

vocally pushing for universal healthcare leading up to primaries.

Bettie

(17,346 posts)
13. That's almost all of them
Tue Dec 10, 2024, 11:19 AM
Dec 10

from both sides. Most don't seem to want anything but the system we have.

Then again, the health care industry really likes to give money to congresscritters.

Silent Type

(7,280 posts)
14. Next time I write a check I'm predicating it on actually doing something to reform the system. Not that my $25 is
Tue Dec 10, 2024, 11:23 AM
Dec 10

going to get noticed.

dweller

(25,175 posts)
7. Don't dismiss the older folks
Mon Dec 9, 2024, 06:10 PM
Dec 9

If doge goes through with socsec , medicare and Medicaid cuts …

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harumph

(2,379 posts)
10. anyone given the right circumstances is capable of murder.
Mon Dec 9, 2024, 09:15 PM
Dec 9

unless we are psychopaths we draw lines in the sand to proscribe our behavior. but that is all the line is - drawn in sand.
for people we typically call very 'good' or very 'ethical' maybe the lines are deeper, better demarcated. with humans, fundamentally there is a thin veneer of compliance over a dangerous animal.

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