323 school shootings at K-12 this year
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
I would be ok with this if the working class has a say in a daily wait music and elevator music for the corpo buildings.
Drowning Pool - Bodies
Memphis Cult x Groove Dealers- 9mm
do not resurrect - 2077
la coca nostra - bang bang
Jedi Mind Tricks - Design in malice or Serenity in Murder
Nancy Sinatra - bang bang
Blind guardian - curse my name
Okay. Can I get a hotline to call when a corporation fucks me over in some way?
Best we can do is send a cop to your house to shoot your dog.
How would that even work? Like who would qualify? Can’t I just open a small shop and be legally a CEO?
This smells like fake news
Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin - An Accounting of the Victims of Brian Robert Thompson
If you want to actually look at things quantitatively. I ran the numbers, and by my math, Brian Robert Thompson was responsible for the deaths of 40,000 innocent American souls.
Author is… Not great. Content is good but repeats themselves for paragraphs at a time, weird religious shift at the end, generally very high ratio of words to words that convey a new thought.
Repetition is often necessary in this kind of thing. You have to repeat yourself, lest you be accused of supporting vigilante murder. The intention was to thoroughly explain the methods and assumptions. As far as the religious bent, that’s deliberate. I’m agnostic myself, but I decided to take a very religious “fire and brimstone” framing to the piece. I’ve read so many pieces condemning Luigi as a monster and irredeemably evil. And maybe it’s just my own religious upbringing, but I know of no way to more thoroughly condemn someone than to state that they are literally burning in the fires of Hell itself. That’s not the kind of language one is to use lightly.
I think we could use more fire and brimstone rhetoric against the oligarchs. That’s always been one of the core traditions of Christianity. It’s the money changers in the Temple. The belief that even if the powerful escape accountability in this life, they are still to be shamed, as they will burn in the Pit forever. In today’s world, it’s primarily only the right that uses this language of Damnation, almost exclusively against LGBT people. But I think the left really needs to reclaim this rhetoric. It is a powerful thing to look an evil man in the eyes and to calmly say, “you are going to burn for what you have done in this world.”
Also, this issue is something that appeals to people on all sides of the aisle. I could have written the article from some sort of Marxist class analysis, but that really doesn’t seem appropriate for the moment. I mention a policy solution, Medicare for All, that is usually considered left wing. And I wanted to balance it out with some very traditional religious condemnation.
Fair, I suppose I’m just far more ok with supporting vigilante murder and don’t see the loss of every life as a real loss. But if that’s what you’re going for, fair.
Yeah I’m of two minds. Half the time I’m feeling what Tolkien taught - “many that live deserve death, and many that die deserve life. Will you give it to them?” As I cannot bring the dead back to life, I should not be so quick to endorse the taking of life.
The other half of the time I’m ready to start a crowd funding campaign to erect a giant bronze statue of Luigi.
The latter attitude I tend to reserve for flippant comments and posts. I’ve been on a kick lately about suggesting we chain CEOs to boulders and throw them into the Sea. But when I actually sit down and write something more long form, I tend to take the former approach. Also, I wanted to have something that people could reference as an actual calculation for the real magnitude of Thompson’s crimes. I felt not openly condoning murder was better for that purpose. But I still wanted to have a strong moral component, so I took the approach of “all y’all are goin’ to Hell for this.”
Even by a conservative estimate, he was responsible for more deaths than the 9/11 terrorist attacks. And this figure includes only deaths, not the injuries, pain, suffering, and bankruptcies that resulted from his actions. When these are included, his victims likely number over a million.
9/11 killed “only” 3000 people, didn’t it? These figures are orders or magnitude higher.
I was just quoting the article.
Really goes to show who exactly the police work for.
Deny Delay DEFUND.
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I am still pissed at Trevor Noah that he paraded the corrupt criminal reactionary ex-cop Eric Adams around as some sort of great achievement for black people, after Adams won the mayor election in NYC.
I couldn’t see how anyone paying attention during 2020 could bring themselves to elect a COP as Mayor of NYC at the next available opportunity. No idea whether to think this learning experience will do any good for next time around. I’m guessing not based on the state of the country overall right now.
This is like the Trauma Team in Cyberpunk. Rich people who can afford the highest tier get a private militarized swat team to go to them any time they’re in trouble.
Trauma team charges 100 Eddies per minute from when you call them until they deliver you to the hospital, plus spend ammunition and medical supplies. They waive the charge if they need 7 minutes or more to get to you, though. (Not relevant in gameplay, as their response time is 1d6 minutes). And they have heavy weapons to fight their way through to you. So, their services are sort of reasonably priced for what they offer. And even if you don’t earn the big bucks, if you live in a Arasaka living facility and eat kibble, you should have enough saved up to pay for their services if you end up needing them. (Of course, living in an Arasaka living facility may lead to you needing their services)
Point being, “Cyberpunk 2020”'s healthcare system is better than America’s.
Well you haven’t changed that much then. That killed me. British comedy really is better about social and government stuff.
America needs to play this on every channel at least once a week for the next four years. So we can reference it every time Trump brings up selling off the FBI to the Pinkertons.
A Bit of Fry and Laurie is criminally underrated in the US, but a lot of it is very topical to the UK.
They’re less like SWAT more like US Air Force PJs. Basically super heavily trained paramedics who are also special operations troops.
Except it’s not even private, it’s funded by public taxes, which is EVEN WORSE THAN CYBERPUNK
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Link for today’s lucky few who haven’t seen this yet:
The IT Crowd: New emergency number:
https://youtu.be/HWc3WY3fuZUMissing #**#8# at the end
I don’t think so?
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Trauma team from cyberpunk becomes more real every second of every day
Well, being a CEO should be considered suicidal ideation…
I’m confused. Was there another CEO killed or harmed? Or was it still just the one? I mean, if CEOs were falling like flies in NY state, then I guess it would make sense to have a special hotline for a task force or something.
But if it’s still a tiny number of CEOs, then something like this would be a giant waste of government resources.
The only other one I know of is Bob Lee, the Cash App one a year and a half ago. The circumstances were completely different however, as His brother-in-law stabbed him in a ‘scuffle’ after Bob supposedly became manic (from drugs and/or alcohol) and attacked the guy.
The case has been ongoing since, though the jury is supposed to read a verdict in a little under 7 hours (9:30am PST)
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/bob-lee-murder-nima-momeni-verdict/3716867/
Sometimes, wasting government resources is the point.
Then again, journalists are mostly fair game.
