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Aviation Pro

(13,570 posts)
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 07:12 PM Dec 5

Is this the tipping point that's been expected? (CEO gunned down)

Maybe, I think that boardrooms and a certain shithole, roach motel in Palm Beach are facing up to a brutal, new reality.

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Is this the tipping point that's been expected? (CEO gunned down) (Original Post) Aviation Pro Dec 5 OP
Might be nt XanaDUer2 Dec 5 #1
Do you support 2nd Amendment solutions like GOPers? Silent Type Dec 5 #2
Did I say that? Aviation Pro Dec 5 #3
Message auto-removed Name removed Dec 5 #6
Nonsense. yardwork Dec 5 #8
Message auto-removed Name removed Dec 5 #10
Sorry about your hide. I didn't see anything alertable.. yardwork Dec 5 #12
Message auto-removed Name removed Dec 5 #13
Don't feel bad. yardwork Dec 5 #16
lol! soandso Dec 5 #18
What might cause a tipping point ... usonian Dec 5 #4
maybe this is the new "Anonymous" movement FirstLight Dec 5 #5
I don't think so Meowmee Dec 5 #7
The costs will be passed on to us, no doubt. yardwork Dec 5 #9
This message was self-deleted by its author Skittles Dec 5 #11
I dunno... I'm sad that it's even come to this Blue_Tires Dec 5 #14
Oh, that would be a good reddit sub soandso Dec 5 #20
It's the natural outcome of leaving humans with nothing left to lose. Hugin Dec 5 #15
No. I think it will be when the first citizen is killed in the street the fascist military. nt Hotler Dec 5 #17
In other news, Blue Cross Blue Shield Walks Back Controversial Anesthesia Policy Decision... AntiFascist Dec 5 #19

Response to Aviation Pro (Reply #3)

yardwork

(64,765 posts)
8. Nonsense.
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 08:51 PM
Dec 5

Just because somebody speculates about the sociopolitical impact of an event doesn't mean they support the event.

You and some other DUers are putting words in posters' mouths that they haven't said. There's a lot of air between "wanting to gun down people" and "being devastated by this tragic loss." A lot of room for a wide range of nuanced opinions.

Response to yardwork (Reply #8)

yardwork

(64,765 posts)
12. Sorry about your hide. I didn't see anything alertable..
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 08:58 PM
Dec 5

I generally don't alert unless the poster is an obvious malicious troll. I prefer to argue.

Response to yardwork (Reply #12)

usonian

(14,630 posts)
4. What might cause a tipping point ...
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 08:13 PM
Dec 5

Not gun violence. Heck, that as common as dirt. But the brutal exposure of the "death for profit" medical insurance industry, PLUS the absolute emptying of the prisons for the criminally insane to be nominated for cabinet positions deserves (nonviolent) hell to be raised (you see it here) and rancor so loud that it can't be covered up by "whatabout?" garbage.

We're just short of some kind of yellow jacket movement. Let's say: driving with your lights on, now that all new cars do that, and Magats would have to disable theirs.

Just don't let down for a minute. They can't "normalize" after 4 years of leadership by Joe and Kamala.

FirstLight

(14,311 posts)
5. maybe this is the new "Anonymous" movement
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 08:30 PM
Dec 5

target the fuckin Oligarchs directly. Since it is the season of Scrooge, etc...maybe they ought to think twice and watch their backs..

just sayin'

Meowmee

(6,125 posts)
7. I don't think so
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 08:37 PM
Dec 5

Last edited Thu Dec 5, 2024, 10:11 PM - Edit history (1)

First of all, we don’t know the motive. Secondly, they’ve already taken steps to getting better security for themselves, probably that is the main thing that is going to happen.

Response to Aviation Pro (Original post)

Blue_Tires

(56,752 posts)
14. I dunno... I'm sad that it's even come to this
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 09:01 PM
Dec 5

I always believed working within the system and framework of law was the best way to change things, but maybe I've been the naive fool the whole time...

Hugin

(34,747 posts)
15. It's the natural outcome of leaving humans with nothing left to lose.
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 09:02 PM
Dec 5

Peak predatory capitalism.

Hotler

(12,388 posts)
17. No. I think it will be when the first citizen is killed in the street the fascist military. nt
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 10:19 PM
Dec 5
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