The All Things Political Topic

[Gorth]

On 12/10/2024 at 2:53 PM, BruceVC said:

What has surprised me is how many people seem to be fine with this killing?

I can understand the frustration and anger towards the  medical aid industry but killing people in the streets is not going to change anything in the industry 

Why stop there, lets go around killing politicians and bank CEO?

 

 

….scribbling down notes on a napkin

[Malcador]

4 hours ago, Gorth said:

….scribbling down notes on a napkin

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/11/new-york-police-us-healthcare-hit-list

[Lexx]

"which has been celebrated in some quarters of social media." --- some?

[rjshae]

On 12/2/2024 at 10:45 AM, pmp10 said:

If Biden can pardon for everything and anything for a decade I wonder what Trump will do with the precedent.
6th January gang will likely be only the start. 

The DJT campaign has already pledged to pardon the J6 participants, so the precedent is pre-existing.

Trump reportedly promises January 6 pardons ‘in the first hour’ of his presidency or sooner – US politics live

The optics would be much better if Biden targets political people who DJT would intentionally go after, and if Biden does it in a bi-partisan fashion. For example, members of the January 6th committee; people who worked to prosecute DJT in any manner; selected leaders of Congress, the FBI, and DoJ; and key election workers in disputed states. It should probably be limited to the last decade, when DJT was politically active.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

I have to say that everything I've heard about United Healthcare since someone shot the CEO honestly made me curious why it took this long for someone to try to kill him. Sort of a weird curiosity in the US where the rampant violence doesn't trickle up to bizness guys, politicians, and other members of the ruling class. And while I would never condone murder.....I can say that it's not as gut wrenching to see a cartoonishly evil company man get shot than a bunch of school kids.

[uuuhhii]

32 minutes ago, PK htiw klaw eriF said:

I have to say that everything I've heard about United Healthcare since someone shot the CEO honestly made me curious why it took this long for someone to try to kill him. Sort of a weird curiosity in the US where the rampant violence doesn't trickle up to bizness guys, politicians, and other members of the ruling class. And while I would never condone murder.....I can say that it's not as gut wrenching to see a cartoonishly evil company man get shot than a bunch of school kids.

 

hopefully this will be a trend setter

[Hurlshort]

47 minutes ago, uuuhhii said:

 

hopefully this will be a trend setter

I guess we need to get "Shoot CEO's, not schools" trending.

[uuuhhii]

isn't it amazing usa are also trying to bring back polio amid this celebration

 

[Malcador]

Canadian finance minister resigned or pushed out, fun drama. Doesn't change anything as Trudeau is on borrowed time, though.

[Zoraptor]

Saw a thumbnail and thought it was our finance minister who had resigned. Would have been a lovely Christmas surprise.

(Too much to hope for I guess, we'll get two more years of brunette Liz Truss wondering why the reality of a country's economics doesn't match her excel spreadsheets. Yes really; she's easily our worst fm since Muldoon nearly 50 years ago and exactly what you'd expect some someone with a degree in english whose only work experience has been in PR and politics)

[uuuhhii]

usa are pushing gun control for 1 ceo but not thousand of student per year

impressively pathetic

[Lexx]

Not just any students. Little children. Nobody gave a crap about them getting killed. At this point it was clear that the US doesn't want it any other way, tbh.

Edited 9 hours ago by Lexx

[Malcador]

https://apnews.com/article/unitedhealthcare-ceo-killing-luigi-mangione-fccc9e875e976b9901a122bc15669425

Terrorism? I guess due to manifesto, but still bit much from him wasting some suit

Edited 9 hours ago by Malcador