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um sweetie he's a murderer and not a hero
Hasn't been judged so not a murderer.
Also the actions of whomever killed the CEO did strike enough fear in insurance companies at the time that there was an influx of claim approvals which led to people actually getting care they needed which is pretty fucking heroic.
Also the guy died committed grave institutional horrors and removing his option to do so was a good thing which we need more of.
I still think it wasn't actually him, but the guy who did it is both a murderer and a hero and more such murders would only be a good thing for the world.
Great comment and these points are all good things to keep in mind whenever someone tells you that "adventurism never does any good and never serves any purpose," or that it "can only make things worse." Would it be better if it happened as part of a vanguard party action? You bet. Is it still good it happened anyway? Also yes, definitely. Adventurism is going to happen, especially in a society so ill equipped with organization (by design of our enemies), there is going to be pushback and if there is no organization in place to direct it, it's going to happen as adventurism. Don't put it down, don't ridicule it, and don't incorrectly say it made no difference, especially when it's so apparent that it did make a difference, saying it didn't just undermines yourself. You can encourage people who have that fiery passion for justice to join orgs without disparaging others with that fiery passion for doing good things in the absence of any viable organization.
No. Idiot logic. Full stop.
He is someone who sacrificed his own freedom to administer justice to someone who is responsible for untold death and suffering that otherwise would never see justice and would continue to hurt people and be rewarded. These people are heroes in societies where injustices like this exist, and you’re doing a massive disservice to your fellow countrymen for perpetuating these injustices by condemning those who fight against them.
good enthusiasm, but the statement you're responding to was said in jest
SorosFootSoldier was doing what the cool kids call "a bit", imitating some spineless dipshit
Oh. I think I’ve spent too much time seeing libs on facebook say that exact thing not in jest. Its ruined me.
Yer can rest here, traveler
Or engage in struggle sessions with people who do can point countries in a map
My instance is also federated with .world so theres a lot of them there too.
Yeah I always thought it was so stupid. The hexbears people have been lovely as far as I’ve seen. But I’m a dirty ML commie.
But I regularly see people in .world talking shit about how rude people in hexbears and .ml are, while meanwhile being rude as fuck themselves. I swear some of those people are FBI with how many words they put into an instance that they’re defederated from’s mouth.
Almost always its someone who came here to argue. They think they're gonna get us with one of the many bullshit "Gotchas" before and then we will have no choice but to abandon communism. When this inevitably fails and is responded to with a combination of well thought out and sourced replies that they wont read and childish name calling, this is our two prongued method and always has been. They then get more and more angry as they repeat themselves and not bothering to do any reading and eventually say something racist if they don't give up to whine about us somewhere else
Or even spell brrshwá correctely
Soros is trolling, don't worry
he - Luigi Mangione - didn't do anything
allegedly