Cory Doctorow put it more eloquently in Pluralistic: Predicting the present:
And while Americans shoot people they’ve only just gotten angry at, they also sometimes plan shooting sprees and kill a bunch of people because they’re just generically angry. Being angry about the state of the world is a completely relatable emotion, of course, but the targets of these shootings are arbitrary. Sure sometimes these killings have clear, bigoted targets – mass shootings at Black supermarkets or mosques or synagogues or gay bars – more often the people who get sprayed with bullets (at country and western concerts or elementary schools or movie theaters) are almost certainly not the people the gunman (almost always a man) is angry at.
One day, as I was swimming in the community pool across the street – a critical part of my pain management strategy – I was struck with a thought: “Why don’t these people murder health insurance executives?” Not that I wanted them to. I don’t want anyone to kill anyone. But why do American men who murder their wives and the people who cut them off in traffic and random classrooms full of children leave the health insurance industry alone? This is an industry that is practically designed to fill the people who interact with it with uncontrollable rage. I mean, if you’re watching your wife or your kid die before your eyes because some millionaire CEO decided to aim for a $10 billion stock buyback this year instead of his customary $9 billion target, wouldn’t you feel that kind of murderous rage?
But the assassination of Brian Thompson is a wake-up call, a warning that if we don’t solve this problem politically, we may not have a choice about whether it’s solved with violence. As a character in “Radicalized” says, “They say violence never solves anything, but to quote The Onion: that’s only true so long as you ignore all of human history”.
I find it hilarious that Clinton got impeached in 1998 for getting a blowjob (and votes were 50/50!) when compared to this shit show and nobody has even thought of doing anything to stop it.
Clinton got impeached for perjury he committed when he was testifying before Congress as defendant in a sexual harassment inquiry. If we hadn’t let the DNC hand wave it away as “just a blowjob” back then maybe it would be easier to hold presidents accountable for breaking the law now.
If that’s what the history books will show, that USA crumbled because a horndog had her intern blow him, then I can’t wait to read it.
The gun people were always more scared of brown people than theywere in love with the Constitution. All anyone needs to do to violate the Constitution with impunity is go along with hating brown people and the simple little 2A people think they’re on the same team.
At least 2 of them attempted to stop Trump, but they sucked at it.
Because the gun nuts are on the “same side” as the fascists.
They’re just too stupid to understand that the fascists will come to take their guns eventually. They never want anyone to be able to challenge their power.
Wait 4chan is back up?
took them a bit, but its back yeah. i think they removed the board that the attack was executed threw though
wait, which attack was orchestrated on 4chan?
2 weeks ago a rival image board found an exploit in how one of the boards dealt with pdfs, and somehow used that to leak everything about the mods, the source code for 4chan, and because there were several other vulnerabilities in the code - which hasn’t been worked on in years - they couldn’t bring it back up because someone could just hack it again. somehow, dispite that its up and running again, no idea how
… /po/ is kill?
Apparently it’s on Lemmy now.
The leftists and liberals on 4chan are also on tons of other sites, you know.
I have firsthand experience with this, being that I too argue with conservanazis on 4chan and I also post here.
I got permed on r*ddit for suggesting using the 2nd ammendment for once lol
If the internet somehow went down completely… would people handpaint greentext on cave walls? Will we send paper airplane soyjaks from tribe to tribe? There’s something here about pattern matching, pavlovian conditioning, the structure of communication… for some reason I want to associate it with the “presentation” of a meal?
The way you know a plate of fine dining would be small and savory, consumed carefully and thoughtfully… but if you see a basket with big red and white checkered paper, you think it’s about to be a delicious heart attack that you know you’ll eat way too fast?
Anyway, thanks for coming to my pointless TED ramble
Me a Europoor master race :)
Looks like all that wealth you got in your tech elite is really going great isn’t it?
get your greentexts, hot and fresh :D
spills the beans on a hot mic
hadn’t heard that one
pretty sure Trump was against burning flags too, what’s the new lore there
The post is mixed up. I’m sure it’s referring to:
“THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT,” he wrote on his social media platform Truth Social at 9:37 a.m.
Less than four hours later, Trump announced a 90-day pause on nearly all his tariffs. Stocks soared on the news, closing up 9.5% by the end of trading.
Racism, homophobia, ableism… Yay 4chan on lemmy! \s
Who upvotes this trash? And then y’all wonder why we have fascism.
>Goes into community about 4Chan
>Gets upset
How could empire do this to me.
Inb4: iT Is nOt aLl Of Us
