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It speaks to how powerless people feel here in America.

That’s what it says.

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And we’ve been conditioned to accept violence in our everyday lives. Instead of putting aside our differences and making the government work for us to keep capitalism in check. One is just much more exiting.

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making the government work for us to keep capitalism in check.

lol

All we elect are capitalists.

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We need more candidates like Vermin Supreme, who clearly have no capitalist agendas.

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If you don’t want most of the world to celebrate your death, try to be less of an asshole.

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Well, the bullets had the motive written on them in sharpie, so I don’t think there’s any chance this is a random murder, right?

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Hypothetical: he picked his target at random. Researched. Finds out he was an insurance CEO. Devises this plan to throw investigators off the scent.

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Then we’ve discovered the world’s most inefficient try-hard serial killer. If you have the slightest modicum of common sense then when you realize that the “random” target you’ve picked is a mega-rich CEO then you just pick a different random target.

And it has no significance whatsoever with regards to the general public’s reaction. At this point the true motives of the murderer are irrelevant, the general public has imagined him into a hero and that’s the important part.

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The ceo was an actual villain no matter the actual motive.

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nazi Germany didn’t lose because the world cared about the genocide, its because the world didn’t like their invasion of other countries. Nevertheless, I celebrate the downfall of nazi Germany and death of hitler.

Same thing can be applied here. Doesn’t matter if this mass murderer CEO fell down some stairs, choked on a burger, or get beaten to death over a personal dispute, death of a killer is a good thing.

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