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The real terrorists are the CEOs and the US government

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they also charged martin luther king jr, nelson mandela, and gandhi with terrorism too so he’s in good company.

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Technically, he is a terrorist, since he targeted a civilian for political or ideological reasons. Doesn’t change the fact that his victim was absolute scum.

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It amuses me that the media has no idea how to spin Luigi into the villain of this story.

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I don’t consider him a terrorist because I don’t consider what he did as a political action.

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I agree and also see lots of other acts that are political not get tagged as terrorism.

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How’s that? It seems very political to me

Unless we’re doing a “I didn’t see nothin” bit, that’s cool too

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Luigi didn’t make any political demands. He just said this CEO was a bad man and so he killed them.

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No specific demands, but this was absolutely not only about the man Brian Thompson, and very much about larger political and economic issues in the country.

…If the manifesto is to be believed, anyway. I understand not everyone trusts the veracity/provenance of it, and that’s a reasonable doubt to have.

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it’s not political because politics shouldn’t have anything to do with healthcare.

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You say “shouldn’t”, but until that’s true, it does

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kinda depends on your definition of politics

the one I heard that I think is the most useful is, On the broadest level, Politics is how societies decide how and where resources are distributed

by that definition, healthcare can only be a political question, cus no matter how you set it up, you’ve made a decision about how it’s staffed and funded, who it caters to and what its goals are

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