• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    The headline doesn’t lie, but importantly:

    48% said they view the killing as totally or somewhat justified.

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      7 hours ago

      You know, this is the part that really drives me nuts about this whole thing. A murderer murdered a murderer.

      Murderer A, he’s taken care of. The judicial system will put him in front of a jury, he will be tried. He will be found innocent or guilty. The system handles murderer A.

      Murderer B on the other hand, just screw the laws of humans for a moment, the laws of physics say that he shouldn’t be murdering any more after death, but nope. People are still dying. You would think this is where the system would kick in and start putting a stop to it but nope, corporation is still killing. Hell the meeting murderer B was headed to didn’t even get delayed.

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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        1 hour ago

        There’s no law of physics that says people will stop dying just because the person who caused them to die was killed. Thomas Midgely Jr. died in 1944, he’s still killing people. The wheels he put in motion still haven’t come to a stop.

        (he invented Tetra-ethyl lead and CFCs, he’s at least slightly damaged every living thing on the planet for a century)

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    12 hours ago

    Us middle aged fucks do too.

    And so do some of the older fucks. Even my dad, a literal boomer, said that it wasn’t like he killed someone useful.

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      9 hours ago

      Boomer dad sold health insurance in the 90s, made some bank, almost every customer was a referral from another. Think on that.

      I can hear him from the afterlife, “FUCK that low life! I’d shoot him AGAIN!”

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        8 hours ago

        Word. If someone is giving word of mouth to an insurance agent, they’re doing the job the right way. Gotta love people like that :)

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          7 hours ago

          My old man sold a policy to an old woman.

          “When will I be covered?”

          “You already are, the second you signed, like I said.”

          She slipped and broke her back in the bath, minutes after dad left. Covered. Done. Word spread like wildfire.

          Dad didn’t sell for one company, he sold for 20. He could tailor the contract to one’s situation, wasn’t beholden to one company’s product. He sold what was right for a given person.

          He later made bank from those same elderly people, converting their sorry CDs into annuities. Saved them loads of money, and made them more.

          Dad wasn’t always the most moral man, but goddamn he tried later in life. Still proud of his drunk ass.

          Sucks that such a position exists, but he did his best. (This was in the 90s.)

          EDIT: I should note, dad wouldn’t have shot the CEO. He hated guns. He would have beat him to death, mano a mano. He practiced karate for 30-years, and was a bouncer for much of that time. Because he liked to fight. Complicated man, complicated life.

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            7 hours ago

            I think I would have loved a chance to meet the guy. I’m an ex bouncer, martial artist too. And, like him, I enjoyed a good, fair fight, but didn’t mind the chance to cut loose when it came.

            We all have flaws for sure. Gods know I do lol. But your dad managed to help people and be someone his kid could love and admire. That right there is as good as it gets.

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      8 hours ago

      What do you mean? Luigi is victim of capitalism here.

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    12 hours ago

    Most of the population doesnt relate to some 1% fuck committing mass social murder? Strange, we’ll have to work overtime to uncover why this is.