Some companies have already backed away from some of their more predatory stuff… so it did have an effect.

A real ‘I am Spartacus’ moment.

He could have replaced the recoil spring with a weaker one that doesn’t need as much force.

Or used a .45 ACP gun. Many .45 ACP rounds are subsonic by default.

I saw videos of being getting shot and stabbed and I felt a visceral reaction in my gut.

For this guy? Nothing. Not only that. I was like ‘come on! You didn’t test your gun beforehand? I rate this assassination 2 out of 5!’

His family will mourn him. His victims will not.

The free stuff they gave on occassion, yes. But you can still buy gold.

It’s unfortunate that in Canada they have a handgun freeze that means all current handgun owners in Canada cannot get new guns, and if you get a firearms permit, even a restricted one, you can no longer buy new handguns.

There are alternatives… but I am not talking.

That is reddit, and it’s only for billionaires and fascists. If you cheer at the murder of a leftist or anti-zionist reporter they might give you gold.

I didn’t even know who this guy was until a few hours ago, but holy shit I am glad he got what was coming to him, and I hope the shooter never gets caught and lives a long and prosperous (and most importantly, free) life.

For wealthy people who are deliberately and calculatedly doing their shit I guarantee you it will be.

Edit: the studies that you are referring to aren’t referring to that type of perp.

And there needs to be full immunity for whatever ‘Accessory’ crimes needed. For example. Imagine one such IDF war criminal is in Japan and you walk up to him with a homemade shotgun à la Shinzo-Abe and you blow him away. In Japan the simple act of firing a gun without permission is punishable by a minimum of 3 years with up to life in prison.

But in that case the most the cops can do is simply take the gun away (you don’t need it anymore… and can make another if you made one) as nabbing the fucker was a higher priority act.

I hate the shitbags that much.

There should be no safe haven for these criminal shitbags. A bounty needs to be placed on all of them. Dead or alive…

In all honesty, the enlightenment revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries needed to bring this change about. To hold the wealthy to much higher standards than the poor. If that did happen, we wouldn’t be living in the capitalist hellscape that is today.

To send a message that you do not fuck with millions of people.

The death penalty as deterence doesn’t work if your intended group are impoverished, desperate people, but I am confident that it will work if it is the super rich. Historically only the poor where executed for stealing stuff, the wealthy had safeguards for their modes of theft. This needs to be fully reversed.

Any fans of George Carlin here? Remember his bit about the death penalty saying that he would rather have it be done not to poor violent criminals like gangsters and common idiotic murderers, but would rather have it done to the people who really and truly fear death… like major league white collar criminals.

Gang members live violent lives and often don’t have optimistic views for the future, so they know that any day might be their last. A wealthy ass failson of super millionaires who prides himself on fucking over thousands of people every day and is almost pleased to see lawsuits coming in for stolen wages and sexual harassment, however, is confident that they will die free and wealthy and probably have some active organizations named after them.

So the death penalty for them, especially when are forced to spend their time awaiting it in some cold, damp and dirty cell with prison guards who were born in poverty and treat them no differently than some poor drug-addicted shoplifter, is a terrifying concept. Also what needs to happen is that ALL their assets are confiscated. I mean ALL of them. No loopholes for transferring that shit overseas or ‘technically it’s in my wife’s/Son’s name’ bullshit. They get nothing. Their family gets nothing and will be, at best, a middle class family with middle class prospects going forward (no more failsons from that lineage).

This would be the best punishment for any billionaire. They die, get buried in a potter’s field or prison graveyard like common thugs, and their legacies smashed.

The term privatization was, however, coined to describe what the Nazis were doing during the 1930s.

I am not sure, but I think Milton Friedman once revealed the depths of his ignorance about racial segregation in the US and that the claim that laws demanding all segregation be dismantled were a violation of the free market principle and that a true free market would dissolve segregation.

Chicago, as you mentioned, was used as an example to show just how dumb he was. Chicago had no official segregation policy. From a purely legal standpoint if an Irishman wanted to get an apartment in a black neighborhood and invite Italian friends over that would be a huge taboo and suffer reprecussions over it even if he wasn’t doing anything remotely illegal.

The only way it COULD have dismantled is to make law to strictly forbid that kind of discrimination on any grounds.

Some people still think billionaires are just like us. They aren’t. Their mentality is 100% different than the average person. Even basic things like their concept of money is extremely different and almost alien to ours. We think of money as the thing that we need to survive, the thing that keeps food on the table and a roof over our heads. Having a good deal of money for the average person is a source of comfort. It allows us to know we don’t have to go hungry and we can afford medical care when we are sick.

For billionaires money is an abstract concept. They operate on such massive sums every day that the idea that a few thousand dollars can make or break someone is inconceivable to them. When Elon Musk bought twitter he was originally kidding, but when the owners forced him to, raising the 44 billion dollars did nothing to harm him. In fact, his net worth increased greatly not too long after he shelled out amounts of money that would literally have ended world hunger several times over. Money is a source of leveraging power for them and they aren’t afraid to ‘lose’ a lot of it because they know they can get it all back with remarkable rapidity.

Borders also don’t exist to them. If Zuckerberg or Bezos wanted to go to India, or Zambia, or China, or Germany, or Finland, or the UAE, or wherever, they doesn’t have to concern themself with things like visas or residencies or whatever. They could go and set up shop wherever and not need to concern themselves with that.

They legit do think of themselves as being gods and are vastly superior to us. Their view of the poor being leeches on society while they are the providers when basically everything shows the opposite is not something they find contradictory. In their minds the population at large exists to serve them, not the other way around. This is why tech bro start ups that have created enclaves in some third world countries and they steal massive public resources for their projects all while imposing their own extra-legal or illegal restrictions on the poor is not seen as a problem because they really do view black and brown people as perpetual slaves that must be shown their place time and time again least they forget.

If you aren’t fighting conservatism you are actively destroying the planet.

A bomb on a military target is terrorism if it is an Arab or they are opposed to Israel in any way.

Meanwhile when Israel bombs UN medical workers helping civilians in a place where no combatants are, they are legitimate war targets and not even oopsie…