Gtfoh with your "normal people" ableist nonsense. Never mind that the guy was as average white American man as you can fucking get..
White supremacist christofascist patriarchal ableist capitalism did this, not mental illness. Privilege and entitlement, and the ability of those in power who manufactured them to use them to control and manipulate certain groups under threat of losing their superiority over others, did this.
I'm so sick and tired of this fucking "mental illness did it" obtuse bullshit.
I'll just leave this here, and I'm out I'm not "debating" this:
“Are you saying that murderers are right in the head??”
No there’s definitely something wrong with someone’s way of thinking if they can justify killing innocent people, but this doesn’t necessarily mean that they have a mental illness.
Extremist beliefs isn’t a mental illness.
Bigotry isn’t a mental illness.
Entitlement isn’t a mental illness.
Hate isn’t a mental illness.
Having a dysfunctional moral compass isn’t a mental illness.
We need to stop categorizing all these things as some undefinable “mental illness” and start looking at what we do as a society to develop and justify these things to a degree where people use them to justify killing.
Yes!
Dehumanization is something you Have to look for. If the murderer doesn’t see the person they killed as a person, then mental illness is probably not the main factor there.
Plenty of people murder women, poc, lgbt people, people of other religions etc. because they don’t see them as people.
Think about genocides - they aren’t perpetrated by big group of people/a government who all got mentally ill together the same way at the same time somehow, they just didn’t consider what they did murder because they didn’t see the victims as people.
I know that COVID isn’t regarded to be a serious disease
Generally by capitalists who want their workforce to keep making them money.
By the millions who actually get it and are left chronically ill (or who don't survive at all), many who aren't "reasonably healthy" yet don't deserve any less consideration - not so much.
One is based on modernization and societal progress while the other just points to any problem and suggests regression and suppression.
This is what they've indoctrinated you as a teenager to think, doesn't make it true though. The truth is both exist primarily, if not solely to maintain capitalism and the status quo.
It’s gotten to the point that our system is fully intertwined with illegal and corrupt lifestyles.
I'd say it was designed that way.
Capitalism is immoral. It encourages greed and corruption, and requires exploitation and oppression to survive, as do those who benefit from it most and make sure it is maintained, which is why it will alwaysdecay in to fascism, and all of the violence and manipulation that come with it, including what we're seeing unfold in front of our eyes..
My conspiracy is that this kid got groomed or extorted by stronger sovereign types to do this.
I've been having similar thoughts. It seems much more likely to me that a trump fanboy could be convinced to take part in a convoluted plan to stage an assassination to create the hero/survivor/martyr/victim narrative for not much at all (but including the false promise that he would make it out alive, and maybe a free shot in to the crowd, as a treat), and that the christofascist police would look the other way (or just be their usual incompetent selves), than that one would not only get disillusioned to the point of wanting to kill him, but also being able to pull off something like this unnoticed (and we already know he was noticed).
Though the truth is that whatever really happened, if we ever find out, one thing's for sure - being a trump supporter he definitely was, to one degree or another, groomed by stronger sovereign types, there's a whole pipeline dedicated to it..
Except he isn't, at this point all he's doing is claiming to want to give the poor some crumbs, so that those who haven't yet, don't turn on him.
A 5% increase limit is still an increase, he's not doing you any fucking favours by continuing to allow landlords to gouge you, only a little more conservatively.
Why the fuck would anyone other than the leeches that feed off of the rest of society by putting a human right behind a pay wall want that?
You need to free your mind of the worm that is capitalism, an entirely artificial construct designed to keep you down, you'd be able to see a significantly brighter future then..
I chose to believe he is being honest about why he cancelled the tour, and it wasn’t because “I agree with my buddy, and we’re going to stay out of the limelight for a short minute to stay safe”, but because “my buddy wants a fascist dead, and I can’t be seen to agree”.
I also find it fucking hilarious that people seriously think anyone is going to target this guy (or that he doesn't already have/ can't afford security), when there are significantly bigger targets out ther.
And some examples of domestic political violence off the top of my head:
And there are many, many more (the treatment of Indigenous people, for profit healthcare, school shootings, food deserts, "the war on drugs", the prison industrial complex...).
E: since I'm not sure if the image ID 's are visible, just a quick description of each photo, from the top:
A partial list of Black people murdered by police
Rise in maternal deaths in states where abortion has been banned
A memorial for trans people who were murdered
Photos of people who disappeared attempting to migrate to the US
Police throw a Black protestor out of their wheelchair
I can understand a minimum wage worker not risking their livelihood over expressing antifascist sentiment in the workplace, but that doesn't apply to a well known multi-millionaire with a large global platform.
He is saying loud and clear - his millions and his fame, only one of which he is at risk of losing over expressing his opinion (E: and even then, he'd get plenty of notoriety to replace it if he actually found some self respect), are more important to him than taking a stand against fascism.
Political violence has been continuously and systemically inflicted on the working class and otherwise marginalised people for profit for centuries, you considering it being aimed towards head fascist a problem, is telling on yourself, and on where your allegiances lie - firmly and actively on the side of fascism.
Just a tip, while we're at it - "siblings" is more inclusive, since not everyone fits in a binary! Same goes for using "folks" (or one of several other alternatives) instead of "ladies ad gentlemen".
Also, I've definitely seen that joke made before in that context, so you can feel relief that the idea is out there lol
That's irrelevant, I'm not the one who made the list.