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    Celebrating the murder of Brian Thompson and especially advocating for more acts like it is abhorrent behaviour.

    No, it is not. The owning class must be pressured into respecting us more than profits. By any means necessary. The government and police will not stop mass social murder, so we must do what we can to save lives.

    The only reason to avoid advocating these acts is that this style of PotD-like adventurism generally isn’t a sustainable tactic, compared to the power of building a mass movement.

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      Be specific. Talk about Brian Thompson, not the nebulous “owning class”.

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        No. Brian Thompson is not special, they are just one of many, and that is the point. These are systematic problems, not an individual moral failing of one CEO or one corporation.

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            No, that’s why I talked about the owning class. Their socio-economic class has a different relationship to businesses than the worker class. Furthermore, the vast majority of the 440,000 employees are not in an executive role (and able to decide what work the corporation does) nor do most have the financial freedom to choose a more ethical job (there are only so many jobs available that pay enough to support a family, most of which are just in other for-profit companies beholden to the same rules of competition under capitalism).

            And, as I said before, I don’t advocate for assassination as a tactic, for strategic reasons:

            The only reason to avoid advocating these acts is that this style of PotD-like adventurism generally isn’t a sustainable tactic, compared to the power of building a mass movement.

            I do celebrate Thompson’s assassination, but I don’t advocate copycats.

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        He allowed an ai to refuse up to 95% of claims leading to likely thousands of deaths.

        So yeah. He should have died. As should others, for the same reason. Evil people don’t deserve to live. End of story.