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    It’s shocking in the sense young people are the ones least effected by our shit Healthcare system since they tend to be the most healthy, and have less interaction with it.

    You’d expect the middle aged and older with chronic illnesses would be the most supportive of Luigi, but they have Stockholm syndrome from living under this shitty system their whole life. This is also reinforced by the cable news they watch telling them how tragic it was that a man with a wife and kids was murdered.

    Meanwhile, young people are just laughing at memes and tiktoks of how hot and based he is.

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      I think if my mother’s heart condition gets worse and she needs some kind of treatment that gets denied by insurance and thus she decides not to go through with it and dies because of it that you could consider that me having interaction with the system.

      A lot of times for younger people, it isn’t direct personal experience that radicalizes us, but the effect a system has on people we care about.

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        The article didn’t specifically show other age groups but it did give the overall number which shows more disapproval, implying that older age groups found it less acceptable. It also links to the survey that shows the different ages’ break down:

        The survey from Emerson College Polling found 68 percent of all respondents found the actions of the person who shot and killed Thompson unacceptable.

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      You better believe they skewed this poll to get the result they wanted

      I’m willing to bet that most people are indifferent, end of the remainder the vast majority are in support of the killing

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    It’s a wake up call, but it’s not really going to change anything. You want universal healthcare? We need a general strike. Shut everything down for a month and demand it.

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      Rather then a general strike the perfect time to get it would have been voting for it in November. Even if everything shut down tomorrow, cities and towns burned, and people starved for months the GOP would spit on you.

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        If voting actually worked it would be illegal. It’s meaningless as long as the DNC Services Corp controls the controlled opposition party.

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          lmao why would they even play pretend? We’ve seen other places in the world like China and Russia don’t face any consequences for being opaquely authoritarian and single party.

          You’re basically saying that US Democracy is fake and that swapping policy stances every 4 to 8 years is a big act? Whats the payoff?

          I think we can vote to get all of the things we care about but people are too stupid and easily mislead to try it.

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          If the DNC had a supermajority you can bet your ass we’d have single payer. We almost had it in 2010 but came up 1 vote short when an independent voted no alongside every single Republican.

          Republicans are so anti-public-healthcare that many of them want to gut medicaid, medicare, and often say things like supporting “Pure Privatization” and “get the government out of healthcare”.

          This is a clear partisan issue: DNC want it and GOP don’t want it.

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                They won’t try lol. The Harris campaign made it quite clear that it wasn’t part of their platform. The Clinton campaign argued against it. The Biden campaign said something about a public option that wasn’t mentioned again after the election. The Dems did their best to stop any momentum Sanders had when he campaigned on single-payer.

                They don’t want to do it.

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                  Vote Dem or the people directly opposed to the thing you pretend to support win. Very easy choice. You should be supporting and promoting the Dems.

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      I imagine it’s from people who just don’t watch the news. They don’t know how evil that CEO was, so they blindly apply common sense.

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        That was my gut reaction right after it happened, since UHC is my insurance company. But I’m just disappointed people are either lack curiosity, lack empathy, or actively support the true evil here.

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          If 19% don’t care, then it is acceptable to them.

          They are not upset it happened, they accept it. They do not explicitly support it tho.

          Add the 19% to 41% and get 60% do not have a problem with a broad daylight execution of a healthcare CEO.

          So if you want to be pedantic, email the person (or ai) that generated the headline.

          But 60% didn’t have a problem with it.

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      When I was young, I wouldn’t have found it acceptable. It doesn’t matter how badly you’re treated, you need to find a peaceful way to resist. It’s something drilled into my and my peers’ skulls since I can remember.

      After seeing little progress (but mostly worsening) with polite requests and peaceful protests, I really can’t figure out how it can be unacceptable.

      A lot of those kids probably just haven’t gained that wisdom yet.

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        There’s a middle ground between no violence and shooting someone. I’d find it acceptable if we’d all get some pitchforks and whips and send them into the diaspora. Some light lashing, some expropriations, that I could really enjoy.

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            That’s used as a joke but it wasn’t really all fun and games. The hot tar could and did kill or disfigure people.

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              I am permanently disfigured due to their negligence. One of my best friends was killed by their greed.

              Publically disfiguring/killing a few CEOs would be awesome. Not only would it save lives, but also it would be hella fun.

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                  No, the point was not to shoot them.

                  A few CEOs dying from tarring and feathering would just be a happy little accident.

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          The problem is “we”. It is by design that the people are kept from organizing. Demonizing of unions, immigrants, the poor, people of different faith, and people with different political views all pit us against each other.

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            Even peaceful protest is now largely impossible. Cops subject peaceful protesters to kettling, mass arrests, etc. They spy on protesters with electronic tracking, use agent provocateurs to provide excuses to disrupt non-conservative protests, and work overtime to infiltrate and disrupt peaceful protest movements. Hell, Occupy Wall Street was subject to a mass FBI-coordinated national crackdown. They don’t even let us peacefully demonstrate anymore without putting our lives and freedom at risk. They casually assault peaceful protesters with chemical weapons.

            In the US, peaceful protesters have to hide their faces like the protesters in Hong Kong against the CCP.

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              There is also something to be said about how we’ve failed to unite as a people. There is no solidarity between people of different classes. The more we push for unity the more we find out how much subjugation is acceptable to the average person.

              I know the problem is lots of different things but at the end of the day the biggest thing, to me, is we don’t feel the consequences. Not yet, not enough. Unfortunately, with climate change, if you feel the consequences it’s probably too late. Here’s to hoping something else breaks before the planet does.

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    I doubt I’m “young” but I find it acceptable. I’m only shocked it doesn’t happen more. These people making insane amounts of money off the suffering of the working class have been getting away with too much for too long.

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      They make money by murdering people. Someone has to hold them to account since our justice system, which is bought and paid for by these same scumbags, surely won’t.

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    I find it understandable. it isn’t something I would do but I can not find it in my heart to condemn the deletion of a bad human. The scumbags like him are a bunch of whiny little weaklings.

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      A lot of people have a belief that murder is bad and that if you want change you have to vote for it.

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        This isn’t a great poll. It’s 41% think it’s acceptable, 40% unacceptable, and 19% don’t care. In this context, I’d argue that not caring and accepting mean basically the same thing.

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    This old voter finds it acceptable. Not a problem. It’s a good start.

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    That sounds extremely low. What young voters are they polling? The Amish?

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      They’re sharing such a low number to make people think it’s not supported by the vast majority

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    The survey from Emerson College Polling found 68 percent of all respondents found the actions of the person who shot and killed Thompson unacceptable.

    For those on here who think there’s a secret silent majority who are just waiting to emulate him, y’all need to read this part.

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      That question is flawed. You can believe the CEO objectively deserved to die without thinking murder on the street is acceptable. In an ideal world, Thompson would have been charged in a court of law, convicted, and hanged for his crimes.

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        Maybe, maybe not. 68 is pretty high even if you can argue for shaving off a few points though. If another poll that gets to that more directly comes out I’ll be curious to see it.