if bin laden had flown the planes into the headquarters of a health insurance company

could you imagine

I mean... they basically did. Empire Blue Cross, Blue Shield, Morgan Stanley, Lehmann Bros, New York Stock Exchange, a shit load of insurance and investment firms / hedge funds that weren't particularly well known then but sure as shit were after 2008. In a way it would be kind of interesting to see what the reaction would have been if 9/11 had been in 2009 for example.

(Assuming relatively close timelines, that you actually believe the official narrative etc)

Without fail people with reddit usernames like "pleasant_excitement40506987" have dogshit opinions to people with usernames like "sack_slapper69" who're always right.

You know you were a trash human when even reddit mods allow people to deride you posthumously lmao

gamers are about to start rising up. todd howard is next on the chopping block. he's gonna get what he deserves for lying to us for a decade about starfield and then releasing some bullshit.

They are coming out now with the ToS Hammer threatening to close subs that don't reign in the "glorification of violence".

Mods have been making posts about cracking down on the language being used, basically saying "sanitize y'all's post or else Big Brother is gonna get mad"

People need to keep up the conversation. This is the time when ideas begin to take root.

Morpheus voice: They're beginning to believe

there are no real people on reddit.. and at the end of the day its still a libshithole

i feel like we are in uncharted territory here. with the way media works today a single propeganda of the deed style action might actually create some real lasting class consiousness.

or at least provide an actual basis for solidarity that can be called upon again if a mass movement ever gets off the ground.

Be the change you want to see (in Minecraft)

This is the time to start talking to people. This moment is a great segue to talking about the root of people's frustrations and why seeing this CEO eat lead made them feel better.

The moment only radicalizes people when people start talking about it.

Reddit and other Social Media are gonna crack down hard on the language being used, and that's what kills radicalization efforts.

There's a quote from the Vietnam war (I wanna say Phil Caputo?) about morality being a measure of distance and technology. If you kill people up close with a bayonet, it's horrible. If you kill people from afar by ordering an airstrike (or denying people insurance coverage they need), it's more acceptable.

It's a vision of morality where we judge actions by how icky they would make the perpetrator feel by doing them, rather than the harm the actions cause to the victims. The Master's morality, I suppose?

It's different enough that we have a word for it: social murder

But it's still murder

Honestly it's literally the trolley meme in real life

the entire liberal world order is premised on the idea that social murder is "different" than normal murder

the central axiom is that letting someone starve or freeze to death outside has no perpetrator, nobody to blame, it's just a bad thing that happens naturally.

If there's a large socialist state attempting to cover everyone's needs and if they miss 1 person, THAT is murder according to Liberals. But in a capitalist society where nobody is attempting to cover everyone's needs the deaths of thousands are just natural. Thus, to a Liberal, the morally correct thing to do is not even attempt to try and just let thousands die. Touching the trolley lever makes you guilty, so it's best to never try to improve anything.

if someone said this to me i would just say they get fewer pussy than me and i win the argument