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What's important is what we learned about society's appetite for political violence against the upper class. What isn't important is the actual actor.


And it's not even a divisive story. Most of the left and right seem to agree on this one. Specially younger people.

Ignore the media stories, their paychecks are written with corporate ad money. On the Internet people of all kinds seem to like the guy.


I think you mean the appetite for political violence of people who are chronically online and lacking connection with reality


January 6th showed that at least the far-right is OK with political violence. Lynchings show that racists are OK with political violence. Anti-Semites burning synagogues shows that they're OK with political violence. The government has never had a problem with political violence against minorities and people pushing for a more socially supportive system. But somehow when average people are OK with violence against a greedy CEO whose policies lead to thousands of preventable deaths it's a step too far.


Frankly, everyone is sick of being raped by insurance companies. Online or not, people I know view insurance companies as absolute scum. Its not much of a stretch to condone violence against their leadership




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