This does not addresses the reality of the situation; Luigi Mangione was facing a greedy corporation, a giant bureaucracy that will not respond to pacifist moves to change outcomes. When someone resorts to violence, they exhausted all other options.
He gave notice - ppl’s patience has ran out!
David Baker wrote, " Trump is setting the rules...".
It's not yet clear that's true. As long as police and prosecutors enforce the law, T is constrained. If T were setting the rules he would not have to continually lie and threaten. He knows he's weak and fearful.
This piece echoes what Erica Chenoweth has been writing and speaking about for well over a decade. Read: Why Civil Resistance Works (2011) and this TED talk.
I keep thinking about my young relative, 10 or so years ago, telling me that our country is headed for a revolution. I dismissed it as hyperbolic talk by a youthful millennial, but over the years, I have come to see they were prescient and I was the one with the blinders on.
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He gave notice - ppl’s patience has ran out!
It's not yet clear that's true. As long as police and prosecutors enforce the law, T is constrained. If T were setting the rules he would not have to continually lie and threaten. He knows he's weak and fearful.
https://youtu.be/YJSehRlU34w?si=a5EayctBLFoO_edK