It's weird how all the Scolds who told us we weren't allowed jokes about the CEO seem to have missed the plot of the entire genre of Westerns from the 1950s — you know, where the lone cowboy took down the corrupt villain. Like, the plot of every fucking John Wayne movie ever.
Astonishing.
This time, let's not allow ourselves to be distracted by cultural debates. Let's remember that an assassin was able to make a ghost gun, on his 3d printer, at home, because the GOP refused to regulate the practice. Regardless of motive, that feels totally preventable.
It is a sickness, we are fucking sick and tired of people dying to raise the bottom line of the medical industrial complex and their accountants and CEO’s who have put a value on human life even though people pay for the insurance that is being denied to them by pencil pushers and not doctors.
Hero? Perhaps. We're all waiting to hear his story aren't we? I mean he has killed one person and the person he killed had killed thousands tens of thousands by his policies. He used to gun and the target used policies and a computer app and paperwork.
We may yet learn the story of the young assassin is more complex and nuanced than the cryptic words found on his spent cartridges. Similarly we may learn more about the insurance CEO - maybe he was living in quiet desperation over his part in the company’s treatment of patients.
When we’re told to respect people of other political persuasions and not call them monsters or other harsh terms - and then we’re confronted by genuinely monstrous hypocrisy… how are we supposed to regard people of that political persuasion?
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No?
Then take a seat.
Astonishing.