As a Buddhist, I believe in non-violence to solve our problems.
I have yet to see those condemning the left for lionizing Luigi Mangione even once criticize the right’s vile embrace of Kyle Rittenhouse, or Trump and Vance inviting Daniel Penny to be their political prop at a football game.
I have yet to see those condemning the left for lionizing Luigi Mangione even once criticize the right’s vile embrace of Kyle Rittenhouse, or Trump and Vance inviting Daniel Penny to be their political prop at a football game.
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Don't hold your breath.
This is nothing new, and most of us saw it coming....
while the rest sat and stared.
Shame on us and may God have mercy.
We're gonna need it.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2024/05/17/487842/gov-abbott-pardons-daniel-perry-who-was-convicted-of-killing-a-black-lives-matter-protester/%3famp=1
Driven purely by envy, a narcissist will stop at nothing to be the center of attention.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2024/05/17/487842/gov-abbott-pardons-daniel-perry-who-was-convicted-of-killing-a-black-lives-matter-protester/%3famp=1
But seriously, fuck the false equivalencies and bothsidesism your fam partakes in.
It shows in their insistence on guns, their love of violent sports for the violent aspect of it, their taste in entertainment, everything.
My son, who is in law enforcement, is a high-ranking member of oathkeepers, threatened my life for disagreeing with his views. I am on the kill list.
This is my take on this whole affair as a Buddhist:
https://bsky.app/profile/mikemontreal.bsky.social/post/3lcxksofgl22d
They’re not even bothering with the right, though. Those people are too far gone.
Dare I say - Felony is the Feature™️
One must not be very astute to think that killing a person who is working within the corporate-favoring legislation that's in place is going to change anything. The next CEO will be working within the same framework.
Like universal healthcare which most doctors in the US support switching too
You might have enough money to "kill" thousands and never suffer the consequences.
Or perhaps you just have to piss off the wrong person and get shot outside Starbucks.
If all murder is wrong then why are the founders many of whom did things like tar and feather (this is torture and a death sentence) tax collectors who were just doing their job praised as heroes.
This will be a wrathful time. Please pray for peace but also pray for justice. Every prayer is needed.
But without counter vailing violence and killing, Ukraine would now be part of Russia and Israel would not exist.
And it seems that the worst violence comes from believers in an afterlife.
Plus Buddhists (as you can see in history) have not always practiced non-violence as it is not necessarily practical in all situations.
#idissent
He was paraded around as a hero
He was interviewed and spoke at Republican events
Sure if Luigi is guilty he should be held responsible
Are there democrats who are parading him around or saying he is a hero
Violence is ok as long as it's from their side.
there's a lot of anger right now but all other avenues failed.
I keep repeating this quote by JFK
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable."
This guys background doesn’t seem particularly left leaning.
They are never looking for “common ground”, only to dominate, humiliate, and subjugate their enemies.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f4/Ridetl.png
Much like nazis
Why are we acting like they ever did?
He does care that it pits the left and right against each other again… scattering crumbs on the floor, so we don’t see the Turkey on the table.
This is just attempts to make this a partisan issue so the overlords can sleep easier.
Look at the Civil War and WW2.
Sometimes we have to meet their violence with violence.
They want us to roll over. We can't. For the sake of the innocent and vulnerable and the future, we can't.
Walking up and down a subway car threatening to kill someone is violence.
https://youtu.be/X1uYf6jV4A4?si=EICq4IM_cl8ynrcV
Each of their murderers is a hero: stand-my-ground George, machine gun Kyle, strangler Perry. They bring them up on stage and encourage people to cheer them. When they are really nothing but murderers.
That’s their message
Maybe you need to go back to the drawing board. We all do.
The same is not true the other way around.
IOT “both sides it”, the media has to equate random people online with literal sitting senators.
These things are not the same. They aren’t different sides of the same coin.
The media absolutely plays no it.
Add that to the fact the right doesn’t do political messaging. It does Psyops. The point is to make it hard to hear beyond the noise.
Think about, how many times have you seen news articles that just quote people on Reddit.
I kept hearing this during the elections cycle. Harris’ campaign was constantly being defined by online discourse that had nothing to do with the Harris campaign.
Like so much “They’re talking about X too much, when they should be talking about…
But it was people were reacting to “well, but @AnarchySoviet_666 said…and therefor the Democrats are too radical”.
Like WTF? Meanwhile Trump can retweet literal Nazis and, ho hom.
(for those that need it)
https://www.buddhistinquiry.org/article/the-buddha-taught-nonviolence-not-pacifism/
too.
I will not celebrate the death or killing of another human being.
I also believe that insurance companies have caused the deaths of many people and bankrupted many more. They need to go.
I hate to say this, but sometimes it takes violence for change to happen. We’ve tried voting and how much good has that done?
#SorryNotSorry
So we must figure out is murder always wrong, is it only wrong when certain people do it? When does it become not wrong?
#denydeposedefend
that’s so much more dangerous l!!!!
Unfortunately this can't be done without first getting rid of entities that ONLY solve problems with violence, and only respond to violence and nothing else.
Here's one lefty who thinks Mangione is a complete nutjob. Putting bullets in assholes will never correct the problem, only make it worse!
Such as getting rid of mass murderers until the others start behaving
Fascists don't respect jury verdicts.
Sure, they didn't go about it the right way, but the oppression and evil was so abhorrent that they were left without civilized options.
Republicans want to teach everyone to murder down, not up. Make people forget who the real oppressors are. Make sure the powerful can rest easy, no matter how much they abuse that power.
If you admonish Mangioni, you cannot simply say, "Thompson was a family man." He gave his company directives to kill thousands. Thompson was a mass-murderer with soft hands.
Neither Mangione (if guilty) or Thompson should be held up as an example of moral righteousness.
It's not the dominant sentiment because we've tried the bloodless avenues to change over and over again for decades and the ruling class continues to ignore us. Sit and wait, Frannie.
World War 2 was obviously a lot more clear cut a reason for fighting back violently than walking into the street and shooting someone, though.