Luigi Mangione shouts a message to the American people on his way to court:

“This is completely unjust and an insult to the intelligence of the American people and their lived experience.”

    • @[email protected]
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      61 day ago

      If they kill him they’ll have begun another American Revolution, this one freeing Americans from the evil capitalist scum.

      • Flying Squid
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        161 day ago

        Did you forget that an evil capitalist scum who’s only claim to fame is that he’s rich just won both the popular and the electoral vote?

        I think a lot of you have forgotten who won the election.

        • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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          111 day ago

          Lenin’s coup needed 40k people. The Russian Republic had a population of 161 million people.

          On a happier note, a single university protest against Stalin’s imperialism spiralled into events that briefly established an independent democratic socialist Hungary free from Soviet-Russian domination.

          The question, if it gets to societal collapse and revolutions, is not “how many people can Trump get to vote for him”, but “what military strength can he get to Washington on short notice”. And it doesn’t matter “who has the guns”. It’s the US. Everyone can get guns at a moment’s notice.

          • Flying Squid
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            41 day ago

            Are you really comparing the conditions Americans are living under to the feudalist absolute monarchy under the Czar?

            People in living memory were serfs at the time.

            • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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              Lenin didn’t coup the Tsars, he couped the fledgling Russian Republic. The Tsar has been in prison for more than six months by then.

              Nevertheless, the point still stands, a small amount of people can successfully overturn a government. If you need a more recent example, Jan 6th almost succeeded. Imagine if they were just as organized as Lenin’s people.

              Not saying it would be a good thing.

              • Flying Squid
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                41 day ago

                Jan 6th almost succeeded.

                That is utter nonsense. January 6th disrupted something that was essentially ceremonial.

                • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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                  319 hours ago

                  All of our institutions are ceremonial. If everything went to plan there, and they only did not due to sheer incompetence, they would have blown up the capitol building and would have massacred congress people.

                  • Flying Squid
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                    Where on Earth did you hear the plan was to blow up the Capitol Building?

                    First of all, do you know how many explosives that would take?

            • @[email protected]
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              31 day ago

              Many revolutions and massive nation changes have happened so quickly that many never saw them coming. The Berlin wall coming down, the Duvalier’s and Assad’s reigns ending are three in relatively recent memory.

              The thing is that the rich and powerful often miss the signs, if for no other reason than they fundamentally believe they are untouchable … because they are, until they aren’t.

              What I find amazing is that the rich and powerful continue to be blind to the history of inequality and how many elites are killed, been overthrown and/or have to beg for asylum in foreign nations.

              • Flying Squid
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                11 day ago

                The rich and powerful just won their election by popular vote.

                This doesn’t change that.

                • @[email protected]
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                  317 hours ago

                  The rich and powerful would also have won if Harris had managed to get elected. You may really care which party wins, but I doubt most of our oligarchs do.

                  • Flying Squid
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                    117 hours ago

                    Oh yes, things will be totally the same without Lena Khan being in the U.S. government. You’re so, so right.

                  • Flying Squid
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                    31 day ago

                    Sure. Just like the civil war has been about to happen since 2016.

        • @Kbobabob
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          Did Lee Harvey Oswald have kids?

          • Flying Squid
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            Yes. Two. It would have taken you seconds to find that out.

            Is there a point to your question?

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                Okay? Were you calling for more assassinations?

                  • Flying Squid
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                    What is weird about it? Is this another case of you putting words in my mouth? You do that a lot.