• xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    Economic vigilantism is really dangerous and if this isn’t a one off it’s likely an indicator that people feel like justice is unattainable.

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      Trump has proven this, and the fact Elon (the richest manchild in the world) is literally in his cabinet now only exacerbates the situation.

      I don’t think things are radically worse, that’s the interesting thing… It’s the fact we’ve discarded any semblance of justice at the highest levels. Like, nobody is even pretending now. The highest office in the land is about to be occupied by an openly corrupt idiot.

      When people lose hope in their leaders, they realize it’s up to them to change the world. Great acts are often done in the fallout of such times. Both acts of great kindness, and great violence.

      Injustices become things to act on when you have zero hope of change from the people who should be enacting change.

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      Justice against these people IS unattainable. Nothing fucking touches them, case and point Trump can lead a violent insurrection and nothing happens

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        I don’t disagree that society has been unjust in actuality for quite some time.

        I think public sentiment has been shifting so that more people are aware of how tiered our justice system is and that change in perception is what’s interesting.

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          I think Trump has shown people that they don’t need to hide the tieredness of the justice system anymore so it’s not surprising that more people are aware of it.

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            Trump is fucking bizarre. In pre-Trump times, the Jan 6th rioters would have been thrown to the wolves even by the politicians aligned with them because, you know, fuck the poor.

            The fact that Trump may pardon them is quite surprising.

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          Well, it’s too late now thanks to the asshole with the aim of a stormtrooper. The criminal won and all of his freaks and monsters are burrowing into America’s chest like some drug-resistant, flesh-eating bacteria. Best case scenario, we live with lots of necrotic tissue and deep scarring. That infection started spreading as soon as he named Vance as his successor.

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      it’s likely an indicator that people feel like justice is unattainable

      I’m sorry, have you not been paying attention?

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      You could look at this as a one off, or if you want to start looking at assassinations in total then you get to include the two trump would be assassins and make a damn strong argument to your point that this is exactly what a society that refuses to hold people accountable looks like. Honestly its the same concept as when the Black Panthers started giving free breakfast to kids, if no one else is going to solve the problem, people will do it themselves.

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      it’s likely an indicator that people feel like justice is unattainable.

      I think you mean, ‘people are starting to wake up to the fact that justice is unattainable’.

      Where have you been the last decade or 3? If you’re rich and not going after other rich people, you’re practically untouchable. Bernie Madoff didn’t catch jail time because he defrauded Anne and Bill out of their pension, he defrauded people who have money matter.

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      It’s so unattainable that it’s become something even normies understand. There are rules for us, and there are none for them. Think about how ingrained that has become in U.S. culture recently, and you’ll come to the same conclusion the vigilante did.