Contrary to popular belief, the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is far from the first time violence has been advocated as an answer to mass oppression of the people.
Who the fuck believes that?
Amen, that is definitely the RIP Hampton deserves. On the flip side Brian Thompson and the rest of the capitalist wall street military and prison industry profiteers who have bought our political system and own the media they deserve to Rot in piss along with the feds and pigs that extrajudicially murdered this king.
The Fred Hampton case is one of the best examples to use when people (Americans in particular) are open to hearing about how bad the US is to even its own people because it shatters any illusions of justice and fairness, that there's some line that the US just won't cross. It's just so flagrant, and the fact that to this day there has never been any justice for Fred Hampton is further proof that this country is irredeemable.
What? Hampton was assassinated.
Hampton advocated using violence in defense of violence. He never advocated assassinations.
I'm not saying Thompson wasn't a killer, but they were very, very different.
He was a threat to the ruling class regardless and although he was non violent and only advocated using the threst of violence in self defense he was still murdered violently by the state, I see his murder as a state sponsored assassination.
Sure. Luigi is alive tho. And it looks like a jury is going to set him free.
I don't disagree, the writing could definitely be better. But i think the general idea and the title have some merit. Fred hampton has become a symbol of power against corrupt authority and if mangione is truly the one culpable for the killing of Thompson then that act should be seen as a symbol for what happens when you manipulate the public for 50+ years, nullify the progress made by prior leftist movements using any and all means possible against your own citizens and remove true leftist policies from the mainstream while amplifying far right ideologies.
