• electric_nan@lemmy.ml
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      7 hours ago

      I'm not even sure about that. Him getting caught (I suspect he did so on purpose) has given us so many more memes (see your comment for one!). I think it's actually better propaganda in this case for him to have been arrested.

      • LocalOaf [they/them, undecided]
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        6 hours ago

        Why 3D print a suppressor if you meant to get arrested for propaganda reasons? Like, God love him, but I think he was just a well meaning smart-dumbass (Valedictorian at a bougie private prep school, Ivy League computer guy that read airport bookstore tier popsci and listened to Rogan-tier broslop? Idk)

  • CleverOleg [he/him]
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    8 hours ago

    If UnitedHealth ends up getting the Unification Church treatment in all this I will laugh my ass off.

    • neo [he/him]
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      9 hours ago

      She's one of the very rare actually good points of the Biden administration.

      • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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        9 hours ago

        The Dems are still smart enough to know you have to throw the occasional bone.

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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    12 hours ago

    trump-who-must-go there's legitimate reasons people wanted this guy dead? You're telling me this for the first time, I didn't know that.

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        9 hours ago

        I mean Trump's an extremely unpopular billionaire who had at least 2 people try to kill him in the last year, he may be an idiot but I think he understands that emboldening people to go after hated billionaires has a good chance of getting him got.

        • ComradeMonotreme [she/her, he/him]
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          6 hours ago

          I don't think he would at all.

          But if he was actually a cunning fascist instead of a bumbling distractable one, it could be a strategic move, be a nod to general populism and ordinary people's discontent, a sign to his followers they might be pardoned for their random targeted violence (more likely to be on progressives and minorities) and a thraat to national bourgeoisie to get behind him for protection.

          It feels like something someone Putin would do. Pardon the guy. Film himself dressing down the executives and limiting them to only a 500% overcharge.

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    12 hours ago

    So if we go by the logic he was a murderer because there's a non-zero chance some of those patients died not being able to afford their meds, ipso facto Luigi just took out someone who was a mass murderer.