I honestly don't know if Americans have what it takes to change the path we're headed down. I haven't really got much faith left in our society. We're pretty pathetic.

Hope I'm wrong.

I've always said this but got chased out of the room (downvoted to hell), peaceful protest is a bunch of bullshit and won't do shit. It never will. It's always just ignored. Rioting and violence IS the only option when protesting peacefully is ignored. I mean look at the George Floyd protests and how they actually made change. Look at the French and their protests.....etc. Peaceful protesting is quite literally a bunch of people kidding themselves.

The one time I resorted to violence, it 100% solved my problem. I slapped my bully in class so hard people's ears rang. We ended up becoming friends later on lol.

That looks like something that could have been written on here or reddit a week ago and would have been met with at least modest approval in regards to the oligarchy.

So if you read into Kaczynski a bit, in a way he's kinda history's first incel too. He went off into the woods because he was upset about getting rejected by a girl and went super nice guy™ on not just her but life too. He blamed technology on his inability to read into a woman and he was too insecure to learn from it.

This guy is doing something else, he attacked the elite not because of technology and their relationship but because of their wealth and direct actions.

This guy gets a free pass on wierd beliefs to me. Sucks that the first ceo assasin was caught though. He really showed how possible it could have been to get away with it though.

Oh good lord. He kept the gun and the fake ID?

I guess MS in Computer Science doesn't mean you're smart.

I’ve scouered his Goodreads, Instagram, Twitter accounts.

He looks like he’s a tech bro who went to University of Pennsylvania. He had some cool somewhat anti-capitalistic takes, and criticised Elon Musk. But was also following and reposting a couple alt-right accounts like RFK Jr and Joe Rogan. He seems to have been a big consumer of the capitalistic self-improvement type industry.

Here’s his github picture and account

If you've never read Ted K, I recommend it. It's not an easy read, but he wasn't wrong.

While I am too old to advocate for violence, this line hit me pretty hard:

"Violence never solved anything" is a statement uttered by cowards and predators."

I don't know if I've ever resonated with something so much in my life.

The online fundraiser for him has already raised about 19K. Seems to have just started today.

Remember when in the french revolution everyone just asked the nobles pretty please?

I don't disagree with a lot of what the Unabomber wrote. I don't disagree with this person's hatred of the healthcare system.

But you cannot assassinate your way out of capitalism.

It just does not work that way. You cannot assassinate corporations into putting people over profits when they are legally required to do the opposite and you cannot assassinate your way into a law being changed.

Dang, sounds like Luigi might have had a few oil CEOs in him as well ❤️‍🩹

Except the problem is that humans are cognitively advanced than other animals. We should be able to find some way to reason out our differences, otherwise we’re always going to be stuck in a dark cave of our own making. What’s the fucking point of humanity then?

The problem is that there aren’t effective ways to curtail sociopathic behaviors which come to the surface because of our current economic tool of choice. Tbh, it will not matter what economic tool we use because the greed problem and self-preservation problem will remain. It always does!

We should be working towards developing safeguards and mechanisms to protect humanitarian ideals, and to curtail sociopathic behaviors. I think a big part of this is that people should elect better leaders. If you’re forced to choose “lesser of two evils”, then there should be a mechanism to organize an effective write-in choice.

If someone then comes to kill you for making democratic choices, as happens in autocratic regimes, then self-defense is valid and justified.