Is this a crossover episode?
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This whole thing has me thinking about the gun control episode of Bojack a lot.
The moment rich white guys felt threatened (by women in that case) guns were completely outlawed, and I think this is the closest we'll ever get to that in real life. If a few more CEOs are knocked off I could see it being discussed. If 10 or 20 more are killed I think we would actually see severe restrictions put in place.
This is literally what Reagan did as governor of California when Black Panthers were arming themselves.
2A is unassailable ... until the wrong people decide to embrace it. Be one of those people.
Yeah I was gonna say it's already happened
We had a story in my area about a dealer who wouldn't sell to members of the local SRA or something like that recently too, guess he felt threatened by a bunch of queer brown folks
In the 1960s, the US government started cracking down on buying firearms. Bombings suddenly became rampant. In 1970, the US averaged more than a bombing a day. The government then tightened up restrictions on buying explosives further than they had for firearms, and Americans resigned themselves to going back to buying guns and shooting each other.
If the US government were to further restrict guns, people would notice that it’s easier to DIY a bomb than it is to DIY a gun, and that the former is also quite a bit more effective at making a point.
You can purchase everything you need to manufacture explosives in a supermarket.
This is just racism against rich people.
No, I will not be explaining my thoughts further. I will simply be collecting my check from the WSJ.
Thompson's children, like every other human, aren't just neutral moral agents. Like their father, their position depends on our monstrous system. Sure they could overcome this and adopt good politics, but it will be harder for them than people who earn money honestly.
Remember that the capitalists are always class-conscious and usually show class-solidarity.
Thompson also please guilty to drunk driving in 2017, spent a couple days in jail, became CEO the same month.
What about Hitler's kids and kids of his family members?
Ah, they made their choice to never have kids.
I kinda think they don't need to do that, they are different persons with different backgrounds who'd act differently being knowledgeable of what Germany did there.
But I want this question to hang over the heads of these CEOs, their peers and families. I want them to question themselves.
Not one of the people cheering for Thompson’s death had actually heard of Thompson before this.
They are cheering because of his job title. This has nothing to do with Thompson’s character or who he was.
This man is an asshole
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Or... maybe, just maybe, people can have the opinions they want and have their reasons for them.
The idea I have to consider my parents' role as my parents undermined if they did something scam-ish is arguably appalling.
This is turning into a collective shame kind of culture.
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Not a meme.
What is a meme?
By Dawknin's original definition (cultural) memes are ideas, behaviors, styles, or practices that spread within a culture by imitation (Greek mimema, meaning "imitated") and carry symbolic meaning. Some examples would be the "Keep Calm And Carry On" posters during WW2, the concept of the "American Dream" or toasting with glasses.
However in this context we're talking about internet memes which is not synonymous with cultural memes. An internet meme is a picture or video that is funny, ironic, or relateable.
What Tompkins is failing to realize here is that the people who are elated know absolutely jack shit about who Thompson was, and Thompson’s own kids know a lot about who he is.
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Man. Keep the kids out of the discourse. Have a little class.
I'm sure that seems like the right way to feel. But honestly his kids will grow up to hurt poor people just like their dad.
Jfc. You people are gaslighting his children, whose father was murdered weeks ago.
Get a fucking grip.
Not what gaslighting means...
To manipulate a murdered person's sons to reevaluate their perception of their own father because of some public lynching?
No one is being manipulated? Their father was the head of an objectively evil corporation (by any ethical philosophy I can think of) and people were celebrating that he was dead, 99% of whom had never heard of him before. Probably worth evaluating why at some point.
No one is hunting down his kids and screaming "YOUR FATHER PERSONALLY MURDERED MY FAMILY".
Nobody cares about his kids and they were not a topic of discussion until media pulled them in.
If you gonna do this moral grand standing, talk to the big media.