Olhonestjim @ Olhonestjim @lemmy.world

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Their lives sure must be fantastic for them to want to live that way for eternity.

The oligarchs sure are trying to live forever though. Life extension, mind uploading, etc. They say that mouse lifespans can already be nearly doubled.

Funny thing about that though. Human lifespans already doubled over the previous century, thanks to medical advances and resource abundance. There's no reason to think it can extend much further, aside from the peddling of grifters. The brain is far, far too complex to emulate without destroying it in the process, so I encourage Elon to go for it.

If you decide that this system is so insufferable to live within that you're willing to do what this guy did, I don't see any reason to be taken alive.

Don't let the new guy distract you. There used to be a different guy just before him.

If you've got nothing left to lose...

And I replied before you deleted it. I appreciate it. But my statement stands. For tonight anyway. I don't have anything against you. I'm just done with this particular conversation. Your interests and mine have differed too much for me to want to continue, and I'm trying to control how easily I get irritated, that's all.

Have a good night.

Stop talking to me.

Cool.

And you know what I'm going to maintain? You have fundamentally misunderstood the point I was trying to make. I can't say I blame you for it. Obviously some of that's on me.

But you know what else I'm not gonna do? I'm not gonna go line by line refuting your misunderstanding of my various quotes from my mobile device, and certainly not when I'm going to bed. Definitely not when I'd rather sleep than lay awake being annoyed at someone insisting upon not getting my point that I often struggle to make.

Gnight dude. Ever a pleasure.

Sweet Jesus, you're impossible.

Plenty of people already do not believe that the handsome guy was the shooter. It's all over this place. The jackets don't match.

Nobody wants him caught. It's all over this place.

I was speculating on what might happen with all this in the near future, regardless of what you might think makes no sense.

I don't know if they'll really catch him. But I do think that plenty of people will not accept their claim.

Yeah, I'm the only one saying this stuff.

They haven't caught anybody yet. I gave you examples for why the public (we!) might have reasons to doubt whoever they put on display. I was explaining how he's not unlikely to become an uncatchable folk hero. I used the word "myth" for chrissake.

I get that nuance does not always come across well in text online. May I suggest that you may not have fully understood what I was implying?

Dude. I'm not saying one way or the other. I'm just saying that the conspiracy machine is gonna churn up reasons why they might have lied, no matter who they pin it on.

You think they've finally let the jet fuel steel beams go after all these years? There's no reason why the conspiracy machine is ever gonna accept that they got the right guy. Your insistence that it makes no sense is utterly irrelevant to conspiracy theorists.

We have no idea what he looks like. The pictures are of a guy with a different jacket. They're the ones who claim that's the guy, and handsome white dudes are a dime a dozen in the city. There's still no reason to trust they showed us the right guy.

We do not trust the oligarchs and their police to actually catch the real guy. There's a good chance that, whoever they kill and claim to have "got him!" the public will not accept that they really did. We already think they're going to just murder someone in order to close the case. Maybe they'll get him for real. Maybe they won't. We will never know and the conspiracy theory machine will just keep churning out maybes.

If another CEO bites the dust, it will probably be a copycat. This guy is getting away, if not in actual truth, at least in folklore. He'd be a fool to strike again.

Ah but we'll never know for certain who he is! If they can't find the real guy, they'll likely pin it on some nobody with a problematic past. So we can't fall in love with the real guy, but only a hero archetype instead. And that's perfectly fine.

If an awful person ends their life doing something heroic rather than villainous, maybe they can be remembered for that instead. Maybe not. Probably the circumstances will be complicated in how they are weighed.

As for this fellow, I feel somewhat confident that the public will not accept whatever person they pin the blame upon as The Adjuster or Spartacus or whatever we call him, alive or dead. They cannot be trusted, so he cannot be caught. He's well on his way to myth.

If the disaffected lunatic fringe can be redirected from shooting up schools to targeting CEOs instead, simply by the promise of becoming folk heroes as opposed to villains, that would be a massive improvement.

I mean, Obamacare is pretty much a subsidy to the private healthcare industry. It should have been Medicare for all, but instead we got a watered down, rebranded Republican program.

And they still want to make it worse for us. For money.

Do one a week and they'll get overwhelmed. They can't put all their resources into a dozen different manhunts each, by definition.

I want a small home and a big workshop. A place to snuggle and a place to putter.

I wonder how difficult it would be to simply blend in with the homeless for a few weeks. They're pretty much invisible.