I mean, even Hercules is allowed to take a break. In fact, self-care is a vital part of the work of any true hero! You can't be effectively battling evil if you're unhealthy, depressed, or sleep deprived. Take care of yourself, superfam!
It's just a classic mass hysteria. It's the same exact psychosocial dynamic that led to witch trials in previous eras.
Someone sees something strange in the sky, or one person flies an actual drone and someone sees it. Suddenly people start looking at the sky. People who have no experience in astronomy or sky watching, people who have no idea how cameras or lenses work, they all start looking up. They don't know how their own tools work, so they try to take pictures of things their equipment isn't capable of, and they produce weird-looking blurry images that appear otherworldly. A blurry light of a plane's navigation lights now becomes an "interdimensional plasma vortex" or some other bullshit. They post these, and even more people start looking up. People don't understand that astronomers have struggled for centuries with the problem of judging the size and distance of distant points of light. Even pilots naively think their training helps them magically overcome a core problem of observational astronomy. Soon you have people thinking there are UFOs flying around at Mach 100 and turning with an acceleration of thousands of g's, all because they don't realize how hard it is to judge the distance to pinpricks of light against a uniform background.
It's literally witch hunt thinking. In past times, something weird would happen. A animal would get a rare disease and die. A child of an influential figure in town would get sick. Someone would suggest a witch might have done it. Suddenly people start thinking about witches, and they see signs of witchcraft everywhere. This grows until women are getting burned at the stake.
Thankfully at least our present version of this witch hunt mentality is being directed in a way that is unlikely to directly harm anyone. The recent panic is wasting government resources and the time of government officials, but thankfully it's unlikely to end up with anyone being burned at the stake. Still, it is really depressing as an illustration of the state of our culture and communications systems. We're literally falling for the exact same mental failings that our peasant ancestors centuries ago did. We think we're smarter than them. But all our increased literacy rates and advanced technology have done is made it easier to spread these panics on a grand scale.
Democrats are a party divided, Republicans are a party united. That is why they win. The Republican base and Republican donors support big corporations and corporate graft. The Democratic base wants a party that will truly take on corporate power, but the gerontocracy that runs the party is firmly in bed with corporate ghouls through their donations. The Republican base is united with its donors, while the Democratic base is at odds with its donors. The progressive wing of the party, in rejecting corporate influence, offers the party a way forward. But as we've seen in the recent House committee fights, vampires like Pelosi refuse to give up power and will die in office. The leaders of the Democratic party would rather lose to a Republicans than win with an anti-corporate progressive message, as those corporate dollars enrich them personally.
The existing Democratic Party likely needs to be burned down to ashes. It needs to go the way of the Whigs. Only then will room exist for a less corrupt party to form on the left. Democrats are losers, and they are going to continue to lose, as they simply do not want to win. Only win the Democratic party is left in the ash heap of history will progress finally be possible.
Realistically, if we're ever going to get real healthcare reform, it will have to come from a Republican. Trump probably isn't the man to do it, but Republicans at this time in history are the party of change. Democrats don't support any change. I wonder at this point if people with progressive issues on healthcare should start running as Republicans.
Trump is objectively worse than Kamala. But don't fool yourself. There is no real difference between the two on healthcare. Neither had any real plans to make any real reform. Biden has a trifecta, and he didn't do shit. Kamala explicitly ran as Biden 2.0.
And the Soviet Union at its collapse wasn't as bad as the nadirs or tsarist Russia. Just because things were worse 150 years ago doesn't matter. The problem is the system is now intractably broken and further progress cannot be made.
They would still be among the wealthier countries on the planet. Mississippi is wealthier than the UK outside of London. They'll manage just fine. As far as corporate corruption, well they can be responsible for their own sins.
Even peaceful protest is now largely impossible. Cops subject peaceful protesters to kettling, mass arrests, etc. They spy on protesters with electronic tracking, use agent provocateurs to provide excuses to disrupt non-conservative protests, and work overtime to infiltrate and disrupt peaceful protest movements. Hell, Occupy Wall Street was subject to a mass FBI-coordinated national crackdown. They don't even let us peacefully demonstrate anymore without putting our lives and freedom at risk. They casually assault peaceful protesters with chemical weapons.
In the US, peaceful protesters have to hide their faces like the protesters in Hong Kong against the CCP.
That question is flawed. You can believe the CEO objectively deserved to die without thinking murder on the street is acceptable. In an ideal world, Thompson would have been charged in a court of law, convicted, and hanged for his crimes.
Exactly. The question should have been, "did the CEO deserve to die?" It was likely, "was the killing acceptable?" It's perfectly possible to believe the bastard had it coming without thinking one person has the right to be judge, jury, and executioner.
It's not illegal to say you believe Brian Robert Thompson deserved to die. Hell, you could, perfectly legally, file paperwork to hold a parade in Luigi's honor, right through the heart of DC. It's illegal to make death threats, but it's perfectly legal to express support for someone being killed.
I'm of two minds about it. Half the time, I want to build a statue of Luigi
The other half of the time, I'm feeling the Tolkien quote, "many that live deserve death, and many that die deserve life. Will you give it to them?"
In other words, at no point do I feel that Brian Robert Thompson didn't objectively deserve to die. He is objectively doing more good for the world as worm food than he did as a living man. My only question is on the ethics of anyone actually killing him. On one hand, no one should have a right to make that call on their own. On the other, it's not like he was ever going to face justice any other way.
I wonder if this dilemma is reflected in this poll. You can believe that killing the CEO was unacceptable, while also believing he absolutely deserved it.
I mean, even Hercules is allowed to take a break. In fact, self-care is a vital part of the work of any true hero! You can't be effectively battling evil if you're unhealthy, depressed, or sleep deprived. Take care of yourself, superfam!