This has vibes of something larger than someone unhappy with just UHC
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what's the phrase -I've never wished death upon a person but I've read some obituaries with great satisfaction?
That obituary might make a nice t-shirt.
"The motive remains unclear" is one of those things that, as a journalist, you know you have to write because it is absolutely the truth, but you hate yourself for every letter of every word because you know how fucking stupid it sounds given the circumstances.
Unless it turns out he was murdered by, for example, an irate shareholder who didn't make the money he wanted to make.
There is more than one reason he could have been murdered.
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"I mean, there are millions of people with motive. Which one in particular we will hopefully never know"
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“It is still unclear which of the potential motives caused the man to pull the trigger”
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Nah, that's a cop out. They could absolutely find somebody speculating on the motive to quote if they wanted to.
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Shootings must be rare in NYC given how much attention this one is getting.
There aren't often assassinations in NYC, unless you're talking mob hits through the years.
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Um ackshually, NYC is doing better than many other places, at least as far as per-capita homicide statistics go, according to this list I pulled out of Wikipedia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate
Sort by "murder and nonnegligent manslaughter" and you find NYC way down on the list. St. Louis, Baltimore, and Detroit is on the top. NYC is not even the worst in the state anymore, Buffalo is worse.
As of about a month ago there had been ~320 murders in NYC this year.
Yet this single one has captured the media's attention nationwide and cops seem to be heavily focused on this one.
Because modern society at pretty much every institutional level sees the wealthy and powerful as not just more important than us, but they dont even see us. Hell, compare this to school shootings that only make local news now.
Historically, societies like this end in an incredibly brutal fashion. And until the wealthy and powerful really can build terminator style robot armies...
The masses are always going to win.
It's kind of the natural consequences of hyper concentration of a finite and essential resource. People rarely sit around and starve voluntarily, and once the majority are starving, people start acting like a mob.
We see it day to day over minor stuff where people just refuse to follow societial norms. Everyday we're shown that rules don't really matter, and none of the people who matter are held accountable. If someone isn't physically stopped from doing something, they take that as permission. Hell, that was the defense of most 1/6ers.
The social contract was invalidated a long time ago, people are just now realizing it. And that's the only thing that really seperates us from animals.
Crashing out is gonna be the norm pretty fucking soon, I don't think we have 4 years or that trump will be able to hold society together.
There's a very high chance we're gonna live in some interesting times.
Not really.
Look up the origin of the FBI. Hoover was a low level clerk when he was handed the reins. He didn't have much of a budget but he did have the willingness to sit and do a lot of research.
When the time came to go after Emma Goldman the government had reams and reams of paper 'proving' how dangerous she was.
From now on, the CEOs will travel with security squads, and President Trump will authorize them to shoot to kill anyone who comes in fifty feet of the VIP.
This is more likely to be a one-off, like Gamestop.
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"We do not know why" haha, take a wild guess, please!
They probably don't know which of the hundreds of thousands cases of killing and suffering were actually the cause.
It's unclear because there's a few different reasons somebody would want this man dead
No, it's because they are immensely fearful of admitting the reason because they know a lot of other people would agree and it would potentially upset the status quo so much. And that would be bad for their masters.
Especially if it turned out to be contagious.
It's because they literally don't know who killed him yet. You don't have to come up with a silly conspiracy theory when the obvious answer is that they don't know who killed him yet and they don't know why he was killed yet.
Someone who does bad things can be killed for other reasons. John Lennon was not assassinated for beating and otherwise abusing his wives and girlfriends. The guy who killed Jeffrey Dahmer in prison did it because he thought, but wasn't sure, that Dahmer poked him in the back.
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