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[–] [email protected] 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Also, what does it have to do with whether he was a father or not? If he had had no kids, would that change anything? Can it be more acceptable to kill someone who hasn't had kids? What's the point in that?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

I mean, if it's not obvious, the point people are making is that his kids are innocent and that celebrating their father's death increases their suffering.

I agree with the logic, but I don't think it's enough to shut down the conversation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

This assumes the kids didn't already hate his guts.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I am not at all worried about his kids. His kids are set for life.

I am worried about other kids- and adults- suffering due to a much less discerning and less accurate copycat vigilante. It hasn't happened so far, but it is something that greatly concerns me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago

Thompson was divorced. My understanding is he had either limited or no contact with his kids.

I wonder if he updated his will since the divorce

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

Literally fatherless behavior

[–] [email protected] 44 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

There are more people who can say "Brian Thompson killed my father", than there are "Luigi Mangione killed my father."

[–] [email protected] -3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

Yeah. Kids are allowed to love their parents. My parents are flawed. They're not evil, but they're the kind of people I wouldn't spend time with or associate with if they weren't my parents. We simply have different values and opinions.

But I still love them and love spending time with them, and they feel the same.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Kid probably happy too, since, odds are, the dead person was shitty to the kids.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

Geneally, you don't become a CEO without being a shitty person, and therefore a shitty parent.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Paul F. Tompkins is excellent and 'No You Shut Up' should have gone on for 20 more seasons

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

I miss Dead Authors Podcast but I'm happy for his success.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Whatever, piss pig

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't know much about who Irmgard Furchner was but I know she was a piece of shit because only a piece of shit would do that job.

Tompkins was a garbage human and the species is better off without him. If his kids didn't think poorly of him for having that job they could not have known him.

Just because a monster goes home to a family and manages to keep them in the dark about the horrors they willingly commit for money... Or worse, maybe the family is aware of and approve of the inhuman way he takes your money... Having a family does not make a monster less monstrous.

It doesn't matter how many Little League games he went to, how active he was in the PTA, whether he volunteered at his local church. He was a terrible no good very bad person. And I don't need to have sat down and played Canasta with him to see that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I think you meant Thompson, hopefully not Tompkins.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

That's what I get for voice to text!

You are of course correct.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Their dad didn't give even a single thought to the people who died because of him, why should his priveleged-ass kids get even a seconds thought from me beyond potential future followers in daddy's shoes?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

He made life changing mind and his kids will get it all. I doubt they give any fuck how he made it.

They will live large while rest of us are at risk of getting screwed by the health insurance industry when we are most vulnerable.

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