That is some hilarious Evil Djinn shit though.

Punishing both the righteous outlaw for his temerity, and the thankless commoner for his greed.

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That’s a Felix bit.

If they haven’t gotten him now I doubt they ever will. Solving murders isn’t like on CSI/copaganda show of choice, and this type of anonymous killing is the hardest to solve. Especially since the list of people who had reason to want him dead may as well just be a list of anyone screwed over by a health insurance company(+family & friends, so basically everyone in America).

Yeah, but that’s the thing. It’s not like they’re gonna just admit defeat in this situation; this is gonna get treated like the punishment of a royal assassination case in the middle ages. Somebody is gonna have to take the fall for this, whether they actually did it or not, and it’s probably going to be made in the most openly cruel way possible.

I feel this. :/

The ducks might.

The natural human reaction to all of this is to first be horrified that a husband and father of two children was murdered.

No.

I need to reread all of Lenin on the adventurism, but does he ever talk about being opportunistic about this stuff?

The general Marxist (there wasn’t a “Marxist-Leninism” when Lenin was alive) sentiment at the time was that acts of “terror” (what we’re calling adventurism) are fundamentally individualist acts, and aren’t really worth pursuing unless they are both extremely popular, and exist as adjuncts of a broader mass-movement.

So I’m not going to encourage adventurism please don’t do it. Dying on your own is not the way to build revolution.

Well, yeah, but if you can’t actually contribute to building it…

The amount of treats I have is only relevant in the context of how many treats those around me don’t have.

Wouldn’t say that I “only want the tide to rise for me”, but this part here seems true regardless.

How do I know I am socially equal to others unless I’m living comparably to them? Because we can all do whatever we as individuals want? That’s not equality, unless the “Free Market” is unironically a place of equality.

I mean, yes, basically.

I didn’t see that part of Mandalorian, so I don’t get it.

True, and the main villain here is still The Empire who forced the situation.

This is a good point, however the meme that OP posted is referencing the scene from “Clerks” that Arthur Besse posted below me.

The problem with the rationale of that scene is that the labor force that built “Death Star 2” would look more like the kind of labor force building modern-day Gulf State vanity projects, rather than US suburban contractors.

True, but on the other hand, The Empire does make extensive use of forced labor; both in the form of conscripted labor, but also slavery. So it’s not like everybody working on the Death Star actually chose to be there.

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What did they mean by this?

This is such a bizarre artefact.

This is why we stick to the Napoleonic Wars, people.

aren’t hexbears with reddit accounts basically running that place? thought it was a funnel to bring radicalized redditors here?

“Narcissism of small differences.”, describes a lot of the reaction here, I think.

I wish I could have a baseline functional understanding of human interaction & relationships.

Did you actually read the article here, or just the headline/first couple lines?

The actual conclusion presented by it, honestly doesn’t seem that distinct from your own.