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Flaming Death on a Stick wrote:

News from New York today:

Daniel Penny was found not guilty by a New York City jury today. Penny is the man who restrained and killed Jordan Neely after Neely began threatening and assaulting people on a New York City subway train. Personally, I think this is a great outcome. Daniel Penny did the right thing in protecting others from a man, possibly having psychotic episode. He did what needed to be done at the time. What happened to Neely was brought on by Neely himself. New York City could use a lot more people willing to step in like Daniel Penny.

With New York City made up of screaming liberals, but screaming liberals who have been hassled on a subway to one degree or another, the outcome of this case was nowhere near certain one way or the other.

https://nypost.com/2024/12/09/us-news/daniel-penny-cleared-of-all-charges-in-jordan-neelys-death/

Police arrested a suspect in the shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Luigi Mangione was recognized and subsequently arrested at a McDonald's in Altoona, PA. When arrested Mangione was found to be in possession of a 3D printed gun, the fake ID used to check into a New York hostel, and a three page manifesto.

It would appear that Mangione grew up with a silver spoon, including a five star education the culminated in two engineering degrees. That manifesto thing shows a sharp anti-capitalist viewpoint.

https://nypost.com/2024/12/09/us-news/person-of-interest-in-fatal-shooting-of-unitedhealthcare-boss-brian-thompson-idd-as-luigi-mangione-an-ex-ivy-league-student/

Got any thoughts on these two breaking news stories?

YES!!! Justice has prevailed!

So Brian Thompson was murdered by a literal champagne communist terrorist who hails from a wealthy family, has a college degree and lives in a different state altogether. So much for being "oppressed". Any sympathy I might've had for the assassin has evaporated entirely. This is domestic terrorism and this guy deserves the death penalty. In a communist society, it'll be more than just billionaires like Brian Thompson whose heads will literally roll. It will be the entire middle class as well. Ironically, the communists themselves will be the new billionaires. Just look at China and tell me how just and egalitarian they are.

That said, I'm not a fan of Thompson either. He's not the most sympathetic person in the room right now. But his murder sets a very dangerous precedent for class reconciliation, democracy and the rule of law. It is the beginning of a communist insurrection to destroy America and the West as we know it.

Kishah wrote:

Is it so wrong to say billionaires who make it directly more difficult for poorer people to live or have stable care all for satisfying their ever-growing greed need to be punished? The same with billionaires who build their corporate empires off the backs of the exploited lower classmen, or the Ceos of Oil and Gas companies, who even though they know they are killing life on earth still harvest the Earth's limited natural resources at an unsustainable pace, while also hindering conservation efforts for a quick billion? Should they go unpunished? This isn't social justice, this is just justice.

If anything, the world I want to live in makes sure no poor soul goes left behind by greed, where everyone gets the care they deserve.

I'm sure the People's Republic of China is a model society of truth, justice and love where the rich never screw over the poor...

Actually, in communist China, the only way to get by in life is by screwing everyone else over, because communism punishes success and rewards failure. The difference is that the greedy rich people whom you hate so much are none other than the very communists who set this whole thing up in the first place. Not all wealth is "ill-gotten" as you seem to believe, except, that is, in communist and post-communist, low-trust societies such as Russia and China. The same is true of the college-educated champagne socialist who murdered Brian Thompson. Now I'm feeling far less sympathetic toward the assassin.

As for oil and gas, yeah, I believe we shouldn't be committing economic suicide and deliberately exposing ourselves to the dangers of climate change by transitioning to unreliable, weather-dependent renewable energy sources. The renewable lobby is just as prone to greed and corruption as Big Oil and Big Gas. But if you're so concerned about fossil fuels and climate change, then why not invest in nuclear power plants and nuclear fusion research? Nuclear generates way more energy than all the other energy sources combined, and is so much cleaner and safer for the environment and for human beings.

Despite the overblown but, yes, very real, effects of climate change, did you know that over the years, per capita deaths from natural disasters have declined progressively in countries as they have industrialized? Did you know that economic damage due to natural disasters have declined as a proportion of national GDP? The leftist-dominated legacy media will never tell you that.

It is the lack of industrialization brought on by a lack of fossil fuel use that renders entire populations in the developing world vulnerable to climate change, not climate change itself. The Net Zero lobby is primarily to blame for climate-induced human suffering around the world.

Sources: Environmental Progress (https://environmentalprogress.org/), Public (https://www.public.news/), The Honest Broker (https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/)

EDIT: Just to be clear, I sincerely hope you're not actually condoning the murder of Brian Thompson.