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[–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 21 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I would only be impressed if somebody actually did something about the conditions that created the CEO in the first place.

Bullets are famously ineffective against these conditions.

You can shoot a capitalist, but you can't shoot capitalism.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

You can shoot a capitalist, but you can’t shoot capitalism.

Not with that attitude you can't.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 4 points 4 months ago

If we can shoot at tornados, we can find a way to shoot at capitalism.

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You shoot enough capitalists tho...

[–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You're talking about tens of millions of people.

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not at all. I'm talking about a few hundred. Tops.

Most people who identify as capitalists aren't. Theyre ideologues who like the idea of capitalism because they think theyll be the one wearing the boot stepping on all our necks one day. They don't own capital. They don't make fortunes leeching off the rest of us. They don't ruin lives or kill thousands via social murder by denying housing, food, or medicine to extract a rent.

[–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You think you can destroy capitalism by killing under a thousand people?

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

No. But it would reign in its worst impulses. Remind the rest that they're mortal.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

he wasn't even motivated against capitalism. he was an athlete who suffered from CTE and asked for his brain to be examined in a note before he shot himself in the chest with a rifle (something that requires a bit of forethought - he deliberately saved his brain for analysis). https://nypost.com/2025/07/29/us-news/nyc-shooter-shane-tamura-thanked-a-cte-documentary-and-listed-names-of-prominent-neuroscientists-in-suicide-note-sources/

This was supposed to be anti pro-sports violence, I guess.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I bet they won't even do a brain exam. It will be seen as "giving the killer what he wanted" and "disrespecting his victims" if they honor his request.

Most importantly the NFL will get to keep pretending everything is fine.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Most importantly the NFL will get to keep pretending everything is fine.

fuck. this is depressingly plausible.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Or maybe they'll do the exam but the results will be inconclusive and the brain will end up misplaced so that his family can't have have their own tests done. Hell, the NFL might start adding clauses to contracts that require players to donate their bodies "to science" upon death. Don't they already require them to use "NFL approved" doctors? Anything to keep independent doctors from diagnosing CTE in their dead players.

Can't even enjoy some sports without having to watch late stage capitalism grind humans into pieces.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I wouldn't put any of it past that meat market circus we call pro sports.

[–] RedPostItNote@lemmy.world -4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This has to be the most brain dead propaganda take on the internet right now. Yeah he totally didn’t mean to kill who he killed. It was all a happy accident

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

you think he SHOT HIMSELF IN THE CHEST WITH A RIFLE on accident huh? lol...