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   Chris 🏳️‍🌈🧵🧝🏼 (elfkin@woof.group)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 03:07:58 JST Chris 🏳️‍🌈🧵🧝🏼

   Would any normal person have described the recently slain United Healthcare CEO as morally odious? Obviously. But celebrating the death of another human being is never a cute look. And it’s downright ugly to hope that others should be similarly killed. Praising and normalizing such violence endangers us all.

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     Chris 🏳️‍🌈🧵🧝🏼 (elfkin@woof.group)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 06:44:14 JST Chris 🏳️‍🌈🧵🧝🏼

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     @robdaemon Oh, to be clear, I am neither shocked nor surprised that a human who chose to behave as that money pig did met a horrific and abrupt end.

     But celebrating his death and calling for more like him to be murdered is not the path to a better world. It’s a shortsighted means to an end that will only beget more violence. And that violence will turn right back on us, starting with the marginalized and vulnerable.

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     Rob (robdaemon@woof.group)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 06:44:18 JST Rob

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     @elfkin I’m seriously torn here.

     I don’t know the man personally at all, and on one hand I’m shocked and not shocked at his assassination.

     I have frequently said it’s time to bring out the guillotines but I mainly meant that metaphorically.

     I have no doubt the suspect in this case was likely harmed by UHC’s policies, but I don’t think murdering the CEO was right.

     Publicly humiliating them, arresting them, etc, yes.

     Ugh I don’t even know how to put my feelings into words here. 😐

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     Gavin Cortland (gavcortland@woof.group)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 16:24:33 JST Gavin Cortland

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     @elfkin @robdaemon people forget the whole horror of the French Revolution—it didn’t stop with those that most everyone wanted to see punished, but then it turned on any and everyone else. Everyday people who crossed the wrong person with power for the moment.

     Social reform based on violence is almost always a losing strategy for everyone, including (and especially) those who suffer the most under the current awful mess.

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     Chris 🏳️‍🌈🧵🧝🏼 (elfkin@woof.group)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 05:38:15 JST Chris 🏳️‍🌈🧵🧝🏼

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     @GavCortland @robdaemon As someone who has studied France since age 13, lived here as a student, visited repeatedly as an adult, and is currently standing in Nice, I can attest that the atrocities of the French Revolution are *precisely* what come to mind in this moment.

     Once it’s acceptable to kill one class of people, it becomes acceptable to kill others.

     Such violence is not discreet, productive, or cleansing.

     The antidote to poison is never more of the same poison.

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