Notices by GFJacobs Is Still Masking (gfjacobs@mstdn.social)

@GottaLaff
I really hate that the conversation we need to have about the failures of the US health insurance scam has to be promoted by a heinous murder of a corporate CEO.

That said, the sympathy engendered by the situation of the shooter cannot be denied.

I cannot say that the focus of police on this one murder compared to others is anything but an indictment of US policing: it exists only to protect the privileged.

@GottaLaff
I don't know about other people.

It's going to be tough for me to admit it, but it seems that I am only human.

When I read of his alleged background and his motivations, I felt and understood his pain and motivation viscerally.

I truly cannot say that in the identical scenario that any one of us might not have been driven to extreme vigilantism when justice is clearly only possible these days for the wealthy and connected

@GottaLaff sorry, I know you're outraged and any decent human being SHOULD be that people feel driven to an extreme

Murder is always wrong.

What is the appropriate response to an "economically sanctioned" murder for which no justice can be obtained?

How LONG must individuals fight for what is right for their family against a system not simply UNcaring, but hostile to the human needs of its purported customers?

#corporations MUST be held accountable to ALL stakeholders, including the public.

@GottaLaff @tylervu

Rule of law SHOULD matter.

However, when corporations and oligarchs rule, justice is for them ONLY.

Ignoring this leads to #vigilanteJustice

#vigilantism vs. #murderByMoney

@battusphilenor @phaedral @Atticus1956 @GottaLaff

Regulatory legislation by congress to address this is just as likely as laws to control climate change.

The ReTHUG trifecta will move to anything BUT

@darthstar @GottaLaff

#Joy counters any attempts by the reTHUGs to push her laughter as weird.

That orange stain NEVER laughs.

#SayItWithMe
#ThatsWeird

Trump is weird.
Vance is creepy.

@freemo @Burnt_Veggies @CoachMark @WrenArcher @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

Yup read his TL.

Definitely a troll.

Thanks for playing #WhackATroll (tm @laffy)

Buh-bye.

#blocked

@freemo @Burnt_Veggies @CoachMark @WrenArcher @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

The "compromise" would choose the middle ground between democracy or fascism.

Erm, what would that be? Who would that be? How would they even get there???

@HistoPol @heidilifeldman @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

only half joking here...

Anybody up for making a logo of a mastodon surfing the Blue Tsunami?

Standing up to say that Joe Biden has been the Absolute Best President in my life.

He may be old, but Dementia J. Trump is older, fatter, unfit for bicycling (which Joe does), and certainly not fit to lead a parade to his own jail cell.

And the devil will drag you under

#merrychristmas #keywest house decorated...

Looks like speaker Mike Johnson is feeling rather flaccid right now

#sotu

Speaker Mike Johnson hasn't got enough lead in his pencil to stand up for the troops

#sotu

@selzero um, just like early american settlers, followed by the US government?

How shall we change how America has treated indigenous tribes as illuminated by your statement?

@selzero not to mention that the people about whom you wrote that are NOT indigenous. They are Arabs whom the other arab countries MADE into refugees for 65 years after they tried to kill the state of Israel in its infancy.

@selzero they are as indigenous as any tribal, nomadic people.

There have never been a palestinian 'nation' or race.

I do not believe that justifies Israel murdering back, and i have been respectful and am making a reasoned argument, so please do not call me crazy.

Please be respectful back.

@selzero meanwhile a Jewish claim on the land is biblically justified, to whatever extent one might believe that the Bible is literal truth.

Being thrown into a diaspora because of centuries of others determined to kill you and your people, and reclaiming land that was promised by God is a justification as powerful as you saying well, they were living there and that makes them indigenous, so by what right do you displace them?

In that context, your argument cannot stand, either.

@jwhevans sorry, I don't do DRM.

Is it your own, or just a band you like who's worth a listen?