The Selective Outrage Around Healthcare
I noticed how Piers Morgan and two of his guests were outraged at the death of Brian Thompson even though he's an agent of the system that oversaw the deaths of thousands of Americans. But would they be okay with the death of Putin or Assad even though they're heads of systems as well?
Brian Thompson contributed to the deaths of thousands of innocent people just like when we say George W Bush murdered over a million Iraqis.
Bush may have not directly killed them but he gave the orders. Whether it's murder via gun or pen, murder is still murder.
Brian Thompson is no different.
They're fine with systemic state violence but when the people want to end the violence by the state and desperately take matters into their own hands, they're baffled. It's only okay if they go through the "proper channels" even though those proper channels keep a violent and exploitative system in place.
Brian Thompson oversaw the deaths of a myriad of people compared to Luigi Magione. Luigi was a privileged kid who saw how the sausage was made and couldn't stand it so how do you think those of us who are poor and/or marginalized feel?
They have no right to say anything about promotion of violence when every single year millions of Americans sit around a table and celebrate a lie told with turkey. This nation committed the genocide of millions of native Americans but we believe the lie because we don't want to accept the truth of what has happened and reconcile that truth. This IS who we are.
Here's the point: MANY OF THESE MEDIA OUTLETS AND POLITICIANS ARE TO BLAME. Why? Because Brian Thompson would still be alive IF we had a single-payer healthcare or Nationalized Healthcare System. Keeping for-profit healthcare in place is dangerous for the working class. But SURPRISE, It's now dangerous for the 1% as well.
If you push people too far, they will take drastic action and it will keep happening as long as this system is in place. The greed of the wealthy will cause them to choke on their aspirations.
Literally decades of dissent & peaceful protest, against this deadly-ass system of healthcare denial, have gotten us exactly nowhere. Certain people remain clueless enough to keep insisting we need to "change the system from within" while over this past half century, the overwhelming evidence has shown time & again, that tactic is guaranteed to fail. A failure manifested in the theft of the commons, and continued destruction of innocent lives, either one’s own or those of friends, family, colleagues… All sacrificial lambs for profits, corporate greed and the almighty dollar! And thanks to Luigi Mangione, the silence on this issue has been broken once more. Whether the oligarchs like it or not, it forces them to see that this issue isn't going away, that it will continue to fester like a boil and raise its ugly head at every opportunity, as more and more of us get fed up with these corporate death panels deciding who lives and who dies.
There are so many examples of the hypocrisy of our ruling elites, but also many ordinary Americans as well (though mostly not on this particular issue). Not only do we celebrate “Thanksgiving” while ignoring the genocide of Native Americans, but we ignore that 50 million turkeys are killed every year for “Thanksgiving”—and not just killed, but treated brutally throughout their short and miserable lives, even if they’re “free range.” You wouldn’t believe what farmers are allowed to get away with while still getting the “certified humane” label. My friend Wayne Hsiung, cofounder of the animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere, knows a lot about this from the investigations he's been involved in. As he posted about today (https://x.com/waynehhsiung/status/1867274097358725243), he was sued for "stealing" baby turkeys from a Whole Foods supplier, when he was actually rescuing them because they were on the verge of death from the brutal conditions in which they were raised (and hence of no market value to the company, since they were still babies).