• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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    14 hours ago

    Why tf do people keep plowing into crowds with cars and shoot school kids but not copypasta ‘a Luigi’?

    I’m not even expressing an opinion, I just don’t find it like statistically possible nobody wants new (well, “new”) exciting game like that.

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      9 hours ago

      Mass murderers tend to be deeply mentally unwell, don’t expect the majority of them to have a deep sense of morality nor class consciousness.

      I do believe/hope Luigi copycats are coming. It takes a year or two of planning and preparation to do it right, so we gotta be patient.

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        7 hours ago

        Yes, perhaps you are right about the timing/opportunity, that would explain a lot (it’s easier to target randos).

        And yes about the deeply unwell part too, but I still think at least some percentage prob have the means and knowhow (and obsessions).

  • papuaNeoGuillotine [it/its, any]@hexbear.net
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    16 hours ago

    I’m shocked that we don’t have more terminally-ill super soldiers going out in style.

    Someone should green light a Bucket List/Day of the Jackal hybrid story to radicalize our terminally ill into action.

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      15 hours ago

      Terminally-ill people usually highly value the time they have left and don’t want to waste them in jail or in a courtroom.

      Or they are already is such a bad condition that prevents them from carrying out assassinations.

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    15 hours ago

    the answer is probably collective action. cant arrest all of us.

    bonus: its probably more effective too. not that putting fear in them isnt effective, but we are looking for systemic change aint we?

    we must be prepared to spin the mangiones that do happen in our favor though. because it will happen again whether we want it or not, things arent sustainable as they are.

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      13 hours ago

      We do Squid Game, but instead of killing them, when they lose, they lose all their assets, have their identity changed, and get major plastic surgery to the point of being unrecognizable, so they can’t get rich again, because the connections they made won’t recognize them.

      They’d probably then do the deed themselves, as becoming working class truly is a fate worse than death for them.

  • bdonvr [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I was really hoping there’d be at least one copycat. There’s still time I guess

    I’d put a disclaimer for the fedposting to say I wouldn’t do something like that, but they already know we’re too LIB to be monitored. sicko-wistful