I’m sorry I didn’t upload this before, if there are some amongst you who want to discuss the, er, situation. I have been obsessing about this election for months now and I think that now we’re here I find I’m too anxious to watch the returns coming in as a Trump victory would be the biggest disaster for this country since, I dunno, the civil war? I took a peek at Twitter about twenty minutes ago (I refuse to use its other name) and the people I follow are all sounding very gloomy and now I’m more tense and scared than I have ever been about this election. The Russian bomb threats aren’t helping the situation. I don’t know if I’ll even check the news again tonight (who am I kidding, I will) but if you guys feel like chatting here’s a place to do it.
@GSS ex-noob:
The killer is rich, good-looking, and male, so I’d guess he gets is murder with the possibility of parole, if they get a jury that isn’t hung. Everyone on both the left and the right hates “health” care companies, so it won’t break along ideological lines. Just finding enough jurors who haven’t personally or in their family been screwed over by their insurance is going to be tough.
As of 13 December 2024, Luigi Mangione is already a character in over a hundred AO3 fanfics, the majority being “x Reader”—i.e., as lover to the reader’s self-insert.
The last time there was a gilded age, people romanticized bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde. No one should be surprised about this latest development.
Another $64,000 question: while the public is caught up in the current assassination/healthcare drama, swapping headcanons and favorite conspiracy theories and deciding whom to cheer and whom to fling poop at…are the once and future Powers That Be taking advantage of the diversion to sneak some further awfulness under the radar?
Here’s a bit of holiday cheer that somehow wound up on the Daily Heil:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/embed/video/1369595.html
@FMOx: delightful!
Due to the laws of NY state, the shooter is currently only charged with 2nd degree murder, but they’ll find some excuse (probably for the across-state-lines) to bump it up to first.
His rich family might be able to get him a diminished capacity plea, since despite his target, he does seem to be not right in the head. But the insurance companies and their bought politicians are still going to go for murder one.
In any case, he’s going to be in some kind of institution for a while.
@FMO;
One of the aides to Kennedy has formally filed a request with the FDA to withdraw its approval of a polio vaccine.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/12/13/robert-f-kennedy-jr-ally-petitioned-stop-polio-vaccine/76972463007/
The guy claims that the current version of said vaccine needs a lot more testing to rule it out as a cause of the massive autism epidemic ravishing America’s children.
….it doesn’t say anything nice about these folks when they consider a kid who processes the world differently from the ’norm’ but is otherwise healthy to be a thousand times worse off than a kid sentenced to spend their lives crippled (at best) by polio. Or having a cough so bad it breaks their ribs (whooping cough). Or….
Sure, cuz dying of preventable diseases is so much better than being a little different than average.