• user_name@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    The execution currently being wrongfully attributed to Luigi Mangione changed my view—as has the glorious 10th of September, when Charlie Kirk got Charlie Kirk’d.

    I realized that, empirically, I am pro-death penalty in some cases.

    Maybe another way to put it: do you believe in self defense? Maybe not “castle doctrine” or “stand your ground” but what about cases of war? If killing Nazis and Imperial Japanese soldiers in a war of defense (WWII) is okay, what about self-defense against the billionaires during a class war? It’s no accident the Epstein associates are all “elites.” This is part of the class war and their exercise of power over us.

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      20 hours ago

      Exiling corrupt kings/elites instead of executing them is literally a function of how the elites have maintained their power through the centuries.

      The Epstein files are our best hope at unifying Americans against the neo-liberal DNC and the neo-facsist GOP.