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    2 months ago

    The only ones “sick in the head” are the fucking psychopaths who run this country. They kill millions of people each year for the sake of profit, and yet I never hear media calling them “sick in the head”. By DSM definition , they would be psychopaths. A legitimate mental illness. And I have zero sympathy for those who take advantage of their fellow humans for their own selfish benefits. In any normal society, they would not be allowed to exist. And when the functioning of a society is not being fixed through non-violent methods, what else are we supposed to do? I’m genuinely asking.

    If I am “sick in the head”, then so are many, many others. And if many others feel the same way I do, then that means it is not the individual who is “sick”. It is society that is “sick”. And sometimes the only way to beat a parasitic infection is to crank up the heat and get rid of them. So I think it’s time we crank the heat up and start demanding a society that puts the human spirit first instead of profits for the few.

    **responding here to your deleted comment calling me “sick in the head” since I can’t respond to a deleted comment.

    Edit: Attached your deleted comment.



  • Yeah, I get that. However, the optics of having a successful “martyr” symbol is very, very dangerous. A wide scope of narrative means difficult to control. Difficult to control introduces “motivator to action” symbols among a, I think, specific (and quite populous) demographic (think of all the young males with zero purpose, waiting to seize on an opportunity for a real life Mr Robot, for example)… “well if he could do it, get away with it, AND become a ’hero’, what’s stopping me from doing the same?”

    Having someone, anyone, buys time to craft the narrative and gauge public sentiment and, most importantly, dampen the probability of a revolutionary ’spark’ if you will.

    Obviously we don’t have enough information here. It very well could be the dude they have in custody. I am only sharing one possible theory based off my experience and observations. And there are a number of very suspect observations here that are in line with narrative management.