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Subject: Re: Two political shootings, an assasination and attempted
 assasination in Minnesota
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2025 12:52:38 -0400
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On 6/15/2025 10:02 AM, NoBody wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 21:58:09 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
> <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> 
>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>> Jun 14, 2025 at 10:27:40 AM PDT, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:
>>
>>>> This morning, 6/14/2025, two Democratic-Farm-Labor Minnesota state
>>>> legislators were shot at their homes. One assasination was successful;
>>>> the husband was also killed. The other was an attempted assasination of
>>>> the politician and his wife.
>>
>>> I don't know how I'm supposed to feel about this. When Luigi Mangione gunned
>>> down a health care CEO, it was met with at best "murder is wrong, but..."
>>> excuse-making by the leftist pundit-sphere, if not outright cheering him on
>>> and calling for jury nullification in his trial.
>>
>>> So if murder in service to strongly-held political beliefs is understandable
>>> if not laudable, then should I feel that justice has been served with these
>>> attacks in Minnesota or should I be outraged over the cold-blooded murder of
>>> government officials?
>>
>>> I need a leftist to tell me what I should think and how this is 'different'.
>>
>> Well, I can't tell you how to feel about the murders of Melissa Hortman
>> and her husband, and the attempted murders of John Hoffman and his wife.
>> I was quite upset. I don't care for Americans behaving like they live in
>> a shithole country and assasination is the only way to overturn
>> government and its policies.
>>
>> But let me help you with Mangione. Put yourself in the position of one of
>> Brian Thompson's policy members. You surely wouldn't have wanted Thompson
>> to die by targeted killing. That's a quick death he didn't deserve. No,
>> you'd have wanted him to succumb to trauma or disease and the associated
>> stress of trying to obtain pre-approval from member services for the
>> treatment or elective surgery he required from customer service that's
>> instructed to deny everything.
>>
>> Dying whilst waiting on hold for a supervisor who will never come to the
>> phone? That would have been more like it. No, Mangione did a disservice.
> 
> Wow such hatred on display.  Amazing that you appear to care so much
> about the legislators.  I guess to you some lives are more equal than
> others.

But not to you?  Umm, let's hope you're still under warranty...