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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: Two political shootings, an assasination and attempted
 assasination in Minnesota
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 11:51:00 -0400
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On 6/16/2025 7:40 AM, NoBody wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jun 2025 12:52:38 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> 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...
>>
> 
> Can you find where I've attempted to justify murder like you have?

Like *I* have????  Have you stopped beating your wife?

The only thing waiting to be "found" here is any functioning human who 
doesn't value some lives more than others.