Well damn. Here I was trying not to think about this UHC murder-thing, and it's like trying not to think of a purple elephant!
For some reason, I decided to read this piece in The Atlantic. Now I wish I hadn't.
I don't know who Graeme Wood is, but it doesn't seem like I'd enjoy hanging out with him.
It just reads like a lot of condescending, tut-tut'ing.
It sometimes seems that activists have learned nothing and forgotten everything. Consider Womack’s sophisticated theory of social and economic change, born from careful study of electricians’ unions in Mexico—and compare it with the theory that to achieve health-care reform, one should put on a hoodie, shoot a guy in the back, and then get caught a few days later while eating an Egg McMuffin. From this action, and the glee that it has elicited, one learns not that the health-care system is broken but that many of us are.
Yeah, those damn "activists!" (Whoever they are. Evidently, not Graeme.)
"One learns," indeed.
"One learns."
As Mack Bolan pointed out, long ago, "The only problem with killing sons-a-bitches who deserve it is it's so hard to know when to stop."
Perhaps I should re-written that, "One learns that the only problem with..." Give it that Ivy League touch.
This pearl-clutching, blinding glimpse of the obvious by Wood is a waste of electrons.
Breaking news... Many of us are broken.
Wait, what?
Did you see who we just elected president?
A guy who bragged he could shoot somebody in, wait for it... New York City, and his poll numbers wouldn't change! And he wasn't wrong!
No shit, Sherlock. A society that fetishizes firearms, that will do nothing to stem the bloodshed of innocents, all for some fantasy about "freedom," was broken long ago.
A society that cares for "capital" more than people was broken long ago.
Jesus wept.
Spare us your "virtue signaling," Graeme.
We have worse problems than people thinking Mangione is some kind of hero. You should direct your attention toward those, and give us all the benefit of your keen analysis and penetrating insight. Cite some obscure cinematic references too while you're at it.
Class up the joint.
Give me a fucking break.
It's not just, "Don't read the comments," these days.
It's, "Don't read the commentary."
Originally posted at Nice Marmot 18:23 Wednesday, 11 December 2024