• otp@sh.itjust.works
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    4 hours ago

    I don’t think I’d be considered “young” anymore, but I don’t know if I’d say I support it.

    Is the world better off without him? Yes.

    Did he deserve to die? Yeah, probably.

    Do I want to support vigilantism? Probably not.

    Would it have been better if he had to deal with some terrible incurable and deadly disease? Yeah, if karma was real.

    • RangerJosie@lemmy.world
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      I’m almost 40. And I support it.

      All other avenues are closed. All the proper and acceptable forms of redress are either coopted or outright captured. Civil, political, or otherwise. Peaceful Protest is universally ignored because it lacks the implicit threat of violence that makes it effective elsewhere in the world.

      “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.” ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau