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Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting taken into custody after being recognized at McDonald’s
(www.theguardian.com)
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He won't be, but the next guy will do the same shit.
if only there was a recent example of how to effectively solve that particular problem...
That's your wishful thinking, it won't happen again.
of course it won't! it hasn't happened ever before either!
like it didn't happen in 2011.
like it didn't happen in 2006.
like it didn't happen in the 1920s.
or the 1800s.
or the 1700s.
or the 1600s.
or the 1500s.
it's always never happened before, and it always never happened again.
tyrants never got what they deserved before, so they'll never get what they deserved again.
are you just unfamiliar with the entire concept of history?
here's a handy list of all the times this exact thing never happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinations
Your most recent example is 13 years ago, then 18 years ago. Do you honestly think 3 assassinations in 20 years is making CEOs so the right thing? Cause it sure doesn't seem like it.
no, but:
it's a cycle as old as civilization itself.
(not to be confused with that bullshit cyclical history theory... it's "a" cycle, not "the" cycle and it's neither guaranteed, nor predictable, necessary, nor regular. just to preempt any confusion about that)
another example:
The Defenestrations of Prague (Czech: Pražské defenestrace, German: Prager Fenstersturz, Latin: Defenestratio Pragensis) were three incidents in the history of Bohemia in which people were defenestrated (thrown out of a window). Though already existing in Middle French, the word defenestrate is believed to have first been used in English in reference to the episodes in Prague in 1618 when the disgruntled Protestant estates threw two royal governors and their secretary out of a window of the Hradčany Castle and wrote an extensive apologia explaining their action. In the Middle Ages and early modern times, defenestration was not uncommon