A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
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School shooters are largely children, for whom it is much easier to steal daddy/mommy's gun and go to school than it is to:
Like it's not impossible, almost nobody is completely untouchable, but one is clearly easier than the other. I mean like you're not wrong, but good luck with that, it's not likely.
You forgot the one thing that makes this plan a lot more plausible, the pedos can't stop themselves from trying to fuck children. And if the kids turn out to be the actual predators in this situation, too bad for the billionaires.
Also after the first couple of KOs, the rest of the guys on that list are going off the grid, retiring to their yachts / chalets in the alps / volcano fortresses. Are we to expect a teenage would-be school shooter to do some Navy SEALs shit and land on a yacht with a black helicopter?
I'd watch that for sure. Kim Possible: Billionaire Hunter now streaming on Disney+
Remember 'Red Dawn'? Go Wolverines!
I mean, my boy Jescob Jerome Walter did it on December 9th, 2024. Some video game guy took the rap tho
Would still get kills regardless if they go in expecting to die and unlike with killing children if they do somehow live after the whole situation they'd have earned a good bit of glory and respect. Also they could always go after closer lower profile but still notable targets, IE megachurch pastors or local political backers.
Thing about schools though is they're less guarded than rich dudes (1-2 cops max ime, meanwhile rich dudes have generally 2-3+ but also of course the rich guy has less square feet to cover than a school, the school cops can't be everywhere, and the rich security only has to watch him). Furthermore the school cops are uniformed, you can just start with them while they're not looking and now you have at least 5min before more cops even get there, then however long it takes them to "establish a perimeter" and then go in, which could be 7 min or it could be, what was it in Uvalde, 2hr?
Megachurch leaders are for sure more accessible, but you can't actually fight them that way, by making Pastor Steve a martyr, all you do is let his successor Pastor Mike use it as fodder while taking his congregation. You have to fight them by helping the followers themselves, which is tough (especially since people seem to actually hate the followers instead of recognizing them as victims who were vulnerable being taken in by a charlatan.)
While I agree generally I'd like to point out that a lot of these rich people will have gaps in their security that could be exploited. Something as simple as running a 2001 Honda Civic through a fence and through a crowd at the right time could probably get you Musk for example.
But then we start getting into the questions like is collateral acceptable. Which given the fact I think the IRA did only one wrong (not killing Thatcher) you can guess where I fall.
As for mega churches. Yeah I ain't got a counter, I'm from that fun breed of Southern Californian where I think the only way to deal with a cult is to commit a crime against humanity, so yet again can't really add on past just killing a pastor, the upper leadership, and administrative elements.
Well then you're losing a lot of support by killing the bystanders (not yours lol but y'know normal people with a conscience might not like it as evidenced by common perception of said IRA's actions) and a lot would have to go right for that (how close is he to the fence, is there a stage, can your sedan make it through all the bodies in between you and him, can his security take you out before you get him, he's a moving target so will he see the carnage and stand still or more likely will he run, will you be able to find him in a panicked crowd, etc). If the goal is to be an anti-hero it's best to avoid that and be extremely targeted with your violence. Luigi wouldn't be nearly as popular if he had happened to also shoot some random witness for example.
Furthermore since this was about "school" shooters not "mass," a large percentage of those children lack a civic. Some of them don't even have a license, and their disappearance as they drive 3 days across however many states to get to musk will be noticed, especially if they steal mommy's car too and pass any flock camera or ALPR, but also they'll likely be noticed by the parents themselves in all but the most neglectful households.
For some cults you can actually do that, but like, there's still Branch Davidians, mixing cults and Christianity is a very powerful tool. Just look at Mormons, cult - check, christian elements - check, one of the most powerful religions in the states. Some don't even need Christianity, see: Scientology. You kill David Muscavich today and another takes his place tomorrow, and you're not going to be able to kill all of them even if you are fine with killing their victims too due to some warped sense of justice.
You make nothing but fair points. I am damned well aware that my genocidal madness is pretty much worthless even to my own causes. Throw me logistics and I'll do nothing but good, throw me at anything requiring morality and a group I hate and I'll end up hanged at the Hague. Though I do hate how folks dislike the IRA, their cause was just.
Regardless I kinda forgot the most folks don't live in California and that school shooters are often movement incapable and that me pissing around all of SoCal at 17 was the aberration and not the norm.
Eh, fuck it. No more larp. I really do hate how we live in a society where discussions like this are even the vaguest bit reasonable. How to a degree the fastest fix to the problem of pedophilic profligates at the top of society isn't to just throw them in a cell or to lynch them, but to hope some disenfranchised mentally ill kid goes and puts a round into them.
The sad truth is that killing a bunch of kids is much easier than killing a single wealthy person.
Nah. They just need to be smarter about it. Tell them to target Bohemian Grove. I hear it's packed once a year...
What's that?
Which is how the wealthy like it
But, the cops would actually intervene, then.
Suddenly there would be sane gun laws in the US.
In minutes they'd call every such killer a "trans extremist" and soon after they'd disarm trans people entirely. They've been itching for an excuse to actually do that one.
They can't possibly stop school shooters, but they're definitely going to try to stop wealthy pedo shooters.
I'm surprised there haven't been more shootings of the wealthy since Luigi given the positive response to him shooting a health care millionaire.
Oh I guarenfuckentee that a lot of corporate SOPs immediately got updated. Internal memo saying, "why the fuck were we holding meetings in this shithole anyways?"
Just gotta convince all these boys they can't get girlfriends in their cohort because rich billionaires are too busy buying and trading and discarding them like pokemon cards.
rich billionaires
As opposed to poor billionaires?
Can’t you just show them all the love Luigi is getting? Seems like a good motivator.
Er, that is literally what is happening.
It is a factor with some nonzero impact overall, yes. But the average town won't see any of that. They're all concentrated at capitol cities and vacation areas. So if some rando guy in rando city is wondering why no women within 5 miles want him, the elite are not on the minds of any of his prospects.
That really relies on their ability to accurately identify a pedo. The moral panic in which people are being called pedos for anything and nothing is still going on even though we have learned that the Epstein conspiracy was huge and horrible.
Now if they only targeted the people heavily present in the files, yeah probably they'd be seen as heroic
Just decide that anyone with a net worth over a certain amount is a pedo, and if they don't want to be labeled and hunted as such, they need to publicly denounce the other rich pedos.
Anyone over a certain networth is evil of some kind anyway, so pedo or not it's still a safe bet.
Also donate all personal wealth in excess of $50,000,000 to The Sovereign Fund for Humanities Poor.
Maybe we can meet halfway and target billionaires instead?
I'm all for returning fire in the class war, I just really don't want everyone the populist right accuses of pedophilia to get attacked, because that's everyone.
With the number of school shootings here, I think it'd only take weeks.
Well, approximately 288 unique clients have been identified this far.
So probably more like a month.
But there is a good possibility that we could find further pedophile networks; as it appears that they might have had multiple suppliers that would poach Epstein’s trafficked children and compete against him.
~~years~~ days.
Unfortunately, child murderers have more in common with child molesters than with children.
I'm not saying it should happen. I'm just saying I'm surprised it isn't constantly happening.
In a similar vein, if you're trying to protest the power structures by looting and burning buildings and you see a 7-11, turn left. Keep turning left until you come across upscale detached residential buildings, with private drives and gates. Then resume the riot.
Clients and billionaires (they’re the same picture)