Brian Thompson didn’t learn shit he’s dead. And I doubt that Stephen J. Hemsley, the Executive Chairman of UnitedHealth Group and Brian Thompson’s co-defendent in an insider trading lawsuit, likely didn’t learn squat either but is currently still alive.

Yup, first and foremost, figure out your gameplay loops.

Get that right and you can pretty it all up later.

You don’t seem to actually understand conservatism.

I’ll give you a little primer. Edmund Burke and Joseph de Maistre created the philosophy of Conservatism as a response to the French Revolution. They were searching for a way to maintain the power of the Nobility in a world that was chopping off the heads of the worst offenders.

Make no mistake, the power of the nobility meant white supremacy as well, because that’s how the nobility always functioned.

But anyway, Conservatism says that the rich are deserving of their riches because they’re just better than you and I. Often invoking God or some bullshit argument that doesn’t boil down to the truth of “my ancestors were fucking monsters who stole a bunch of shit and would literally kill anyone who didn’t obey.”

Anyway, Conservatism has always relied on their being an in class, and then everyone else, but separating that “everyone else” into classes and then sparking resentment among those lower classes.

That’s how it works. Apartheid is when Conservatism is winning, you have your rich elite, and then two out groups, the poor whites and then the bulk of your disfavored minority group (who might very well be the actual majority).

This gives the rich assholes the opportunity to exploit two different groups against each other, lowering the pay of both. And that’s good for the bottom line.

Actually having to pay real wages to the minorities, to treat them as equal to the poor whites who are also being exploited, well that raises everyone’s wages and is seen as the greatest evil that conservatism knows.

The thing is, DEI was always going to become political. Evey single conservative is some level of white supremacist.

You cannot hold conservative beliefs and also be a fan of diversity, equity, or inclusion.

The conservative mind sees people as all innately fitting into social hierarchies. And brown people are always at the bottom.

Trying anything that changes that hierarchy is seen as a direct attack on conservativism. Because in a very real way, it is. Which is the fucking point. DEI policies were a subtle attack on white supremacy via capitalism.

The argument was that companies that practiced DEI made more money.

It worked for a time, but the jackasses would rather throw money away than abandon their social hierarchies.

They’re kind of mask off about it all now.

Burger King just hasn’t died yet.

It has, the copycats are coming.

It won’t be exactly targeted, but more rich assholes will be murked.

A lot of people in this sub just need a radicalization event.

Luigi was radicalized by pain.

No, but it’s the same sort of pattern that you see in mass shooters.

Disaffected young men. Educated, but with minimal meaningful job prospects. Little to no family, or no close ties.

The sort of young man who wouldn’t mind dying, or killing, for a cause, even if that cause is just gaining people’s attention.

In the US, those sorts of young men do all sorts of things, many live productive lives. But almost every single mass shooter is one of those young men. Luigi is one of those young men, That’s why the comparison is apt.

He just decided to kill a rich asshole instead of a bunch of randos. All because his particular radicalization was via pain instead of the usual right wing internet shitholes.

People who know this shit have been through Mangione’s social media feeds.

https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/alleged-ceo-shooter-luigi-mangione

The guy likely did it. The guy’s social media history puts him right in that “potential mass shooter” territory, but one more radicalized by pain rather than the right-wing shitholes of the internet.

But the part no one’s talking about yet are the copycats to come. Because this guy got attention for it. Accolades even. That’s part of what mass shooters want. Attention. Accolades are a wet dream for them.

At least this will be better than when they were murdering children for the shock value.

So yeah, I think “Rich asshole murdered” will become more common. If only the richest asshole in whatever Podunk little town the mass shooter was from.

And yet, I can’t say that it will be a completely bad thing. If the mass shootings must happen, (and America apparently says they must) then I’d rather it be a rich asshole who bites it than a classroom full of grade schoolers.

As if Trump will share the forced labor.

No, this is an end run around the 14th and 13th amendments.

He’s going to round up the brown people and reinstall slavery.

Asian? It depends on skin color and bank balance.

Arabic… Isn’t on the chart.

Steam isn’t a publicly traded company. Which means they can focus on customers and not investors.

He’s tried tariffs before, and had the entire Republican party tell him how shit an idea they are.

But he might not believe them. He is pretty stupid and stubborn.

But I’m thinking he wants to crash the economy to buy everything at pennies on the dollar.

He understands just fine. He wants to replace the taxes that he doesn’t pay with tariffs. A tax on poor people.

The tariffs will also crash the economy, letting Trump and Musk buy up large parts of the country for pennies on the dollar.

I’ve seen some of the same estimates. I settled on 2K because that’s what is estimated to have survived the To a supervolcano. Or rather the non-African population that survived.

Homosapiens in Africa actually did quite well comparatively.

His unit was actually involved in some war crimes. Then he went on fox to defend war crimes.

Humans are pretty resilient. Adaptable to any climate, even the mess of a climate we created.

Now, I’m not saying that all 8 billion of us will survive.

What I’m saying is, the minimum viable genetic population for humans is about 2000 individuals.

There have been CANDU reactors online for decades…

It was the reactor of choice for something like 20 years, before falling out of fashion.

MSRs are good, but are Thorium only, which wasn’t fashionable until recently.

See, prior to about 10-15 years ago, the automatic answer to “how do you get a lot of power in a water poor area” was fossil fuels. Now we have options. Nuclear is one of them, but we need to dust off some older tech and bring it up to modern standards.

That takes time, but less then inventing new types of battery that can handle grid loads.

The only difference between a test reactor and a live reactor is attaching a turbine.

But that article was talking about one specific type of reactor. The Molten Salt Reactor. Those are good. Completely walk away safe. They also are key for having nuclear power in areas with little water. But they’re not the only type of reactor that uses Thorium.

CANDU reactors can burn thorium. It was part of the design specifications. They can also burn natural uranium. i.e. unenriched.

We have centuries worth of Thorium in mine tailings alone.

It’s considered a waste product, but can easily be used for power, China already has a Thorium power plant up and running. The US had a Thorium test reactor in the 60s.