I think this will be my last post on Hubski regardless, but I figured since you were kind enough to post a long thoughtful reply that you at least deserved a response.

I swear to god, everything I post here I do so because I thought it would be appreciated by either you or am_u. But even with things I post specifically for you its clear I'm only making you upset, and it genuinely feels awful.

And it extra sucks because I'm pretty sure we pretty much completely agree? Or at least that's the takeaway I get so I think maybe its just that I'm bad at communicating but I think it's pretty clear that we share a ton of the same values and have similar hopes for the world. So I'm sorry again for disappointing you and I really do hope things go your way.

Going through point by point:

We have a patient. She's on medicaid. She needed some tests run that aren't available to be scheduled in the next six months. So the neurologist we sent her to said "just go to the emergency room and hand them this note." THAT is a protest. She did one better, though - she lost her car keys and didn't feel like looking for them so she called an ambulance. If she were insured? It prolly woulda cost her about $25k. But she isn't so for her it was free. Now THAT is a protest.

This is awesome and totally majorly improved this person's life.

You didn't even begin to investigate the situation before shooting your mouth off. You are so deep in your "nothing can be done" frame of mind that an Ivy League scion of a multimillionaire family that owns a half dozen medical facilities is justified in shooting a bitch. your level of satisfaction is thoroughly unattainable, so you wallow in helplessness.

I think that if taking down private healthcare couldn't be done with a president and a supermajority in congress elected on the promise of taking down private healthcare, that I'm pretty justified in saying that it can't be done. I think if anything, politically we are farther from this than we've been in my lifetime, which is why I bring up the stupid things the Dems are doing as opposed to fighting private healthcare.

Is your first thought "I'ma go shoot the CEO of the British East India Company?"

If I had a time machine and was sent to destroy the British East India company I honestly don't know what the hell I would do. I don't think I possibly could. You know as much as me that one person acting alone making massive change is Marvel nonsense. I do think it's a interesting this was the example you picked though, since what little I know from history I'm pretty sure what did end up taking it down was violent revolts in every colony.

Now - I'm not going to argue there was no point to capping Brian Thompson. For one thing, this sort of thing gains credibility when there's violence behind it. Terrorism? Mos def. A novel way to demonstrate dissatisfaction with the system? Also that. And see, putting up a poster doesn't involve throwing your life away.

This was the only point I was trying to make. So we totally agree, though I clearly framed it in annoying way. (I don't get what you mean by the poster, though? A poster wouldn't even make local news)

Now in the first place, don't fucking feed the accelerationists. This is you and Steve Bannon, nodding and stroking your chins in sync.

I think this isn't quite accelerationism. If I understand them correctly they would work to make healthcare worse and more unaffordable to break down society or something. It's seems obviously cope for stuff that would happen anyways.

And to be clear - I hope there is not a huge spree of similar things happening, to the point that the gov't, to protect the citizens it cares about most, puts up martial law or makes us more of a police state. I don't think the left is ready to capitalize on any sort of real conflict. I think this assassination was a fun treat that doesn't do a heck of a lot but is silly to be opposed to.

Ours is a society of desperate inequality and that gets worse more often than it gets better, at least in my lifetime.

This was the other half of my point. Again, I feel like we completely agree, just you're more upbeat about it. I say that the systems never going to change no matter what and the best we can do is paper around the issues, and you say that you can make a difference in the lives of those around you within the system and I think both are right and neither one's in conflict.

And fuck off, man. You can't even show me the courtesy of stopping to think before running your mouth. I deserve better. So does everyone you talk to. The purpose of discussion isn't to profess your ill-conceived emotional positions it's to dialogue and you aren't even trying to hear. It's far more important to you to wail about how hopeless everything is so that you don't have to fucking do something about it.

Promise this wasn't my intent but again clearly I'm doing something wrong and the first thing I'll do is stop digging