“So we wanted to start this interview off with a bang.”

Thanks, I agree

No, that’s why I talked about the owning class. Their socio-economic class has a different relationship to businesses than the worker class. Furthermore, the vast majority of the 440,000 employees are not in an executive role (and able to decide what work the corporation does) nor do most have the financial freedom to choose a more ethical job (there are only so many jobs available that pay enough to support a family, most of which are just in other for-profit companies beholden to the same rules of competition under capitalism).

And, as I said before, I don’t advocate for assassination as a tactic, for strategic reasons:

The only reason to avoid advocating these acts is that this style of PotD-like adventurism generally isn’t a sustainable tactic, compared to the power of building a mass movement.

I do celebrate Thompson’s assassination, but I don’t advocate copycats.

I mean, off the top – intent.

I realize this was just the first point, but as an aside, where do you stand on the concept of “just following orders”? Does merely doing a job make someone neutral, if they have no bad intent? Or is someone just doing their job therefore partly responsible for its impact, since they are a necessary part of the process, and complicit in it?

Why not? Context matters. If I just replied to you with “Ten is less than twenty”, you should be downvoting it, truth or not!

No. Brian Thompson is not special, they are just one of many, and that is the point. These are systematic problems, not an individual moral failing of one CEO or one corporation.

One aspect is that mass media is overall owned by those people and is propaganda. If you don’t have ways of seeing what’s happening on the ground, you miss a lot of the good news. Even your twitter/bs/mastodon feeds won’t give you the full story, you have to (where possible) get involved in a real community organization.

Vandalize ads where safe to do so.

Celebrating the murder of Brian Thompson and especially advocating for more acts like it is abhorrent behaviour.

No, it is not. The owning class must be pressured into respecting us more than profits. By any means necessary. The government and police will not stop mass social murder, so we must do what we can to save lives.

The only reason to avoid advocating these acts is that this style of PotD-like adventurism generally isn’t a sustainable tactic, compared to the power of building a mass movement.