Taylor Lorenz Says 'We Want These Executives Dead' Hours After Health Insurance CEO Murdered

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Okay?
I don't see a problem here. Right wing personalities encourage harming and killing LGBTQ+ people and liberals, far-right people bomb abortion clinics and kill doctors, but now it's suddenly bad to say that oh, yeah, some people deserve a good killin'?
Seems like crocodile tears to me.
- I haven't seen nearly as many right-wing people praising/encouraging obvious murder at I have here and on Bluesky. If something horrible happened to Nancy Pelosi, you sure wouldn't see me posing with a model of her decapitated head - unlike a certain comedian.
  Even granting what you say, is putting out veiled death threats under one's real name really the kind of thing leftist figures should be doing in the wake of an election where Trump was nearly killed twice and the US decided that the left is too extreme for them?
  
  the US decided that the left is too extreme for them?
  Er. No. That's not what happened. When you look at vote totals from 2020, you can see that Biden got 81M votes to Trump's 74M. Looking at vote totals from 2024, Harris got 74M votes--the same as Trump in 2020--and Trump eked out a slightly improved performance at 77m. This isn't a 'mandate'; this is fewer people showing up to the polls. If the same number of people had voted in 2024 as voted in 2020, it's probable that Trump would have lost again. That isn't people saying the left is "too extreme", that's apathy.
  
  To be fair, like most left wing echo chambers like Reddit, you're probably more likely to see extreme content there than amongst most people on the left.
- The funny thing about this response is I bet you'll continue to criticize the right for doing this after greenlighting the left to do this since the right does this
  (Side note: it's fair to acknowledge that both Taylor Lorenz and abortion clinic bombers are extremists in their own respective political wings)
Headline is a straight lie. She actually said, as the article buries
And people wonder why we want these executives dead
- What is the is difference between -
  "We want these executives dead" and "And people wonder why we want these executives dead". Both statements want them dead.
  
  Passive and active voice. Also the part about"and people wonder why"
This event seems to have united all people in a way that I haven't seen since 9/11. There's nobody in the country who hasn't been affected by the greedy and evil practices of health insurance companies. Conservatives and liberals alike seem to all be responding with "and nothing of value was lost" type responses.
This is from an article I read earlier today:
"Beyond the shooter's own motives, it's clear from the shockingly celebratory reaction online to Thompson's murder that anger about the American insurance and healthcare system has reached the point of literal bloodlust."
People are fed up, and millions have been pushed to a breaking point
I didn't see anything about "encouraging" nothing like standing back and standing by at all.
She is saying what we are all thinking.

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