The Sandy Hook families have agreed to reduce the amount they are owed in the settlement in order to make up the difference between The Onion and the highest bidder. This allows other creditors to end up getting paid more despite The Onion’s bid being less because the families are taking less of a cut.

So it’s not The Onion paying more money, it’s the families taking less, and the families aren’t doing this for the money.

Didn’t you know? Doing anything that interferes with corpos having full access to your profitable information means you’re a criminal.

Good. Now go be better.

You’re defending a poster who posted a meme that wasn’t very good.

Spend your time however you like, but you’re spending a lot of time on this to be questioning how other people spend their time

“The last guy got killed in the street for doing this shit, you’re going to do the exact same shit right?”

This meme is astroturf propaganda to try to discourage the working class. There are plenty of stories of insurance companies reversing their decisions and approving procedures that they had denied the day before, or not going through with plans to reduce coverage.

That is what happens when the 1% are reminded that they are outnumbered 99 times, and that those with nothing to lose have nothing to fear.

(you’re not helping your case)

What racism? The only deflection is your taking the time to go on about how you hate liberals instead of focusing on the systematic issues at hand.

Yeah I’m not gonna bother but…

Procedes to bother for 3 paragraphs

I’m not black either, but if somebody randomly decided to blame black people for the system being bullshit I’d call that out too and tell them “you’re directing your anger towards the wrong people.”

Could cops and billionaires be the problem?

No, the liberals are to blame.

Who’s doing that? I’m not seeing that. All I’m seeing is you trying to shift the conversation from “billionaires bad” to “liberals bad” for no apparent reason which is exactly what the 1% want.

“I’m very careful about who I dehumanize so it’s okay.”

“Hey guys, what if instead of a class war we just kept saying derogatory things about each other while the 1% laugh at us?”

Thoughts and prayers

That’s all valid as saying to the US is “a racist, sexist shithole full of threats of violence” because those things exist somewhere in the US.

I guess Lemmy is too by that metric and you’re still here.

So if you’re a small pond how do you treat your medium-large fish this way of not even listening to their response?

“I’m a rational person, and as a rational person I think it’s normal to dismiss people with opinions I don’t like as unthinking automations because it’s impossible for me to consider that someone else might legitimately disagree with me.”

I don’t think you know what jury nullification is…

They’re not wrong…

People arguing for gun control don’t deny the usefulness of guns. Cars are useful too, it’s a lot harder to get a car than a gun.