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I don't consider him a terrorist because I don't consider what he did as a political action.
I agree and also see lots of other acts that are political not get tagged as terrorism.
How's that? It seems very political to me
Unless we're doing a "I didn't see nothin" bit, that's cool too
Luigi didn't make any political demands. He just said this CEO was a bad man and so he killed them.
No specific demands, but this was absolutely not only about the man Brian Thompson, and very much about larger political and economic issues in the country.
...If the manifesto is to be believed, anyway. I understand not everyone trusts the veracity/provenance of it, and that's a reasonable doubt to have.
I saw the Manifesto and I didn't see any socioeconomic political theories, just an apology to the police but "it had to be done."
If it said "The system of privatized health insurance is evil as a result of failure of legislation to restrain the actions of an industry" THEN that would be political, but it didn't say that at all.
My understanding is that Luigi did not publish the manifesto, and that it was discovered by others later. If that's true, then the manifesto itself is not particularly relevant to anything criminal. The message on the bullets could be considered relevant, but I don't see how that alone would be proof of intent to terrorize.
The reason for "it had to be done" is political.
He explicitly states that he does not have the "space" nor the qualification to lay out what you want him to lay out, but he pretty much says what you said he should've said for it to be political: "Privatized health insurance is corrupt and greedy, we've known it for a long time and nothing has been done to prevent or stop it, thus I took a more violent approach to do something about the corruption and greed."
There are a lot of murders and I'm sure every single non-negligience murderer thinks theirs had to be done, mate.
But the reason why they think it had to be done still matters. "This CEO wronged me personally" and "the systemic oppression made me do it" contextualize the act in a very different way. The reason he did this is why it's political. If he had done it because he had a personal vendetta against the CEO or he had some religious beliefs that made him do it or if he was just insane, then it wouldn't be a political reason. But he did it because (paraphrasing his statement) he saw an unopposed corrupt system that needed to be opposed. That is a political reason.
No, its not. Brian Thompson wasn't a legislator. He was a civillian who made money off of others hardships.
Do you think killing someone is political only if the targets are politicians?
If the intent of the killing is to change the system or have political outcomes, then it is political.
We have no indications that Luigi wanted anything other than one or maybe a handful more dead CEOs. That does not have political outcomes. Nothing has changed.
But why did he want one or more CEOs dead?
Because he considered them evil parasites for the work they're doing. Work that is still legal now after he killed one, because killing one doesn't have any effect on the governing laws and overarching system.
You said intent not outcome. Him killing only one and it "not having any effect" is an outcome. His manifesto doesn't say he intended to kill only one, his intentions were against the system not a single individual.
Looking at the outcome and saying "that wasn't political" is like saying Jan 6 wasn't political because they failed to overthrow the government.
He did not have intent based on the obvious outcomes. He has at no point ever given any words about the killing with any political intent.
I don't know what you're lacking to not understand his manifesto and I don't care because it's not my job to improve your failed education. I'm not wasting any more time on you.
You're 11 comments deep of demanding I accept your fanfiction based on evidence that doesn't exist because it fits your own political narrative.
I guess next you're going to call AI generation fanfic.
From Gemini:
Same question with chatGPT.
It's sad when even a braindead AI is smarter than you.
jfc bro really just posted an LLM response
what a fucking troll.
Just pointing out you're the one living in cuckoo land.
it's not political because politics shouldn't have anything to do with healthcare.
kinda depends on your definition of politics
the one I heard that I think is the most useful is, On the broadest level, Politics is how societies decide how and where resources are distributed
by that definition, healthcare can only be a political question, cus no matter how you set it up, you've made a decision about how it's staffed and funded, who it caters to and what its goals are
You say "shouldn't", but until that's true, it does