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Is Violence Ever the Answer? Exploring Retribution, Justice, and Society’s Shifting Values
Hello, Earnest Mann here! In today’s episode, I tackle a polarizing topic: the role of violence in society and the distinction between justice and retribution. I argue that society’s sanitized view of violence ignores its historical and sometimes necessary role in achieving change. Whether examining the Romanov downfall, revolutions, or modern perceptions of justice, the conversation gets uncomfortable but real.
Violence as a Catalyst for Change: A Historical Perspective
I discuss historical instances like the Russian Revolution and the American Revolution, both rooted in violence. These examples challenge the commonly parroted sentiment that "violence is never the answer." From the Romanovs' fate to King George’s dismissal, history tells a different story.
The Difference Between Justice and Retribution
In our modern justice system, I explore cases like the killing of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangun. The public reaction—a mix of morbid humor and silent support—reveals a revolutionary mindset born out of economic despair. Retribution and frustration often drive the masses, but these are not the same as true justice.
The Soulless Society: A Call for Fire and Character
I lament the childlike complacency of today's society, comparing it to a "sterile, soulless consumer machine." Drawing on my Brooklyn upbringing, I emphasize the need for grit, courage, and the resolve to stand up against bullies—whether in schoolyards or corporate boardrooms.
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Transcript
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hello and thank you for being
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here as soon as you hear anyone be they
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a politician therapist priest I don't
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give a [ __ ] who it is doesn't
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matter as soon as you hear them utter
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the words well yeah that's terrible all
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that's really bad and it's not fair but
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violence is never the
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answer you know I'm telling you you know
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you're dealing with a [ __ ]
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idiot the people who are running the
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show and you can go back in history
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certainly in even recent recorded
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history you know the Russian Revolution
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and the time for
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instance when a group of very
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frightened and hungry and very
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angry revolutionary peasants
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decided especially after the romanovs
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had still lived in luxury for yet
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another year even after they were taken
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out of
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power
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and brought them to the basement and
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shot every one of them man woman and
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child and the truth is they didn't have
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to shoot
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them but they wanted
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retribution that's something I talk
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about a
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lot is that what people want besides
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fairness
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is
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retribution and so that's what
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happened now do you think that part of
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their last words or any of their last
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words to the people who were about to
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shoot them were no you shouldn't shoot
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us because violence is never the
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answer I would remind any patently
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[ __ ] idiotic person out there what do
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you think the United States was founded
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on you know we didn't send emaries to
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King George or as he was known as crazy
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King George at the time with a list of
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desires and wants now it would really
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really be nice if you didn't tax us for
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the tea cuz it's a setting this and it's
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not
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nice last time I checked uh um in order
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to be quotee unquote free and to form
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the Republic we
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have uh yeah it took a war and Wars
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here's a news flash for you Wars [ __ ]
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kill
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people and it doesn't
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matter as far as the killing is
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concerned it doesn't have to be let's
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say an allout
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War it all starts it may even start with
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a single
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killing this is what kicked off um
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basically uh the first world
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war when uh the King Ferdinand was shot
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and killed he and his wife were shot and
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killed by a seran a Serbian
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nationalist uh otherwise known as the
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shot heard around the
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world so yeah when people when push
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comes to
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shove that's why you have [ __ ] course
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but the oppressors who are just yeah
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things are going to get better for you I
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promise I I know your family is starving
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to death and you can't afford rent and
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you can't afford food and you can't
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afford just about anything but but but
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violence is not the
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answer don't threaten us we're busy
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making money from you can't you see
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[Applause]
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H Jesus Christ Christ is everyone in
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this country today are you utterly
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bereft of any intelligence
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whatsoever of course naturally of course
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it's always better to try to reason with
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your
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neighbors but you know if your neighbors
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are [ __ ] steadfastly
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crazy and making your life a living hell
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you know if you whacked out your
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neighbors and I was the judge I've got
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to hear this thing
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out because there's a difference there
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really is a difference between killing
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and
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murder now what they have in common of
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course is someone ends up dead we got
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that not we we we totally got that but
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reasons matter so for instance uh we
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train our troops in the military which
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are well mercenaries now and we say okay
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the government says well all right well
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we want this over here and it looks good
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or it looks good for PR looks good for
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democracy so we're going to take you
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guys and put you guys over
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here and uh we want you to go in and
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restore order that's Cod speak for kill
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a bunch of [ __ ] people and you know
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do what we tell you and then
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leave yeah yet on the other hand the
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people who are doing the killing the
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grunts The Mercenaries which is
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basically really what they are or what
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most of our Armed Forces today have
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sadly
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become um you know the average citizens
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just they're flying the flag we are
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heroes like a [ __ ]
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child I am not a
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child I know what they do speaking from
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some
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experience so yeah having a
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brain um at least a fairly decent one
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yeah I'm I'm pretty aware of what they
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do and it ain't
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nice and uh because well that's what
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it's like when you're a
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mercenary so but the thing is about that
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I will add very quickly that uh being a
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mercenary is a two-edged sword because
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again just to briefly mention on the um
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the r the romanovs I can never say their
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damn name right forgive me but anyway uh
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yeah one of the other problems they had
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um because the wife uh Nicholas was
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basically an idiot and the wife was
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blowing all the money in the world on
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everything but they stopped paying their
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guards that's right the imbeciles were
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so because they had been in power
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forever in so many
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generations even when uh you know the
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the wife was asked about this oh the
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guards the guards they wouldn't dare
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betray
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us yeah but you you hav't [ __ ] paid
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him in 6 months and oh that's they are
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loyal yeah
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really that's not the way it works with
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mercenaries soon as the Bucks stop
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rolling they stop being uh faithful to
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you let's say now let's take for
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example this guy um Luigi
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mangun or
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Luigi
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Manon hope I'm not butchering that at
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any rate um he
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killed um United healthc Care CEO Brian
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Thompson
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and um I can say in my opinion that
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doesn't take again tremendous amounts of
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court cost and and dragging this on
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endlessly um yeah Luigi's
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crazy and I'm not saying that just
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because he killed this guy I'm just
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saying he's not in control of his
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faculties and you know that's not a good
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thing um because for instance if
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anything is with any kind of real you
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know premeditation or
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intelligence you don't carry the murder
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weapon around with you you don't hang
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out in public especially at a McDonald's
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when your name and likeness has been
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plastered from here to [ __ ]
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Jupiter so yeah I mean the guy's
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nuts however um never the criminal
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justice system will never fail to screw
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anything up that's pretty much cut and
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dry so he's going to if he I don't know
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if there's a even a death Penny penalty
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available in this case or not but if it
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isn't he's going to just sit and rot in
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prison where he shouldn't be because he
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should be in a mental health
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facility but at taxpayers expense at
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tens of thousands hundreds of thousands
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which will end up being Millions over
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for a lifetime assuming he lives to a
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ripe old age yeah uh that's the second
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tragedy what I'm talking about in all of
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this is that um the guy is well well
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crazy and so you know yet on the other
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hand there are it's public knowledge
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that there's tens of thousands of just
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incredible amount of all these tweets
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and emojis on uh various uh platforms
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like X or or what have you with uh
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laughing emojis about it and it's not so
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much that people don't give a damn it's
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that you know they support it
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because again they are absolutely
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they're in a very let's say what's the
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word I don't know revolutionary
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mindset because their lives are so
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[ __ ]
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miserable and so they identifi with this
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guy even if he's crazy but at least they
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feel
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some kind of Retribution this is not the
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same as
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Justice
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because the courts are not about
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Justice they're about law and those are
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two different things but the public
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wants
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retribution so there you have
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it I'm going to summarize this and I
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don't want to preach my whole life
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story what I'm trying to illustrate here
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though is that there are people that
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have become or maybe for all I know we
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as a people have become so utterly
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[ __ ]
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childlike that we simply don't
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understand that just like anything
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else violence is a part of
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life
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otherwise you have nothing but a
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sterilized
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UNS
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Soulful uh consumer Society wait a
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minute that's kind of what it does look
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like doesn't
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it absolutely soulless no character no
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hootspa no fire in the belly all our
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young men perpetually childlike being
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vagin playing video games I was taught
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in Brooklyn all those years ago that if
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the guy shakes you down for your lunch
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money or if he's going to hit you or
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what you knock the [ __ ] out of him or
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you try to and maybe he'll beat your ass
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but every single time he tries to Shake
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You Down you hit him hard as you can and
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you know what eventually at least in my
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case they just got tired of it they got
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tired of uh you know [ __ ] with you
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but these people anyone on any level in
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life it's not a
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joke well you just can't go through life
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solving your problems with
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violence I would remind
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you this great nation was founded on
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violence unless you've [ __ ] forgotten
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that too if you want to see a movie that
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perfectly illustrates everything I've
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been talking
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about check out
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THX
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1138 um yeah it just perfectly
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illustrates what the future for um
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Society is and it's
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deeply deeply disturbing that's all I
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have to say I'm out of
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