• mobyduck648@lemmy.world
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      Looking at you Anne Sacoolas, a name that should be infamous throughout the Western world.

      For those who don’t know, this piece of crap was driving on the wrong side of the road after leaving a US base in the UK and through her extremely negligent driving killed a teenager on a moped. Instead of answering for her crime, she fled like the spineless excuse for a human being she is back to the US on a diplomatic passport. Seeing as we’re basically America’s Belarus, she never got close to seeing the inside of a British prison and the US actively refused to send her back. If you work for US intelligence you are literally allowed to kill British people in cars with impunity, they’ll even come out and bat for you when you’re caught.

      There may be no hell but I hope the rest of her days are as close to it as possible, but her actions reveal a callous moral vacuum of a person who no doubt only feels good about getting away with it. Shame on her name forever, shame on the US government for protecting her, and shame on the British government for folding like tissue paper instead of heeding its duty to seek justice for its citizens.

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        They also didn’t go after Russia after they used weapons of mass destruction on British soil.

        Rich people don’t care as long as it’s not their money being hurt.

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          Don’t even get me started, in another age the negligence with respect to Russia and its influence would be tantamount to treason. In my view Burnham must restore confidence by doing the Russia Report properly.

          Also morbid fact, when I took my A-level in physics a question on the paper involved the murder of Litvinenko by the Russian government. If I remember correctly, the question was about the nature of alpha radiation and its property of being relatively benign outside the body but disasterous to inhale or ingest, plus some calculations on the dose the poor bastard was exposed to.

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      Murder has some pretty specific conditions to apply… Maybe consider reading less /c/fuckcars and more what a capital offense entails…

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        120 hrs of community service is insane for a “negligent killing” if that’s what you want to call it. Those kinds of rulings are reserved for billionaires.

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        Not understanding that a pithy internet comment is not going to be words the same way a legal context would employ them as strict terminology is very stupid.

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        Maybe you should spend more time on c/fuckcars and less being an ecocidal narcissist.

        Good peopdont drive cars for personal transportation.

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          That community took a real fucking hard and quick turn from being a group of people with a decent message about the benefits of public transportation, to some fucking brain dead idiots accusing everyone else of being a criminal for driving a car.

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            It’s almost like communities built on hate reinforce your worst thoughts.

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              The worst thought common among humans right now is “there’s nothing wrong with driving”. You didn’t need a community to reinforce that. The bastards profiting off the destruction of the planet will make sure it gets reinforced in every piece of media you consume in your entire life.

              When the wars over clean drinking water start, we need to send the people who wouldn’t buy a bus pass to the front lines first.

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                That’s the “worst common thought”? You’re a parody of an activist.

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                  And you’re an ecocidal narcissist, so I consider your derision a badge of honor.

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            Translation: that comm took a real fucking hard turn from being. Some polite hippies I could easily ignore into being militants who keep pointing out how my selfish choices affect other people.

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                Good job proving my point, too.

                Please stay on the Internet. If you never go outside again you can’t trade my habitable biosphere or my safety for your minor convenience.

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                  You’re right, I should just shoot my fucking daughter too since why bother trying to provide for her when some brainwashed goof on the Internet wants all the benefits of society without any of the underpinnings that drive it forward? Why not?

                  It’s actually, and this will surprise you incredibly, an absolute lack of empathy for people other than yourself that you lack. It’s that you think everyone is in the same situation and the solution for everyone is a train or a bus or just “better transit” But that’s not the case and it cannot be for everyone. People are being forced to live kilometers away from work, but sure they should sacrifice their lives, the families, their time, every part of the their life to “take transit” so some clown on the internet can “live in a walkable city”.

                  The other problem is you are literally online too much and brainwashed into this abusive circle of “car = bad” and spouting these big words without an ounce of actual understanding. So yes, please, touch grass and go talk to real people. There is value in what that community is trying to achieve, but what it has become isn’t going to achieve anything other than generate more hate.

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                    That’s a whole lot of words for “I don’t care how many kids die every year, I’m too lazy to walk a few kilometers”.

                    I genuinely wish ecocidal narcissism were as painful for the narcissist as it is to listen to .

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            The people helping destabilize the environment for their own selfish convenience aren’t random. They are pretty fucking strange though.