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    7 days ago

    I’d argue he’s done more to help you than you’ve done to help yourself

    What an almost insultingly absurd thing to say. He’s done nothing for any of us. Killing Thompson didn’t fix a single problem for anyone. Nobody’s claim got approved over this. All he accomplished was giving a bunch of people a justice boner.

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      And yet what he did was infinitely more effective than the “Jack shit” approach we’ve been trying for decades.

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      Someone has to kick start a movement, become a matyr for everyone to rally around.

      Mohamed Bouazizi was just one person who set himself on fire. Isolated, it’s just a man setting himself on fire. However, that incident ended up being action needed for the Tunisian revolution.