{"id":89654,"date":"2025-05-23T07:14:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T12:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89654"},"modified":"2025-05-23T07:14:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T12:14:02","slug":"modeled-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89654","title":{"rendered":"Modeled Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cretin who apparently was spawned from the radical campus antisemitism movement murders a couple of Israeli Embassy employees in DC:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yaron and Sarah were our friends and colleagues. They were in the prime of their lives. <br><br>This evening, a terrorist shot and killed them as they exited an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in DC. <br><br>The entire embassy staff is heartbroken and devastated by their murder. No words\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2HytKDp8Fr\">pic.twitter.com\/2HytKDp8Fr<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Embassy of Israel to the USA (@IsraelinUSA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IsraelinUSA\/status\/1925447599164702743?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 22, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The killer shot them both in the back, and then reloaded and finished them off on the ground as disarmed, bovine DC residents milled around like stampeded cattle.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not an aberration.\u00a0 <a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">This is part of Big Left&#8217;s plan<\/a>.\u00a0 Oh, not the one they say out loud.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Soon enough, progressive politicians would attempt to co-opt this emerging trend to burnish their own political brands. \u201cYou don\u2019t kill people. It\u2019s abhorrent. I condemn it wholeheartedly,\u201d Senator Bernie Sanders told a reporter at the aptly named <i>Jacobin<\/i> magazine. Then came, as it did with every subsequent politician\u2019s quote, the key word: <i>But<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<i>But<\/i>,\u201d he continued, \u201cwhat it did show online is that many, many people are furious at the health insurance companies,\u201d presumably for making a profit in a sector that should run on altruism alone. And apparently Mangione wasn\u2019t just representing American emotions about health care: \u201cThe campaign finance system is broken, the health care system is broken, the housing system is broken, the education system is broken. It is broken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senator Elizabeth Warren followed the same \u201cbut\u201d rule. \u201cViolence is never the answer,\u201d she mused. \u201c<i>But<\/i> people can only be pushed so far\u201d and will \u201cstart to take matters into their own hands\u201d when the political system doesn\u2019t cater to their demands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not to say that an act of violence is justified,\u201d Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez intoned. \u201c<i>But<\/i> they need to understand that people interpret and feel and experience denied claims as an act of violence against them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senator Chris Murphy wouldn\u2019t condone violence, of course\u2014\u201c<i>but<\/i> we need to listen to what people are feeling.\u201d The feeling Thompson\u2019s murder exposed must be \u201cmatched by the anger over the thousands of people who die, often anonymous deaths every single day at this country at the hands of a health-care industry that mostly doesn\u2019t give a s\u2014t about people and only cares about profits.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They don&#8217;t want violence, BUT if they make society so dangerous the people beg for an all-powerful government to save them, what are they supposed to do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ilhan Omar reacted with the states-womanly class we&#8217;ve come to expect from her:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8Ilhan Omar just refused to offer ANY condolences for the two Israelis murdered in DC last night. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dvhQePMzXZ\">pic.twitter.com\/dvhQePMzXZ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/townhallcom\/status\/1925562098978897990?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 22, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My ongoing offer to teach any of my Jewish friends <em>who don&#8217;t already know,\u00a0<\/em>how to shoot, stands.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cretin who apparently was spawned from the radical campus antisemitism movement murders a couple of Israeli Embassy employees in DC: The killer shot them both in the back, and then reloaded and finished them off on the ground as disarmed, bovine DC residents milled around like stampeded cattle. This is not an aberration.\u00a0 This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-western-civilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89655,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89654\/revisions\/89655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}