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The brazen murder of a CEO in Midtown Manhattan—and the cheering reaction to his execution—amounts to a blinking-and-blaring warning signal for a society that has become already too inured to bloodshed, @adriennelaf.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/ZRcsrreK

Stephen Monteith, Author of "The Trials of Seffin Phel"

@stephens.website

13 Dec 2024

It did not begin with mistrust in the institutions. It began when those institutions gave good reason to be mistrusted. And if you think the bloodshed began with the m*rder of the CEO, then *you're* already too inured to notice the sheer number of deaths that CEO's policies caused.

Stephen Monteith, Author of "The Trials of Seffin Phel"

@stephens.website

You know what was a "blinking and blaring warning signal"? When it took an act of Congress for coverage of pre-existing conditions to become the norm . Health insurance is an industry that is designed to *not* give people what they pay for. That it takes a m*rder to draw attention to that means...

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Stephen Monteith, Author of "The Trials of Seffin Phel"

@stephens.website

13 Dec 2024

...that you're already "too inured" to notice.