I think this is as funny as the next person but realistically what will change?
Won’t they just elect another scumbag and keep going?
The assassination reminded us that they are not some sort of incorporeal beings, but that they can be killed.
Not if something also happens to the next one and the following one and so on.
Well, if you don’t wanna celebrate a monster dying just for the sake of it, we can look at it from an environnent perspective, taking that pos out did more for the environnent than Green Peace has in the last 10 years.
Nothing will change unless it becomes a recurring and common thing.
How many people can actually pull off a successful assassination of a wealthy person? Not many, especially now that security is going to go up.
Nothing will change, but at least that one guy got some revenge.
just wait until Republicans suddenly turn anti-2A
And that one guy got his comeuppance
Assassinating is so easy a child could do it. It’s getting away with it that’s hard.
not a problem for people with nothing left to lose.
Hard to predict.
This act broke the taboo against violence and shattered the perception of powerlessness. Turns out there is something you can do against these assholes, and it’s not as unpopular an option as you might have expected.
It may inspire imitation, emboldening other pissed victims. It may scare the other CEOs into treading more carefully. It might embolden progressive politicians to challenge the status quo, now that they see how popular that can be.
Or it might end up a big ball of hot air that doesn’t do anything. Like I said, hard to predict.
If all the disaffected white teens stopped shooting up schools and started shooting CEOs, it’s not healthy, but they would be channeling their anger in a better direction.
I think it’s a precedent, CEOs actually have something to fear aside from their job. Which usually fails upward with a good serverance package. This is also a sign that the Government and the laws of the land no longer works for the people. It’s a good and a bad thing either way.
I think they’ll all get their companies to pay for security details and armored cars. It’ll make them feel even more self-important.
Then hopefully someone shows security details and armored cars are easily taken care of with homemade devices.
If they’re a person it should go all the way. They should be able to go on trial for homicide. Some states still have the death penalty for people. Disband the company if it commits serious crimes.
While still jailing those who made the decisions and performed the illegal actions.
This guy was willing to do it for free. Imagine if there was a bounty.
When society gets to the point where you will die if you don’t do anything … or you will die if you do something …
Eventually people realize that they will be punished, threatened or endangered no matter what they do or don’t do, some people will come to the conclusion that they would rather go down fighting.
If you’re going to get screwed doing nothing, some would rather go out on a blaze of glory because they no longer have anything to lose.
I am assuming that when this guy is caught, what we will find out is that his wife had cancer and died from it and they refused to honor their claims or something like that.
Dealing with insurance with a nonfatal chronic illness can also be infuriating. You have to keep fighting the same battle over and over and over again.
Or perhaps himself dying of a treatable disease they refused to pay for. He’ll be a hero either way, the question is how much.
Does he have a Patreon?
Even if he did, any funds would be frozen. A Monero Address would be a better way of receiving money.
Edit: Mind you, I expect him to very soon be arrested, so he wouldn’t really have any time to enjoy it.
Edit 2: Look up Jim Bell. He wrote a very popular essay in the 90s.
Don’t get scammed but if he ever needs a legal defense fund, I think the plebs can figure it out.
He did job well, least we can do it pay respects
Shareholders can’t stop talking about this one trick to make their stocks go up.
UHC cuts costs by $13 million, find out why CEOs hate this one simple trick
Serious? People are reacting with laughing emojis? Really?
😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆They just recovered the backpack perhaps
unsuccessfully.
Thank fuck Lemmy isn’t owned by corporate interests that need other corporate interests to advertise on them or it’d be happening here, too.
.world does it voluntarily.
Can’t complain if you’re gonna play the same game for the other side…
I’m not.
He didn’t really get “assassinated”. He just got denied his critical-life benefits.
Exactly… Don’t humaniE this parasite. Give him that corpo treatment.
Claim to life denied 🙅
Pre-existing condition, lead poisoning in a boomer.
This isn’t a generational thing. For a start, he’s technically Gen X, not a boomer. And secondly, I’m older than him and I’m just as happy about that as everyone else.
(Gen X voted for Trump at a higher rate than boomers)
Which is really really sad. When I was younger I used to think we just need these old people to age out of the system and my generation can do things better. We seem to be doing significantly worse.
While boomer is deff age, when people refer to it online it largely mind sent reference… that parasite pest leeching on working people and feel entitled to do it, indigent when exposed.
You know the type…
What I like about this moment is that the people who ought to be fearful are indeed the ones who are fearful. I mean shit, Elon is posting Tweets about how great CEOs are actually, health insurance companies are removing pages from their websites that identify leadership, it’s a lovely little pocket of schadenfreude where we can all take a breath and prepare for the next 4 years.
Ive got bullets with words on them and bullets without. But I’m all outta bullets without words on them
These parasites know that we got numbers on our side and we permit their rule by and large…
I don’t think this corp of owners realize that plebs can turn on a dime, they got too comfortable. This is a wake up call.
Having their goon wacked like this got to make them feels a certain way hehe
For the sake of my neighbors and their loved ones and their neighbors and loved ones, please stop permitting people to rule over them
I hope there’s a copycat to reinforce the lesson very soon, or they’ll write this off as a one off.
I like the idea that they’ve got billions of dollars, but will have to live in a windowless bunker eating beans.
They couldn’t even hunker down in their mansions for two weeks of Covid lockdown.
They like to fantasize about it, but the reality of living like that will hit them fast.
Boot them from our nice society, in other words
We could deny them the right to buy and sell too. Just everybody refuses.
One of r/InterestingAsFuck’s rules is “No politics,” which a moderator for the subreddit told us is the reason it was removed.
A rule for arbitrarily deleting any post on ill-defined idea that some topics are not political. Why even say such an unreasonable thing when you can just say supporting violence is against site-wide rules?
Why even say such an unreasonable thing when you can just say supporting violence is against site-wide rules?
No one who thinks that hard is still moderating at reddit.
I bet because nobody was actually supporting violence just gloating BC parasite got FAFO
just wait until tr*mp kills section 230
I’m telling ya, this is the beginning of A Christmas Carol. The ghost of Thompson needs to visit his colleagues and warn them you too, shall die, and no-one will mourn you and the people will celebrate in the streets. And all your friends will tear into your assets like vultures into carrion.
Heck, replace the ghosts with mobsters and use a trick of time rather than supernatural spirits, and you have a 21st century version of the story.
Get Bill Murray and Bobcat Goldthwait. We’re doing this.
I couldn’t help but notice Blue Cross rescinded its very dangerous policy placing a time limit on anesthesia the day after the murder.
I don’t want a reign of terror, but perhaps just a little bit of terror will have CEOs thinking they could be next when considering especially harmful policies.
Thats okay because its not terror its defense.
Marx once said that proletarians won’t embellish the terror once it’s their turn.
Robespierre thought killing tens of thousands of people was defense. History has not been kind to that position.
Finding out after you’ve fucked around isn’t terror.
Timothy McVeigh was a terrorist. This guy’s a vigilante.
I guess it all depends how IRA makes you feel lol
Thatcher was the one that got away
TIL Reddit has paid employees, for what they call the “modcoc team”.
GOOD! #good
