Just as a comment, not a suggestion: a society that squeezes its people has to either repress them hard, or at some point expect it to start boiling over. The mob lynching the leaders is what happens once the mob gets desperate enough and are not heard.
And said repression often is one of the last straws before the people reach boiling point. :)
I work in the insurance industry (though not directly for an insurance company) and while it’s a small sample size, employees there range from apathetic to rolling their eyes at the “poor CEO needing money for his funeral”
Insurance is a gamble with money. Noone cares. Health-insurance is a gamble with life. If you work for Hitler, you are Hitler. At least the nazis back then could blame it on cluelessness and not knowing. You can’t. If you meant THIS kind of insurance.
People aren’t happy someone was murdered. People are happy that the physical representation of an industry that should prioritize health and treatment but only prioritizes profit got what it probably had coming to it.
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Dunno what made you think people aren’t happy he was murdered. I’m quite pleased that he got what was coming to him. He has destroyed countless families and relationships. The only injustice is that we can’t reanimate his corpse and kill him again.
It was a PERSON that was murdered.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ people die everyday
Right? Fuck people
Sometimes they die because the health insurance that they pay for gets rejected.
Yeah, but the person was a murderer to begin with.
A person? No, it was lots of people who were murdered. Fortunately, they got the guy who was doing it.
The person who murdered the CEO has not been caught so you are wrong.
Is it murder to shoot someone who’s in the process of murdering people in order to stop them from committing murder?
How many people died to make his company more money?
I mean, sort of.
nooo how dare you push the lever :(nah
He wasn’t a rock?!??
Doubt
Protip: knowing how to type while holding SHIFT does not make you CORRECT.
Morally not condoning murder of an innocent makes me correct.
Feel free to not condonde the murder of an innocent all you want, but that’s another case, not this one.
To be that cold blooded he was definitely a reptile of some sort.
He was a person. Dehumanizing him like you did is similar to how Hitler dehumanized people. Congrats on being like Hitler.
You are being like Hitler too.
Is your retort the 8-year old version of “I know you are but what am I?”
No.
“LiTERalLy HiTleR”
Let’s not offend reptiles like this. Cockroaches, maybe.
Yeah you’re right, I’ve handled wild garter snakes that are more nice then that guy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_murder
So were all the people who died from denied care so he could buy a yacht or fourth house or whatever.
I’m not entirely convinced that billionaires should be considered human
He wasn’t a billionaire. Not even close.
Maybe people shouldn’t consider you human.
If he ever starts hoarding piles of gold like an angry dragon, you may have a point
Sounds like you care about someone very rich and very exploitative, and you don’t like the idea of scores of people cheering in the event they’d have the same done to them by someone they’d exploited.
I want to assure you that we do not care about your feelings. We’ll celebrate their passing and few will sympathize with your grief.
I don’t agree with innocent people being gunned down for no reason.
“For no reason?” Were you hatched yesterday, or something?
Neither do I. Hence I celebrate that he was gunned down for good yes reason.
It’s sick to think there’s people like you in the world who condone killing innocent people just because you don’t like them.
I’m gonna guess you’re not worried about someone else, you’re feeling some kind of guilt about exploiting a lot of people.
43 millionaire. He was 957 million short of his first billion. He was comfortably in the top 1%, but not anywhere close to the top .1%.
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
Gibson, Count Zero
It was a PERSON that was murdered.
So was Jeffrey Dahmer.
Brian had a way higher k/d ratio though, so thats really unfair to Jeffrey.
The kind of PERSON who celebrates profiting off of making people suffer by snorting coke off his buddies cocks. Deny, defend, depose.
I’m glad he was offed. People like that simply don’t deserve to live. If you despise human life, why should yours be respected at all?
This coming from a non-american, anti-religious misanthropist.
I’m kinda happy. Hope it happens more too. Aaaand ima get banned aren’t I?
I for one wholeheartedly endorse this violence for it’s reasons.
I mean fuck it. Reddit banned me for endorsing violence with a tongue in cheek comment that really didn’t endorse shit despite how I made and grew one of the most famous subreddits.
Nothing is safe when a dude over there can make rotten decisions you can’t physically do shit about. I’m gonna support the “physically do shit about it” people. Getting banned from Reddit did my health wonders.
Those fuckers banned me for “inciting violence” when I made a joke about melting guns down into bullets, and “glorifying violence” when I said I think it’s funny when conservatives die from drinking listeria milk.
I’m with you. I’m glorifying this violence, and I hope the gunman never gets caught. If he does, catch me donating to his defense fund.
I’ll give a shit about Thompson’s family grieving the day the day that no American dies from lack of access to insulin. How many grieving families do these whiny fucking centrists ignore every six minutes on average?
not ne… your .world yeah your banned
No mods, I didnt see any comment.
RIP ur account when an admin sees it
Nah, this ain’t lemmy.world.
For the record I’m very happy about this.
both your accounts are on world, though, and at this point i honestly wouldn’t be shocked to hear that you woke up tomorrow to find you could no longer log in
What do you mean both? I only have one account.
You and the guy you’re replying to
Oh, duh. Sorry.
Aaaand ima get banned aren’t I?
What is this, reddit.com? There’s no bourgeois advertisers or venture capitalists to appease here. [0]
edit: just noticed your account is registerd on lemmy.world… consider exploring other instances just in case they get out the banhammer. but, I mean, they can’t ban all of you.
least rabid ml user:
haha rabid in what way?
And it also shows the rich getting to experience the find out part after constantly fucking around.
I’m just here so I don’t get fined
How hated must you be when suddenly leftists, tankies, fascists, conservatives and liberals find themselves in quiet agreement about their feelings on your murder. Even the silence from gun control advocates is deafening.
“Quiet”?
The few precious moments of shared class consciousness.
To be fair, this isn’t really a “gun control” type situation. A single, targeted, killing, would have been just a successful if it were done with a knife instead. The gun control arguments are more applicable to spree killings.
I mean, the guy would have been able to write their whole message on one knife rather than needing three bullet casings to get it across.
So I guess environmentalists and the metal industry (Big Metal?) would probably care a bit?
Absolutely not. We simply have to deal with those killing sprees and just feel bad when it happens because the alternative is the state doing the killing sprees and nobody having any answer.
I’m confused. Are you saying that the gravy seals have any hint of a chance against the US army?
find themselves in quiet agreement
Nothing quiet about it.
Kind of seems like there’s no war but the class war.
That’s why the ruling class pushes all the wedge issues and divisiveness they do. If we could talk to each other, we’d find we had more in common than otherwise expected. I thought the recent surge in union activity could have continued to a general strike across the nation. The rich know what unites us and actively seems to keep us fractured so we don’t realize our combined power.
Maybe this dude will be a catalyst in a revolution that sets these disgusting, wealthy leeches in their place.
Maybe this dude will be a catalyst in a revolution that sets these disgusting, wealthy leeches in their place.
Even if this isn’t the one, the accelerated pace at which we’re having moments that might should scare the oligarchs
Everyone has been feeling the pressure of “something is about to happen” for the better part of a decade. That pressure has to vent somewhere.
Did…did the good guy with a gun finally show up?
He’s got milk and cigarettes for everyone!
It’s the thing the people who are CEOs don’t want us to think about. It’s not leftists, tankies, fascists, conservatives against each other. It’s them against everyone else.
There’s nothing quiet about the agreement on Lemmy over this.
The quiet part is the agreement with others you completely disagree with almost always, and even often despise.
Really puts me in the Christmas spirit
Thank you for the giggle kind stranger.
Call every crime tipline and report the person responsible for this death and many others - That person’s name was Brian Thompson.
Still reminds me of the time they sent out a sketch of the uni bomber and musician/professional jokester Weird Al did this
The lack of the joker’s line disturbs me.
Not just a CEO but a shit human.
🍽🍽🍽🍽🍽🍽
Hi-larious
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OtxH414tGkA That’s one.
It’s not funny it’s 🥾⏳
Boot time?
Say it like a Canadian. It’s aboot time.
Ahhhhhhhh I see
Its all his counterparts at the other insurance scams that I’m laughing at. Suddenly they are considering their actions have consequences they can’t control with more lawyers.
This is the thing.
While I doubt it’ll have any actual difference being seen by anyone anywhere, if this killing were followed up by a few more, or even a dozen more in short order, you would see change.
Most of it not the kind we’d hope for (tightened security, lockdown corridors for high profile individuals, even less access and interface with these people, etc…not concessions to decency, honesty, civility, humanity, etc.) but you bet your ass that it’d be living rent free in the back of every CEO and billionaire on the planet for a long time.
I didn’t impart the idea that it would change things. Just that for once those horrible people have felt the truth. The truth is that no one is safe even if someone isn’t out to get them. Now they are certain that someone is out to get them. It won’t make them better people. Pretty much the opposite.
Yes.
