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[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 305 points 1 week ago (2 children)

While law enforcement does not believe Thompson's killing is part of a trend targeting health executives, the attack underscores the vulnerability of these high-profile executives.

Yes, very vulnerable people. I mean, not as vulnerable as an elderly cancer patient who's been denied care, or a working class family driven to bankruptcy by medical debt, but, you know vulnerable to righteous retribution. Except, they're not really even vulnerable to that, since they have the resources to pay for private security.

[–] KillerTofu@lemmy.world 86 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us.

[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 56 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let's not warn or threaten, actually; it spoils the element of surprise.

Ideally, the enemy should never see it coming.

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You never say, ‘I’m gonna fight you, Steve.’ You just smile and act natural, and then you sucker-punch him

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago

With a Buick

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] AhismaMiasma@lemm.ee 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The Dark Knight Rises

Anne Hathaway's Selina/Catwoman says it to Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne/Batman while dancing at a party.

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[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Judging from the pay I would say CEO should be one of the most dangerous jobs. That's the only way the pay would make sense. Let's make it so!

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 172 points 1 week ago (20 children)

I am looking at another headline right now: "White House condemns using violence to tackle 'corporate greed'"

When corporate greed is out of fucking control, and nobody is lifting a finger to do anything about it via legal channels, what the fuck else do you think is going to happen?

I'm also amused by how reporting on this has been "We're trying to work out what his motive was," when it's so clear that everybody knows what it was. They are fucking us, every day, and this guy got pushed to his breaking point. The fact that there's been such vocal support for Claims Adjuster - not just indifference - suggests that a whole lot of people are real close to their breaking points.

This is how revolutions begin.

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[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 119 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

"People shouldn't be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."

[–] KillerTofu@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I hate that V for Vendetta it’s kind of playing out right now.

I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I know, right.

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[–] Nanook@lemm.ee 114 points 1 week ago (4 children)

"Over the last two years, online activity has indicated a growing negative sentiment around conglomerates, the wealthy, and executive staff at private and public organizations," the bulletin said. "Calls for targeting the executive team, their families, homes, and places of work using a variety of online and offline means to harass, disrupt, and harm the individuals and the organizations have become widespread."

I wonder why…

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 94 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bitch please. That's how unions got shit done. The boss made threats? Cops come to beat up and shoot at striking workers? Then the workers show up at the boss' house and burn it down or beat the crap our of him. That's how it used to be done.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

We allowed the centrists to take over, and their hippy “Follow the rules. violence is bad but we’ll back state sanctioned violence” shtick has ruined a century of progress.

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[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 101 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

"Calls for targeting the executive team, their families, homes, and places of work using a variety of online and offline means to harass, disrupt, and harm the individuals and the organizations have become widespread."

I'd argue that this is a non issue that doesn't warrant additional attention, as it only affects less than 1% of the population.

Instead, do more to combat drunk driving, that will have a bigger meaningful effect on the populace.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago

I would suggest the cops investigate health care companies so people don't feel like they have an obligation to do something.

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[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 65 points 1 week ago

Law enforcement is now seeing the line between corperations and people and guess who they have to defend.

ACAB

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 59 points 1 week ago

I thought the killing WAS the warning.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm not even going to read their warning. Law enforcement should shut up and quietly do their job. No one has to talk to the pigs and if they dont show some respect to the public, no one will. So if they want to be professionals they should pipe down and keep their "warnings" to themselves.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, doing their jobs is protecting the wealthy. They don't exist for any other reason.

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[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago

They’re afraid. Good

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” -Henry Ford

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 20 points 1 week ago

Famous piece of shit Henry Ford.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 13 points 1 week ago

Pretty sure Henry was just bitching the Jews in that quote.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

Strange how they were completely incapable of understanding this concept when it comes to right wing violence.

[–] slickgoat@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Not American, but curious as to why you don't vote for polices that prevent the healthcare ripoff?

I mean, it's all well and good applauding a single man's actions, but you all could affect change of there was a genuine will to do so. Other western countries don't have this problem that you are seemingly powerless to change?

[–] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 week ago

The wealthy own everything. The media, the campaign funding, the concert venues, the restaurants, the farmland, the water, the houses, the offices, the railroads, the textbook publishers. Fucking everything. The only thing our government does well is print more money for the rich.

[–] H0neyc0mb@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Healthcare was barely even discussed during the last election. Trump has no plans to improve it and Harris didn't campaign on it. We can't just directly vote for laws, we have to elect leaders that would write a bill and vote for it. And pretty much everyone in Congress is bought out by Big Pharma, which has more money than god so it buys elections.

[–] Matombo@feddit.org 21 points 1 week ago

tl;dr the USA is not really a democracy, just as the founding fathers intended.

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[–] Infinite@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 week ago

There are several (very simplified) factors:

  • the parties in power won't fix voting so others can join in proportionally
  • the parties in power are mostly guided by the wealthy (often via corporate influence), just with slightly different flavors
  • many of our citizens are one or more of poorly educated, uninformed, radicalized, and selfish
  • the wealthy tend to support policies that keep them wealthy and the electorate controllable
[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Not American, but curious as to why you don’t vote for polices that prevent the healthcare ripoff?

Because they aren't on the ballot.

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[–] ramsorge@discuss.online 11 points 1 week ago (5 children)

What is vote? We elect people, not policy. Then those people get purchased by companies, and they do whatever is best for the company.

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[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Because we are powerless to change it.

The corporations have lobbied (bribed) both political parties so hard that both sides work for them.

Any attempt to change the voting system gets shot down because the people in power don't want to change the system, because it benefits them. Why make the game fair when it's rigged in your favor?

Half the country is brainwashed into thinking any social help or reform is socialism (which is pure evil! Helping others is evil!) and a trick from the inept party to try to gain political influence. And the inept party just fails to deliver on any sort of reform because they want to appeal to that brainwashed half of the country.

Any grass roots effort that makes any traction gets shot down by the establishment, usually by rileing up the brainwashed half.

We WANT the change. But even if we could get the brainwashed half to vote for it, the system is so rigged and broken even if we did vote it in they would veto it or change it in two years.

[–] UnhingedFridge@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

A lot of people on the right have been duped by those taking advantage of them for profit, making them focus on the left somehow being evil through the targeting of identity politics. Many are just now waking up to the fact that the talking heads they trust have made their worth by dividing us.

It's all thanks to oligarchs and using their money to buy out policies from lawmakers while making their constituents stay angry elsewhere. Our whole system has been fucked for a while, unfortunately.

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[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Warn my ass

Delay, Deny, Depose

The one pecent's days are numbered

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