UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson getting shoot. [CW: death]

Copying a post I just made on Masto

I'm going to start right off by saying, I am not advocating for anybody to do anything stupid.
But I feel like we have a very deeply ingrained caution about what some people call "adventurism," or others call "propaganda of the deed." Nobody ever makes the case against it.
I won't spend too much time reiterating the argument for caution. I think it is reckless for somebody to take it upon themselves to throw kerosene into the fire. To unilaterally commit an act of antagonism which will surely cause blowback.
But as far as the manifold problems facing the western left go, "too much adventurism" has got to be at the very bottom off the list. There actually is an appetite for vigilante class justice. You can see it in the volcano of catharsis which erupts after events like Trump catching Covid, Shinzo Abe being vaporized, the Billionaire submarine implosion, and now, the assassination of the United Health CEO.
The proletariat is openly celebrating, while the bourgeois politicians and television news anchors bitterly clutch their pearls. The response to the killing is overwhelmingly positive, and in it, the class lines could not be drawn any more clearly.
This is NOT an essay titled "The Case for Adventurism." Just a reflection on the changing social climate.

Just realizing now that I recalled Trump catching Covid and completely forgot about him getting SHOT lmfao.
- Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ear. because mine got shot off
Andreas Malm's book "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" talks about how the climate movement could engage direct action sabotage of infrastructure related to fossil fuel production, and likely be seen as heroes/righteous self-defense by the greater public. That was published before Covid, before ongoing climate collapse worsened faster than people imagined, and before the appalling violence of colonialism made clear as day by the events in Israel.
The reactions to events you mentioned and reaction to this event give us reason to think Malm was likely right at the time, and that the window for "legitimate target of self-defense" is even wider now. Infrastructure/equipment alone is not not the only legitimate target in the eyes of the public.

Excellent work 47, proceed to the extraction zone

Shit not an ounce of panic. That's wild. Enters and leaves like a fucking ghost.

This was someone who had done this before, or someone completely consigned to their fate after
The gun never drifts towards the person off to the side who runs off, they don't make a ton of jerky movements, they just stay smoothly locked on

Glad to see he crossed the street safely 🙂

This Bluesky post is the source of the video - https://subium.com/profile/falconryfinance.bsky.social/post/3lcitxs2yac27 - two things...

I'm shocked at how gleeful the thread is.
I'm even more shocked that Bluesky hasn't nuked the post. It's been up for 2 hours. And it doesn't even have a content warning.

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Edit 1

It's still up and it reads "3 hr" ago.

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Goodbye sweet post for you are dead.

lol
Holy shit. OP, posting the now deleted list of executive officers with photographs from the UHC website.
And then the follow-up of someone putting all the faces and names on the mountain from Mortal Kombat 2 that shows you all the people that you have to fight to win the Mortal Kombat tournament.
This account seems very cool, threw them a follow. As libbed up as Bluesky is and how easy it makes it to block entire groups of people, I think moments like this can be used to push people in a good direction if you don't have a Stalin profile pic or something else that just makes them shut their brains off.
Maybe we should make a Bureaucrat Bluesky account.
- Maybe we should make a Bureaucrat Bluesky account.
  The problem is libs over there go insane with joy in blocking/muting. The account would need to be sneaky and be honest but muted yet still edgy enough that the libs are intrigued. I personally don't like memes but an account that posted only memes might be best. Replies would need to be sort of bland. You wouldn't want to trigger the libs innate desire to punch left.

UNCENSORED, AWESOME!!! i didn't think the cops released it

Earlier today I spent at least 15 fucking minutes fucking googling and googling and googling. I went to three fucking corporate media sites (CNN, MSNBC, New York Post). And then - of course - I was fucking forced to disable my adblockers. After all that effort - I ended up scrolling through two vids that were total fucking crap. They only had a few seconds and the rest of it was anchor and/or onscreen text yacking. The New York Post had no vid that I was visible to me. I also went to Youtube to similar results.
Corporate fucking media will never do it but they need to show entire, unedited vids and then start their tedious fucking explanations that we can skip. Nobody cares. We all want our dessert and fuck the vegetables.
- i relate 10000%. i don't even click on corporate media anymore, it's just the laziest photos/videos + censorship + someone telling you the correct liberal way to feel about it. they have absolutely nothing of value, it's slop. "video shows moments before [...]" is the standard now, they show everything except what you really want to see. their only job is to control public opinion, they don't want to show anything that could make us have an original thought.

Damn, dropped him good

The way the cops described it, it made it sound like emptied an entire magazine into him

That was what? Like two shots?

Cops can't imagine shooting less than a full mag at once
3 casings found. Reports said he had a wound in his leg and back. So maybe 3 shots fired. Two hitting him... Or the third also hit but close enough to the others for initial reports to just say back and leg.
- He grabbed the casings every time he cycled the pistol

Excellent work, 47.

Serious question: What gun was he using?

What gun was he using. the greatest argument in the history of forums. locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate
https://subium.com/profile/jtp.bsky.social/post/3lciwrtatc22d

OP's guess...

i still think it's just a glock w/ a DIY silencer of some sort

gonna need another doohickey emote

Gotdamn dude that's awesome

These evil fucks need daily, minute by minute reminders that they are only human and a small piece of hot lead ends their consciousness just as easy and fast as it does for anyone else

I have seen so many innocent and heroic people die senselessly over the last year that I watched this a dozen times before realizing I was totally unbothered by seeing someone killed.

Does the ruling class raise that the insensitivity they have foisted upon us is going to blow back against them?

New episode of The Day of the Jackal

Turns out to be a viral marketing campaign

Damn dude, shooting someone has to be traumatizing. I hope the shooter is able to recover okay.

Bro smooth with it on God. Wish them good luck and victory.

death to every health insurance executive. die screaming

You love to see it.

I could never advocate for this personally because I myself don't have the courage to do it and I'm too allergic to larping, but goddamn do I hope more people out there do. And that they have the smarts to know who actually deserves it

What rational person would willingly become the CEO of a health insurance company? Every denial of coverage might incur such a vendetta.
Ditto the addictive or wildly expensive proprietary pharmaceuticals. I'm genuinely surprised that it's almost 2025 and we're just now getting to the corporate assassinations phase of our cyberpunk distopian timeline.

What kind of pistol is that? It's like a single action handgun or something?

Why would the assassin use that instead of a semi-auto suppressed pistol?

Looks like one guess is that it's a normal Glock using subsonic ammo and some kind of DIY surpressor that's reducing muzzle velocity so much that the slide isn't cycling all the way. Could explain why it seems to jam too
Another guess is that it's an untraceable craft machined .22 pistol. Possible doohickey
- No, a semi-auto with subsonic ammunition and a manufactured suppressor can and will jam like that. The reduced amount of gun powder will cause it not to cycle sometimes.

Tangina, what a smooth killer

Coast to coast, LA to Chicago...

Social murder boomerang.

fuck i have a great idea for a music video with this footage and Motionless in White's Slaughterhouse I

Be the videographer you want to see in the world
- i really need to learn how. i know it's not hard but my attention is often at a distinct deficit
This seems like a future modest by default album cover

God damn, smooth operator

I bullied a couple of media libs and they blocked/muted me. I fully expected them to but it still makes me laugh! They're the sort of libs who are utterly mystified why people hate the media. Look at this peal-clutching shit.

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The editor-in-chief of Mother Jones...

We can all hate insurance companies without cheering the murder of someone or worse, trying to monetize content about that murder. Really gross day on the internet today.
https://subium.com/profile/did:plc:n74wy26n6klbv7xgrndeog7s/post/3lcjohyuits2i

The "founder & reigning monarch at Talking Points Memo"...

It's really sickening. Made a comment wondering if it cld have been tied to something corporate. and started with a kind of throwaway line abt every murder being a tragedy and was swarmed with replies abt it being awesome, do it more etc. just a kind of revolting cosplay tough-guyism.
https://subium.com/profile/joshtpm.bsky.social/post/3lcjozbbc3224

Is your hate pure?
Well
We can all hate insurance companies without cheering the murder of someone
No I guess not
- We can all hate insurance companies
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Angela & Strawberry would never condone this sort of violence
- Angela & Strawberry
  I had to google.,,, Stream Episode 69 - Angela & Strawberry feat. James Adomian (1/2/17) by Chapo Trap House | Listen online for free on SoundCloud
  January, 2017! I wonder if I listened to that episode already or did come out just too early in time for me? I got into Chapo around February, 2017. Or maybe it was March. Adomian did Gorka - I hope. Anyway - I'm about to listen to it!

reminds me of that video of some zionist businessman/spy in egypt

so wholesome. He got away, too

he got shoot worm :(

it kinda looks like the first shot hits him in the leg, then it takes a moment for the pain to register, and even then he doesn't realize he's been shot. If the gun had a suppressor I wonder if it even sounded like a gunshot.

The 2016 time loop theory is being reinforced by everyone reverting to Guillotine posting.
https://subium.com/profile/papapishu.bsky.social/post/3lcjtrh536s2k

If you're on Bluesky - you could check him out. He posts about a lot of stuff. His focus gaming and fixing old school hardware and creating electric gadgets. I'm not into any of those things but sometimes he somehow makes them appealing for me.