DHS secretary calls social media rhetoric following UnitedHealthcare CEO killing "extraordinarily alarming"
DHS secretary calls social media rhetoric following UnitedHealthcare CEO killing "extraordinarily alarming"
On top of killing people as his day job, Brian Thompson was also convicted of drunk driving, insider trading, and fraud.
Thompson was a rich 3 time loser felon so why was he walking the streets at all? He could have been safe in jail if the justice department did their jobs. That includes you Mayorkas, so thats enough with your complaints.
I feel like, if nothing else, Luigi chose his target extraordinarily well. Other than being a father, which just about anyone with testicles can do, Thompson doesn't seem to have done one redeeming thing.
It's only redeeming if he was a good father. Otherwise, he was a sperm donor.
Well don’t forget that he came from the middle class and so intimately knew their struggles and turned his back on them and became a class traitor.
I mean… hold on let me put on my capitalism glasses.. “he achieved the American dream”
Jesus if that guy cheated on his wives a few more times we would have had to worry about people wanting him for president
I love that on SNL last night the mention of Luigi on Weekend Update was met with enough cheers that made Colin Jost have to stop and wait for the cheers to die down before telling his joke.
I’m not plugged into popular culture or any of that shit. So I’m a bit dumbfounded that this happened. That is very encouraging.
This guy boos at the end when Terrorist Luke Skywalker ruthlessly murders beloved innovator and family man Emperor Palpatine
Palpatine looked exactly like Joe Lieberman. Coincidence?
Lieberman hated the idea of universal health care and loved companies like United health care:
https://www.npr.org/2009/10/28/114233563/the-new-republic-it-was-lieberman-all-along
this dudes name is literally joe niceman/lovelyman ????
Sheev was a father and beloved grandparent.
Yeah it is alarming.
Just not for the reason you think it is.
It's alarming how surprised the oligarchs seem to be. Like they didn't realize they were the baddies.
I expect many of them have spent their lives so immersed in capitalist indoctrination that they genuinely have no idea others view their activities as exploitation and a bad thing. To them, accumulating wealth through whatever means you can is just what you do. And they tend to think that anyone who doesn't do this is just a bit stupid and hasn't figured out what life is about. Don't underestimate their narrow-minded blinkeredness.
Nah it's just weaponized "concern trolling" in an attempt to quell support. I'm sure the red coats used similar language when talking about people like George Washington back in the day too.
Oligarchs are, by definition, backstabbers. They don't know solidarity amongst themselves
It’s incredibly enlightening that all these pearl clutching fuckers like Mayorkas decry violence and violent rhetoric but see no violence in the way this industry hurts and kills people en masse every day.
"When the rich rob the poor, it's called business. When the poor fight back, it's called violence."
Terrorism!
Why do they keep framing him as a father as if that should make us feel empathy?
Osama bin Laden was a father to 23 fucking kids.
The fucking asshoke fucked over and denied care to fucking children with cancer.
He also fucked over who knows how many other people, many of whom were also parents.
The all had family. And he fucked then all over without a single moment of regret.
His kids get to inherit his blood money. So fuck them too.
Unconscious pronatalist bias.
People don't talk about it much, but there's an unconscious tendency to give more sympathy to parents. There's a million reasons why this happens but I'm not gonna go there.
The media is pretty heavy handed with this manipulation because it usually works. Any article about a murdered woman mentions if she's a mother, and if not it's "she didn't get to have kids yet." It gets lots of clicks.
That CEO is so disgusting that they can't even activate people's unconscious biases and the media is panicking because they've lost control. It's kinda impressive and funny tbh.
Side note - I'm not an antinatalist or anything, I'm just a philosophy/sociology nerd.
Even Trump and Musk have kids - doesn't make either one less of a dirt bag.
Is Musk still bringing his little human shield around with him?
The social media rhetoric is a response to the material conditions. If people weren't regularly pushed to bankruptcy or left to die by the "Delay Deny Defend" industry, they wouldn't have any malice towards the industry's leaders. If the industry didn't give nearly everyone a reason to hate what Brian Thompson represented, they wouldn't have celebrated his death.
What’s alarming is people have been pushed to the point where they would consider Luigi’s actions justified.
A good start
Long overdue
Yeah, I'd rather people not have to get shot for the government to realize there's a problem, but here we are. It got to the point where some dude went out and shot a rich guy. And now they finally notice? Doubt.
It's all just theater.
As alarming as corporations being legally allowed to act as death squads?
*death panels
Yes, that is by far the most appropriate. Considering that is the terminology that was used to demonize the possibility of public healthcare in the US.
Even for those who don't approve of killing the exploiters, this sends a refreshing message of "Maybe we don't actually have to put up with their shit." It clearly has them worried that maybe we won't.
I approve. I will pre-authorize it.
Ya know what's extremely alarming? Children dying of preventable causes because an insurance exec and their board want more profit. What's not alarming? A CEO became another statistic.
ChildrenAnyone dying of preventable causes
FTFY
Brian Thompson is a mass murderer. Luigi only killed one person therefore possibly saving many more lives. And they want us to think Luigi is the bad guy?
It's upsetting to CEOs to know that we see them, the same way as they see us. Expendable. Very tragic, thoughts and prayers.
Oh look it's scared! Yay! LA REVOLUTION!
Good. People have already been alarmed about the state of healthcare and gun violence for quite some time.
Are they going to do anything about it now or just sit there being "alarmed"?
Maybe another dozen police officers in the photo op "escorting" Luigi will calm things down.
Some murders are self defence.
I call this "societal self defense".
No killing in self-defense is murder.
No, murder is a crime.
If you kill someone in self defensive, its called a homicide. This was a homicide (or an execution, which is a type of homicide that is approved by society). It was not a murder.
The only thing that's alarming is that congress hasn't nationalized private healthcare companies in response to this.
These acts of defense will surely surely continue until their mass murder is put to an end.
I hope they have nightmares about guillotines
“Are we the baddies?” is for sure an extraordinarily alarming moment of clarity
Another out of touch gasbag. Take his pension like C suite jerks have taken other people and he would get it.
What's surprising is how out of touch any of these people seem to be. Do they genuinely not understand that people are suffering?
Do they genuinely not understand that people are suffering?
We're lucky if they understand other people exist.
Most of them fully understand and approve. The suffering is the point.
lol. lmao, even.
They're trying SO HARD to make it look like a fringe, extremist position instead of the groundswell of righteous fury that it is.
Yes, it is alarming. But it's a symptom of the problem, not the actual problem.
Good. Be alarmed.
so it's very alarming, but not so much as to even mention the underlying reason for the rhetoric
If only Homeland Security protected the lower classes in the homeland.
I bet. He's the domestic spy chief. He knows how far it goes. How mad people are. And exactly how widespread that sentiment is.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall of those classified briefings he gives to the politicians.
Be alarmed, most oligarchs don't get a heads up they their rat fucking of the populace isn't working out.
That's what a "made man" sounds like
Then change the insane healthcare system. People are mad about it, especially when they know how other countries handle it.
Oh...they're gonna change the health profiteering system. Gonna get focus back on the profiteering where it belongs.
He should be alarmed/afraid ... very alarmed/afraid. As should every super rich asshole in the world.
Luigi is a hero. Brian Thompson got what he deserved, and his children are better off without him.
I guess we'll just need some more examples. Seems to be comming back into fashion.
Not reflective? Then why the fuck are you so concerned?
Imagine what life lessons his children learned from him.
That's certainly not true. You don't have to dehumanize someone you see as your enemy.
I recently watched 1917, and ::: spoiler spoilers I'm proud of the way the plane was handled. One can see the necessity of war without dehumanizing the other side. :::
I'm sorry for his kids. I'm sorry for his family. I can continue to hope for a better way.
We've been through this history enough times. I, for one, would rather not repeat it. If this is the way things are gonna go, it's going to get a hell of a lot worse before it gets better.