Moderators Across Social Media Struggle to Contain Celebrations of UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Assassination

You think having a fake online name will stop them from finding out who you are? Did you even pay attention to the Snowden leaks?

They already have lists. The only hope we have is to stand together in solidarity as the working class against the billionaire capitalists entering power.

lol @ thinking reddit is anonymous

Yeah if they fuck with me they will find for sure.

I used to work for a big data company that tracked shares to various social networks and the frequency with which people share porn to LinkedIn was remarkably high.

Still pretty impressive ratio though

It only costs one bottle of spray paint

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.

I hope there’s a copycat to reinforce the lesson very soon, or they’ll write this off as a one off.

For the sake of my neighbors and their loved ones and their neighbors and loved ones, please stop permitting people to rule over them

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.

He was actually GenX.

You've seen pictures of him right? Just how fucking young do you think boomers are?

Everyone older than me is a boomer.

Sympathy witheld until forms can be obtained that prove that the bullet holes were not a pre existing condition.

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.

Falling Down was in my head this week. The number of people in the US that are close to it is so high, it's barely fringe. Ironically Trump might just trigger a revolution when he tries to clamp down.

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

The professional killer was the one who died.

According to the media, he made a lot of very amateur mistakes if that's the case. Like leaving a water bottle and granola bar wrappers and being filmed on camera at a Starbucks.

Anything sent like that would be frozen. Monero would be the better option.

Jim bell ftw

He's playing Penderecki

It's also not even a violin.

I guess it all depends how IRA makes you feel lol

Thatcher was the one that got away

You just reminded me of a movie and let's just say I highly recommend it.

On yet another front, the Greek resistance would kill Nazis. In retaliation, Nazis would kill whole villages. Enraged, more Greeks would join the resistance and kill more Nazis. Net result: Towards the end pretty much every Greek was in the resistance and Greece was the only (IIRC, or at least the first or something) country to free itself from Nazi occupation. (Then they became a dictatorship different story).

No, it's terror. It's just that that isn't always the negative we've tended to think it is.

Typically we've been citizens in a country on the "power" side of the dynamic, so using terror like that meant using it on us, and so we learned that it's bad.

This time we're on the other side of the power dynamic, so it's seemingly.... Good.

The bad thing being good creates cognitive dissonance.

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.

Separate the fat. Make soap with it. Sell it to the rich.

COMPOST. THE. RICH.

Turn the rich into soap and clean this society up!

They not that much just take a bite and give it to the next

It's not even mob justice, it's vigilante justice. It just so happens in this case practically everyone is pretty happy about it having happened.

The mob never called for this CEO's death, we're just not sad he was killed. Even if in general most of us wouldn't actively call for people to be killed.

If it makes CEOs afraid, then fantastic, a nice happy side-bonus.

We don't know the implications of this. But there got to be something big coming our way.

Ruling class will not have their lieutenant punished like this in a broad day light with out lashing out.

They already despise as is, they gonna step up brutality imho screw here, screw there.

You got it.

But if the media didn't blew it up so much, we wouldn't get all these memes.

Its the Streisand in full effect.

Im only respond to your words: that only wealthy elites care about. Pedant warning. By responding you are agreeing to a very narrow discussion. Thank you for engaging this point of contention if you choose to do so.

This is inaccurate. my proof is that I know people who are unhappy with the mob mentality around murder being okay. People who dont even make as much as i do, and while i consider myself poor, i recognize im above my areas minimum wage. Additonally I am not a wealthy elite and care about this to the degree that it could be a problem for us non elites if things go badly

I personally midly concerned about what problems this might be showing us. Im not in a position to address or research them and dont claim that what i can see might happen is going to happen. Im opposed to people basing significant hardline stances on unproven and or untested assumptions and predictions. But I do see, without much difficulty or effort, how mobs and pitchforks are rarely proven to be acting on good faith rationality.

So all im asking here is for you to contemplate why you were comfortable making such an easily arguable word choice and if you could be more precise in the future when you really are passionate about an argument you are making.

Elections are theater as long as corporate campaign funding exists.

Elections were the deal. We'd vote for representatives and abide by their decisions rather than, y'know, killing people in the streets to change society.

When elections can't change society, though. When the deal is broken, it's back to the old ways.

I don’t want their money. It’s blood money, kind of like blood diamonds….

I’d take powerball though

I mean back in the day, there's a solid chance that shot was way off target.

This is the top post on all of Lemmy right now and it's in a .world community.

Can't complain if you're gonna play the same game for the other side...

The Adjuster didn't adjust the witness, merely the parasite.

The people took notice.

I would honestly go so far as to suggest that in the long term, not having this monster raise them (given they'll still have plenty of money) probably leaves them better off.

yeah alls his theoretical kids would have is millions of dollars, the best education, a lavish lifestyle, trust funds, but they would not have their asshole dad.

Don't forget the children whose siblings died due to insurance fuckery, and the parents who've lost children.

Crying from the 3rd floor of their yacht...

But that might actually solve climate change

It's almost like the uniting factor of the people is class. I feel like there was a historical figure once, who was assassinated for trying to pivot from race to class because the government saw the danger of a united population.

Every other cause is a distraction from that one.

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/unitedhealth-group/recipients?id=D000000348

that's some literal communist thinking there mate.

Exactly. There's no way they'll allow him to speak his mind or allow the people to rally in his support in a huge trial. They find him, he's dead. The "how" they'll figure it out. Happy cop trigger, killed while trying to escape, heart attack, attacked by a bear, hit by meteorite. They'll come up with something, mark my words.

He should walk into a news organisation lobby and ask to be arrested there