• @DancingBear@midwest.social
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    8 days ago

    How fucked up is it that the day after the ceo of a major health insurance company was murdered in broad daylight,

    The next day another health insurance company said they would no longer limit anesthesia during surgeries.

    This makes me realize something, and it’s not what our sponsor or corporate donor wants me to believe.

    Edit: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vwSRqaZGsPw

    • @Test_Tickles@lemmy.world
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      488 days ago

      Maybe some future school shooter wannabe will notice that they barely even report on school shootings anymore, and Uvalde even reelected the piece of shit sheriff that let all those kids die. Maybe they will see this shooter being treated like some kind of hero, and decide to hunt Billionaires or CEOs instead.
      After enough of those, the world will be drastically improved, or the surviving billionaires will finally bring about some real gun control legislation.

    • @djsoren19@yiffit.net
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      208 days ago

      I’m not sure, but locals tagged “Deny, Defend, Depose” near me. If nothing else, seems there’ll be good branding made of it.

    • @Katana314@lemmy.world
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      127 days ago

      I’m curious how many of those opposing the current trend would agree with statements as simple as “It is a good thing that Adolf Hitler, author of the blitzkrieg and holocaust that killed millions of people, is dead.”

      Like, I get that anytime Hitler comes up, a part of our mind sorts it into exaggerated allegory. But he was a real person, who existed - and, if he hadn’t died in mysterious circumstances, it would be up to Berlin’s invaders to decide what to do with him.

      And, speaking honestly, would giving him an extensive trial and then spend the rest of his life in prison, able to spread his ideology and beliefs to other prisoners, be any better?

    • @Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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      15 days ago

      I mean, I don’t have a problem with people advocating violence against evil people.

      But being happy or laughing does seem pretty tactless and frankly gross.

      Death and violence may be necessary in many instances but it should never be glorified or celebrated, simply accepted.

      • sunzu2
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        The Adjuster didn’t adjust the witness, merely the parasite.

        The people took notice.

      • @Fashim@lemmy.world
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        7 days ago

        They do this to divide and conquer. It’s a ploy to take the attention from billionaires at the moment and focus on left and right politics

      • Zement
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        137 days ago

        They are afraid… for now there are no killer robots protecting them… But they sure try.

    • hswolf
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      37 days ago

      not losing anytime soon, just slightly annoyed, like letting the tip of the towel hit the wet floor

  • @db2@lemmy.world
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    848 days ago

    Something something and I’m tired of pretending it isn’t, etc. The only thing I feel bad about is if he has had young children who couldn’t understand he was a waste of skin, they have my sympathy.

      • TheTechnician27
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        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.

        • Drusas
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          They’re already teenagers. The damage has been done, but hopefully this act will help them decide not to follow in their father’s footsteps.

        • sunzu2
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          His kids are gonna be worse 20-40milliom per head.

          They will be fine. I doubt they will ever understand why entire society turned on their parasite shitstain father.

        • @zbyte64
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          These execs are scared their own children will ask them to explain what they do for a living. Doubt they raise their kids as much as they pay someone else to do it. That being said, Elmo’s kids are stuck on a compound. That’s definitely going to mess them up.

  • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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    4238 days ago

    It’s one thing to mock it on pseudonymous platforms like Reddit and the fediverse.

    It’s another to do it somewhere linked to your real name and job like LinkedIn.

    People really hate insurance companies.

    • sunzu2
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      Don’t do it under your names folks, regime will be making lists based on this.

      They are scared and they will lash out.

      With that being said, fuck that parasite.

      FAFO

      • @rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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        178 days ago

        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.

        • sunzu2
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          i was talking about people commenting on linkedin actually…

          nor did I suggest reddit is anon, but aint you aint got provide your full name and address.

      • TimeSquirrel
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        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?

        • paraphrand
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          48 days ago

          No, they said we already knew about that and didn’t give it another thought.

        • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed
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          608 days ago

          Make them spend more resources doing deanonymizations. First they have to get the IP from instance admins, then trace the tor routing, then the VPN that I use, then ask for my ISP. Make them do all that work.

          (Or maybe they already have access by simply activating their backdoors within Intel ME, AMD PSP, and whatever baseband backdoor on the phones they have, and have just gotten everyone’s real identities in an instant, we can’t know for sure.)

          • Pennomi
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            208 days ago

            They also have backdoors in most implementations of TLS, according to a person I know who worked government security.

            • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed
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              It wouldn’t be impossible. There are like so many different certificate issuers, any one of them collaborating with a government would allow them to create a certificate that would be accepted by your browser.

        • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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          308 days ago

          It is almost never a question of whether it’s possible or not. You WILL make a mistake. It’s just a question of how much effort you’re worth as an individual.

    • @NotBillMurray@lemmy.world
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      818 days ago

      LinkedIn is one of the least sane social media sites I’ve ever had the displeasure of using. Under all the marketing BS and obviously fake feel good stories lie takes that would make your insane Facebook uncle blush.

    • @Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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      208 days ago

      People are too hung up about anonimity on the internet. When one of my country’s worst journalistic shitrags mandated a real name policy due to the rampant racism and other -isms in the comment section of their articles… nothing changed. People are happily spewing the same vile rethoric as before and proud to, instead of being shamed into silence.

  • bizarroland
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    My only concern is that I hope this doesn’t become an Archduke Ferdinand for an American Civil War part 2.

    • @MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world
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      218 days ago

      But how…? Are Magas sad/angry that this happened? Most likely it’s the opposite. This is a poor/middle-class vs rich/ultra-wealthy scenario. I guess unless Fox tells/tricks them to be angry and blame liberals, but I’m sure plenty of them are not upset about this. I see it as “the enemy of my enemy” type deal.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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      528 days ago

      If that’s the case then it will just be the class war heating up because one side finally started fighting back.

  • @fl42v@lemmy.ml
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    198 days ago

    Who would’ve guessed reddit mods couldn’t grow a pair even if presented with a ball-growing pill

    • @skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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      368 days ago

      In fact, a moderator from a subreddit we hadn’t reached out to for comment reached out because they heard we were contacting moderators to speak about this. They said every instance they were aware of of the surveillance video of Thompson’s death being removed had not been moderators—who, as a reminder, are unpaid volunteers—but Reddit’s paid administrator team that enforces the sitewide terms of use.

      • @fl42v@lemmy.ml
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        58 days ago

        Sure, I’ve read both that and r/nursing parts; but I’m talking about those volunteers who do remove that stuff. I mean, yeah, promoting violence bad, and so on, but maybe the twatwaffles who refuse to build a proper universal healthcare system need to see that ppl support the shooter, and not the attempts of the community to censor itself?

  • @Guilherme@lemm.ee
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    Serious? People are reacting with laughing emojis? Really?

    😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
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  • peopleproblems
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    You know what’s pretty neat about this?

    It’s not mob justice. Mob justice is when people get together and come up with bad ideas. This is an individual that the public has now rallied around.

    While we only see comments from a select few number of people in this country (relative to it’s size of 350m) it seems that democracy is voicing itself. I know a lot of people who were initially shocked, but then quickly came to the conclusion that FAFO is a real thing.

    And health insurance companies have done a lot of fucking around.

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      “Mob justice” is a boogeyman invented to distract you from the fact that the cops and the state give you no justice at all.

      • @MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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        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.

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          Yeah, and that’s all true, but in the comment I replied to was room for the implication that “mob justice” is a problem somehow.

          We’re told it would be chaos, some great threat to society, but like, the only examples of mobs that I can think of doing any real damage are groups whose immediate aims were supported by the ruling class. Lynchings in the US south were openly permitted and encouraged by the entrenched white supremacist police state. Witch burnings were encouraged by the state to disenfranchise women from power over their own bodies, and they laid the foundations for capitalism.

          Then those horrific examples of state oppression are presented to us as examples of the horrors that await if we were to ever stop bowing to that same state and take matters into our own hands.

          Even if the person making the comment didn’t intend to reinforce that notion, it’s a default assumption for many people and I didn’t want it to stand unchallenged.

    • @zbyte64
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      248 days ago

      This guy is probably gonna get folk songs in TikTok by now

      • granolabar
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        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.

        • @Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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          That’s just going to pour gas on the fire. The less people have to lose, the more likely they’re going to take matters into their own hands.

          • granolabar
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            You aint wrong but ruling class can’[t accept one of their officers being gunned down by what appears to be a pleb with vendetta and he get away with it while rest of us cheer him on as a hero.

            This is about power, and the the people with power feeling insecure.

            Time will tell. I expect things to get worse before/if they ever get better for the working class.