• Boomer Humor Doomergod
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    4285 months 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.

  • Optional
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    2415 months ago

    “United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s final KD ratio (7,652,103:1) lands him among the all time greats,” a thread deleted by r/interestingasfuck moderators said.

  • @58008@lemmy.world
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    2045 months ago

    What I like about this moment is that the people who ought to be fearful are indeed the ones who are fearful. I mean shit, Elon is posting Tweets about how great CEOs are actually, health insurance companies are removing pages from their websites that identify leadership, it’s a lovely little pocket of schadenfreude where we can all take a breath and prepare for the next 4 years.

    • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      855 months ago

      I like the idea that they’ve got billions of dollars, but will have to live in a windowless bunker eating beans.

      • @surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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        205 months ago

        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.

      • @infinite_ass@leminal.space
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        45 months ago

        Boot them from our nice society, in other words

        We could deny them the right to buy and sell too. Just everybody refuses.

    • sunzu2
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      605 months ago

      These parasites know that we got numbers on our side and we permit their rule by and large…

      I don’t think this corp of owners realize that plebs can turn on a dime, they got too comfortable. This is a wake up call.

      Having their goon wacked like this got to make them feels a certain way hehe

      • @sean@lemmy.wtf
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        For the sake of my neighbors and their loved ones and their neighbors and loved ones, please stop permitting people to rule over them

      • Great Blue Heron
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        635 months ago

        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.

          • Great Blue Heron
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            185 months ago

            Which is really really sad. When I was younger I used to think we just need these old people to age out of the system and my generation can do things better. We seem to be doing significantly worse.

          • @btaf45@lemmy.world
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            35 months ago

            (Gen X voted for Trump at a higher rate than boomers)

            That’s really sad because the younger someone is the more they are going to be fucked by the long term effects of Donald Trainwreck’s enshitification of everything. Nuclear proliferation from the new world disorder, global warming, hyperinflation of the national debt due to gigantic tax cuts for the billionaire elites, hollowing out democracy, normalization of corruption, normalization of routine dishonesty, huge economic inefficiencies that comes with wealth inequality, removal of previous rights like abortion, vast increase in government incompetency, etc

        • granolabar
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          75 months ago

          While boomer is deff age, when people refer to it online it largely mind sent reference… that parasite pest leeching on working people and feel entitled to do it, indigent when exposed.

          You know the type…

    • sunzu2
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      185 months ago

      Exactly… Don’t humaniE this parasite. Give him that corpo treatment.

      Claim to life denied 🙅

    • @floofloof@lemmy.ca
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      Silly tardigrade’s playing on the wrong side of the bridge. Do they teach nothing at tardigrade music school?

        • RuBisCO
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          215 months ago

          TIL. Thank you!

          but the piece that truly brought him to international attention was Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima (see threnody and atomic bombing of Hiroshima), written in 1960 for 52 string instruments. In it, he makes use of extended instrumental techniques (for example, playing behind the bridge, bowing on the tailpiece).

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Penderecki

          • @ylph@lemmy.world
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            95 months ago

            The Threnody is definitely his most famous, but he has used that technique in some of his solo compositions for cello as well - example

            • RuBisCO
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              85 months ago

              Oh WOW!
              That’s…something else entirely.
              So violent! Yet also subtle and quiet.
              Yields immediate visceral reactions.
              The entire instrument is so thoroughly explored.
              How does one remember such a piece?
              Or keep the original bow and strings to the end?
              Striking. Marvelous. Beautiful. I’m all for it.

              An amendment of something conjured by it:

              It’s not safe out here. It’s wonderous; with treasures vibrations to satiate desires both subtle and gross, but it’s not for the timid.

        • @floofloof@lemmy.ca
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          75 months ago

          It’s hard to tell. It looks deep like a cello, but the bridge doesn’t look quite high enough. Maybe at the tardigrade scale stringed instruments are made a little differently.

  • @Zak@lemmy.world
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    1405 months ago

    I couldn’t help but notice Blue Cross rescinded its very dangerous policy placing a time limit on anesthesia the day after the murder.

    I don’t want a reign of terror, but perhaps just a little bit of terror will have CEOs thinking they could be next when considering especially harmful policies.

    • Captain Aggravated
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      615 months ago

      Finding out after you’ve fucked around isn’t terror.

      Timothy McVeigh was a terrorist. This guy’s a vigilante.

    • @gaael@lemmy.world
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      395 months ago

      In France, during the Nazi occupation in WW2, a few people turned to the Resistance movement which was also a terror operation: they would target military objectives but also conduct assassinations of nazi officials designed to inspire fear in the others and spark support in the population.

      • @ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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        245 months ago

        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.

        • @supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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          This is a direct consequence of “the war on terror” attempting to redefine the military strategy of asymmetrical warfare as terrorism and inherently immoral.

          To sell the bullshit “war on terror” the easiest way to make the US seem righteous was to degrade the public’s sense of why people violently resist and reduce it to the act of violently resisting an organized traditional military is immoral unless the thing resisting is also a traditional organized military.

          I am glad that narrative is breaking down though as the distortion of how and why violent conflicts occur is dangerously blinding to a basic understanding of the world.

      • 100_kg_90_de_belin
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        75 months ago

        Marx once said that proletarians won’t embellish the terror once it’s their turn.

      • @Zak@lemmy.world
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        25 months ago

        Robespierre thought killing tens of thousands of people was defense. History has not been kind to that position.

    • @winterayars@sh.itjust.works
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      145 months ago

      Technically they didn’t fully rescind it. They rescinded it in some places but not others, and for some patients but not others. It’s just PR, they have no intention of actually changing things.

  • peopleproblems
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    1215 months ago

    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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        205 months ago

        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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      245 months ago

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

      • granolabar
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        235 months ago

        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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          285 months ago

          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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            145 months ago

            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.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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    1175 months ago

    I’m telling ya, this is the beginning of A Christmas Carol. The ghost of Thompson needs to visit his colleagues and warn them you too, shall die, and no-one will mourn you and the people will celebrate in the streets. And all your friends will tear into your assets like vultures into carrion.

    Heck, replace the ghosts with mobsters and use a trick of time rather than supernatural spirits, and you have a 21st century version of the story.

  • @Machinist@lemmy.world
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    1055 months ago

    Man, this shit just keeps being funny. The longer it stays funny, the better it affects all involved.

    • @btaf45@lemmy.world
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      Fuck the media for treating this murder as super important. This is something that only wealthy elites care about.

      • @Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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        165 months ago

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

        Its the Streisand in full effect.

      • @Jarix@lemmy.world
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        35 months ago

        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.

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          25 months ago

          Okay but why is the media treating this as more important than every other murder? It’s not. That’s what people are mad about. If anything, it is less important, since the motivation is something that not a threat to the general public.

  • @DancingBear@midwest.social
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    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

  • @Buttons@programming.dev
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    905 months ago

    On the 4th of July, American’s don’t celebrate that British soldiers were killed, we celebrate the society we won in the process.

  • @db2@lemmy.world
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    845 months 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.

        • @zbyte64
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          355 months ago

          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.

        • 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.

    • _cryptagion [he/him]
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      165 months ago

      His kids have been profiting off of the death he had a hand in. They’ll be just fine in their ivory towers, whatever happens.

    • @Katana314@lemmy.world
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      125 months 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?

      • sunzu2
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        35 months ago

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

        The people took notice.

    • Pyr
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      15 months 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.