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.
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~~Children~~ Anyone dying of preventable causes
FTFY
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.
It's upsetting to CEOs to know that we see them, the same way as they see us. Expendable. Very tragic, thoughts and prayers.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
Another out of touch gasbag. Take his pension like C suite jerks have taken other people and he would get it.
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.
They're trying SO HARD to make it look like a fringe, extremist position instead of the groundswell of righteous fury that it is.
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.
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so fucking learn something from it
Mayorkas said [...] that he's "alarmed" by the "heroism that is being attributed to an alleged murderer of a father of two children on the streets in New York City,"
Luigi is a hero. Brian Thompson got what he deserved, and his children are better off without him.
he noted that "that's the actions of an individual, not reflective of the American public and of the democracy in which we live."
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?
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On top of killing people as his day job, Brian Thompson was also convicted of drunk driving, insider trading, and fraud.
https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1ha7u3e/comment/m16t6db/
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.
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”
It's only redeeming if he was a good father. Otherwise, he was a sperm donor.
Well as he was separated and not living with his wife and kids, I suspect he likely wasn't a great partner/father either.
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 hope they have nightmares about guillotines
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.
Good. Be alarmed.
Then change the insane healthcare system. People are mad about it, especially when they know how other countries handle it.
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.
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This guy boos at the end when Terrorist Luke Skywalker ruthlessly murders beloved innovator and family man Emperor Palpatine
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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.
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Yes, it is alarming. But it's a symptom of the problem, not the actual problem.
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."
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That's what a "made man" sounds like
Be alarmed, most oligarchs don't get a heads up they their rat fucking of the populace isn't working out.
“Are we the baddies?” is for sure an extraordinarily alarming moment of clarity
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.
Oh look it's scared! Yay! LA REVOLUTION!
lol. lmao, even.
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