• itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml
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    17 days ago

    People aren’t happy someone was murdered. People are happy that the physical representation of an industry that should prioritize health and treatment but only prioritizes profit got what it probably had coming to it.

  • systemglitch@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Is anyone, not virtue signalling, truly upset by this? It looks like a good, but small beginning of a purge long overdue.

      • positiveWHAT@lemmy.world
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        16 days ago

        Pointless? Nah, the bourgeois probably needed a reminder of what can happen if they keep shafting people. Recon it won’t be long until the greens starts to remind them too that the climate clock still ticks.

    • Enkrod@feddit.org
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      17 days ago

      Upset? No. More like a little uncomfortable. Partly because I’m an idealist who always hopes for the best and most moral and peaceful solutions. Partly because it makes me uncomfortable how little I am angered by this. Sure I absolutely do not want proles to go and kill the bourgeoisie… but I guess it’s not… I don’t feel the need to condemn this. Sometimes things are just… shrug

      But it’s really just a little uncomfortable, like a sock not quite fitting my foot.

      I am far FAR more uncomfortable with someone calling this the good but small beginning of an overdue purge.

    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
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      17 days ago

      Upset? Maybe his wife or kids. If someone that disgustingly anti-social is even capable of faking a marriage and being a “father”.

        • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
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          17 days ago

          I can just assume it was about money. Who else would marry such a disgusting human being? …if she was not as equally disgusting though. I really don’t know and not sure I do want to.

          • Scubus@sh.itjust.works
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            17 days ago

            I mean how ya gonna marry someone when you know every time you have to go to the hospital theres a 32% chance your husband allows you to just die so he can save 1000$

            • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
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              17 days ago

              You probably could if you’d see this as a great buisiness-idea. Save thousand moneyz for only givimg up one life you don’t even know. To many this obviously seems great.

    • BakerBagel@midwest.social
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      17 days ago

      I doubt they lost any sleep knowing their dad killed thousands by denying them coverage. Why would i lose sleep for them? Hell, they are probably looking at a juicy life insurance payout, which is more than any of us will get when United kills our loved ones.

      • VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca
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        17 days ago

        I don’t know but mabe his life insurance will deny it, given he had the pre-condition of being a shitbag CEO.

        • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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          17 days ago

          They should be fair to him, and roll percentile dice. If it rolls below a 33, the claim gets denied. You know, like UHC does with their “customers”

    • lettruthout@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      18 days ago

      On a personal level, yeah it’s got to be a shock. On the other hand they profited off of the suffering of others. My empathy is limited.

      • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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        18 days ago

        Right. The situation could directly correlate. The guy responsible for limiting access to physical and mental healthcare for millions was shot and killed in a premeditated murder. He’s fucking with millions of physically and mentally ill people. Granted, this is the most extreme repercussion for his actions.

        • lobut@lemmy.ca
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          18 days ago

          He didn’t suffer as much as the pain he’s inflicted upon others. He also didn’t bankrupt his family in the process.

          I can’t say this is the way I want society to run … but quite frankly I think we’re all sick of pretending that killing someone with a pen is any different than killing someone with a gun.

      • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
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        17 days ago

        Limited empathy is totally fine. Cheering for assassinations is a different thing ( not saying you did).

        I wish the systems this dude profited from were changed. This guy will just be replaced, and the next one will have a security detail ($$$)

        • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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          17 days ago

          I dunno, I think this might really rattle a few people. It’s one thing to talk about social consequences like not being invited to garden parties or whatever, another entirely to be potentially killed.

    • Drusas@fedia.io
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      17 days ago

      I feel bad for his kids, seeing the country laugh and cheer at their father’s death.

      He still earned it, though. Hopefully this inspires them not to follow in his footsteps.

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        16 days ago

        I would be very scared to be the kid of a guy who was assassinated. You know they are the next target.

          • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            15 days ago

            There is ever reason to assume the kids would not be Targeted? Killing one person may not satisfy everyone.

            • Drusas@fedia.io
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              15 days ago

              If the gunman was angry about healthcare, there is absolutely no reason that he would go for the children after killing the father.

              There’s no logic to it.

      • frostysauce@lemmy.world
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        17 days ago

        I feel bad for his kids, seeing the country laugh and cheer at their father’s death.

        Yeah, well, maybe they’ll learn something from it and not go on to be horrible people themselves.

  • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Its all his counterparts at the other insurance scams that I’m laughing at. Suddenly they are considering their actions have consequences they can’t control with more lawyers.

    • hydrospanner@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      This is the thing.

      While I doubt it’ll have any actual difference being seen by anyone anywhere, if this killing were followed up by a few more, or even a dozen more in short order, you would see change.

      Most of it not the kind we’d hope for (tightened security, lockdown corridors for high profile individuals, even less access and interface with these people, etc…not concessions to decency, honesty, civility, humanity, etc.) but you bet your ass that it’d be living rent free in the back of every CEO and billionaire on the planet for a long time.

  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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    17 days ago

    Been saying it since 🔔Limbaugh🔔. The idea that we need to pretend it isn’t a good thing when evil people die is some Disney channel bullshit

    • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      17 days ago

      Yep, I sometimes really feel that that kind of people (you know what I mean) never progressed their morality past Disney cartoons that have it all dumbed down so that toddlers can grasp the concept of right and wrong.

    • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      I was thinking earlier… maybe all the lessons in the saturday morning cartoons were really intended to keep the masses from fighting back. I mean, no, the good guys don’t always win in the end. And cheating sure as hell does payoff. They want the masses to take the high road. While they tunnel through anything in thier way.

        • Soulg@sh.itjust.works
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          17 days ago

          I’m still upset we didn’t get anything about snokes back story. Why did he even exist if he was going to do nothing and then die

          • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nzEnglish
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            17 days ago

            He existed purely to develop Kylo. He got fridged.

            Also, what he did do was create the First Order and challenge the whole galaxy, as well as coming up with the idea for Starkiller Base. He did the most out of anyone in the sequels but it was all offscreen. They told, not showed.

          • EvilZ@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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            17 days ago

            It shows how little they actually put effort in character building…

            How can you declare that Snot or Snort or whatever his name is the master of an important character and then boom he’s dead…

            It was so pointless…

            Obi wan kenobi death was purposeful as you see he became stronger in death…

            Stork… Or wait was it snork? Anyway that character didn’t even need to be in the movie…

    • cliffracerflyyy@lemm.ee
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      17 days ago

      The evil ones die in tons of Disney movies. That’s where mostly the US of A got their brains washed and consequently celebrate a public execution without due process.

    • Venia Silente@lemm.eeEnglish
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      16 days ago

      Finally, some American (I assume here he is) shows they know how to use a gun!

      Now, where was he for the Olympics…

      (hopefully, training for this masterful moment)

        • Mango@lemmy.world
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          17 days ago

          I appreciate the sentiment, but there’s a while cult of people dedicated to using it correctly that you never hear of because they never shoot anyone.

        • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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          17 days ago

          Eh, going off solo and only taking out a single target is not exactly a wave of citizens applying their rights.

          Now, if this solo guy keeps going and only targets similar people, then we’ve got a solid case that the goal is actually to fight tyranny and exert the will of the people.

          One CEO down is murder. A hundred is a movement. All of them is revolution.

          • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialEnglish
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            16 days ago

            Yeah, people actually doing what the second amendment was explicitly written to allow them to do looks like, uhhh… January 6, 2021.

            • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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              16 days ago

              Well, yeah.

              Just because they were idiots, with the goal of putting an even bigger idiot on a throne doesn’t mean they didn’t have a right to revolution.

              Thing is, a failed revolution, insurrection, or coup has a different name: treason.

              It’s not a game. You either take action and succeed, or you’re a criminal. Doesn’t matter who’s in charge, what the political landscape is, what the principles being fought for are. You fail, you’re fucked.

              We don’t have to like the January 6th morons, or the core individuals that used the bigger crowd as cover for the actual attempted coup and killings. But the 2nd is, in part, about the populace having the means you overthrow, resist, or otherwise exert their ownership of their own nation. I’m glad they failed, but I don’t object to them exerting a core human right.

              But they also have to understand that they failed, and that (barring trump pulling some pardons out of his ass) they’ll have to do the time if/when convicted.

              Had they succeeded, they’d be heroes to their supporters, and the rest of us would have had to decide whether or not to take similar steps, whether or not to take up arms and retake the nation.

              • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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                16 days ago

                Not an American here so, asking for clarification, but isn’t the 2nd Amendment purely and solely about the right to organize into militias and not about what such militias are for? So, it guarantees you can have your gun but not that you can just up and use it to upend Human Rights because “lol someone wrote it in 1776”?

                • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialEnglish
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                  16 days ago

                  The more-or-less stated goal of the second amendment is that the people have the tools needed to overthrow the government if they need to.

                • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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                  16 days ago

                  Nah, that’s a pretty common misconception.

                  A militia is an army of the people. In order to be that army, the people must be armed.

                  When you go back and look at everything else documented at the time of the framing of the constitution, and later the bill of rights, a huge portion of the 2nd was specifically about making sure that an unjust government could be taken down by the populace. It wasn’t the only reason, but it was a big one.

                  Remember, these were a bunch of British subjects overthrowing their legal ruler and claiming self governance.

                  There is a fundamental concept that all power is vested in the people, and anything that stands against that is subject to revolt.

                  That’s a core human right. It is not one to be used lightly, but it is fundamental to the whole country as it is directly enumerated in the bill of rights, second only to the three core freedoms that are/were considered big enough to list first.

                  There is debate about what is called the individual mandate, but if you go back to the concepts the framers discussed, and the way they overturned British rule, it kinda stops making sense to say it wasn’t an individual mandate. Most of the arguments made against it are completely misrepresenting what militia and (more importantly) “well regulated” mean.

                  See, a revolution isn’t an upending of human rights, it’s the ultimate expression of one of them. Access to arms (it isn’t just guns, at all) is necessary for people to express a right to self governance in the face of an established government. In theory, any arms would be allowed, but once you get beyond man portable weaponry, you run into enough resistance that trying to argue for that is pointless.

                  Besides, one of the first steps in any sustained revolution is seizing the arms of the rulers, so (again in theory) having arms sufficient to take police and/or national guard level armories, that’s good enough. So it isn’t worth trying to fight for things to be expanded when there’s already a fight to just keep things as they are regarding firearm access in specific.

                  The language has shifted over two plus centuries, in other words. Militia isn’t a big, organized thing at all, or it wasn’t then. It was a group of the people called up, or self organizing, to take action as needed. At the time, a standing army was (among some of the founders) something to be prevented. The term wel regulated would have meant more well supplied, maybe well trained or ready, depending on who you ask. Which in turn means that the 2nd is primarily about every person being armed and ready if needed, so that all that was necessary is the need being known.

                  There’s a meme about the idea that goes “something, something, tree of liberty needs watering”. It refers to something said by Thomas Jefferson, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Which is an out of context statement that comes from a Letter he wrote, which is excerpted in that link, and which links to the full letter in turn.

                  The states were built on the blood of tyrants and patriots. It’s too dear to the core ethos of us, the descendants of those that shed that blood to ever be totally erased.