DHS secretary calls social media rhetoric following UnitedHealthcare CEO killing "extraordinarily alarming"
DHS secretary calls social media rhetoric following UnitedHealthcare CEO killing "extraordinarily alarming"
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down in New York earlier this month, and there has been some celebration on social media of the suspected killer.
so fucking learn something from it
327Mayorkas 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.
141Not reflective? Then why the fuck are you so concerned?
64Imagine what life lessons his children learned from him.
7his children are better off without him.
That's certainly not true. You don't have to dehumanize someone you see as your enemy.
I recently watched 1917, and ::: spoiler spoilers I'm proud of the way the plane was handled. One can see the necessity of war without dehumanizing the other side. :::
I'm sorry for his kids. I'm sorry for his family. I can continue to hope for a better way.
We've been through this history enough times. I, for one, would rather not repeat it. If this is the way things are gonna go, it's going to get a hell of a lot worse before it gets better.
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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.
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.
261I 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.
106Well 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”
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Jesus if that guy cheated on his wives a few more times we would have had to worry about people wanting him for president
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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.
53ChildrenAnyone dying of preventable causesFTFY
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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.
100Unconscious 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.
39The 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.
42Even Trump and Musk have kids - doesn't make either one less of a dirt bag.
30Is Musk still bringing his little human shield around with him?
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What’s alarming is people have been pushed to the point where they would consider Luigi’s actions justified.
58A good start
20Long overdue
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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.
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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.
38Brian 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?
49It's upsetting to CEOs to know that we see them, the same way as they see us. Expendable. Very tragic, thoughts and prayers.
45I 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.
156I’m not plugged into popular culture or any of that shit. So I’m a bit dumbfounded that this happened. That is very encouraging.
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This guy boos at the end when Terrorist Luke Skywalker ruthlessly murders beloved innovator and family man Emperor Palpatine
138Palpatine looked exactly like Joe Lieberman. Coincidence?
Lieberman hated the idea of universal health care and loved companies like United health care:
https://www.npr.org/2009/10/28/114233563/the-new-republic-it-was-lieberman-all-along
38this dudes name is literally joe niceman/lovelyman ????
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Sheev was a father and beloved grandparent.
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Yeah it is alarming.
Just not for the reason you think it is.
139It's alarming how surprised the oligarchs seem to be. Like they didn't realize they were the baddies.
107I 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.
69Nah it's just weaponized "concern trolling" in an attempt to quell support. I'm sure the red coats used similar language when talking about people like George Washington back in the day too.
22Oligarchs are, by definition, backstabbers. They don't know solidarity amongst themselves
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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.
130"When the rich rob the poor, it's called business. When the poor fight back, it's called violence."
67Terrorism!
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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.
29Another out of touch gasbag. Take his pension like C suite jerks have taken other people and he would get it.
22What's surprising is how out of touch any of these people seem to be. Do they genuinely not understand that people are suffering?
22Do they genuinely not understand that people are suffering?
We're lucky if they understand other people exist.
10Most of them fully understand and approve. The suffering is the point.
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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.
78I hope they have nightmares about guillotines
27They're trying SO HARD to make it look like a fringe, extremist position instead of the groundswell of righteous fury that it is.
19Oh look it's scared! Yay! LA REVOLUTION!
45As alarming as corporations being legally allowed to act as death squads?
56*death panels
41Yes, that is by far the most appropriate. Considering that is the terminology that was used to demonize the possibility of public healthcare in the US.
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Some are alarmed, others encouraged.
54Even for those who don't approve of killing the exploiters, this sends a refreshing message of "Maybe we don't actually have to put up with their shit." It clearly has them worried that maybe we won't.
31I approve. I will pre-authorize it.
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“Are we the baddies?” is for sure an extraordinarily alarming moment of clarity
25Good. Be alarmed.
14If only Homeland Security protected the lower classes in the homeland.
12Yes, it is alarming. But it's a symptom of the problem, not the actual problem.
14lol. lmao, even.
20I 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.
11Then change the insane healthcare system. People are mad about it, especially when they know how other countries handle it.
10Some murders are self defence.
31I call this "societal self defense".
8No killing in self-defense is murder.
4No, murder is a crime.
If you kill someone in self defensive, its called a homicide. This was a homicide (or an execution, which is a type of homicide that is approved by society). It was not a murder.
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Be alarmed, most oligarchs don't get a heads up they their rat fucking of the populace isn't working out.
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14so it's very alarming, but not so much as to even mention the underlying reason for the rhetoric
13He should be alarmed/afraid ... very alarmed/afraid. As should every super rich asshole in the world.
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