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.
Oh look it's scared! Yay! LA REVOLUTION!
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.
Jesus if that guy cheated on his wives a few more times we would have had to worry about people wanting him for president
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.
his 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.
Not reflective? Then why the fuck are you so concerned?
This guy boos at the end when Terrorist Luke Skywalker ruthlessly murders beloved innovator and family man Emperor Palpatine
Sheev was a father and beloved grandparent.
Palpatine 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
Some are alarmed, others encouraged.
Even 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.
I approve. I will pre-authorize it.
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.
Nah 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.
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.
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.
I’m not plugged into popular culture or any of that shit. So I’m a bit dumbfounded that this happened. That is very encouraging.
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."
Terrorism!
As alarming as corporations being legally allowed to act as death squads?
*death panels
Yes, 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.
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.
Some murders are self defence.
I call this "societal self defense".
No killing in self-defense is murder.