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Dated: 2024-12-05. Added: 2024-12-05. Alternate title: “After UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Killing, Americans Express Frustration With Health Insurance Industry”.

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[–] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 203 points 3 weeks ago (32 children)

C'mon man, the hate was obviously there before the killing, it's just that it took a murder to get the hacks at the NYT to cover it.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 50 points 2 weeks ago (22 children)

That's not true.

I hated the insurance companies yesterday, but I wasn't posting about actually killing anyone.

People have been talking about guillotines in the abstract. Now they are talking about it in concrete terms.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Ex US attorney Preet Bharara says that an important boundary is when a fantasy "graduates", going from protected free speech to credible threat.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago

Which is very elastic.

Think of it this way; no one is threatened by the sight of Al Yankovic coming down the street in a tank. People run for cover when Joe Pesci walks into a store and asks how much for a chainsaw.

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