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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.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

Maybe you but I am serious when I say we should start guillotining billionaires.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Here's the thing. The French and Russian governments were unprepared for massive civil unrest.

Here in America we have companies like Blackwater [or whatever they are calling themselves this week] Staffed by ex-CIA hotshots with access to a massive data base and lots and lots of money.

I'd bet anything that they are already planning to capitalize on this attack.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd bet anything that they are already planning to capitalize on this attack.

My guess is they're currently consulting their legal teams and politicians, trying to figure out how to get the public to pay for their own private Secret Service for corporate executives.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have another comment in this thread. I said that 9/11 gave us the Patriot Act and that this attack will probably lead to something worse.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Right. The legal teams employed by these bastards are the ones who write our laws, our legislators just sign them.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Which is why people need to vote in every election.

AOC and Omar didn't magically appear. They did old fashioned political work.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I will never understand people who voluntarily relinquish a right that their ancestors died to provide them with.

[–] kmaismith@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This whole story-arc gives first move advantage to the opposition, the oligarchs are being forced to react instead of execute plans as they wish

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No.

This is a blip on the radar. Gamestop didn't destroy the stock markets and this isn't going to do anything but get people riled up.

9/11/2001 gave us the Patriot Act. You can bet that Trump will push through a law letting any CEOs body guards shoot at will.

[–] inv3r510n@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is just the first.

[–] inv3r510n@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Some of us have nothing left to lose. Fuck the private military contractors. Guns and drones are the great equalizer. They’ve waged war on us for decades it’s about time we fight back.

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