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[–] [email protected] 373 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Love that the entire internet, left, right, authoritarian, liberal, and everyone in-between came out to say “lol, get rekt, oligarch.” Nothing I’ve ever seen has been as unifying as this. Running for office under the banner of beheading CEOs might sincerely get you elected.

[–] makyo 172 points 1 week ago (10 children)

I think the powers that be underestimate our thirst for justice. This is the closest thing to justice for the rich we've seen in - maybe our lives?

I don't want to live in a world of vigilante justice but this kind of thing is inevitable when the system fails us for as long as it has.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (49 children)

As someone that could probably best be described as center-left (guillotine oligarchs yes, UBI yes, abolition of private property and free markets no), I do dare say that not a single common person on the right likes the billionaires either. It's just that their side of the political isle has been co-opted by the billionaires even worse than the "left" side because being anti-tax and anti-regulation is more useful to billionaires than pro-tax and pro-regulation.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Nah the right has one or three pet billionaires they outright worship.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

These one or three pet billionaires have done a lot of image building to achieve this. They're trying to be the "common man's billionaire" and "just like us". Musk spent a decade trying to appear like a nerdy engineer and when people started realizing he's a shitheel, he pivoted to the "the elites are after me, it's time for us to stop them together" shtick.

In general, the right (and I mean individual people, NOT politicians) hates billionaires almost as much as we do, but wrongly associates them with the left - but while it's true that some billionaires are left-wing socially, they're damn near all right-wing economically, because no billionaire is going to want to have less money.

[–] kautau 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah the big issue is as you said. Ask someone on the right to name a bad billionaire. They will mention musk, bezos, Tim Cook, but probably only hating cook for being woke and money grubbing. The ones who pull the strings hide themselves. Nobody knows who they are they’re just CEO of x y z. There’s 750+ billionaires in the US, 15 in every state on average (though most of them are in cali, Texas, and ny). And they’ve spent a boatload of money getting very smart people to convince everyone they can that the problem is Joe Biden, or Kamala Harris. Tribalism is strong, and unfortunately people just lap it up.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

That’s the one enemy everyone has in common. We need more like those.

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[–] [email protected] 202 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow I think this is the first time I’ve seen this meme template used so appropriately.

[–] lemmy_outta_here 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are people losing their minds, though? I thought the reaction was pretty muted. There was some celebration, to be sure, but I think that is a pretty rational response.

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[–] Anticorp 129 points 1 week ago (9 children)

More Americans die every year because of lack of access to medical care than from all of our wars combined.

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 week ago (3 children)

We have people like the Joker who give us philosophical questions about our civilization but we've yet to see a billionaire use their infinite money and resources to dress up in a suit and mask, fight crime and build a fancy car or jet with exotic weapons to fight real life villains.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (6 children)

we've yet to see a billionaire use their infinite money and resources to dress up in a suit and mask, fight crime and build a fancy car or jet with exotic weapons to fight real life villains.

That's a good thing, though. They may make for great movie and comic book fodder, but in real life, superheroes are pretty much just cops with fewer rules: rather than doing anything about the underlying causes of crime, they just beat up symptoms and theoretical bogeymen.

With his vast resources, Bruce Wayne could reduce crime by 75%+ by investing in prevention, but he prefers beating up people, most of whom are low level goons who probably turned to crime out of desperation, a lack of better options, or varying levels of coercion if not downright brainwashing by the main villains and their middle managers.

Batman would TOTALLY beat up a ton of entry level employees who AREN'T at fault as well as the CEO if insurance profiteering was illegal.

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[–] Anticorp 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To be fair, the Joker was a psychopathic murderer. He wasn't just laying out deep questions.

[–] WhatYouNeed 21 points 1 week ago

"the Joker was a psychopathic murderer"

So a CEO then.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

That's what I've been saying. Or they could at least hire and outfit someone to do it. These people don't have any imagination at all.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Meh, I feel indifferent. Like I'm neither happy nor sad.

Funny thing about these CEOs is that they are universally hated across the political spectrum.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Kamala bragged on the campaign trail about how many CEO endorsements she had. That worked great!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

LOLOL she did? I didn't pay attention to the news too often because the news is too depressing, but if she did, that's just extra dumb. Like both democrats and republicans from progressives to magats, they all have a dislike for CEOs of big corporations (generally speaking, I know there are exceptions like the Elon worship within the maga movement). What the fuck is that compaign strategy?

[–] Anticorp 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I was thinking today that I hate how emotionless I've become about this sort of stuff. I wasn't this way 8 years ago.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Everyone is losing their minds because they're afraid there'll be a run on popcorn, not because anyone will miss a waste of space healthcare CEO.

If people don't feel like we can make things better with negotiation, this is where it goes. I'm not up for pretending I didn't see this coming.

This may be good time to be an experienced professional body guard, because there's a lot of healthcare CEOs left and no way was the alleged attacker (I didn't see shit!) the only person they've hurt.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Did something happen? Do I want to know?

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Someone assassinated the CEO of an American health insurance company with a silenced pistol after an investors meeting. Apparently the company is famous for turning down people's requests for treatment while the guy had a yearly salary in the ~~undreds~~ tens of millions.

[–] Anticorp 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They deny 37% of all claims, and he proposed that they deny payment of anesthesia during surgery if it lasts longer than an arbitrary number he pulled out of his ass.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

I don't know if he proposed that, but the headlines have been for Blue Cross Blue Shield not covering anesthesia over a certain time, not United Healthcare. Both shit companies though, fuck em.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (6 children)
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