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Serious? People are reacting with laughing emojis? Really?

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I've been pretty impressed that the shooter has so far evaded police. I can only imagine that there have been at least one or two incidents thus far where people, be it cops or witnesses, had a clear opportunity to take actions that would lead to his immediate capture, but decided not to.

From what I know, cops often rely on the cooperation of the public to resolve crimes, but they may not be getting any on this one.

Stop struggling and accept that lots of people are ok with advocating violence against evil people.

EAT. THE. RICH.

It’s one thing to mock it on pseudonymous platforms like Reddit and the fediverse.

It’s another to do it somewhere linked to your real name and job like LinkedIn.

People really hate insurance companies.

It's bi-partisan too. Which makes this infinitely more insane

Good, the spineless hand wringing bootlicking fucking scumbags are losing. Wonderful to see.

What I like about this moment is that the people who ought to be fearful are indeed the ones who are fearful. I mean shit, Elon is posting Tweets about how great CEOs are actually, health insurance companies are removing pages from their websites that identify leadership, it's a lovely little pocket of schadenfreude where we can all take a breath and prepare for the next 4 years.

“United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s final KD ratio (7,652,103:1) lands him among the all time greats,” a thread deleted by r/interestingasfuck moderators said.

Man, this shit just keeps being funny. The longer it stays funny, the better it affects all involved.

I couldn't help but notice Blue Cross rescinded its very dangerous policy placing a time limit on anesthesia the day after the murder.

I don't want a reign of terror, but perhaps just a little bit of terror will have CEOs thinking they could be next when considering especially harmful policies.

On the 4th of July, American's don't celebrate that British soldiers were killed, we celebrate the society we won in the process.

Thank fuck Lemmy isn't owned by corporate interests that need other corporate interests to advertise on them or it'd be happening here, too.

He didn't really get "assassinated". He just got denied his critical-life benefits.

How fucked up is it that the day after the ceo of a major health insurance company was murdered in broad daylight,

The next day another health insurance company said they would no longer limit anesthesia during surgeries.

This makes me realize something, and it’s not what our sponsor or corporate donor wants me to believe.

Edit: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vwSRqaZGsPw

I'm telling ya, this is the beginning of A Christmas Carol. The ghost of Thompson needs to visit his colleagues and warn them you too, shall die, and no-one will mourn you and the people will celebrate in the streets. And all your friends will tear into your assets like vultures into carrion.

Heck, replace the ghosts with mobsters and use a trick of time rather than supernatural spirits, and you have a 21st century version of the story.

This guy was willing to do it for free. Imagine if there was a bounty.

I think this is as funny as the next person but realistically what will change?

Won't they just elect another scumbag and keep going?

You know what's pretty neat about this?

It's not mob justice. Mob justice is when people get together and come up with bad ideas. This is an individual that the public has now rallied around.

While we only see comments from a select few number of people in this country (relative to it's size of 350m) it seems that democracy is voicing itself. I know a lot of people who were initially shocked, but then quickly came to the conclusion that FAFO is a real thing.

And health insurance companies have done a lot of fucking around.