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[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yeah... I can't blame them, the apathy is real on this one, lots of people get murdered everyday, they don't get this coverage, I don't care more because this guy was a rich CEO, feels like the media is overhyping it because the rich are scared that some folks are deciding they need to water the tree of liberty. Pretty sure this is only going to get worse as people get squeezed more and more.

I'm not blanket saying assassination is ok, but I'm also not saying I couldn't consider voting to acquit this guy for jury nullification purposes if I were on the jury.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago

It’s not even apathy for a lot of people. It’s jubilation that someone whose wealth directly came from making others’ lives shorter and more miserable got his life shortened.

[–] Anonymouse 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There was a shower thought the other day on Lemmy that said that the whole situation is a real life trolley problem.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why'd you link Wikipedia and not the post? Lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Because if you already know the trolley problem, you already know the whole content of the post. If you don't, now you do.

[–] Anonymouse 1 points 1 week ago

Did I mix them up? In case somebody didn't know what the trolley problem was, I figured i'd link to that, but got to my bus stop before I could find the original shower thought. I still haven't figured out how to find stuff in Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Honestly, the more coverage of this the better. Let's set the president that bad CEO decisions might result in your death.

[–] Passerby6497 51 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This quote from his wife is so selfawarewolf:

“Brian was an incredibly loving, generous, talented man who truly lived life to the fullest and touched so many lives.”

Yeah, that's kinda the problem lol

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

incredibly loving, generous, talented

God she's brainwashed by him

[–] ilinamorato 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, I believe it. The problem with capitalists isn't that they have no empathy; most of them do. They just define very narrowly who that empathy applies to, and mostly that narrow line is drawn right around their immediate vicinity. He was probably great to those in his orbit. He just didn't see his customers as human.

[–] Breadhax0r 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I recall reading or hearing something a number of years ago that basically said a human is only capable of really caring about a small number of people (single digits) and generally caring about a slightly larger number. Anyone outside of those circles is an NPC

[–] ilinamorato 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

True. But that doesn't excuse someone's decisions when they are presented with the consequences of their actions. Even if it doesn't affect anyone you know, you can still make moral decisions about how to treat them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Can't even imagine the life insurance policy check she's about to receive.

[–] Veritrax 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You mean like how they found the Boston Marathon bomber?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Ahhh real reddit moment^tm^

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] militaryintelligence 15 points 1 week ago

Flood tip lines with bullshit tips

[–] BeMoreCareful 14 points 1 week ago

I can't help but feel like these influencers typically fill a role that isn't getting fulfilled, like investigating mysteries or things that fall off the police radar or weren't getting any attention. I very much doubt that a wealthy white man would be a typical subject in the first place.

Though, I'm not really familiar with this genre of the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Won't somebody think of the poor CEO's?!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 week ago

you know you can help by explaining the error after your remark, right?

to @[email protected]

Won't somebody think of the poor CEO's?!

you probably meant "CEOs" as in referring to the plural of "CEO". when you use "CEO's", you are using a possessive form to refer to a CEO as in "CEO's lack of dignity" or "a CEO's rolling head"