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[–] [email protected] 182 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 89 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's also still on Wikipedia.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 weeks ago

Probably on linked-in too. So it has a use after all.

[–] [email protected] 143 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn’t this kind of stuff easy to obtain from a publicly traded company?

[–] [email protected] 103 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It is easy to find. But people were sharing screenshots from their website with their names and photos. This makes it marginally harder to tweet out their info.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 weeks ago

I wonder why patriots would be doing such thing with photos of ohr beloved elites?

Must have a lot of admiration these beautiful human beings.

[–] [email protected] 122 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What those fuckers always tell us plebs

" you don't need privacy If you have nothing to hide".

Hahahaha

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

See, but these guys have LOTS to hide. So I guess it doesn't apply...

[–] [email protected] 117 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

In the final act of capitalism the corrupt government is made up of oligarchs who destroy the institutions of government that benefit the people and the oligarch loot every last penny that they can before the people rise up, murder them, redistribute the wealth of the country to the people, and start again.

In France it was the guillotine. In the US it will be in 9 mm pistol.

They're afraid because they see it coming.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Makes you wonder what the French Revolution would have been like with a 9mm.

Quicker? Or deadlier?

[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

The spectacle of the guillotine was part of its function. There were easier ways to kill aristocrats, but there deaths were also a message, and smothering them in their sleep isn't as effective as a public execution with 6 meter tal technological marvel.

[–] agamemnonymous 30 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Guillotine: old, cumbersome, hard to find, frankly boring to a modern audience

Woodchipper: easy to find, easy to transport, new and exciting, sends a message

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The big ones you need a tow hitch. Govern yourself accordingly.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

I guess the modern day equivalent is a security camera the guy clearly was aware of and the internet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Iirc, it was also a newfangled, more effective/humane method, and a symbol of progress.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Crazy to think something so gruesome is pretty damn painless and quick.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, but then the blades get dull, and you have to do it a couple times.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well this is not a fun fact I was aware of.

I just sort of thought it was heavy enough that it pretty much didn't fail

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

You're rethinking your billionaire-killing strategy?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hey, hey, hey. Some of us prefer .45.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I've always been a 12 gauge guy myself but that's a bit showy for the purpose.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] medusa 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Hail to the king, baby!

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

PLEASE let "The Adjuster" stick! It's too good!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I wrote a thing a while back on some thread about a movie plot called "The Adjuster" that was a mix of "John Wick", "The Accountant," and "Nobody."

But now I'm thinking of a brand new plot. Starring Timothee Chalamotee as "The Adjuster." In similar style to Tenet, he is never named in the movie other than by a comment on him making the adjustment.

In the plot, eeriely similar to another movie or two he was in, as a boy his family moves to Arizona after his father takes control of a family business. Wealthy themselves, our protagonist is educated and healthy, trained in self-defense, and secretly educated by his mother in espionage and control. COVID-19 hits. Many of the people he knows dies, because they ended up in a hospital that insurance refused to cover because a pandemic was considered beyond reasonable. Even with his families wealth, the treatment only saves a select few of his mentors. His mentors have to find other work. They're assets are drained.

Through a series of events, him and his mother use the skills she taught him to live among the people, learning the struggle of modern day Americans and their own experiences with the healthcare system. Through some crazy stuff they do he takes an incredible amount of drugs, left to die, but in his hallucinating state, he makes the connection of wealth, insurance, and healthcare, and how to start fixing the problem. He says a famous, but minor line: "Our enemies are above us, and in so many scenarios they prevail. But I do see a way, there is a narrow way through." Stuff happens. He assassinates the insurance CEO. The modern day Americans repeat the only words he never spoke: "Deny, Defend, Depose."

Eh, not my best.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Sounds like it would make for a cool new cinematic universe.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Maybe there's a better movie to reference than the parody of space fascists using fear to oppress aliens just trying to defend themselves?

Alt: jib jab hot dog sign saying "we forge the chains we wear in life", a quote from Marley in a Christmas Carol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

the killer dressed like the ghost of xmas future/xmas yet to come

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Aren't company registries public?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago

Oh yes, they are closing the barn door after the horse got out.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They really think they can hide?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

They THINK, but they can't.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago

Well they kept pushing the population until it reached a certain point.

In France that point was reached in July 1789.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

These guys actually think that stopping stupid people from finding out is gonna save them? It's not stupid people who are gonna kill them.

It's nice to see the money people being the ones getting in the closet.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Right? Their leadership is publicly available information.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

It's the beginning of the Streisand effect. I don't know who the CEO of Horizon is, but I bet I'm gonna find out here or on Reddit soon enough, when it's memefied.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

🎵If it bleeds we can kill it🎵

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Can't not share the musical with that! https://youtu.be/qlicWUDf5MM

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Copayback is a fantastic slogan.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

them removing accountability is just the beginning.

they will strike back after the drawbridge is up and the portcullis is closed. if this was a nycpd cop that was assassinated the police would be done already telling you where they found most of the shooter's body.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

🍽🍽🍽🍽🍽🍽🍽

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

The adjuster. I like that. I was just thinking that he needs a good moniker, like a proper folk hero.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

CVS's is still there

Care Source, BCBS redirects you to the home screen

Molina it's under the corporate governance. I don't know if they took it off the leadership page or not since the page is there and the site is pretty bad overall.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Internet archive bud

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

LinkedIn has suddenly become more useful.

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