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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

I have a risk mitigation strategy for them which ought not to be novel, but sadly seems to be, which could probably bring this risk down to statistically insignificant for most of these people. Don't build your business on amassing obscene amounts of wealth via trampling the rights and dignity of millions of people who are only one bad week away from destitution and having all they've struggled their entire lives to build stripped from them, who have literally nothing to lose when it all goes pear shaped. Consider not only the financial, but the social costs of your actions.

The executive and financial elites of this world seem to have forgotten that humans are animals, and an animal backed into a corner is at its most dangerous, prone to lashing out in unpredictable ways.

[–] [email protected] 305 points 1 week ago (2 children)

While law enforcement does not believe Thompson's killing is part of a trend targeting health executives, the attack underscores the vulnerability of these high-profile executives.

Yes, very vulnerable people. I mean, not as vulnerable as an elderly cancer patient who's been denied care, or a working class family driven to bankruptcy by medical debt, but, you know vulnerable to righteous retribution. Except, they're not really even vulnerable to that, since they have the resources to pay for private security.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 week ago (5 children)

You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let's not warn or threaten, actually; it spoils the element of surprise.

Ideally, the enemy should never see it coming.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You never say, ‘I’m gonna fight you, Steve.’ You just smile and act natural, and then you sucker-punch him

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

With a Buick

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[–] [email protected] 172 points 1 week ago (20 children)

I am looking at another headline right now: "White House condemns using violence to tackle 'corporate greed'"

When corporate greed is out of fucking control, and nobody is lifting a finger to do anything about it via legal channels, what the fuck else do you think is going to happen?

I'm also amused by how reporting on this has been "We're trying to work out what his motive was," when it's so clear that everybody knows what it was. They are fucking us, every day, and this guy got pushed to his breaking point. The fact that there's been such vocal support for Claims Adjuster - not just indifference - suggests that a whole lot of people are real close to their breaking points.

This is how revolutions begin.

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

"People shouldn't be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I hate that V for Vendetta it’s kind of playing out right now.

I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense.

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[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 week ago (4 children)

"Over the last two years, online activity has indicated a growing negative sentiment around conglomerates, the wealthy, and executive staff at private and public organizations," the bulletin said. "Calls for targeting the executive team, their families, homes, and places of work using a variety of online and offline means to harass, disrupt, and harm the individuals and the organizations have become widespread."

I wonder why…

[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bitch please. That's how unions got shit done. The boss made threats? Cops come to beat up and shoot at striking workers? Then the workers show up at the boss' house and burn it down or beat the crap our of him. That's how it used to be done.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

We allowed the centrists to take over, and their hippy “Follow the rules. violence is bad but we’ll back state sanctioned violence” shtick has ruined a century of progress.

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

"Calls for targeting the executive team, their families, homes, and places of work using a variety of online and offline means to harass, disrupt, and harm the individuals and the organizations have become widespread."

I'd argue that this is a non issue that doesn't warrant additional attention, as it only affects less than 1% of the population.

Instead, do more to combat drunk driving, that will have a bigger meaningful effect on the populace.

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

I think a lot, or maybe even most of them don't really care about effect on the populace, just the effect on the 1% richest of the population. It is sad to see.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Well, I think the majority of cops do care about their effect on their community. And I think the majority of cops originally chose their job because they wanted to protect people.

But our system is deeply flawed and it actively corrupts people in these authority positions. And despite their initial reasoning, the road to hell is usually paved with the best of intentions.

Policing in this country is probably even more problematic than our health care system (which is saying a lot). But it's not because the individuals are bad; It's tempting to say that, as it's such an easy explanation and it gives us clear culprits to point at, but it's really not rational. I think the true root of our problem with policing ultimately comes down to how our legislation works, specifically that the system isn't robust enough to resist tampering from private and corporate interests. (And it's tempting to blame the private and corporate entities, but this is also missing the point.)

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago

I would suggest the cops investigate health care companies so people don't feel like they have an obligation to do something.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago

Law enforcement is now seeing the line between corperations and people and guess who they have to defend.

ACAB

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago

I thought the killing WAS the warning.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm not even going to read their warning. Law enforcement should shut up and quietly do their job. No one has to talk to the pigs and if they dont show some respect to the public, no one will. So if they want to be professionals they should pipe down and keep their "warnings" to themselves.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, doing their jobs is protecting the wealthy. They don't exist for any other reason.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago

They’re afraid. Good

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” -Henry Ford

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Famous piece of shit Henry Ford.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

Strange how they were completely incapable of understanding this concept when it comes to right wing violence.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Not American, but curious as to why you don't vote for polices that prevent the healthcare ripoff?

I mean, it's all well and good applauding a single man's actions, but you all could affect change of there was a genuine will to do so. Other western countries don't have this problem that you are seemingly powerless to change?

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

Because America is not a functional democracy but rather an oligarchy driven by the will of the elite.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

The wealthy own everything. The media, the campaign funding, the concert venues, the restaurants, the farmland, the water, the houses, the offices, the railroads, the textbook publishers. Fucking everything. The only thing our government does well is print more money for the rich.

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

Healthcare was barely even discussed during the last election. Trump has no plans to improve it and Harris didn't campaign on it. We can't just directly vote for laws, we have to elect leaders that would write a bill and vote for it. And pretty much everyone in Congress is bought out by Big Pharma, which has more money than god so it buys elections.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

tl;dr the USA is not really a democracy, just as the founding fathers intended.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

There are several (very simplified) factors:

  • the parties in power won't fix voting so others can join in proportionally
  • the parties in power are mostly guided by the wealthy (often via corporate influence), just with slightly different flavors
  • many of our citizens are one or more of poorly educated, uninformed, radicalized, and selfish
  • the wealthy tend to support policies that keep them wealthy and the electorate controllable
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Warn my ass

Delay, Deny, Depose

The one pecent's days are numbered

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