A grainy image of his face drew comparisons to Hollywood heartthrobs. A jacket similar to the one he’s wearing on wanted posters is reportedly flying off the shelves. And the words written on the bullets he used to kill a man in cold blood on a sidewalk on Wednesday have become, for some people, a rallying cry.
Four days after a gunman assassinated a top health insurance executive in Midtown Manhattan and vanished, the unidentified suspect has, in some quarters, been venerated as something approaching a folk hero.
In grim twist, corporate media tries to guilt people out of having hope
Media is there to make owners feel good so they are doing just that.
Issue is that working class is not accepting this narrative.
A dead corporate executive is the most unified people have ever been in a generation.
I don’t think extra security can save them when entire country wants you dead
And we now have an entire country open to talking about how much they want corporate executives dead.
FA is done, I think this is FO stage
Three incident in the last 4 years where billionaires owned media got caught lying. Covid, Gaza, and now this. In all of these they didnt gave shit about innocent people dying, finding excuses and twisting words to gaslight people.
What’s grim about it? Of course people are gonna look kindly upon someone who kills a mass murderer.
I have a right-wing neighbor who voted Trump three times, says climate change is a hoax, and hates me for sometimes wearing a tie-dye jacket, but he says with a grin all over his face, “Did you hear about that insurance CEO who got shot dead?” and he laughs and laughs and gives me a thumbs-up.
America stands united.
My trump-loving in-laws are the same. Voted 3 times for shitler, but they’re thrilled about this. It’s one thing in the news that we can discuss.
I don’t condone murder, but I also dont feel sad about a mass murderer being gunned down.
Someone killing thousands through corporate policies: Not grim.
Someone killing that person: Grim.
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Yeah fuck the title of this article. What a shit way to introduce bias.
Where’s the twist? This is a dumb headline.
Turns out some people can only be pushed so far before they resort to violence.
Grim? WTF? The dude is a hero.
We need a French solution to the oligarchy problem and this guy moved us in the right direction.
He’s a god damn hero.
America is finally united
Corporate response is buy more security
Is the start of the first corpo war?
Cyberpunk main quest activated?
good time to start a career in security as a non-American because these scumbags literally can’t trust anyone in their country to not step out of the way at the first opportunity, but I can’t see anyone else taking a bullet for them either so … good luck to them.
In a report this week, the institute found that of the top 10 most-engaged posts on X about the shooting on Wednesday, six “either expressed explicit or implicit support for the killing or denigrated the victim.” The dynamic is similar to the discourse that often emerges after a mass shooting on websites like 4chan and 8chan, where perpetrators of extreme violence become memes themselves, Mr. Goldenberg said, “but what’s disturbing about this is it’s mainstream.”
Get fucked neo-liberal media. What an isane gaslighting comparision. This was a targeted assasination. Are you now afraid that people direct their anger at the sources of it, rather than the peasants killing each other?
What were the four other posts? CEOs going “Actually, murdering me would be bad.”?
The pearl clutching from the bourgeois is becoming a bit annoying.
“It’s being framed as some opening blow in a broader class war…"
That’s what many of us are hoping for. But this author, and nearly all other mainstream news outlets can’t understand that. They can’t understand why we would want a class war, why would we want something so disruptive, so destabilizing, so potentially destructive? It baffles and disturbs them, but that’s because they can’t, or won’t, see the harm being done by the current system. They are blind to the harms of late capitalism, willfully.
For many of us, the problems go much deeper than a few greedy and unethical CEOs, it’s the system. The inhumanity of health insurance providers is just a very egregious and obvious tip of the iceberg. This CEO wasn’t just some exceptionally bad guy, he was a product of the system. He’ll be replaced by another one of thousands and thousands of people who come out of our business or economic schools, and who would have run United Healthcare the same way he did. The problem is a system in which the private profits of a relative few are prioritized over all else; over human well being, and over sustainability and environmental protection. Many of us believe that that system must be abolished and replaced. We don’t want war, but if war is what’s necessary to destroy this unsustainable and inhumane system, then so be it.
Cops have long had the Punisher.
Now big Insurance has The Adjuster.
If they ever catch the suspect, he’s going to have a hell of a defense fund. That’s probably why the cops will end up killing him on sight.
Engels:
When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live – forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence – knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual; disguised, malicious murder, murder against which none can defend himself, which does not seem what it is, because no man sees the murderer, because the death of the victim seems a natural one, since the offence is more one of omission than of commission. But murder it remains.
Start posting this Wikipedia page y’all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_murder This shit has needed to be taken seriously for ages and this might be the context where that starts taking greater hold.
“A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.” ~ Guy Fawkes
