Those who make peaceful protest impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Also, the media cheered the killing of terrorists. Get off your hypocritical high fucking horse. Clearly there is a line where killing is deemed acceptable.
Also, the media cheered the killing of terrorists. Get off your hypocritical high fucking horse. Clearly there is a line where killing is deemed acceptable.
Hey now that’s state sanctioned violence which is legitimate for… reasons…
Hey now that’s state sanctioned violence which is legitimate for…
reasons…shareholder valueFTFY
People haven’t celebrated this much since Thatcher died.
Idk, friends and I went out for beers when Kissinger finally croaked.
1 down, many more to go
Why the fuck should I care if some asshole got shot if I have to watch my loved ones slowly die of cancer.
Dude got off lucky for what most ppl want to do to him.
More like why should I care about this particular asshole? People get murdered for revenge all the time and most don’t even get a headline.
Maybe he didn’t get a headline because CEOs are privileged and important. Maybe he got one because the public reaction was sure to generate a shit ton of ad clicks.
Diane, an oncology doctor, says her field has also suffered.
“UnitedHealth Group in particular and Optum, which is their pharmacy benefit manager, make their money by profiteering off sick people, and we have a health-care system that is perfectly constructed to create great wealth and power in large corporations and is increasingly badly constructed to actually provide health care to patients,” she says. “The frustration from patients, from their caregivers, from the people who love them, from doctors, nurses, everybody in the health-care fields is just so huge right now. I’m saddened but not surprised at this event.”
Fucking Amen
I love how this turned out to be the event that united Americans across pretty much all demographics.
Yep. This is the third or fourth such event that I can think of in my lifetime. (not specifically related to healthcare) Every time I think “hey maybe that means something will change.”
So far, it either causes no change, or things get worse.
I’ve got my fingers crossed on this one.
Until there is some movement on our healthcare system, I will shed no tears for this guy, nor any similar events that occur in the future.
Healthcare is likely the most sensitive topic that affects vast majority of people. Everyone has either been fucked by insurance industry or knows someone who has.
Everyone in the country was vulnerable to Covid too; you see how long that unity lasted. Just one example for my pessimism.
I don’t think this single thing is going to be the catalyst for some major change on its own, but these things add up over time. Eventually, quantity transforms into quality. People are becoming increasingly aware that the system is broken, and solidarity within the working class is starting to slowly develop. It’s important to develop a long term perspective here and recognize that change is a long process there will be many setbacks along the way. I do think it’s important to use these kinds of events to do agitprop to point people in the right direction in terms of their thinking.
That’s certainly a perspective I’d like to agree with, so I hope you are right!
And then vote for more republicans anyway.
Perfectly natural and healthy reaction. I have a daughter who survived a brain tumor, and if we hadn’t had good insurance I’m sure I would be reacting the same way. The hypocrites are the people acting like they’re above the satisfaction of vicarious violence and are just appreciating in a detached intellectual way that a rich insurance CEO received justice for his crimes against humanity.
