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
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.
Funnily enough the death of a United Health Care CEO has United Americans in a feeling of well deserved schadenfreude.
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.
A few more of these and we’ll all really see how much we actually agree with one another, and how much the split and hate is manufactured.
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I see that the corporate owned media is sweating bullets.
Good.
I don’t condone murder, but I also dont feel sad about a mass murderer being gunned down.
That’s pretty much what condone means. From MW:
To overlook, forgive, or disregard (an offense) without protest or censure. synonym: forgive.
From Cambridge:
to ignore or accept behavior that some people consider wrong
So you’re perhaps not encouraging it?
It’s not without protest though. The protest is… was this guy a mass murderer? Yes? Well ok then
Hmm… TIL The word condone means something slightly different than I thought.
That said, one can still want a murderer to face justice while also not being upset about the victim death.
But I suspect this story has quite few people realizing they do condone murder in some cases.
Yeah, I looked it up to be sure. Not to be a dick.
And yeah, perhaps we should just condone condoning certain things and draw the line at encouraging or assisting?
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.
Cops have long had the Punisher.
Now big Insurance has The Adjuster.
I don’t know why they don’t just add it to the unsolved pile like all the other murders they see?
The only grim aspect is how much time, resources, and energy the NYPD has wasted trying to solve this. Statistically, there have been other murders since this one. They should move on and add this to their “unsolved” pile.
He’s not only hot; he’s making an example out of cruel millionaires … millionaires who prefer money and let people die, without ANY hesitation. So yeah, it’s not like being attracted to Dahmer, it’s more like being attracted to Katniss Everdeen.
Is it a twist if nobody is surprised?
Perhaps this should actually read “in grim reality, most see suspect in C.E.O. Killing as Hero or Heartthrob”.
You drive people to desperation and this is the result. What the fuck else could anyone expect?
Right?
When your business model is an engine that creates desperate people with nothing to lose, you have to expect something like this.
“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.
I’d say it’s grimmer that some people feel sorry for the CEO.
I’m a 40 year old straight dude with two kids and a wife. I think that guy is a freaking heartthrob! I mean first look at him, he good looking. I always rate people on how they look first but more importantly how they act second. And just look how this guy acted.
