"The tragic, brutal murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has elicited contempt for the unfettered greed and capitalism of health insurance companies.

[grheavyroller@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy Life imitates Cory Doctorow's art (Radicalized)

[havvyhh2@mas.to]

@wdlindsy 75% of the core maga cult voters will know they got duped....half of those will be ignorant of ways, means by which they get screwed. Other half moan a bit...but hey, our guy won, we owned the libs!! Rest of the electorate knew they'd get plowed under the corruption, billionaire bro grift & favoritism if maga won. But hard to see how it matters...we handed trump the keys, he's throwing "of, by, for the people" out the window. Elections in 2028?...me thinks not....

[markvonwahlde@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy What "America" thinks....

[nceladean@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy

Tbh it's not really tragic. What's tragic is all the ordinary people who had to die so that parasite could get another yacht.

[tinydoctor@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy What's tragic about it?

[tofugolem@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy
The man who murdered that CEO may have saved a lot of lives. He should be celebrated as a hero. The man who died became wealthy killing human beings for money.

Best comment I've seen about this (not mine) "This death could have been prevented by universal healthcare."

[tofugolem@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy
Why are we expressing sympathy for a man who got wealthy killing people for money? Has our society become this corrupt that we mourn the deaths of murderous monsters?

That gunman likely saved human lives.

[zhizhu@newsie.social]

@wdlindsy

People who work for a living have never been fond of the oligarchs who subjugate them.

[theogrin@chaosfem.tw]

@wdlindsy

Shocking and tragic are certainly words that could be used.

It's shocking that he had to face the consequences of his decisions, and tragic that it's not going to change a damn thing about how UnitedHealth operates.

[mamiyaman@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy They'll just hire more security.

[paulos_the_fog@qoto.org]

@wdlindsy

...and the filthy tory scum wanted to bring that iniquitous system to the UK!

[paulos_the_fog@qoto.org]

@wdlindsy

They won't do anything at all as the gun owners as a class are in the vast majority brainwashed right-wing nut jobs with barely a spare brain cell between them!

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Paulos_the_fog Yes, that sounds right to me.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Paulos_the_fog Indeed.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@mamiyaman Perhaps. There sometimes come times when no matter how large of a police wall you construct around yourself, it's not enough.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@tofugolem Personally, I'm never in favor of killing anyone to save lives, though I realize there are sometimes stark moral choices in which that might be an ethically defensible choice — as when Bonhöffer chose to participate in an attempt to have Hitler assassinated.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@theogrin Yes, I agree — and people are making assumptions about the motive for this shooting, of course, that haven't yet been verified. But I also remind myself of that Pete Seeger song that inspired so much resistance and determination in the Civil Rights and anti-war movements: "Step by Step."

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@ZhiZhu Indeed. Well-stated.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@tofugolem To whom are you responding when you speak of expressing sympathy? Wajahat Ali? To decry violence and killing as a solution is not the same thing as expressing sympathy for economic extortion, it seems to me.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@tinydoctor Since Wajahat Ali used that word, you may want to ask him.