Heroic gunman stops mass murderer from continuing his work.
this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2024
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A loss I will not mourn. I also extend no sympathy to his family. This man engaged in some of the most evil activity humanity has ever perpetrated—profiting on human suffering.
Awe shucks.
The motive for this murder is currently unknown, but based on the evidence we have so far, it does appear the victim was specifically targeted," he told reporters. "But at this point, we do not know why." (...) "There had been some threats," [Paulete Thompson, Brian's wife] told NBC News. "Basically, I don’t know, a lack of coverage? I don’t know details. I just know that he said there were some people that had been threatening him."
Try "he was an absolute asshole and the group was making people's lives hell in order to profit" for a reason.
UnitedHealth Group, the parent company, was holding its annual investor conference Wednesday morning in New York City but abruptly ended it due to a "very serious medical situation" with a team member.
The corporation using this fucking bullshit corpospeech for "our CEO was shot" makes me irrationally angry.
The CNN video thumbnail goes hard so I decided to make a low effort fake album cover.
Mods just deleted another of my comments for saying
"For America to get better, we need to be okay with bad things happening to bad people"
I am not entirely sure how this statement is calling for violence. Or Glorifying it. Or is even controversial.
The Mods here suck.
I don't claim to know where the line is, and the following may not be enough of a difference.
But your words in the mod log are different. The "okay with" in your comment above wasn't in the removed comment.
"Being okay with bad thing" is at least a little more nuanced than "Bad thing must happen"
Actually, that is a fair point. I didn't intend to misrepresent my statement. I mean, I still feel like the statement is valid and isn't the same thing as calling for violence. However, you are right.
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What a terrible tragedy, these are incredibly dark times. How will we as a nation, nay, a species, recover? This is a really really bad thing, and I do not like it. What has this poor, poor CEO done to deserve this? God, it should've been me! It should've been me!
JD Vance said about school shootings being a ‘fact of life’ Maybe ceo shootings should be equally the same?
Not a fan of this BIG TEXT markup read my comment formatting. Let people read the thread organically and upvote comments they think are worthy of attention.
This is Reddit sports sub tier BS I don’t want to see on Lemmy.
Seconded on the annoying giant text.
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When people are pushed to the point they have nothing left to lose this kinda thing will happen. I'm sort of surprised this kinda of things doesn't happen more often to people who make their fortunes off the suffering of others.
This is the expected outcome of free market capitalism. This is just the market correcting itself. At least it wasn't a mass shooting this time.
I would speculate that if the economy gets worse, recession, job losses, etc., more people might be in a position where they have nothing left to lose.
It's been reported a lot that more people are reclusive and isolated, less relationships and people having kids. Sure people could just commit suicide, but some might want to go out with a bang.
Seems like we have the potential for this recipe or perfect storm. All depends on how bad things get in the future though. Bread and circuses.
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i mean of course people will eventually get so mad at ceo types to do things like this.
killing them individually like this won't fundamentally change things though, even if we get a little schadenfraude.
in addition to this, organize and collectivize that anger and we got ourselves real change.
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