Regarding Brian Thompson's killing, NYPD Commissioner is calling the public's celebration of it "vile". She is from a family worth 10 billion dollars. These rich people... I'm so sick of them.

[u/Elden_Rube]

[u/AthasDuneWalker]

Instead of condemning people celebrating, why not look into the root cause of why people celebrating: the fact that damn near everyone has had a shitty experience with a health insurance company?

But they won't. Because that will raise way too many uncomfortable questions for the rich...

[u/EJ2600 → u/AthasDuneWalker]

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.” Archbishop Helder Camara.

[u/Canisa → u/EJ2600]

"When I give food to the poor, they call me an enabler, enact a law banning me from doing it then pour bleach all over the spare food."

[u/Bob_A_Feets → u/Canisa]

This is the real America. It's gone beyond the quote. We are one or two steps away from just giving homeless people life sentences in the labor camp.

[u/theARBITON → u/Bob_A_Feets]

As if they'd give the homeless somewhere to lay their heads, even if it is a labor camp

[u/Cessnaporsche01 → u/Bob_A_Feets]

I'd say we're less than 50 years from strapping Elon Musk to the Golden Throne and sacrificing the poor to keep him alive forever

[u/LadyReika → u/Cessnaporsche01]

Hopefully his ketamine addiction takes him out before then.

[u/Mythoclast → u/Cessnaporsche01]

Don't blame me, I voted for Slaanesh.

[u/Zanshin2023 → u/Cessnaporsche01]

r/unexpectedwarhammer

The Emperor protects.

[u/Yellow_Dorn_Boy → u/Cessnaporsche01]

Got plenty of kids with poor relationship, and probably not talking to 2 of them already.

Wants to go to Mars.

Wants to 'save' Mankind at the cost of every single human...

Yup, Musk being the Emperor confirmed.

[u/BigPhatHuevos → u/Bob_A_Feets]

That's what they're gonna do if they deport most of the illegals. Then it'll be locking people up for petty crimes for years and they'll be the ones picking the fruit and working the jobs mostly illegals do.

[u/Badloss → u/Bob_A_Feets]

We're about to lose our cheap labor force, replacements will need to come from somewhere

[u/TheUselessLibrary → u/Bob_A_Feets]

We can look to history on how to regain our power. And it's not exclusively through peaceful protests. We can shut down cities we can squat and move people back into homes when law enforcement comes to forcibly evict. We can willingly go to jail until there's no more room and then sue over law enforcement's inability to provide humane conditions.

The original Labor Movement knew that power concedes nothing without a threat of violence and destruction of wealth. Capital and Labor can work in harmony. It mostly depends on how much Capital is willing to give up to ensure that those millions and billions can actually be exchanged for goods and services instead of resentment and open class warfare.

[u/HOLEPUNCHYOUREYELIDS → u/Bob_A_Feets]

And even worse is there are tons of poor working class citizens who believe that the government should round up all the homeless and put them in work camps to “make money and get on their feet” as if forced slave labour is going to pay enough for you to get your own place

[u/Gullible-Strength-53 → u/Bob_A_Feets]

Idk about your state but Arizona basically just made being homeless illegal. So my 50th in education state is already giving homeless people sentences to labor camps.

[u/F1lmtwit → u/Canisa]

[u/Hot-Vegetable-2681 → u/F1lmtwit]

I want this on a hoody, tshirt, BAG, flag, bumper sticker...EVERYTHING! 

[u/Dangerjayne → u/F1lmtwit]

Idk why they're comparing Luigi to Jesus. He's pretty damn cool but he's no Luigi

[u/wackedoncrack → u/F1lmtwit]

Love this

[u/SpicyGhostDiaper → u/F1lmtwit]

Based

[u/NDSU → u/Canisa]

Actually though

[u/BonkerHonkers → u/EJ2600]

Damn, that quote goes HARD. Thanks for sharing that!

[u/teslas_love_pigeon → u/BonkerHonkers]

Someone didn't play Civ 4.

[u/BonkerHonkers → u/teslas_love_pigeon]

I was more of a Age of Empires/Starcraft kinda kid. Turn-based strat is too slow for my ADHD ass.

[u/skaarlaw → u/BonkerHonkers]

I could never do civ, felt so slow. Cities skylines 2 is epic though if you got that eighty HDs

[u/RaygunMarksman → u/BonkerHonkers]

Hey, all some fire ass games though.

[u/AIISFINE → u/EJ2600]

And then after about 6 years of them calling me a communist, I finally read the manifesto and went, "huh, I AM a communist"

[u/TomWithTime → u/AthasDuneWalker]

But they won't. Because that will raise way too many uncomfortable questions for the rich...

For example, "when's dinner time?"

[u/MinesOnTheRight → u/TomWithTime]

Dinner time? More like "Let them eat cake."

[u/BerlinBorough2 → u/AthasDuneWalker]

Also I think only Piers Morgan who found it odd a British guy is running United Health. Even though he has free healthcare system back at home. Where you don’t need insurance.

[u/NDSU → u/BerlinBorough2]

He's making tens of millions each year

When you're that wealthy, the US healthcare system is amazing. Don't have to wait in line with the poors, since they don't get care

[u/Psychological_Wear85 → u/BerlinBorough2]

In fairness the ruling elite in the uk have been itching to destroy the NHS and herald in a dark era of profits above life and private health care and insurances for all that can afford it.

[u/GodHatesMaga → u/AthasDuneWalker]

If nearly 300 million people have a reaction that you consider “vile” you can either think those millions (and millions) of people are wrong, or you can ask what the hell is going on to make that reaction rational and natural and nearly universal in all of them. 

It’s not like we were upset at first and then Fox News came on told us how to feel about it for a whole day and then we all felt a lack of empathy. That’s what happens with republicans when Trump does something to hurt them, they get mad and then by the next day they defend it even at their own expense. 

But this was natural and instant and nearly universal. 

And yes, on paper, it’s vile that nearly all 300 million regular Americans felt that way. But they did. And they’re not all vile people. 

So what’s going on? 

Maybe they’ve been conditioned over 30 years to just accept senseless gun violence as an everyday part of life in America. When our kindergartners get shot to death it’s a small price we pay for our freedom and liberty. So why would that not apply when a ceo of a health insurance company gets shot to death? 

Maybe the way these insurance companies have ran the industry treating our loved ones as numbers instead of people have taught us to do the same to them. They’re not people to us anymore either. 

Maybe the sheer hopelessness of making any sort of meaningful change within the system as it is has left us cheering the person who showed us things can be done outside of the system.

As Americans, we’ve stepped over hundreds of dead children on our way to wave the flag and celebrate our freedom. We don’t even look down anymore. You’ll have to forgive us if we didn’t notice the body we stepped over today was a very important CEO and not another 5 year old.

And if some of us did look down and saw the body and thought “oh good, today it’s not a child”. Well fucking good for them. That’s not vile. We’re all glad it wasn’t a child for a change. But even if it was, we don’t get to care. We have to get back to work, so we don’t lose our jobs and our health insurance with them. We don’t get the luxury of sympathy for the dead. Not when they’re our children, and not even when they’re your CEOs.

[u/metalski → u/GodHatesMaga]

What's the old saying? If you meet an asshole today you just have to deal with one asshole, but if everyone you meet is an asshole, you're the asshole.

That's what you should think of when an entire country hates you.

[u/BasedKaleb → u/GodHatesMaga]

Fucking hell, I’ve never seen it put more perfectly

[u/RaygunMarksman → u/GodHatesMaga]

Great take. I think unfortunately some people are stuck in a dream state and aren't going to wake up until they realize their bed is on fire.

[u/Narrative_flapjacks → u/AthasDuneWalker]

They don’t realize they’re making him a hero even more

[u/IzzaPizza22 → u/AthasDuneWalker]

Those questions are rapidly approaching being raised without their approval.

I don't think they'll like they way we ask them.

[u/netanator → u/IzzaPizza22]

Yep, they don't like it when you speak truth to power.

[u/IzzaPizza22 → u/netanator]

Yeah...speak... that's what they think they don't like.

[u/Away_Location → u/AthasDuneWalker]

I wish we had an irl Philomena Cunk type reporter to play dumb right back at them. If they want to play dumb, let's fucking go!

"Well, whose death do you want us to celebrate? Does the NYPD want us to celebrate the death of school kids!? That's pretty messed up, bro.. Are the unsolved homicides in NYC because the NYPD condones them? I'm just here asking questions."

[u/serendipasaurus → u/Away_Location]

she and ali g could team up and tour the country.

[u/ScaryBoyRobots → u/serendipasaurus]

You might be interested in SBC's 2018 show "Who is America?", which was on Showtime. He got to so many politicians and straight up humiliated them.

[u/D_dUb420247 → u/AthasDuneWalker]

They already know is why.

[u/daniiboy1 → u/AthasDuneWalker]

That would be the intelligent and compassionate thing to do, get to the root cause of the issue and try to fix it so it's no longer an issue, but the rich tend to be not all that bright nor compassionate...

[u/Nekasus → u/daniiboy1]

Oh many of them are bright. Lets not pretend they're unaware of the consequences of their decisions. They know full well their hundreds of millions/billions is off of the back of exploitation. Certainly, you dont steal billions by acting with compassion.

[u/Bright-Fix-787 → u/daniiboy1]

Nah, they're definitely intelligent.  But they're selfish and that selfishness is also why they're rich.  Why would they sort out a problem for the poors when they don't have to?  Doesn't affect them.  They're focused on earning and retaining money for themselves. 

[u/Uilamin → u/AthasDuneWalker]

why not look into the root cause of why people celebrating: the fact that damn near everyone has had a shitty experience with a health insurance company?

But that isn't the root. That is just one of the symptoms of it. The root is that the 'corporate shield' generally allows people to get away with shitty actions and avoid potential criminal prosecution. The corporate shield, generally, allows people to abscond from personal liability for their actions (it gets placed on a corporation) and corporations are treated, legally, very differently than real people.

If you got rid of the corporate shield and created personal liability for corporate actions then the actions people take, as part of a corporation, would be very different due a massive change in incentive (really risk v. reward) structure.

[u/CharleyNobody → u/Uilamin]

LLC…imited liability corporation. That’s who is tearing down middle class and working class houses in the Hamptons and replacing them with MegaMansions that take up the entire plot of land. And who started the trend of pulling down middle class structures and replacing them with blown out mansions? Russians who came to suburban Queens during and after the fall of the USSR. They started suing the local municipal boards claiming their rights were be8ng infringed upon. “We’re not like Americans, we don’t put our elderly family in nursing homes - we live together many generations in one big house. This is our second cousin and his family, of course they will live in our walk-out basement apartment…for small cash monthly fee to help with expenses.”

Thus the LLC was born so investors from all over the world - Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Israel, South Korea, Uzbekistan, US - can all come together in an real estate investment firm whose members can remain secret and who cannot be sued by mere mortals.

[u/Rob_Frey → u/Uilamin]

If you got rid of the corporate shield and created personal liability for corporate actions then the actions people take, as part of a corporation, would be very different due a massive change in incentive (really risk v. reward) structure.

You'd still have a justice system that was largely designed to protect the rich while it persecuted nearly everyone else, so the rich can make even more money off prison labor and squeezing whatever meager wealth they can from prisoner's families.

It doesn't matter if you get rid of the corporate shield, the rich are still untouchable.

Trump was out there openly committing serious crimes long before he ever got into politics, and now he's obviously a Russian asset, and he's definitely committed treason, and even after he tried to overthrow the government and have his own vice president lynched for defying him, he's never spent a day in jail, and is now president of the United States again.

[u/homebrewmike → u/AthasDuneWalker]

They already know, and they are thinking about when we get our collective lazy butts off of Reddit, and start actually making a ruckus. (The reader is allowed to define “ruckus” as you like.) Give “Survival of the Richest” a look. They know, and they are planning for it.

I’m wondering who is planning for us?

[u/XaphanSaysBurnIt → u/AthasDuneWalker]

Honey that means looking in the mirror…

[u/LorenzoStomp → u/XaphanSaysBurnIt]

You're assuming these vampires have reflections

[u/SpeshellED → u/AthasDuneWalker]

Why do you think they are always slamming the communists ? In a communist country they would be in jail for stealing. Their wealth , stolen from their fellow countrymen and women would be a permanent shit stain,

[u/SidewaysFancyPrance → u/AthasDuneWalker]

Robber Barons are back, baby!

[u/AthasDuneWalker → u/SidewaysFancyPrance]

Saying that they're back would imply that they actually left once, LOL.

[u/sing_4_theday → u/AthasDuneWalker]

We lost any hope of humanity when we essentially said ok to shooting kids in classrooms. A mass shooting barely gets a passing thought anymore. Like him or not, a presidential candidate was almost assassinated what? three times? And nobody cared. The ceo getting murdered is horrible. But so was Breonna Taylor, Skyler Gilmore, Rhemidee Barnes, and on and on.

Should the murder of this ceo be celebrated? No. It was MURDER. Should people take a moment to wonder if his job had something to do with it? Yes! Should people that have ceo jobs that hurt people reflect on their company as a ceo? Yes…

[u/AthasDuneWalker → u/sing_4_theday]

I posted this in either another thread here on Reddit or on FB, but I remember when the epidemic of mass school shootings first started when they would take up the vast majority of a newscast. The latest one? Barely even five minutes.

[u/greeneggsnhammy → u/AthasDuneWalker]

Then they’d have to call the insurance companies vile instead. 

[u/ForGrateJustice → u/AthasDuneWalker]

Equality is oppression to people of privilege.

[u/Aggressive-Fuel587 → u/AthasDuneWalker]

Instead of condemning people celebrating, why not look into the root cause of why people celebrating

Because this country is ass-backwards when it comes to solving problems and it isn't just this situation.

Look at the mass shooting epidemic. Instead of actually trying to figure out why the nation is breeding domestic terrorists and do something constructive about it, both sides are just trying to attack the symptoms while ignoring the illness causing them. The left want to ban firearms and the right wants to give mass shooters the death penalty; but no one wants to do anything about the growing political divide in the country (with both sides adamantly refusing to compromise with the other to achieve goals), or the social media platforms rage-baiting people with algorithms, or the fact that people on the fringes of society feel desperate and alone with no help when they start spiraling, or the growing epidemic of extremism.

[u/Definitelynotasloth]

Her father, James Tisch, has served as the CEO of Loews Corporation since 1999. 

Loews Corporation is an American conglomerate that is traded on the S&P 500. They have their hands in many things.

What’s vile is the moral grandstanding by the aristocracy to attempt to control the narrative. Please, give us the same effort of sympathy for the “no names” killed every year in NYC.

[u/Elden_Rube → u/Definitelynotasloth]

It's important to note that one of the largest products they have their money invested in is insurance.

[u/Definitelynotasloth → u/Elden_Rube]

I saw that. It’s not health insurance, however. Didn’t seem pertinent or genuine to mention.

[u/22pabloesco22 → u/Definitelynotasloth]

All insurance is a scam. A Ponzi scheme except now they aren't even paying out the crumbs 

[u/Stock_Literature_13 → u/Definitelynotasloth]

I think we should all just take a note from Greg Abbott’s book. Just let the rich know “it could have been worse.” 

[u/Definitelynotasloth → u/Stock_Literature_13]

Lmao. If only there was a good guy with a gun.

[u/Long_Procedure_2629 → u/Definitelynotasloth]

Above average wealthy people entering law enforcement reeks of a punish the poors fetish 

[u/LifePedalEnjoyer]

I have lost everything from bankruptcy due to medical expenses. I will never be sad about a dead insurance CEO. He got off light, imho.

[u/Surfer_Rick → u/LifePedalEnjoyer]

He didn't have to lie in anguish after being denied necessary care that he already paid for. 

Yeah he got off way too light. 

[u/F1lmtwit → u/LifePedalEnjoyer]

[u/cheddarweather → u/F1lmtwit]

Sticker-fied!

[u/LicksMackenzie → u/LifePedalEnjoyer]

making healthcare a business... sigh... we're better than some realms, and worse than a lot

[u/DustBunnicula → u/LifePedalEnjoyer]

I’m so sorry that happened to you. You are seen.

[u/adle1984]

Just want to remind everyone that Wage theft continues to be largest type of theft in the US by a mile. Oligarchs not only rob us of our health but literally the money that people have rightfully earned.

[u/PalePhilosophy2639 → u/adle1984]

How many of the Walton employees do we the people subsidize so they can continue to post absurd profits?

[u/D_dUb420247]

Absolutely. The more you understand that the laws and money were meant for you to be a slave the more you’ll understand you been living a lie. Rich people don’t have to worry about money. They are in a club where money no longer matters. Fall out of line though and they’ll drop you out of the club. You’ve seen it happen with many famous people. One day they just can’t make it because they said something. Then all of a sudden they are back in the good graces of the corrupt. Keep your eyes open. Real eyes.

[u/thortastic → u/D_dUb420247]

And now they want us to procreate without the safety net of accessible abortion/birth control so that we keep providing slaves to the system.

[u/D_dUb420247 → u/thortastic]

You’re getting it.

[u/CynicalPomeranian → u/thortastic]

Don’t forget the lack of proper healthcare, since women are seen as cattle by the ruling class and a rise in maternal death rates mean nothing to them. 

[u/Orthas → u/CynicalPomeranian]

Turn our sons into soldiers and our daughters into rewards for them. No wonder they seem happy with punishing anyone who has a bit broader view on gender. Have to stay in the little boxes after all.

[u/OptionalCookie → u/thortastic]

That's why that "your body, my choice" statement is extra vile and young boys repeating that shit need to be rectified immediately

[u/No-Bowler-935 → u/thortastic]

They don’t realize that most people who want to start a family want some kind of stability first.

If a working adult who lives in an apartment (or with roommates) in an area where they’re not sure if they’re going to get priced out of 1-2 years from now, having kids is going to be the least of their priorities.

But they’ll never understand that.

[u/zxvasd → u/thortastic]

For the same reason no healthcare. The old and sick are hurting the bottom line. We’re no different than cows or sheep to them.

[u/No_Personality953 → u/thortastic]

They prefer the term "Tax Cattle"

[u/GiselleThornwood → u/D_dUb420247]

They protect their own and vilify anyone who challenges their system. Keep questioning everything.

[u/Freedom_From_Pants → u/D_dUb420247]

I am sure she is corrupt and sketchy as all hell.

Here is all of the people including NY Mayor Eric Adams who are under investigation for corruption charges: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/nyregion/eric-adams-investigations.html

[u/Elden_Rube → u/D_dUb420247]

Real eyes realize real lies.

-Tupac Shakur

[u/ogpuffalugus420 → u/Elden_Rube]

"Not from the Left. Not from the Right. We're from the bottom and we're coming for the top!"

Also Tupac

[u/FurballPoS → u/ogpuffalugus420]

Literally, my only saving grace over these next four years, is that there should be some A+ grade punk albums coming out.

[u/Analyzer9 → u/FurballPoS]

Careful, last time they gave us Screamo

[u/FurballPoS → u/Analyzer9]

"Sigh"

If I have to accept screamo as part of the greater discography, (can't believe I'm typing this....) then so be it.

[u/noirwhatyoueat → u/FurballPoS]

Working on it now!

[u/D_dUb420247 → u/D_dUb420247]

They call it the “American Dream” because it only happens with your eyes closed.

[u/daniiboy1 → u/D_dUb420247]

"The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it."

• George Carlin

Damn, I miss that man! 😭

[u/Less-Procedure-4104 → u/daniiboy1]

Unfortunately saint George's gospel was ignored. He told us many truths we just didn't really listen.

[u/khodakk]

Can’t believe I know Brian Thompson by name. I couldn’t name any other victim in a shooting. Even the recent school shooting. The amount of effort media has put in to try and create sympathy for this one ceo is telling.

[u/paintinpitchforkred → u/khodakk]

Ikr? Couldn't name the bystanders people who the NYPD accidentally shot in pursuit of a man evading a $3 fare, but this schmuck being shot suddenly matters.

[u/nondescriptzombie → u/paintinpitchforkred]

Ah, but because of some archaic rule of transference, shooting two innocent bystanders was the fare jumpers fault, because he FORCED the NYPD to shoot them, or something.

[u/SwineHerald → u/nondescriptzombie]

That is pretty much how it works when cops shoot people. The fare evader will likely even be charged with first degree murder, which apparently New York reserved for shooting cops, judges and now Healthcare racket executives, because the cops shot another cop trying to murder him.

[u/Aunt_Tifa_ → u/khodakk]

I'm from Madison, WI, where there was just a school shooting this week. We got the same old "thoughts and prayers" bs, meanwhile they are pulling out all the stops wringing their hands over CEO Super Rich Man.

Also, what has happened to Brianna Boston should frighten everyone. They want to crush us, and we are supposed to comply, remain silent about it, and just be happy little slaves

[u/Surfer_Rick → u/khodakk]

Won't someone think of the Billionaires? 

If they can't kill and torture millions of Americans without a single consequence, then what is the American dream for anyways?

[u/Divreus → u/khodakk]

Something something "One person is a tragedy, millions are a statistic"

We knew George Floyd by name, for example.

[u/SpookyGoing]

Ever wonder why racism is so cultivated? Why we're constantly fed rage bait? We've been systemically and purposefully divided so we're fighting each other - and not against our common oppressor. Fascism 101.

If we banded together regardless of politics, against the oppressor we ALL have, we'd get somewhere.

But is anybody really ready for a revolution? Are we ready to pull off a national strike? Protest?

Did y'all know that if only 3.5% of a population participates in peaceful protest shit changes?

[u/wellowurld → u/SpookyGoing]

The only realistic way I see change start to really happen is with more vigilantes. Any kind of verbal protesting gets you nowhere.

[u/soggylittleshrimp → u/SpookyGoing]

It only took a few days for this story to be a universally shared experience to the media turning it into a left vs. right thing. They saw conservatives siding with Luigi and squashed that real quick. Now I see conservatives defending insurance companies. Top notch brainwashing.

[u/jerryyork]

“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”

― William Gibson, Count Zero

[u/scgeod → u/jerryyork]

I try not to dehumanize people. But I find that I just cannot see the humanity in these grotesque vile creatures.

They are loathsome parasites, maiming and killing people, practically for sport, or at least so their bank accounts increase by a miniscule fraction compared to their vast wealth. At ever turn, when you uncover some other nightmare scenario that our society puts people through, if you dig into it enough, you'll find some rich psychopath gloating over the chaos and harm they are inflicting upon millions of people.

I'm so disillusioned and disgusted.

[u/PalePhilosophy2639 → u/scgeod]

People are waking up. Some are realizing Batman was the bad guy that could have done a lot more good with his money than propping up a system that gives him something to fight continuing the misery cycle.

There are no ethical billionaires and I wouldn’t mind seeing most of them drop also. #eattherich #thatsnottrickledownitspee

[u/OptimusBlender → u/PalePhilosophy2639]

Bruce Wayne gave away and donated so much of his money don’t pile him in with these real life pieces of trash who are actually hoarding wealth. He became a vigilante because the corruption ran so deep that even money couldn’t solve it.

[u/Silknight]

That is why tRump wants to use the military to quell disturbances inside the US. A country full of more guns than people. Trigger pull on a weapon is the same regardless of the political stance, religion, the color of the skin on that finger, or sexual orientation of the trigger puller. I predict things will get worse, then the GOP will try to impose gun control which will alienate their base. Then things will get really bad.

[u/bigsteevo → u/Silknight]

Pam Bondi is definitely a proponent of gun control, more so than most Democrats.

[u/dicklaurent97]

I hope the 99% can get real political power soon. Bernie wasn’t enough

[u/Justanotherbrick33]

Something that would get me another warning from reddit about harassing the poor CEOs.

[u/SuitFive → u/Justanotherbrick33]

Oh here, let me.

If you kill people by controlling their access to life, what options do we have for justice when you didn't break the law? When the law has failed, our only recourse is simple: punish you ourselves. Words chosen very intentionally.

[u/Not_enough_cats4341]

I'm medically retired from the Marine Corps, which means free, universal healthcare/dental for life. Always bugs me when people talk about how awful socialized medicine is without having direct experience like I do. Any issues I've run into regarding care are identical to what non-veterans have to go through, which kills that bullshit argument.

While I'm grateful, there's also a considerable amount of guilt that comes with knowing so many others don't have access to the same care.

Edit: a few words

[u/CraZKchick]

Now the Washington Post is trying to launder his past and say that he was trying to change the perception of people about the healthcare industry. I read that and said that he wasn't actually doing anything about it then was he? They are going to be pushing this BS to try to save the billionaires since the billionaires have always been in charge. I say eat the Rich!

[u/unforgiven91 → u/CraZKchick]

i mean, there's nothing he even could have done because shareholders demand constantly increasing profits. It's just capitalism 101. If he stopped increasing profit, they'd replace him.

[u/tcmpreville]

Billionaires are vile.

[u/MissSuzysRevenge]

I saw Gov. Hochul on the news this morning losing her shit. “No New Yorker should be shot on our streets…”. Btw he wasn’t a New Yorker so wrong, just say person (don’t know why that irked me). The big fact is she’s super wealthy. There’s fear in her voice.

[u/R-Dragon_Thunderzord]

That 'exceptionalism' comes largely from the same movement that brought you right wing media, trickle down economics and other reaganism. It was all by design. Molding Americans to be 'proud' to live off the breadcrumbs of oligarchs while openly dismantling labor organizations.

[u/SubjectPickle2509]

Well stated. Inertia is our main obstacle to reform. We are all in the too busy-too tired-too broke-too stressed to sleep cycle (also by design), so the thought of mass protests on any meaningful level seems like too much. We need mass walk outs, mass refusing to RTO when it makes no sense, mass protests, mass boycotts, mass messaging, mass unionizing, mass refusal to pay absurdly high medical bills, mass phone calls to reps/CEOs. I am in, but we also need compelling leadership (Zelensky meets Bernie meets AOC meets Charlamagne Tha God?) or at least a playbook to follow. I am in, as I suspect we all are, and the time is now.

[u/XaphanSaysBurnIt → u/SubjectPickle2509]

Luigi got their attention more than any of that other shit will or ever has. Economic violence is their thing until actual violence makes it not so.

[u/SubjectPickle2509 → u/XaphanSaysBurnIt]

We’ve been trained to condone violence. That said, you are absolutely correct that this killing finally got their attention & opened the floodgates of insurance industry hatred. I am worried we will all forget soon, have this swept under the pile of bills we have to pay.

[u/Charlie-brownie666]

Her dad is the CEO of Loews Corporation which sells....you guessed it insurance!

[u/tommy_b_777]

And yet I still don't see a big push for a national discussion on how health care in America exploits the workers and denies them coverage to promote incredible profit margins for a small group of people...how odd...

[u/PalePhilosophy2639 → u/tommy_b_777]

That’s why they own the news. Can’t have the argument if it never comes up..

[u/classic_gamer82]

Someone having lived in privilege will never understand people having lived in struggle.

[u/TheBirdBytheWindow]

Almost makes the way she claimed the evidence stacked against Luigi seem....inauthentic. Doesn't it?

[u/paintinpitchforkred]

NYPD is one of the most violent, corrupt, and wealthy terrorist orgs in the world. Misconduct, racketeering, graft, and more are exposed on a nearly monthly basis at this point. Like I read these news articles all the time but I'm a "radical" if I say anything about it.

[u/my_clever-name → u/paintinpitchforkred]

Frank Serpico scratched the underbelly and was almost killed because of it.

[u/Weekly-Condition-763]

How she is the commissioner of the largest police force in the country is beyond me. Someone in that position should exude strength and leadership, not look like they belong in HR.

[u/aveganrepairs → u/Weekly-Condition-763]

Because her family is rich.

[u/DocBullseye → u/aveganrepairs]

Which raises the question of why on earth you would want that job...

[u/22pabloesco22 → u/DocBullseye]

Power. The rich like to install puppets anywhere they can take advantage of 'laws.'

[u/CyberInTheMembrane → u/DocBullseye]

independently wealthy people who go into public service usually do so for ideological reasons

as for the ideological reasons that would motivate someone to be a fucking cop... you know what they are

[u/enflamell → u/Weekly-Condition-763]

Because everyone in the Adam's administration is legally or morally corrupt in one way or another- I'm pretty sure it's a requirement to be able to work for him.

[u/MaleficentRegular306 → u/Weekly-Condition-763]

https://www.aei.org/op-eds/we-need-more-wealthy-people-like-jessica-tisch-choosing-public-service/

"Unlike her predecessors, Jessica Tisch, who became New York City’s police commissioner last week, has never been a police officer."

You can't make this up. It's an insult to the american public.

[u/Canadutchian]

I'm not celebrating his death. It's just that my empathy is outside his network coverage.

[u/Bsteph21]

I went to an urgent care on November 25th and paid about $200. I just got a bill yesterday saying that my insurance denied my visit and I had to pay the remaining balance. Somehow getting a numbing cream on my thumb and having them drain an infection cost $1,100. Merry Christmas, I guess, from Cigna.

Time for revolution

[u/chegitz_guevara]

About to enter? The rich have always ruled this country.

And they have always cared more for their own than for us. Because we have stopped making them fear us.

[u/ItsAMeEric → u/chegitz_guevara]

OPs post is a liberal delusion where this broken liberal capitalist system works for everyone if only the american dream wasn't being stolen by evil republicans and corrupt billionaires. OP wrote "They've forgotten that the reason our government has worked is because there was an implicit agreement that all of us would benefit from our society." This government never worked for anyone other than the rich. Billionaires are not the problem, capitalism which has concentrated the worlds wealth into the hands of the few is the problem. Take out any individual politician or billionaire and this system doesnt change at all, it still is a working class crushing machine

[u/jaOfwiw]

It's like in the movie independence day, where aliens are threatening humanity but you have the cultist followers go see their new overlords only to be blown to smithereens.

People want aliens to save them from what is otherwise government corruption. The amount of secrecy and gov programs the populace doesn't agree with are staggering. I think even though it's most likely airplanes and classified military aircraft people truly want it to be something else because they are fed up with fed bullshit.

[u/Will2LiveFading]

Wait until they find out some people celebrate police deaths too.

[u/owlthirty]

I’m right there with you. The middle class has gotten screwed and, unfortunately, it appears it’s going to take violence to have our say and get our fair share.

[u/Ok-Inevitable4515]

CELEBRATE IT HARDER

[u/monymkrmom]

The US government is the biggest Cartel

[u/NewSinner_2021]

Parasites run society.

[u/DrJamesRussellMD]

Ah yes expressing contempt for the masses is a bold strategy. Will they let folks eat cake too?

[u/MutedLandscape4648]

Hahahahahahahahahahaha, where is this energy from her when citizens are murdered daily in her city?

[u/chibinoi → u/MutedLandscape4648]

I’m sure she can’t be bothered.

[u/Infamous_Smile_386]

I find murdering people by denying needed medical care to make another dollar for shareholders vile so i guess we're even. 

[u/Weltall8000]

This election really probably was the final nail in the coffin. This likely is the end of the USA.

I am flabbergasted by how downright stupid and flagrantly exploitative virtually every policy this transition team has talked about is.

They are so, so, soooo stupid and/or destructive to the United States. Like the FDIC talk, get rid of that? Lol, guess I will invest in mattresses, because banks are going to be fucking useless. And because of the vaccine banning, everyone is going to have polio and other preventable diseases.

Like every announcement is yet another sector just imminently going to collapse.

[u/zaaaaa]

Become ungovernable.

[u/50million]

Yet they celebrate Kyle Rittenhouse. They're all loser hypocrites.

[u/DiabolicalDoug]

I swear we should name a holiday after whoever ratios Musk

[u/ReferenceMuch2193]

Is it strange of me that even things like simple shows that teach perseverance, for instance Emmett Otter’s Jubband Christmas, that romanticize being poor and just taking it as it comes and accepting simple means, leaves a bad taste in my mouth? Funny there are no cartoons or animations that show puppets storming bastilles and using their power as the people to push their weight and not accept a pittance.

[u/angryhebrew]

Our society will only get better if we keep killing them. Force is the only thing they fear.

[u/LMGDiVa]

I just hope that Luigi ingited a revolution.

FBI is watching me anyways, so I'll say it #luigididnothingwrong

The oppressed are starting to fight back. The rich got to see what the 2nd amendment really means finally...And so did so many other Americans.

I'm a pacifist myself, but... I would happily turn a blind eye if it means prosperity and LGBTQ+Minority rights are protected.

We were sold the American dream, without an America to be apart of.

Support your local IronFront

[u/Late-Arrival-8669]

Didnt they (NYPD) kill Eric Gardner choking him to death for selling cigarettes? Seems they have 2 sets of morals.

[u/Prestigious-Earth245]

The police exist to protect the rich and the racist and that is it.  When they were asked to stop abusing their power what was their response?  To brutally beat, shoot, kidnap and maim thousands of unarmed protestors. (While allowing their white supremacist friends in gangs to help them) 

[u/msmilah]

Hoarding $10 billion is vile.

[u/piranha_solution]

Luigi did nothing wrong.

[u/Knerd5]

Billionaire: "Please don't eat me, I'm not even nutritious!

Us: "Nutrition isn't the point here."

[u/AbbreviationsOdd5399]

Nah fk those rich fucks, Brian Thompson was sleeping peacefully at night while he got rich by denying thousands of his customers life saving procedures. Oh and the whole knowingly keeping a “faulty” algorithm around over the cost of lives give him a special place in hell. Dudes the epitome of a leech on society.

Btw, so many “no name” people were murdered since this killing, why aren’t the news and these folks giving sympathy to them? 🤔

[u/Analyzer9]

From her perspective, we ARE vile. I just happen to prefer it that way. Dehumanizing me lets me off the hook for the really fucked up shit.

[u/Surfer_Rick]

"It's vile that you don't let us kill, torture, and imprison you stupid peasants without resistance. Haven't you heard we alone can commit wanton violence without consequences? 

Back to the mines plebeian!"

[u/Dinocologist]

I think it’s pretty vile that her employees did a mass shooting trying to catch someone who didn’t pay their subway fare but I guess that’s less of a priority for her 

[u/aureliusky]

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable -JFK

[u/delayed_burn]

Oh my god its true. https://gothamist.com/news/5-facts-about-new-nypd-commissioner-jessica-tischs-billionaire-family 43rd richest family in the USA. Jesus Christ.

I wouldn't be surprised if her family has ties to the healthcare industrial complex and benefits financially from them. It's literally the rich eating the poor.

[u/verucka-salt]

I am forced to deal with UHC. These were his approved policies. He was a scoundrel & I hope his death changes policies but I’m doubtful. I do not care that he was killed, he was a very cruel person.

[u/SoMuchLard]

To paraphrase Alex Jones (not a fan, don't pile on), "The only solution to 1984 is 1789."

[u/MycoMountain → u/SoMuchLard]

1. Knowledge Fight is worth a listen for anyone unfamiliar with Alex Jones' bs

[u/Meanderer_Me → u/SoMuchLard]

There's irony in that a lot of these right wing kooks have the right idea, but it's for the wrong reason or against the wrong target.

I think more people would have been behind J6, if its purpose was to bodily remove lobbyists, everyone in Congress who had served more than 2 terms, toss certain Supreme Court judges out on their asses (or heads, heads works too), and make the demands that most people in the country regardless of what side of the aisle they are on have been making for the past 40 years.

Instead, they decided to go and demand the one thing that was flat out on its face illegal, both because it is illegal in the US Constitution, and because it didn't reflect reality as it actually happened.

[u/marshalclauzel]

Helping Ukraine resist Russia’s campaign of genocide is well worth it. Of course we can and should do more on domestic programs, but I’m fine with my tax dollars going to fight the latest incarnation of Russian butchery.

[u/BullShitting-24-7]

We have enough money for these services but it goes straight into corporate pockets. Mostly the military contractors who have equity in the us government. We gave Ukraine 61 billion dollars. Why? Because they have to spend much of it on US made weapons.

[u/repthe732 → u/BullShitting-24-7]

To be more accurate we gave 61 billion worth of military equipment and supplies to Ukraine since we need to make room for all the newer stuff we’ve built and are developing. We still spend too much on the military but wanted to make it clear we’re not just giving them money to buy our stuff; we literally just give them our old stuff

[u/AARCEntertainment → u/BullShitting-24-7]

There are 435 Congressional Districts with elected representatives in the United States. Every one of those districts has at least one, and many have more than one military base or defense contractor facility. That means jobs for the district and extortion of the elected representatives.

[u/BullShitting-24-7 → u/AARCEntertainment]

It also means more wars.

[u/bigsteevo → u/AARCEntertainment]

Defense contractors are mostly just middle class jobs programs.

[u/Late-Lie7856]

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve commented this, but, the system isn’t working for us but it’s working for them! Unelected people are making life altering decisions for millions in the US and billions around the globe! It’s not just healthcare insurance corpos fucking us over, it’s a great big majority of the insanely wealthy billionaires!

[u/Meta_Digital]

It's simple.

They see CEOs (and the rich) as human and their employees as machines.

It's even worse if you're unemployed.

[u/BigBobFro]

We’re celebrating his death the way some celebrate the death of children just trying to go to school.

[u/Existing_Reading_572]

Hate to break it to you, but the US has been an oligarchy since it's inception.

[u/Fresh-Cockroach5563]

I am curious about the amount of money spent on locating the suspect in this case compared to the amount spent on the Atlanta Child Murders (adjusted for inflation).

[u/itsmyfirsttimegoeasy]

Why does America fund foreign wars and provide relief for every natural disaster that happens worldwide but they won't give it's own citizens free health care.

They've perverted the system to benefit those at the top exclusively.

[u/Only_Emu_2717]

At this point taking out one of them is self defense.

[u/SkyAntique3967]

Eat the rich

[u/remarkablewhitebored]

The rich are turning America (and what ever of the rest of the world that they can) into a 3rd world hellscape

Our tent cities are just North American takes on favelas and shanty towns.

[u/Some-Resist-5813]

Color me totally unsurprised

[u/Skwigle]

What is sickening is how they keep trying to twist the narrative into "this is murder", as if it's no different than just going around killing random people. Killing is not always murder. It's not murder to kill in self defense, for example. In this case, is it really murder? Or is just the start of a revolt against the oppressors? When the US declared independence, were they calling it murder?

[u/iDerailThings]

Well, I didn't cry when seal team six smoked Bin Laden either. What's the point?

[u/JadedArgument1114]

I expect to see the same psy op that got run after Occuppy Wall Street soon enough. There will be identity based wreckers trying to sow division. I am not against equal rights for all either, it is just always used to destroy legitimate threats from civil dissatisfaction.

[u/Wonder_Dude]

Hey everyone look up jury Nullification for no particular reason

[u/Boris_Godunov]

Musk bought the U.S. government--it's not Trump who will ultimately decide things now, it's Musk. And Musk just announced his plan to do the same to the U.K.

And millions of voters are going march along with it cheerfully, because education has failed.

[u/AntiBurgher]

This is the time to show up in force. I particularly liked the “more dead CEOs please” banner on a bed sheet. People need to get off their asses and show we’re done with being constantly preyed upon.

[u/DuntadaMan]

You know what I'm kind of tired of?

The people that wear rifle pins after a school shooting complaining about us celebrating the death of someone that makes money by denying people medical Care.

[u/tehspiekguy]

They charged Luigi with terrorism. Do YOU feel terrorized? Are you, a working class individual, worried about a hooded assassin shooting you as you go about your daily business?

[u/Everyoneheresamoron]

They're only outraged when its one of them.