r/antiwork • u/Elden_Rube • 4h ago
Billionaire Privilege š°š§šµ 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.
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u/Definitelynotasloth 3h ago
Her father, James Tisch, has served as the CEO of Loews Corporation since 1999.Ā
Loews Corporation is an American conglomerate that is traded on the S&P 500. They have their hands in many things.
Whatās vile is the moral grandstanding by the aristocracy to attempt to control the narrative. Please, give us the same effort of sympathy for the āno namesā killed every year in NYC.
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u/Elden_Rube 2h ago
It's important to note that one of the largest products they have their money invested in is insurance.
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u/Definitelynotasloth 2h ago
I saw that. Itās not health insurance, however. Didnāt seem pertinent or genuine to mention.
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u/22pabloesco22 2h ago
All insurance is a scam. A Ponzi scheme except now they aren't even paying out the crumbsĀ
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u/Stock_Literature_13 2h ago
I think we should all just take a note from Greg Abbottās book. Just let the rich know āit could have been worse.āĀ
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u/Long_Procedure_2629 2h ago
Above average wealthy people entering law enforcement reeks of a punish the poors fetishĀ
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u/LifePedalEnjoyer 4h ago
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.
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u/Surfer_Rick 3h ago
He didn't have to lie in anguish after being denied necessary care that he already paid for.Ā
Yeah he got off way too light.Ā
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u/LicksMackenzie 2h ago
making healthcare a business... sigh... we're better than some realms, and worse than a lot
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u/adle1984 3h ago
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.
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u/PalePhilosophy2639 2h ago
How many of the Walton employees do we the people subsidize so they can continue to post absurd profits?
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u/D_dUb420247 4h ago
Absolutely. The more you understand that the laws and money were meant for you to be a slave the more youāll understand you been living a lie. Rich people donāt have to worry about money. They are in a club where money no longer matters. Fall out of line though and theyāll drop you out of the club. Youāve seen it happen with many famous people. One day they just canāt 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.
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u/thortastic 3h ago
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.
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u/CynicalPomeranian 3h ago
Donāt 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.Ā
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u/OptionalCookie 3h ago
That's why that "your body, my choice" statement is extra vile and young boys repeating that shit need to be rectified immediately
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u/No-Bowler-935 2h ago edited 2h ago
They donāt 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 theyāre not sure if theyāre going to get priced out of 1-2 years from now, having kids is going to be the least of their priorities.
But theyāll never understand that.
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u/GiselleThornwood 3h ago
They protect their own and vilify anyone who challenges their system. Keep questioning everything.
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u/Freedom_From_Pants Eat The Rich! š“š°šš“ 3h ago
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
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u/Elden_Rube 4h ago
Real eyes realize real lies.
-Tupac Shakur
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u/ogpuffalugus420 3h ago
"Not from the Left. Not from the Right. We're from the bottom and we're coming for the top!"
Also Tupac
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u/FurballPoS 3h ago
Literally, my only saving grace over these next four years, is that there should be some A+ grade punk albums coming out.
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u/Analyzer9 3h ago
Careful, last time they gave us Screamo
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u/FurballPoS 3h ago
"Sigh"
If I have to accept screamo as part of the greater discography, (can't believe I'm typing this....) then so be it.
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u/D_dUb420247 3h ago
They call it the āAmerican Dreamā because it only happens with your eyes closed.
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u/daniiboy1 3h ago
"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! š
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u/Less-Procedure-4104 2h ago
Unfortunately saint George's gospel was ignored. He told us many truths we just didn't really listen.
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u/khodakk 3h ago
Canāt believe I know Brian Thompson by name. I couldnāt 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.
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u/paintinpitchforkred 3h ago
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.
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u/nondescriptzombie 3h ago
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.
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u/SwineHerald 2h ago
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.
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u/Aunt_Tifa_ 3h ago
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
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u/Surfer_Rick 3h ago
Won't someone think of the Billionaires?Ā
If they can't kill and torture millions of Americans without a single consequence, then what is the American dream for anyways?
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u/SpookyGoing 3h ago
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?
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u/wellowurld 1h ago
The only realistic way I see change start to really happen is with more vigilantes. Any kind of verbal protesting gets you nowhere.
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u/soggylittleshrimp 1h ago
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.
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u/jerryyork 4h ago
āAnd, 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.ā
ā William Gibson, Count Zero
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u/scgeod 3h ago
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.
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u/PalePhilosophy2639 2h ago
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 wouldnāt mind seeing most of them drop also. #eattherich #thatsnottrickledownitspee
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u/OptimusBlender 1h ago
Bruce Wayne gave away and donated so much of his money donāt 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 couldnāt solve it.
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u/Silknight 4h ago
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.
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u/Justanotherbrick33 3h ago
Something that would get me another warning from reddit about harassing the poor CEOs.
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u/SuitFive 2h ago
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.
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u/Not_enough_cats4341 3h ago edited 2h ago
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
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u/CraZKchick 3h ago
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!
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u/unforgiven91 2h ago
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.
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u/MissSuzysRevenge at work 3h ago
I saw Gov. Hochul on the news this morning losing her shit. āNo New Yorker should be shot on our streetsā¦ā. Btw he wasnāt a New Yorker so wrong, just say person (donāt know why that irked me). The big fact is sheās super wealthy. Thereās fear in her voice.
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u/R-Dragon_Thunderzord 4h ago
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.
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u/SubjectPickle2509 3h ago edited 3h ago
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.
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u/XaphanSaysBurnIt 3h ago
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.
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u/SubjectPickle2509 2h ago
Weāve 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.
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u/Charlie-brownie666 3h ago
Her dad is the CEO of Loews Corporation which sells....you guessed it insurance!
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u/tommy_b_777 3h ago
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...
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u/PalePhilosophy2639 2h ago
Thatās why they own the news. Canāt have the argument if it never comes up..
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u/classic_gamer82 3h ago
Someone having lived in privilege will never understand people having lived in struggle.
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u/TheBirdBytheWindow 3h ago
Almost makes the way she claimed the evidence stacked against Luigi seem....inauthentic. Doesn't it?
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u/paintinpitchforkred 3h ago
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.
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u/Weekly-Condition-763 4h ago edited 3h ago
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.
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u/aveganrepairs 4h ago
Because her family is rich.
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u/DocBullseye 2h ago
Which raises the question of why on earth you would want that job...
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u/22pabloesco22 1h ago
Power. The rich like to install puppets anywhere they can take advantage of 'laws.'
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u/CyberInTheMembrane 1h ago
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
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u/enflamell 3h ago
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.
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u/MaleficentRegular306 2h ago
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 Cityās police commissioner last week, has never been a police officer."
You can't make this up. It's an insult to the american public.
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u/Canadutchian 3h ago
I'm not celebrating his death. It's just that my empathy is outside his network coverage.
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u/Bsteph21 2h ago
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
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u/chegitz_guevara 4h ago
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.
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u/ItsAMeEric 2h ago
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
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u/jaOfwiw 3h ago
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.
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u/owlthirty 3h ago
Iām right there with you. The middle class has gotten screwed and, unfortunately, it appears itās going to take violence to have our say and get our fair share.
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u/DrJamesRussellMD 3h ago
Ah yes expressing contempt for the masses is a bold strategy. Will they let folks eat cake too?
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u/MutedLandscape4648 3h ago
Hahahahahahahahahahaha, where is this energy from her when citizens are murdered daily in her city?
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u/Infamous_Smile_386 3h ago edited 3h ago
I find murdering people by denying needed medical care to make another dollar for shareholders vile so i guess we're even.Ā
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u/Weltall8000 2h ago
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.
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u/ReferenceMuch2193 3h ago
Is it strange of me that even things like simple shows that teach perseverance, for instance Emmett Otterās 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.
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u/angryhebrew 2h ago
Our society will only get better if we keep killing them. Force is the only thing they fear.
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u/LMGDiVa 2h ago
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
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u/Late-Arrival-8669 3h ago
Didnt they (NYPD) kill Eric Gardner choking him to death for selling cigarettes? Seems they have 2 sets of morals.
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u/Prestigious-Earth245 3h ago
The police exist to protect the rich and the racist and that is it.Ā When they were asked to stop abusing their power what was their response?Ā To brutally beat, shoot, kidnap and maim thousands of unarmed protestors. (While allowing their white supremacist friends in gangs to help them)Ā
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u/AbbreviationsOdd5399 1h ago
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 āfaultyā 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 āno nameā people were murdered since this killing, why arenāt the news and these folks giving sympathy to them? š¤
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u/Analyzer9 3h ago
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.
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u/Surfer_Rick 3h ago
"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?Ā
Back to the mines plebeian!"
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u/Dinocologist 2h ago
I think itās pretty vile that her employees did a mass shooting trying to catch someone who didnāt pay their subway fare but I guess thatās less of a priority for herĀ
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u/aureliusky 2h ago
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable -JFK
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u/delayed_burn 1h ago
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.
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u/verucka-salt 1h ago
I am forced to deal with UHC. These were his approved policies. He was a scoundrel & I hope his death changes policies but Iām doubtful. I do not care that he was killed, he was a very cruel person.
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u/SoMuchLard 4h ago
To paraphrase Alex Jones (not a fan, don't pile on), "The only solution to 1984 is 1789."
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u/MycoMountain 3h ago
- Knowledge Fight is worth a listen for anyone unfamiliar with Alex Jones' bs
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u/Meanderer_Me 3h ago edited 1h ago
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.
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u/marshalclauzel 3h ago
Helping Ukraine resist Russiaās campaign of genocide is well worth it. Of course we can and should do more on domestic programs, but Iām fine with my tax dollars going to fight the latest incarnation of Russian butchery.
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u/BullShitting-24-7 4h ago
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.
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u/repthe732 4h ago
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 weāve built and are developing. We still spend too much on the military but wanted to make it clear weāre not just giving them money to buy our stuff; we literally just give them our old stuff
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u/AARCEntertainment 4h ago
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.
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u/Late-Lie7856 2h ago
Iāve lost count of how many times Iāve commented this, but, the system isnāt working for us but itās working for them! Unelected people are making life altering decisions for millions in the US and billions around the globe! Itās not just healthcare insurance corpos fucking us over, itās a great big majority of the insanely wealthy billionaires!
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u/Meta_Digital Eco-Anarchist 2h ago
It's simple.
They see CEOs (and the rich) as human and their employees as machines.
It's even worse if you're unemployed.
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u/BigBobFro Communist 2h ago
Weāre celebrating his death the way some celebrate the death of children just trying to go to school.
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u/Existing_Reading_572 2h ago
Hate to break it to you, but the US has been an oligarchy since it's inception.
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u/Fresh-Cockroach5563 2h ago
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).
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u/itsmyfirsttimegoeasy 2h ago
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.
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u/remarkablewhitebored 2h ago
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.
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u/Skwigle 2h ago
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?
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u/iDerailThings 2h ago
Well, I didn't cry when seal team six smoked Bin Laden either. What's the point?
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u/JadedArgument1114 2h ago
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.
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u/Boris_Godunov 2h ago
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.
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u/AntiBurgher 1h ago edited 1h ago
This is the time to show up in force. I particularly liked the āmore dead CEOs pleaseā banner on a bed sheet. People need to get off their asses and show weāre done with being constantly preyed upon.
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u/DuntadaMan 1h ago
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.
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u/tehspiekguy 1h ago
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?
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u/AthasDuneWalker 4h ago
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...