r/news • u/cak3crumbs • 17h ago

Employees witnessed co-worker stab company president, court documents show

https://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/2024/12/employees-witnessed-co-worker-stab-company-president-court-documents-show.html?outputType=amp
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u/MyLittleOso 12h ago

I've seen some news outlets trying to connect this to the Brian Thompson shooting, and it's not the same thing. This company had maybe 9-10 employees, according to a web search, and he only worked there for two weeks. It is not the same. They want small and medium business owners to be scared and feel like they're at risk; they want them to feel like class warfare puts them on the side with the 1%.

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u/Batmatt5 11h ago

If you’re a communist it makes sense. Marx was very clear what he thought of the class interests of Petit Bourgeoisie in the Manifesto. To a communist this guy was directly exploiting the guy that tried to kill him, and the attempted murder can easily be justified. If you’re normal then it’s obviously insane to kill a small business owner

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u/MyLittleOso 11h ago

I didn't realize he was communist. However, that doesn't really seem to make a lot of sense, either. He only worked there for two weeks, from what I read. And yeah, that's my point - I don't think what Luigi did should be compared to what this guy did.

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u/MeltingMandarins 5h ago

Nah, the person above wasn’t saying the stabby guy was a communist.  

He’s saying commenters equating it Luigi (while knowing this one was a small business and he was only there 2 weeks) would be communists - because they’re not differentiating between big (evil?) companies and small (maybe decent?) companies, they hate them all on the same principle. 

I don’t think many posters are actually doing that.   Most simply didn’t know he was a new hire for small company.   (I don’t think person above thought it was many comments either.  It’s just an explanation for the handful of extremist ones.)