A grainy image of his face drew comparisons to Hollywood heartthrobs. A jacket similar to the one he’s wearing on wanted posters is reportedly flying off the shelves. And the words written on the bullets he used to kill a man in cold blood on a sidewalk on Wednesday have become, for some people, a rallying cry.
Four days after a gunman assassinated a top health insurance executive in Midtown Manhattan and vanished, the unidentified suspect has, in some quarters, been venerated as something approaching a folk hero.
In grim twist, corporate media tries to guilt people out of having hope
Three incident in the last 4 years where billionaires owned media got caught lying. Covid, Gaza, and now this. In all of these they didnt gave shit about innocent people dying, finding excuses and twisting words to gaslight people.
I have a right-wing neighbor who voted Trump three times, says climate change is a hoax, and hates me for sometimes wearing a tie-dye jacket, but he says with a grin all over his face, “Did you hear about that insurance CEO who got shot dead?” and he laughs and laughs and gives me a thumbs-up.
America stands united.
Funnily enough the death of a United Health Care CEO has United Americans in a feeling of well deserved schadenfreude.
My trump-loving in-laws are the same. Voted 3 times for shitler, but they’re thrilled about this. It’s one thing in the news that we can discuss.
A few more of these and we’ll all really see how much we actually agree with one another, and how much the split and hate is manufactured.
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I see that the corporate owned media is sweating bullets.
Good.
Someone killing thousands through corporate policies: Not grim.
Someone killing that person: Grim.
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Grim? WTF? The dude is a hero.
We need a French solution to the oligarchy problem and this guy moved us in the right direction.
He’s a god damn hero.
May I remind you Trump got re-elected? The US chose for more money to mega corps and the ultra rich. There is no dictatorship in the US (yet), this system is by choice. Anyone who wanted to create a more social support system including better healthcare is painted as a communist, a nazi and as corrupt and en masse people vote for the person to make a fucked up system even worse. The US doesn’t need a French solution, the US needs to vote differently when they don’t like this shit. When you vote for oligarchs, you get oligarchs.
Trump got elected because the richest man in the world spent a quarter of a billion dollars on his campaign, and that has tangible results.
For some but for a lot, they are racist and sexist. Most people don’t even understand what their candidate stands for.
The US chose for more money to mega corps and the ultra rich.
we never had a choice for anything different.
Yet out of the 2 bad options, you chose the one which is the worst by a landslide.
Does that make you feel better, running around telling random people they voted wrong, when you know nothing about who they voted for or whether they voted at all?
I feel fucking tired and hopeless with all the conflicts, extremism, hate and stupidity in the world right now. People are claiming murdering a CEO is a major win with the entire Healthcare drama, while next month antivax RFK Jr. Will be health minister. Idiocracy was meant to be a comedy, not a manual. Right now it’s a documentary.
when you know nothing about who they voted for or whether they voted at all?
I don’t believe the voting system is good, I’m even against it. But not voting is so fucking dumb, when you didn’t vote you’re not allowed to complain about anything because you kept your mouth shut when you had a chance to say something. I really feel sorry for the people who did chose the lesser of 2 bad choices. Although I do think murdering people doesn’t make things better. It only helps escalate the situation and cuts off a head which will grow back even bigger and stronger. I don’t feel bad for the CEO, it’s understandable what happened when you make people their lives missersble en masse. But it’s not going to change anything. When they catch the guy he’ll be sentenced and a new CEO will get better protection.
So no, it doesn’t make me feel better. People need to see things in perspective and stop thinking life is a Hollywood movie.
The only grim aspect is how much time, resources, and energy the NYPD has wasted trying to solve this. Statistically, there have been other murders since this one. They should move on and add this to their “unsolved” pile.
Is it a twist if nobody is surprised?
Perhaps this should actually read “in grim reality, most see suspect in C.E.O. Killing as Hero or Heartthrob”.
Honestly, hero or hearthrob is putting it lighty. If I talked about how I actually felt about this guy, I’m pretty damn sure that would put me on some kind of list.
And I only feel comfortable saying that, because I know we’re all thinking it.
Link related: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/16ohFsFviig
He’s not only hot; he’s making an example out of cruel millionaires … millionaires who prefer money and let people die, without ANY hesitation. So yeah, it’s not like being attracted to Dahmer, it’s more like being attracted to Katniss Everdeen.
Some? I’ve yet to find anyone not on his side, the most I can find are people sarcastically saying “Oh no, won’t someone please catch him…”
What were the words written on the bullets.
Thing is, if they don’t catch him, it will inspire a copycat to repeat his tactics.
And I honestly can’t even bring myself to say it’s a bad thing; this gunman killed a glorified serial killer, a man who is paid to find people buying his product in order to get help for fatal yet curable illnesses, and kill them in order to save costs.
Violence is wrong and should only be used as a last resort, but well, given the circumstances it’s hard for me to lose sleep at night…
I legally cannot and will not advocate violence, I stress this, I AM NOT ADVOCATING VIOLENCE, IF YOU’RE PLANNING YOUR OWN VIOLENT ACT I BEG YOU TO RECONSIDER! Everyone out there has at least one other person who loves them, and most high profile violent acts backfire horribly on the perpetrator.
But I will say this. Some men can only be pushed so far until they’re at the edge, then they’ll grab onto the person who put them there so at least they fall together… And many MANY men are at the edges.
“Those who make peaceful resolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.” - JFK
They did the worst thing. They found him, named him, and published a glamour shot. This should have been the school shooting procedure if they didn’t want copycats. Instead of an unnamed killer they can vilify they now have the story of a normal, well educated, young man pushed over the edge. An Anti-Hero. I predict one of two things in the next 1-6 years. The death of health insurance or the death of more health insurance executives.
I’d like to take this time to point out that CEOs are cogs in a machine, important, highly placed cogs, but cogs all the same. They couldn’t run the place any other way without their majority shareholders firing them. Those are generally groups like Blackrock and Vanguard, (The largest shareholders in UHC). They have that status in many publicly traded companies. This gives them an outsized say in the board composition of companies across the economy; on issues like food, housing, and yes healthcare. If you’re looking for a deep state or shadow government, these guys are close as it gets. They don’t directly make the twisted policies but they do fire CEOs that don’t make the green line go up in any way possible.
Once Americans figure that out I think the rage is going to be surreal in it’s magnitude.
God I hope so
I’d say it’s grimmer that some people feel sorry for the CEO.
Reality is grim. The twist is romantic.
You drive people to desperation and this is the result. What the fuck else could anyone expect?
Right?
When your business model is an engine that creates desperate people with nothing to lose, you have to expect something like this.
“It’s being framed as some opening blow in a broader class war…"
That’s what many of us are hoping for. But this author, and nearly all other mainstream news outlets can’t understand that. They can’t understand why we would want a class war, why would we want something so disruptive, so destabilizing, so potentially destructive? It baffles and disturbs them, but that’s because they can’t, or won’t, see the harm being done by the current system. They are blind to the harms of late capitalism, willfully.
For many of us, the problems go much deeper than a few greedy and unethical CEOs, it’s the system. The inhumanity of health insurance providers is just a very egregious and obvious tip of the iceberg. This CEO wasn’t just some exceptionally bad guy, he was a product of the system. He’ll be replaced by another one of thousands and thousands of people who come out of our business or economic schools, and who would have run United Healthcare the same way he did. The problem is a system in which the private profits of a relative few are prioritized over all else; over human well being, and over sustainability and environmental protection. Many of us believe that that system must be abolished and replaced. We don’t want war, but if war is what’s necessary to destroy this unsustainable and inhumane system, then so be it.
Grim twist? Who is pushing this narrative? Sounds like corporate media might not be able to keep this cat in the bag.
“it’s being framed as some opening blow in a broader class war”
I mean the guy did hit the nail on the head. The elite have done so much for so long to keep the masses divided to prevent a class war. The sane thing would be for private companies, especially the healthcare insurance industry, to immediately change their policies before it gets worse.
The pressure has been rising for a long time, and something gave a few days ago. Cats already out of the bag.
A twist?! Stupid sexy hitman
