While law enforcement does not believe Thompson’s killing is part of a trend targeting health executives, the attack underscores the vulnerability of these high-profile executives.
Yes, very vulnerable people. I mean, not as vulnerable as an elderly cancer patient who’s been denied care, or a working class family driven to bankruptcy by medical debt, but, you know vulnerable to righteous retribution. Except, they’re not really even vulnerable to that, since they have the resources to pay for private security.
You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you’re all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us.
Let’s not warn or threaten, actually; it spoils the element of surprise.
Ideally, the enemy should never see it coming.
Weren’t the revolutionaries following Bane in that story portrayed as the villains? Because of how absurdly rich this Thompson asshole had become, his murder has struck me, from the perspective of his sons, to be more like the killing of Thomas Wayne in the universe your quote is from. Hopefully we don’t end up with a shit version of Batman, but right now the killer could be more like Joe Chill
Judging from the pay I would say CEO should be one of the most dangerous jobs. That’s the only way the pay would make sense. Let’s make it so!
“Calls for targeting the executive team, their families, homes, and places of work using a variety of online and offline means to harass, disrupt, and harm the individuals and the organizations have become widespread.”
I’d argue that this is a non issue that doesn’t warrant additional attention, as it only affects less than 1% of the population.
Instead, do more to combat drunk driving, that will have a bigger meaningful effect on the populace.
I would suggest the cops investigate health care companies so people don’t feel like they have an obligation to do something.
“Over the last two years, online activity has indicated a growing negative sentiment around conglomerates, the wealthy, and executive staff at private and public organizations,” the bulletin said. “Calls for targeting the executive team, their families, homes, and places of work using a variety of online and offline means to harass, disrupt, and harm the individuals and the organizations have become widespread.”
I wonder why…
Wait wait wait, I don’t think anyone should be targeting their families. Fuck the rest of 'em, though.
targeting the executive team, their families, homes, and places of work using a variety of online and offline means to harass, disrupt, and harm the individuals and the organizations
Sounds like what cops have been doing to the poor and minorities since there have been cops.
I thought the killing WAS the warning.
I’m not even going to read their warning. Law enforcement should shut up and quietly do their job. No one has to talk to the pigs and if they dont show some respect to the public, no one will. So if they want to be professionals they should pipe down and keep their “warnings” to themselves.
I mean, doing their jobs is protecting the wealthy. They don’t exist for any other reason.
This is ultimately the moral failing of the Irish race
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Law enforcement is now seeing the line between corperations and people and guess who they have to defend.
ACAB
They’re afraid. Good
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It’s almost as though none of these people have read any human history. When the ruling class oversteps, revolution follows. It’s literally how the US came into being so anyone clutching their pearls is willfully ignorant, at best.
Not American, but curious as to why you don’t vote for polices that prevent the healthcare ripoff?
I mean, it’s all well and good applauding a single man’s actions, but you all could affect change of there was a genuine will to do so. Other western countries don’t have this problem that you are seemingly powerless to change?
Healthcare was barely even discussed during the last election. Trump has no plans to improve it and Harris didn’t campaign on it. We can’t just directly vote for laws, we have to elect leaders that would write a bill and vote for it. And pretty much everyone in Congress is bought out by Big Pharma, which has more money than god so it buys elections.
Even I know that Trump did his best to sabotage the ACA. It’s not a secret. Just vote for the direct opposite of that fuck.
Not American, but curious as to why you don’t vote for polices that prevent the healthcare ripoff?
Because they aren’t on the ballot.
Because we are powerless to change it.
The corporations have lobbied (bribed) both political parties so hard that both sides work for them.
Any attempt to change the voting system gets shot down because the people in power don’t want to change the system, because it benefits them. Why make the game fair when it’s rigged in your favor?
Half the country is brainwashed into thinking any social help or reform is socialism (which is pure evil! Helping others is evil!) and a trick from the inept party to try to gain political influence. And the inept party just fails to deliver on any sort of reform because they want to appeal to that brainwashed half of the country.
Any grass roots effort that makes any traction gets shot down by the establishment, usually by rileing up the brainwashed half.
We WANT the change. But even if we could get the brainwashed half to vote for it, the system is so rigged and broken even if we did vote it in they would veto it or change it in two years.
A lot of people on the right have been duped by those taking advantage of them for profit, making them focus on the left somehow being evil through the targeting of identity politics. Many are just now waking up to the fact that the talking heads they trust have made their worth by dividing us.
It’s all thanks to oligarchs and using their money to buy out policies from lawmakers while making their constituents stay angry elsewhere. Our whole system has been fucked for a while, unfortunately.
Because America is not a functional democracy but rather an oligarchy driven by the will of the elite.
Strange how they were completely incapable of understanding this concept when it comes to right wing violence.
I have a risk mitigation strategy for them which ought not to be novel, but sadly seems to be, which could probably bring this risk down to statistically insignificant for most of these people. Don’t build your business on amassing obscene amounts of wealth via trampling the rights and dignity of millions of people who are only one bad week away from destitution and having all they’ve struggled their entire lives to build stripped from them, who have literally nothing to lose when it all goes pear shaped. Consider not only the financial, but the social costs of your actions.
The executive and financial elites of this world seem to have forgotten that humans are animals, and an animal backed into a corner is at its most dangerous, prone to lashing out in unpredictable ways.
