The problem is really not that complex: this is what unrestricted capitalism looks like. Other humans will kill you to make money if they can get away with it, and allowing money in politics has let them.
Im my opinion this guy brought out the problem to the front of everybody's minds in a very brutal and basic way: Insurance companies kill people with their policies VS a person walking right up and shooting someone. Why is one accepted and allowed and the other is not.
This is going to sound problematic but I really hope we get some copycats out of this. Enough CEOs get knocked off, maybe, just maybe we’ll see some change.
I wanna believe so hard that multiple somewheres in America, there are losers prepping for another school shooting, who are watching all the Luigi coverage and noticing how he is the fucking man for targeting a CEO. and a lightbulb turns on in their little rat brain. I'm here for the fucking show.
While that would be a delicious result, the reality is that any jurors making such a decision would, effectively, make themselves prime enemies of the incoming (permanent) regime. Their lives would be ruined. Yay! America!
Honestly that wouldn't make a lot of us blink. I'm only surprised they didn't put 60 warning shots into him on sight as he was eating at that rat-infested McDonalds.
I don't think that will ever happen. No matter how things go they'll never let him go. If they're smart he'll just be tried with as little press coverage as possible and then quietly disappear into a super max.
thebonesofmyancestors
So, not to be an asshole. But, some sauce on something this significant should be provided.
GiantFlyingLabia
The problem is really not that complex: this is what unrestricted capitalism looks like. Other humans will kill you to make money if they can get away with it, and allowing money in politics has let them.
pleaseconsiderthatImightbejoking
[indecipherable] Fucking and Motherfuckers respectively
Segufixer
For profit health systems generate wealth, actual health outcomes and results are always overruled by revenue as they will always be in conflict.
acetylcysteine
But does he say he actually did a crime? 🧐
samanthadlcruz
self defense is not a crime... the CEO was a known mass murderer that was conspiring to do more mass murdering.
Oblok
Now I want a "Brutal Honesty" t-shirt. :|
Retrikaethan
hopefully the dipshits who put the punisher skull on their cars and shit aren't actually cogent enough to try to appropriate that, too.
TwiH
So what you're saying is his true motives will never be known but he was probably radicalized by Pokémon Go and Backpack Subreddits? /s
Ryyyyyyyan
Also violent video games that glorify assassinating people. Like Among Us.
Ryyyyyyyan
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ironic-suspect-unitedhealthcare-slaying-played-video-game-killer-rcna183550
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NuclearMonk
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ChromePlatedEquator
I can't really disagree with anything he said.
usernametakenisthestoryofmylife
One of the problems is the need for growth, not sustaiability. Every year a corporation must grow. Comes a point where quality suffers.
onecowboytoo
Dodge Vs Ford 1919.
armstrongdavidmorgan360
This, the belief in never ending growth. Not the ability to have equilibrium and satisfaction. Never. Ending. Growth.
mrgreen326
Late stage capitalism is great ain't it
SavageDrums
That point was decades ago
euphoricopportunity
Some serious changes to m&a law are one place to; a strong progressive income tax on corporations is another. There's ways.
netboygold
Im my opinion this guy brought out the problem to the front of everybody's minds in a very brutal and basic way: Insurance companies kill people with their policies VS a person walking right up and shooting someone. Why is one accepted and allowed and the other is not.
onecowboytoo
Well see according to the Supreme Court business are people when they donate money to politicians but not in any other respect.
Conqueeftadore
This is going to sound problematic but I really hope we get some copycats out of this. Enough CEOs get knocked off, maybe, just maybe we’ll see some change.
Uselesstoy
I wanna believe so hard that multiple somewheres in America, there are losers prepping for another school shooting, who are watching all the Luigi coverage and noticing how he is the fucking man for targeting a CEO. and a lightbulb turns on in their little rat brain. I'm here for the fucking show.
CyanideBreathMint
Oh we’d see change, just not sure it’d be the change we’re thinking of :/
dageaux
I hope this guy gets acquitted. "Yep he definitely did it, but it appears to be justified homicide."
StellaMatutina
Nullification. Variety of ways that can come about
xj4low
Maybe if we elect him president the case will be thrown out.
Vulpesferrilata
"Is he guilty of this crime? Yes he is. Should he be imprisoned for it? No he should not."
Kaleopolitus
While that would be a delicious result, the reality is that any jurors making such a decision would, effectively, make themselves prime enemies of the incoming (permanent) regime. Their lives would be ruined. Yay! America!
CardeasIV
So he will hang himself in a jail, problem solved, message to wannabe copycats sent
suiseiseki
Honestly that wouldn't make a lot of us blink. I'm only surprised they didn't put 60 warning shots into him on sight as he was eating at that rat-infested McDonalds.
AnonOmis1000
It's because he wasn't black and/or poor
OmnibusLatinName
I don't think that will ever happen. No matter how things go they'll never let him go. If they're smart he'll just be tried with as little press coverage as possible and then quietly disappear into a super max.
PanNonOpticon
When something gets this many headlines there is no way to try them quietly. Or even limit the coverage. This wlii get headlines even n Europe.
OmnibusLatinName
I f'ing hope so and if they're smart they won't martyr this guy but I may be giving them too much credit.