A twist?! Stupid sexy hitman
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I don't know why they don't just add it to the unsolved pile like all the other murders they see?
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".
The number one react on the UHC Facebook announcement about it is the crying laughing emoji. The people have spoken.
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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.
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In a report this week, the institute found that of the top 10 most-engaged posts on X about the shooting on Wednesday, six “either expressed explicit or implicit support for the killing or denigrated the victim.” The dynamic is similar to the discourse that often emerges after a mass shooting on websites like 4chan and 8chan, where perpetrators of extreme violence become memes themselves, Mr. Goldenberg said, “but what’s disturbing about this is it’s mainstream.”
Get fucked neo-liberal media. What an isane gaslighting comparision. This was a targeted assasination. Are you now afraid that people direct their anger at the sources of it, rather than the peasants killing each other?
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Grim
Grimm
Grim isn't the word I would use.
I'd say it's grimmer that some people feel sorry for the CEO.
~~some~~ most
Reality is grim. The twist is romantic.
I see that the corporate owned media is sweating bullets.
Good.
Yeah theyre really crawling for appeal but that means they are afraid. I was really against violent actions like this but after seeing how effective it isni guess im also a radical leftist now instead of just a leftist. If they take the power away from thw people you have to take it back violently.
This is what I was trying to tell all ya pacifist bastards, the rich are cowards and only know the language of violence.
Yup i get it now. But in the spirit of being democratic and stating close to ohr roots we should vote on who gets "handled" next.
We already did.
trump already tried to have Congress and his vp murdered last time. And now he has a scotus ruling that he is immune to everything. And we have a military that has already made it clear they will "just follow orders".
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.
For some but for a lot, they are racist and sexist. Most people don't even understand what their candidate stands for.
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.
Why do you think people think these things and vote for oligarchs?
Lack of critical thinking and proper education
Because most people follow the one that shouts the loudest. The person who claims to have the answer to all problems usually does really well during elections, especially when there are many things not going too well. It doesn't matter whether these persons actually have a solid solution, they don't even have to have a plan, only shout they know what to do. People don't want to spend their time to figure out whether a poliyion consists of empty promises and lies, people expect politicians to be honest. Most of the time the populist politicians not just claim they have the answer and solution to all, they also make their competition look evil by claiming they are corrupt, nazis, communists, pedophiles, etc. "You don't want to vote for a pedo, do you?" No matter the acts they committed themselves. For example, Hitler claimed to be a national 'socialist' while claiming the dirty communists are evil, winning the socialist votes. Putin, who is a full nazi based on his actions, invades Ukraine "to fight nazis". Trump, who is an extreme right wing politician with a long friendship with Epstein and now a criminal record, claims his opponents are nazis, pedos and criminals and those should never hold office.
Facts don't matter, it's all feelings. The one who knows how to hit that usually is very popular during less stable times. So when billionaires claim they can end wars, bring us to Mars, fix the economy, drive out those criminal desease infested immigrants (or jews in nazi Germany setting) (see, making them look super evil, dehumanizing them, creating a villain only they have a solition to), people just think "he's successful with all his money, lying on such a large scale can't be possible right, the opposition apparently is super evil, he must be a good candidate".
TLDR: Fueling hate and anger, claiming to be the only one with a solution usually works to get people's votes. And the general public is too dumb to see beyond empty promises and they dismiss facts over feelings.
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If they ever catch the suspect, he's going to have a hell of a defense fund. That's probably why the cops will end up killing him on sight.
Cops have long had the Punisher.
Now big Insurance has The Adjuster.
Grim twist will be the name of my next murderhobo rpg character
Sounds like a great name for an Assassin Rogue.
I was thinking it would be my first playthrough in bg3 as the durge…. But the insurance ceo might make the better bhaalspawn
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.
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.
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.
Funnily enough the death of a United Health Care CEO has United Americans in a feeling of well deserved schadenfreude.