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[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Reminder that Luigi didn't do it

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago

Luigis can't melt steel beams?

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 5 days ago (4 children)

the bullet etchings alone make it a work of art. He picked out the absolute most unloved plutocrat in america. Its very much a masterwork execution at a time when everybody wanted a reprieve from the trump media circus.

Timing: 10/10

Execution: 9/10

Target 10/10

Style: 10/10

We live in a country this happens every day I would take a CEO death over a Sandy Hook every time. I wish shootings weren't as common but it is what it is.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (11 children)

the absolute most unloved plutocrat in america.

Too bad that's not trump :(

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Most definitely, he isn't the unibomber largely indiscriminately killing people based on some ideological manifesto, he targeted someone in charge of driving many families into bankruptcy if not outright murdering patients with denials, and targeted a problem that many know to be true. They may be trying to rewrite the legacy of the CEO, but he was not "one of the good guys".

Although there is some crossover to the unibomber's manifesto, in the sense that where this would have been the breaking point in societies of the past waiting for a revolution, the new means of control and technology is being used to keep it under control, from all sides, even and specially those that abused social networks to put Trump in power. Can't have the status quo of "[I can] stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody [but not you]" challenged.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yes and, board members are the ones enabling the CEOs. They need to be targeted as well.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

There's a lot of overlap.

In recent years, around 30% of newly appointed board members in the S&P 500 have been active or retired CEOs.

And:

CEOs and directors with financial backgrounds constitute 59% of the incoming class of S&P 500 directors...

Source, for whatever it's worth. I admittedly just did a cursory Google search out of curiosity and that's what popped up, but I had a feeling it'd be a significant percentage.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

You ever have a boil lanced?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I doubt this, just keep McDonald's open and people will soon forget

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 5 days ago (14 children)

This will probably be taken down, but psychology is what I do so here it is. This is not endorsement this is an explanation as to why there’s different sentiment for this shooting.

This was stated in Trevor Noah’s latest podcast in open discussion. Josh Johnson raises the point. Most gun violence stories on the news, people personally feel threatened. Outraged that they or theirs could be at a music festival, a movie, at school. Most assholes with a gun are killing innocent people, never mind all the other bits. And most are clearly a little “crazy.”

This was targeted, killer on killer, no collateral (death/injury) damage. The CEO had kids that’s the collateral damage. There’s even a lady with coffee who walks on scene then nopes out unharmed.

This isn’t endorsement. This WHY the public as a whole doesn’t seem to mind. The guy who died killed thousands. That solves the innocent part. The killer doesn’t feel threatening to any of us. Because he’s not. That solves the threat. As for sanity, gun arguments aside, the manifesto isn’t unhinged.

And so we find ourselves in an unusual space. Understandably so. This is new.

No I didn’t read the article.

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