Also remember, things are newsworthy because they’re novel. US sees like 2 gun deaths per day and thousands due to insurance company malpractice, but this one death dominates newscycles.
As one user wrote on Bluesky, “The reward out for the person who shot United Healthcare’s CEO isn’t even enough to cover 1/9 of the bill we got for 28 days of radiation.”
I’m waiting for the copycats with bated breath.
There is a way for the rest of the CEOs to avoid joining this guy. I wonder if anyone can figure it out…
Oh I know, expensive security detail, bullet proof cars, and remote, fortified homes?
It will certainly help defend them from the angry masses, but each time time they see all their defenses set out in front of them, they may still wonder if it is enough to survive. Everyone else feels the same thing when they look in their bank accounts.
That’ll be the worst thing they could do. If this gunman couldn’t get to the CEO, do you honestly think that would be the end of it? Nope, CEOs cant protect everyone they care about. Not endorsing this but a CEO killed this man’s loved one. In response he killed the CEO but revenge has a way of consuming a individual until they feel satiated.
but revenge has a way of consuming a individual until they feel satiated.
So does destroying millions of lives for profit, yet that’s not only legal, but enabled and encouraged.
Revenge isn’t the problem here, and trying to make it that, is shifting responsability from those it belongs to, for them.
His company is offering one free appeal of a claim denial for information leading to his arrest!
I don’t trust em–i bet they’ll renege at the first opportunity. This shit’s a game to them (or at least it was)
That can’t be a real offer.
I’m fascinated by the fact that this company is so evil that some people aren’t sure if I made this up or not.
I’ve been stuck on the word “free”. I’m not sure I want to know the answer to whether companies usually charge for appeals.
This is an I’m spartacus moment. Everybody in america should be doing their utmost to ensure the authorities have an overwhelming amount of information and leads to follow to ensure that the investigation eventually concludes with the result most in the interests of the people.
Don’t get prison time by giving false information to the police. That’s a crime.
Yeah but I think a lot of guys look like him. It’s probably best that I call in every. single. one.
jerma985
Anonymous tips are a thing. Call from a burner phone at a crowded bar, send an email from a temp mail site you accessed on public wifi using a laptop you bought that day from AliExpress that was shipped to a fake name and public addess that you then donate to goodwill. Create a mechanical pigeon out of scrap you find in the trash while wearing gloves whose entire purpose is to play an recorded message using a common AI voice tts that gets left outside a precinct by a bike courier that you paid in cash while wearing a mask.
Be the slop drama hero the media has trained you to be since birth.
Just gotta dress like the dude. Any passerby might make the connection and report it, it will be a dead end. That, and city cameras will have a hard time picking out anything from the myriad of false positives.
It ain’t false information for a passerby to report something they think is suspicious that isn’t. It ain’t false information to dress how you like.
The only real issue here is gait identification.
This hero brought a mass murderer to justice.
There is no way I snitch if this guy’s kid or mom were killed by this company’s CEO greed and decisions, and no court or system would bring him justice. let them fix the system which kills people lives first
If I serve on his jury, I’ll for sure push for nullification.
Sure he broke a law, we can all acknowledge that.
But was he wrong? (Based on the overall reaction I’d argue society doesn’t think so, and that’s where laws come from) Or are the laws, allowing things to get to a place where this is understandable behavior, wrong?
Self defense. He wasn’t wrong, he was forced to act because someone else was using deadly force against millions of Americans.
I don’t think self defense could be stretched that far, honestly.
But that’s why jury nullification exists. His actions were legally wrong but morally/situationally not, so you let them walk.
I don’t know if it really matters. Earlier this year Palestine Action got released despite having no defence because the judge wouldn’t allow them to argue they had to break the law to protect life and property.
I love when the largest police force in the world has to [normal part of police work].
Dont snitch btw, mans a hero.
Snitches get stitches - unless you are denied coverage.
Love it.
Also have to wonder how many random unrelated and innocent men would have been
summarily executed“killed in self defence by police” by now were the shooter Black.Me when a CEO gets his head blown off right in front of me:
I hope that backpack becomes a bestseller and a symbol.
I have it, great backpack.
https://www.peakdesign.com/products/everyday-backpack?Size=20L&Color=Ash
That’s an expensive backpack, that must really narrow down the number of potential suspects of people that also owned this backpack.
Hey… Shut up.
Who are you insured with? Asking for a friend
The reviews don’t seem to mention just how versatile it is
Yeah, the biggest benefit of it is the side access. It’s great for me because I can reach in and grab/put away things by just taking off one shoulder. No need to even stop walking. It’s the perfect option if you needed to tuck a gun and mask away really quick on the move.
I didn’t know that it was even possible to love peak design more 😍
What if this assassination is all a viral marketing campaign? 🤔
Do Musk next
“The new musk just dropped”
Ah yes, thousands of similar looking men “steal his look” and walk the streets of manhatten. I’d love to see it.
Any idea what model of gun he used? Have to match the WHOLE outfit 😉
According to the gun-obsession threads over on reddit, most likely it’s a Hi-Point C9. Absolutely disposable weapon.
Read an article that said it was this: https://www.bauer-precision.com/b-t-vp9-suppressed-9mm-pistol/.
Funny thing is it’s marketed as a photography bag. You know, to help you get those difficult shots.
“Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who critique capital end up reinforcing it instead…”
You inevitably have to live inside of a broken system as you work to bring it down… but ride that high horse.
Call every tipline and report the person responsible for this death and many others - That person’s name was Brian Thompson.
Why are all the pictures they release of the guy just black blocks?
You’re getting blocks? I just see an empty room.
Westworld said it best:
Snitches get stitches…
And even have to pay for them because their claim is denied
To be fair, being a snitch is a predisposed condition
curious the man didn’t use a better disguise. Just shading eyebrows, changing skin tone, a cheap prosthetic nose, maybe some gauze inside the mouth to change face shape. Sometimes the old spy tricks are the best.
How do you know he didn’t disguise himself?
That could be a Black woman with extensive makeup.
We all could be… I might be right now.
I was born a poor black child
Dude, you just called yourself a jerk.
context =https://youtu.be/5NeS4ueaU6w
Isn’t there some meme for “that’s the joke!” Or something I am getting old I guess
The movie was called “The Jerk.” Steve Martin. Good movie.
Im a neat guy
Oh shit…I gotta go take a clorox shower. I don’t remember what happened after falling a sleep.
US sees like 2 gun deaths per day
Are you sure about that? NYC alone has around 1 murder per day, and I’d assume that most are gun related.
I am not sure at all. I might have been thinking of mass shootings instead :D
Removed by mod
I feel like you’re trying too hard to defend US gun culture here.
People absolutely gloss over how dangerous cars are. I’d love a big push towards trains in the coming decades.
Removed by mod
Not every place is a valid platform for gun defense.
2 per day? Crazy…
In 2023, the average number of people who died from gun violence in the United States each day was 118. This is based on the 43,163 people who died from gun-related injuries in 2023.
2 per day, what are they smoking.
