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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 371 points 2 weeks ago (17 children)

Love that the entire internet, left, right, authoritarian, liberal, and everyone in-between came out to say “lol, get rekt, oligarch.” Nothing I’ve ever seen has been as unifying as this. Running for office under the banner of beheading CEOs might sincerely get you elected.

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 172 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I think the powers that be underestimate our thirst for justice. This is the closest thing to justice for the rich we've seen in - maybe our lives?

I don't want to live in a world of vigilante justice but this kind of thing is inevitable when the system fails us for as long as it has.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This is the closest thing to justice for the rich we've seen in - maybe our lives?

That submarine popping.

[–] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 21 points 2 weeks ago

Karmic justice sure - aside from the kid who got roped into taking that voyage by his dad. Billionaires hubris treats the world as their plaything, and find out that nature doesn’t care about your net worth

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[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 41 points 2 weeks ago (49 children)

As someone that could probably best be described as center-left (guillotine oligarchs yes, UBI yes, abolition of private property and free markets no), I do dare say that not a single common person on the right likes the billionaires either. It's just that their side of the political isle has been co-opted by the billionaires even worse than the "left" side because being anti-tax and anti-regulation is more useful to billionaires than pro-tax and pro-regulation.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 53 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Nah the right has one or three pet billionaires they outright worship.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 41 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

These one or three pet billionaires have done a lot of image building to achieve this. They're trying to be the "common man's billionaire" and "just like us". Musk spent a decade trying to appear like a nerdy engineer and when people started realizing he's a shitheel, he pivoted to the "the elites are after me, it's time for us to stop them together" shtick.

In general, the right (and I mean individual people, NOT politicians) hates billionaires almost as much as we do, but wrongly associates them with the left - but while it's true that some billionaires are left-wing socially, they're damn near all right-wing economically, because no billionaire is going to want to have less money.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah the big issue is as you said. Ask someone on the right to name a bad billionaire. They will mention musk, bezos, Tim Cook, but probably only hating cook for being woke and money grubbing. The ones who pull the strings hide themselves. Nobody knows who they are they’re just CEO of x y z. There’s 750+ billionaires in the US, 15 in every state on average (though most of them are in cali, Texas, and ny). And they’ve spent a boatload of money getting very smart people to convince everyone they can that the problem is Joe Biden, or Kamala Harris. Tribalism is strong, and unfortunately people just lap it up.

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[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 40 points 2 weeks ago

Running for office under the banner of beheading CEOs might sincerely get you elected.

That would get my vote.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago

He’s not even an oligarch. He’s the oligarchs’ toadie.

If this reaches the real oligarchs, we might see some change—and backlash but backlash is inevitable if before real change.

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[–] scytale@lemm.ee 202 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Wow I think this is the first time I’ve seen this meme template used so appropriately.

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[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 170 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Over 100 Americans have died from diabetes since this guy was shot. Where are the headlines for all of them? Does the fact that they were murdered by a system instead of an individual make their deaths less noteworthy?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 36 points 2 weeks ago

Also, there's something like an average of 47 gun deaths per day (not sure if this site is including suicides, if it is then it's roughly half without it). But CEOs matter more than Average Joe.

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 128 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

More Americans die every year because of lack of access to medical care than from all of our wars combined.

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 106 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

We have people like the Joker who give us philosophical questions about our civilization but we've yet to see a billionaire use their infinite money and resources to dress up in a suit and mask, fight crime and build a fancy car or jet with exotic weapons to fight real life villains.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

we've yet to see a billionaire use their infinite money and resources to dress up in a suit and mask, fight crime and build a fancy car or jet with exotic weapons to fight real life villains.

That's a good thing, though. They may make for great movie and comic book fodder, but in real life, superheroes are pretty much just cops with fewer rules: rather than doing anything about the underlying causes of crime, they just beat up symptoms and theoretical bogeymen.

With his vast resources, Bruce Wayne could reduce crime by 75%+ by investing in prevention, but he prefers beating up people, most of whom are low level goons who probably turned to crime out of desperation, a lack of better options, or varying levels of coercion if not downright brainwashing by the main villains and their middle managers.

Batman would TOTALLY beat up a ton of entry level employees who AREN'T at fault as well as the CEO if insurance profiteering was illegal.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah the reality would be closer to The Boys or The Watchmen.

Just real pieces of shit, likely corporatized with a massive amount of PR keeping them popular while they murder babies and shit.

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To be fair, the Joker was a psychopathic murderer. He wasn't just laying out deep questions.

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

"the Joker was a psychopathic murderer"

So a CEO then.

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[–] thisphuckinguy@lemmy.world 53 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

No one is losing their minds. Most are quite satisfied with the news

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[–] morkyporky@suppo.fi 50 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

This is stupid because I have not seen one comment from anyone other than other CEOs that is not celebrating his death.

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 59 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

That's the point. You did it. You discovered the discrepancy. No one cares and Infact we are celebrating. However the police are pumping money into mass manhunt, news is juicing the story nonstop. 10k reward for info. Obviously the powers that be care and care a lot that a CEO got shot. You don't. I don't. And yet by time it's over, hundreds of thousands of dollars will have been spent in man-hours hunting this guy down. An amount of money that would be ridiculous if you or I got shot. No one would care. But a CEO? nYPD pulling out every stop they got.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

10k reward for info

Which is frankly hilarious. UnitedHealthCare group grossed $90 billion in the last 12 months and they are offering only a $10,000 reward for help finding the assassin. I bet their next CEO gets 10 to 100 times that much in just a signing bonus.

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[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Probably not on Lemmy but media did

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[–] Chekhovs_Gun@lemmy.world 47 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

One death is a tragedy, 16m deaths is a statistic.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 43 points 2 weeks ago

One ceo death is a targeted assassination. Multiple ceo deaths is a revolution.

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[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 46 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Good job he died really innit, cos those medical bills would've been a bit pricey!

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[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Meh, I feel indifferent. Like I'm neither happy nor sad.

Funny thing about these CEOs is that they are universally hated across the political spectrum.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 36 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Kamala bragged on the campaign trail about how many CEO endorsements she had. That worked great!

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[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 42 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Everyone is losing their minds because they're afraid there'll be a run on popcorn, not because anyone will miss a waste of space healthcare CEO.

If people don't feel like we can make things better with negotiation, this is where it goes. I'm not up for pretending I didn't see this coming.

This may be good time to be an experienced professional body guard, because there's a lot of healthcare CEOs left and no way was the alleged attacker (I didn't see shit!) the only person they've hurt.

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 40 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Repeat after me: healthcare should not be profit driven..

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[–] EnderMB@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

Uhh, correct me if I'm wrong, but the total population of America is 335m. If 16m people are dying DAILY, your entire country will be dead by Christmas.

If a 20th of the population dropped dead overnight, I would like to think that any nation would panic.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

They may mean tomorrow in the metaphorical sense. Like "the world of tomorrow" kind of sense.

It also could just be an arbitrary/hyperbole number, to show how little the lives of the many mater to the news in comparison to the ceo.

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[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

It's a good reminder that the people who oppress us have names and addresses.

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[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 26 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

'Nobody panics when things go "according to plan."' -- as a software engineer, I assure you this isn't completely true. If things are too smooth, something is definitely, probably horribly and sneakily, wrong.

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[–] flughoernchen@feddit.org 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Did something happen? Do I want to know?

[–] Hubi@feddit.org 73 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)

Someone assassinated the CEO of an American health insurance company with a silenced pistol after an investors meeting. Apparently the company is famous for turning down people's requests for treatment while the guy had a yearly salary in the ~~undreds~~ tens of millions.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 46 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They deny 37% of all claims, and he proposed that they deny payment of anesthesia during surgery if it lasts longer than an arbitrary number he pulled out of his ass.

[–] moncharleskey@lemmy.zip 31 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know if he proposed that, but the headlines have been for Blue Cross Blue Shield not covering anesthesia over a certain time, not United Healthcare. Both shit companies though, fuck em.

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[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 22 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)
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