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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 26 points 9 hours ago

Good. People have already been alarmed about the state of healthcare and gun violence for quite some time.

Are they going to do anything about it now or just sit there being "alarmed"?

Maybe another dozen police officers in the photo op "escorting" Luigi will calm things down.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 21 points 9 hours ago

Another out of touch gasbag. Take his pension like C suite jerks have taken other people and he would get it.

[–] sumguyonline@lemmy.world 33 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Ya know what's extremely alarming? Children dying of preventable causes because an insurance exec and their board want more profit. What's not alarming? A CEO became another statistic.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

~~Children~~ Anyone dying of preventable causes

FTFY

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 12 points 9 hours ago

They're trying SO HARD to make it look like a fringe, extremist position instead of the groundswell of righteous fury that it is.

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 8 points 8 hours ago

Then change the insane healthcare system. People are mad about it, especially when they know how other countries handle it.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago

If only Homeland Security protected the lower classes in the homeland.

[–] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago

I bet. He's the domestic spy chief. He knows how far it goes. How mad people are. And exactly how widespread that sentiment is.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall of those classified briefings he gives to the politicians.

[–] tiredcowboy@r.nf 8 points 9 hours ago

That's what a "made man" sounds like

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 18 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

What's surprising is how out of touch any of these people seem to be. Do they genuinely not understand that people are suffering?

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Most of them fully understand and approve. The suffering is the point.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 hours ago

Do they genuinely not understand that people are suffering?

We're lucky if they understand other people exist.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 24 points 11 hours ago

The only thing that's alarming is that congress hasn't nationalized private healthcare companies in response to this.

These acts of defense will surely surely continue until their mass murder is put to an end.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 38 points 12 hours ago

It's upsetting to CEOs to know that we see them, the same way as they see us. Expendable. Very tragic, thoughts and prayers.

[–] recreationalcatheter@lemm.ee 10 points 10 hours ago

Be alarmed, most oligarchs don't get a heads up they their rat fucking of the populace isn't working out.

[–] ef9357@lemmy.sdf.org 43 points 13 hours ago

Brian Thompson is a mass murderer. Luigi only killed one person therefore possibly saving many more lives. And they want us to think Luigi is the bad guy?

[–] MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world 13 points 11 hours ago

Good. Be alarmed.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 51 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

What’s alarming is people have been pushed to the point where they would consider Luigi’s actions justified.

[–] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, I'd rather people not have to get shot for the government to realize there's a problem, but here we are. It got to the point where some dude went out and shot a rich guy. And now they finally notice? Doubt.

It's all just theater.

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 17 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago

Long overdue

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 14 points 12 hours ago

Yes, it is alarming. But it's a symptom of the problem, not the actual problem.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 27 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I hope they have nightmares about guillotines

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 95 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Why do they keep framing him as a father as if that should make us feel empathy?

Osama bin Laden was a father to 23 fucking kids.

[–] banshee@lemmy.world 28 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Even Trump and Musk have kids - doesn't make either one less of a dirt bag.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 hours ago

Is Musk still bringing his little human shield around with him?

[–] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 40 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Unconscious pronatalist bias.

People don't talk about it much, but there's an unconscious tendency to give more sympathy to parents. There's a million reasons why this happens but I'm not gonna go there.

The media is pretty heavy handed with this manipulation because it usually works. Any article about a murdered woman mentions if she's a mother, and if not it's "she didn't get to have kids yet." It gets lots of clicks.

That CEO is so disgusting that they can't even activate people's unconscious biases and the media is panicking because they've lost control. It's kinda impressive and funny tbh.

Side note - I'm not an antinatalist or anything, I'm just a philosophy/sociology nerd.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 41 points 17 hours ago

The fucking asshoke fucked over and denied care to fucking children with cancer.

He also fucked over who knows how many other people, many of whom were also parents.

The all had family. And he fucked then all over without a single moment of regret.

His kids get to inherit his blood money. So fuck them too.

[–] hexadence@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours ago
[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

He should be alarmed/afraid ... very alarmed/afraid. As should every super rich asshole in the world.

[–] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 24 points 19 hours ago

“Are we the baddies?” is for sure an extraordinarily alarming moment of clarity

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 20 points 19 hours ago

lol. lmao, even.

[–] dreugeworst@lemmy.ml 12 points 18 hours ago

so it's very alarming, but not so much as to even mention the underlying reason for the rhetoric

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 254 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

On top of killing people as his day job, Brian Thompson was also convicted of drunk driving, insider trading, and fraud.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1ha7u3e/comment/m16t6db/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Thompson was a rich 3 time loser felon so why was he walking the streets at all? He could have been safe in jail if the justice department did their jobs. That includes you Mayorkas, so thats enough with your complaints.

Jesus if that guy cheated on his wives a few more times we would have had to worry about people wanting him for president

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 103 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I feel like, if nothing else, Luigi chose his target extraordinarily well. Other than being a father, which just about anyone with testicles can do, Thompson doesn't seem to have done one redeeming thing.

[–] immutable@lemm.ee 11 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Well don’t forget that he came from the middle class and so intimately knew their struggles and turned his back on them and became a class traitor.

I mean… hold on let me put on my capitalism glasses.. “he achieved the American dream”

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[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 321 points 1 day ago (1 children)

so fucking learn something from it

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 138 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Mayorkas said [...] that he's "alarmed" by the "heroism that is being attributed to an alleged murderer of a father of two children on the streets in New York City,"

Luigi is a hero. Brian Thompson got what he deserved, and his children are better off without him.

he noted that "that's the actions of an individual, not reflective of the American public and of the democracy in which we live."

I guess we'll just need some more examples. Seems to be comming back into fashion.

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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 134 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This guy boos at the end when Terrorist Luke Skywalker ruthlessly murders beloved innovator and family man Emperor Palpatine

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[–] Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago

Oh look it's scared! Yay! LA REVOLUTION!

[–] garretble@lemmy.world 153 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I love that on SNL last night the mention of Luigi on Weekend Update was met with enough cheers that made Colin Jost have to stop and wait for the cheers to die down before telling his joke.

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 138 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Yeah it is alarming.

Just not for the reason you think it is.

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