The bulletin warned that Thompson's killing may be used as "messaging and propaganda" to share the techniques and tactics for targeting other health care companies.
  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
    651·
    6 hours ago

    “Calls for targeting the executive team, their families, homes, and places of work using a variety of online and offline means to harass, disrupt, and harm the individuals and the organizations have become widespread.”

    I’d argue that this is a non issue that doesn’t warrant additional attention, as it only affects less than 1% of the population.

    Instead, do more to combat drunk driving, that will have a bigger meaningful effect on the populace.

    • Fedizen@lemmy.world
      21·
      10 hours ago

      I would suggest the cops investigate health care companies so people don’t feel like they have an obligation to do something.

  • kreskin@lemmy.world
    44·
    18 hours ago

    I’m not even going to read their warning. Law enforcement should shut up and quietly do their job. No one has to talk to the pigs and if they dont show some respect to the public, no one will. So if they want to be professionals they should pipe down and keep their “warnings” to themselves.

  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
    282·
    1 day ago

    While law enforcement does not believe Thompson’s killing is part of a trend targeting health executives, the attack underscores the vulnerability of these high-profile executives.

    Yes, very vulnerable people. I mean, not as vulnerable as an elderly cancer patient who’s been denied care, or a working class family driven to bankruptcy by medical debt, but, you know vulnerable to righteous retribution. Except, they’re not really even vulnerable to that, since they have the resources to pay for private security.

    • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
      5·
      7 hours ago

      Judging from the pay I would say CEO should be one of the most dangerous jobs. That’s the only way the pay would make sense. Let’s make it so!

    • KillerTofu@lemmy.world
      761·
      1 day ago

      You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you’re all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us.

      • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
        53·
        1 day ago

        Let’s not warn or threaten, actually; it spoils the element of surprise.

        Ideally, the enemy should never see it coming.

      • FanciestPants@lemmy.world
        5·
        17 hours ago

        Weren’t the revolutionaries following Bane in that story portrayed as the villains? Because of how absurdly rich this Thompson asshole had become, his murder has struck me, from the perspective of his sons, to be more like the killing of Thomas Wayne in the universe your quote is from. Hopefully we don’t end up with a shit version of Batman, but right now the killer could be more like Joe Chill

  • Nougat@fedia.io
    1581·
    1 day ago

    I am looking at another headline right now: “White House condemns using violence to tackle ‘corporate greed’”

    When corporate greed is out of fucking control, and nobody is lifting a finger to do anything about it via legal channels, what the fuck else do you think is going to happen?

    I’m also amused by how reporting on this has been “We’re trying to work out what his motive was,” when it’s so clear that everybody knows what it was. They are fucking us, every day, and this guy got pushed to his breaking point. The fact that there’s been such vocal support for Claims Adjuster - not just indifference - suggests that a whole lot of people are real close to their breaking points.

    This is how revolutions begin.

    • rodolfo@lemmy.world
      535·
      19 hours ago

      Yep, and spreading pictures of the guy all over the internet in celebration of his deed has been a wonderful second step. That was truly clever and smart and didn’t help at all his arrest.

      Go USA revolution, go!

      Just put down that self indulgence, before you hurt yourself.

      • naught@sh.itjust.works
        29·
        19 hours ago

        err didn’t the police put his picture out? you think a reddit post cracked this? last i heard it was a boomer

        • rodolfo@lemmy.world
          123·
          18 hours ago

          Yes, good. I love the smell of gaslighing in the morning.

          I’m just sorry for the guy, while I do not condone what he did since I’m in a country where usa has license to kill without too many obstacles or consequences (I know, this ain’t narrowing it down much). The mugshots are the pictures of a man who knows he’s finished, done for. Nobody will really help him, and the best part of his life will be in a cell. And those idolizing him are the one who helped get him caught.

    • jeffw@lemmy.worldM
      496·
      1 day ago

      Before we knew anything about him, it was just as plausible that he killed the CEO for authorizing payments for abortion. It wasn’t clear it had anything to do with wealth in the beginning

  • slickgoat@lemmy.world
    231·
    19 hours ago

    Not American, but curious as to why you don’t vote for polices that prevent the healthcare ripoff?

    I mean, it’s all well and good applauding a single man’s actions, but you all could affect change of there was a genuine will to do so. Other western countries don’t have this problem that you are seemingly powerless to change?

    • BigBenis@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 hours ago

      Because America is not a functional democracy but rather an oligarchy driven by the will of the elite.

    • ramsorge
      7·
      6 hours ago

      What is vote? We elect people, not policy. Then those people get purchased by companies, and they do whatever is best for the company.

    • agent_nycto@lemmy.world
      91·
      7 hours ago

      Because we are powerless to change it.

      The corporations have lobbied (bribed) both political parties so hard that both sides work for them.

      Any attempt to change the voting system gets shot down because the people in power don’t want to change the system, because it benefits them. Why make the game fair when it’s rigged in your favor?

      Half the country is brainwashed into thinking any social help or reform is socialism (which is pure evil! Helping others is evil!) and a trick from the inept party to try to gain political influence. And the inept party just fails to deliver on any sort of reform because they want to appeal to that brainwashed half of the country.

      Any grass roots effort that makes any traction gets shot down by the establishment, usually by rileing up the brainwashed half.

      We WANT the change. But even if we could get the brainwashed half to vote for it, the system is so rigged and broken even if we did vote it in they would veto it or change it in two years.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      161·
      10 hours ago

      Not American, but curious as to why you don’t vote for polices that prevent the healthcare ripoff?

      Because they aren’t on the ballot.

      • GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        9·
        9 hours ago

        And when they are they’re so stuffed full of pork that to vote for healthcare you also have to vote for having your bones ground for tomorrow’s bread.

      • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
        23·
        7 hours ago

        Because they aren’t on the ballot.

        Get involved earlier in the process.

        Today’s school board members are tomorrow’s city councilors, and they are the next batch of senators, governors , congressmen, and even presidents.

        A small number of people helping select candidates and voting can have a much bigger impact in the “minor leagues” of politics, and can shape the future direction of the country.

    • UnhingedFridge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      10 hours ago

      A lot of people on the right have been duped by those taking advantage of them for profit, making them focus on the left somehow being evil through the targeting of identity politics. Many are just now waking up to the fact that the talking heads they trust have made their worth by dividing us.

      It’s all thanks to oligarchs and using their money to buy out policies from lawmakers while making their constituents stay angry elsewhere. Our whole system has been fucked for a while, unfortunately.

    • antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      30·
      17 hours ago

      The wealthy own everything. The media, the campaign funding, the concert venues, the restaurants, the farmland, the water, the houses, the offices, the railroads, the textbook publishers. Fucking everything. The only thing our government does well is print more money for the rich.

    • ryedaft@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      14 hours ago

      Somehow people were voting for the republicans to fix healthcare. Yes, it’s true.

      The second thing is that US legislators have about 40% yearly profits on their investments. So they are very incentivized to make things better for the owning class. Or at least not make it any worse.

    • Infinite@lemmy.zipEnglish
      22·
      17 hours ago

      There are several (very simplified) factors:

      • the parties in power won’t fix voting so others can join in proportionally
      • the parties in power are mostly guided by the wealthy (often via corporate influence), just with slightly different flavors
      • many of our citizens are one or more of poorly educated, uninformed, radicalized, and selfish
      • the wealthy tend to support policies that keep them wealthy and the electorate controllable
    • H0neyc0mb@lemmy.world
      25·
      19 hours ago

      Healthcare was barely even discussed during the last election. Trump has no plans to improve it and Harris didn’t campaign on it. We can’t just directly vote for laws, we have to elect leaders that would write a bill and vote for it. And pretty much everyone in Congress is bought out by Big Pharma, which has more money than god so it buys elections.

      • Matombo@feddit.org
        201·
        18 hours ago

        tl;dr the USA is not really a democracy, just as the founding fathers intended.

      • slickgoat@lemmy.world
        61·
        17 hours ago

        Even I know that Trump did his best to sabotage the ACA. It’s not a secret. Just vote for the direct opposite of that fuck.

        • IamSparticles@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          7 hours ago

          Try explaining that to the typical Republican party voter, though. All they know is “Obamacare BAD!” because that’s the message that has been pumped into their brains non-stop for the last 10 years. When you actually start explaining the specific things that the ACA established they’ll say, “Oh yeah, that seems like a really good thing, we should do that!” They don’t understand that ACA and Obamacare are the same thing.

          We are inundated with these sort of low-information voters who don’t understand how their representatives are literally screwing them over while blaming the other side for all their woes.

  • Nanook@lemm.eeEnglish
    108·
    1 day ago

    “Over the last two years, online activity has indicated a growing negative sentiment around conglomerates, the wealthy, and executive staff at private and public organizations,” the bulletin said. “Calls for targeting the executive team, their families, homes, and places of work using a variety of online and offline means to harass, disrupt, and harm the individuals and the organizations have become widespread.”

    I wonder why…

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 hours ago

      targeting the executive team, their families, homes, and places of work using a variety of online and offline means to harass, disrupt, and harm the individuals and the organizations

      Sounds like what cops have been doing to the poor and minorities since there have been cops.

    • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
      90·
      1 day ago

      Bitch please. That’s how unions got shit done. The boss made threats? Cops come to beat up and shoot at striking workers? Then the workers show up at the boss’ house and burn it down or beat the crap our of him. That’s how it used to be done.

    • Ledivin@lemmy.world
      102·
      1 day ago

      Wait wait wait, I don’t think anyone should be targeting their families. Fuck the rest of 'em, though.

      • Daemon Silverstein@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        13·
        23 hours ago

        Just out of curiosity, a quick look on the Forbes “Real-time Billionaires List” shows us an interesting suffix after several of those names: “& family”. It’s an ampersand (meant to be the conjunction “and”) followed by the word “family”.

    • ALQ@lemmy.world
      38·
      1 day ago

      It’s almost as though none of these people have read any human history. When the ruling class oversteps, revolution follows. It’s literally how the US came into being so anyone clutching their pearls is willfully ignorant, at best.

  • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
    32·
    1 day ago

    Strange how they were completely incapable of understanding this concept when it comes to right wing violence.

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
    341·
    1 day ago

    “It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” -Henry Ford