• Guilherme@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    Serious? People are reacting with laughing emojis? Really?

    😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
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  • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    It’s one thing to mock it on pseudonymous platforms like Reddit and the fediverse.

    It’s another to do it somewhere linked to your real name and job like LinkedIn.

    People really hate insurance companies.

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      Don’t do it under your names folks, regime will be making lists based on this.

      They are scared and they will lash out.

      With that being said, fuck that parasite.

      FAFO

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        You think having a fake online name will stop them from finding out who you are? Did you even pay attention to the Snowden leaks?

        • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          Make them spend more resources doing deanonymizations. First they have to get the IP from instance admins, then trace the tor routing, then the VPN that I use, then ask for my ISP. Make them do all that work.

          (Or maybe they already have access by simply activating their backdoors within Intel ME, AMD PSP, and whatever baseband backdoor on the phones they have, and have just gotten everyone’s real identities in an instant, we can’t know for sure.)

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            They also have backdoors in most implementations of TLS, according to a person I know who worked government security.

            • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              It wouldn’t be impossible. There are like so many different certificate issuers, any one of them collaborating with a government would allow them to create a certificate that would be accepted by your browser.

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      LinkedIn is one of the least sane social media sites I’ve ever had the displeasure of using. Under all the marketing BS and obviously fake feel good stories lie takes that would make your insane Facebook uncle blush.

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    7 days ago

    “United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s final KD ratio (7,652,103:1) lands him among the all time greats,” a thread deleted by r/interestingasfuck moderators said.

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    What I like about this moment is that the people who ought to be fearful are indeed the ones who are fearful. I mean shit, Elon is posting Tweets about how great CEOs are actually, health insurance companies are removing pages from their websites that identify leadership, it’s a lovely little pocket of schadenfreude where we can all take a breath and prepare for the next 4 years.

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      I like the idea that they’ve got billions of dollars, but will have to live in a windowless bunker eating beans.

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        They couldn’t even hunker down in their mansions for two weeks of Covid lockdown.

        They like to fantasize about it, but the reality of living like that will hit them fast.

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      These parasites know that we got numbers on our side and we permit their rule by and large…

      I don’t think this corp of owners realize that plebs can turn on a dime, they got too comfortable. This is a wake up call.

      Having their goon wacked like this got to make them feels a certain way hehe

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        I hope there’s a copycat to reinforce the lesson very soon, or they’ll write this off as a one off.

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    Stop struggling and accept that lots of people are ok with advocating violence against evil people.

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      I mean, I don’t have a problem with people advocating violence against evil people.

      But being happy or laughing does seem pretty tactless and frankly gross.

      Death and violence may be necessary in many instances but it should never be glorified or celebrated, simply accepted.

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    I couldn’t help but notice Blue Cross rescinded its very dangerous policy placing a time limit on anesthesia the day after the murder.

    I don’t want a reign of terror, but perhaps just a little bit of terror will have CEOs thinking they could be next when considering especially harmful policies.

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        Robespierre thought killing tens of thousands of people was defense. History has not been kind to that position.

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        No, it’s terror. It’s just that that isn’t always the negative we’ve tended to think it is.

        Typically we’ve been citizens in a country on the “power” side of the dynamic, so using terror like that meant using it on us, and so we learned that it’s bad.

        This time we’re on the other side of the power dynamic, so it’s seemingly… Good.

        The bad thing being good creates cognitive dissonance.

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          This is a direct consequence of “the war on terror” attempting to redefine the military strategy of asymmetrical warfare as terrorism and inherently immoral.

          To sell the bullshit “war on terror” the easiest way to make the US seem righteous was to degrade the public’s sense of why people violently resist and reduce it to the act of violently resisting an organized traditional military is immoral unless the thing resisting is also a traditional organized military.

          I am glad that narrative is breaking down though as the distortion of how and why violent conflicts occur is dangerously blinding to a basic understanding of the world.

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            Killing people who were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time is always wrong.

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                I think you will find Palestinian citizens agree with you on that point.

                Yes. And the Israeli hostages.

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      Technically they didn’t fully rescind it. They rescinded it in some places but not others, and for some patients but not others. It’s just PR, they have no intention of actually changing things.

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      In France, during the Nazi occupation in WW2, a few people turned to the Resistance movement which was also a terror operation: they would target military objectives but also conduct assassinations of nazi officials designed to inspire fear in the others and spark support in the population.

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      Weird, isn’t it, like there’s some vast wellspring of support a political party could have tapped into by doing literally fucking anything but defending the status quo.

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      Can we crowdfund this, and provide a crypto bounty as reward for targets, including politicians, in the same way there was a reward for information on the shooter?

      This would be to let those who step out of line know how much disdain there is for any of them in particular at any given moment, and the rewards can be split as needed.

      The proletariat needs alternative systems of leverage.

      This is for my Purge sequel screenplay, of course. One can dream.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bell

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        Even if he did, any funds would be frozen. A Monero Address would be a better way of receiving money.

        Edit: Mind you, I expect him to very soon be arrested, so he wouldn’t really have any time to enjoy it.

        Edit 2: Look up Jim Bell. He wrote a very popular essay in the 90s.

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        Don’t get scammed but if he ever needs a legal defense fund, I think the plebs can figure it out.

        He did job well, least we can do it pay respects

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      When society gets to the point where you will die if you don’t do anything … or you will die if you do something …

      Eventually people realize that they will be punished, threatened or endangered no matter what they do or don’t do, some people will come to the conclusion that they would rather go down fighting.

      If you’re going to get screwed doing nothing, some would rather go out on a blaze of glory because they no longer have anything to lose.

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        I am assuming that when this guy is caught, what we will find out is that his wife had cancer and died from it and they refused to honor their claims or something like that.

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          Hopefully it doesn’t come to that, and he just never gets caught.

          If he does, it’s gonna be one hell of a gofundme campaign for his defense.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I’m telling ya, this is the beginning of A Christmas Carol. The ghost of Thompson needs to visit his colleagues and warn them you too, shall die, and no-one will mourn you and the people will celebrate in the streets. And all your friends will tear into your assets like vultures into carrion.

    Heck, replace the ghosts with mobsters and use a trick of time rather than supernatural spirits, and you have a 21st century version of the story.

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    I think this is as funny as the next person but realistically what will change?

    Won’t they just elect another scumbag and keep going?

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      At least some health insurance companies are temporarily easing up on denials or pausing shitty policies like limiting anthensia coverage during surgery.

      That alone could save a few hundred lives, even if just for a little while.

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      Well, if you don’t wanna celebrate a monster dying just for the sake of it, we can look at it from an environnent perspective, taking that pos out did more for the environnent than Green Peace has in the last 10 years.

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      I mean that’s a fair thought.

      But even by USA capitalist standards, this specific man was a monster who in a just world wouldn’t be allowed to be in charge of anything. The world is slightly better off without such a greedy and heartless man in it.

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      Hard to predict.

      This act broke the taboo against violence and shattered the perception of powerlessness. Turns out there is something you can do against these assholes, and it’s not as unpopular an option as you might have expected.

      It may inspire imitation, emboldening other pissed victims. It may scare the other CEOs into treading more carefully. It might embolden progressive politicians to challenge the status quo, now that they see how popular that can be.

      Or it might end up a big ball of hot air that doesn’t do anything. Like I said, hard to predict.

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        If all the disaffected white teens stopped shooting up schools and started shooting CEOs, it’s not healthy, but they would be channeling their anger in a better direction.

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      I think it’s a precedent, CEOs actually have something to fear aside from their job. Which usually fails upward with a good serverance package. This is also a sign that the Government and the laws of the land no longer works for the people. It’s a good and a bad thing either way. Personally I think it’s a huge mistake we made companies as a person. I think this is were the root cause is. Since it disconnects the accountability of the people working especially the higher ups.

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        If they’re a person it should go all the way. They should be able to go on trial for homicide. Some states still have the death penalty for people. Disband the company if it commits serious crimes.

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      Nothing will change unless it becomes a recurring and common thing.

      How many people can actually pull off a successful assassination of a wealthy person? Not many, especially now that security is going to go up.

      Nothing will change, but at least that one guy got some revenge.