A grainy image of his face drew comparisons to Hollywood heartthrobs. A jacket similar to the one he’s wearing on wanted posters is reportedly flying off the shelves. And the words written on the bullets he used to kill a man in cold blood on a sidewalk on Wednesday have become, for some people, a rallying cry.
Four days after a gunman assassinated a top health insurance executive in Midtown Manhattan and vanished, the unidentified suspect has, in some quarters, been venerated as something approaching a folk hero.
Some? I’ve yet to find anyone not on his side, the most I can find are people sarcastically saying “Oh no, won’t someone please catch him…”
What were the words written on the bullets.
Thing is, if they don’t catch him, it will inspire a copycat to repeat his tactics.
And I honestly can’t even bring myself to say it’s a bad thing; this gunman killed a glorified serial killer, a man who is paid to find people buying his product in order to get help for fatal yet curable illnesses, and kill them in order to save costs.
Violence is wrong and should only be used as a last resort, but well, given the circumstances it’s hard for me to lose sleep at night…
I legally cannot and will not advocate violence, I stress this, I AM NOT ADVOCATING VIOLENCE, IF YOU’RE PLANNING YOUR OWN VIOLENT ACT I BEG YOU TO RECONSIDER! Everyone out there has at least one other person who loves them, and most high profile violent acts backfire horribly on the perpetrator.
But I will say this. Some men can only be pushed so far until they’re at the edge, then they’ll grab onto the person who put them there so at least they fall together… And many MANY men are at the edges.
“Those who make peaceful resolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.” - JFK
Deny. Defend. Depose.
They did the worst thing. They found him, named him, and published a glamour shot. This should have been the school shooting procedure if they didn’t want copycats. Instead of an unnamed killer they can vilify they now have the story of a normal, well educated, young man pushed over the edge. An Anti-Hero. I predict one of two things in the next 1-6 years. The death of health insurance or the death of more health insurance executives.
I’d like to take this time to point out that CEOs are cogs in a machine, important, highly placed cogs, but cogs all the same. They couldn’t run the place any other way without their majority shareholders firing them. Those are generally groups like Blackrock and Vanguard, (The largest shareholders in UHC). They have that status in many publicly traded companies. This gives them an outsized say in the board composition of companies across the economy; on issues like food, housing, and yes healthcare. If you’re looking for a deep state or shadow government, these guys are close as it gets. They don’t directly make the twisted policies but they do fire CEOs that don’t make the green line go up in any way possible.
Once Americans figure that out I think the rage is going to be surreal in it’s magnitude.
God I hope so
He’s not only hot; he’s making an example out of cruel millionaires … millionaires who prefer money and let people die, without ANY hesitation. So yeah, it’s not like being attracted to Dahmer, it’s more like being attracted to Katniss Everdeen.
Ok but I ain’t even gay and I wanna fuck this man.
In grim twist, corporate media tries to guilt people out of having hope
Three incident in the last 4 years where billionaires owned media got caught lying. Covid, Gaza, and now this. In all of these they didnt gave shit about innocent people dying, finding excuses and twisting words to gaslight people.
Media is there to make owners feel good so they are doing just that.
Issue is that working class is not accepting this narrative.
A dead corporate executive is the most unified people have ever been in a generation.
I don’t think extra security can save them when entire country wants you dead
And we now have an entire country open to talking about how much they want corporate executives dead.
FA is done, I think this is FO stage
It’s been almost a week. And every day they don’t catch him the lower their chances. I’m starting to have hope they’ll never catch him.
Indeed, this kinda reminds me of Persona 5 where everyone’s freaking out about the Phantom Thieves because Kamoshida confessed to his crimes…
¿Porque no los dos?
Is it a twist if nobody is surprised?
Perhaps this should actually read “in grim reality, most see suspect in C.E.O. Killing as Hero or Heartthrob”.
The number one react on the UHC Facebook announcement about it is the crying laughing emoji. The people have spoken.
Honestly, hero or hearthrob is putting it lighty. If I talked about how I actually felt about this guy, I’m pretty damn sure that would put me on some kind of list.
And I only feel comfortable saying that, because I know we’re all thinking it.
Link related: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/16ohFsFviig
In a report this week, the institute found that of the top 10 most-engaged posts on X about the shooting on Wednesday, six “either expressed explicit or implicit support for the killing or denigrated the victim.” The dynamic is similar to the discourse that often emerges after a mass shooting on websites like 4chan and 8chan, where perpetrators of extreme violence become memes themselves, Mr. Goldenberg said, “but what’s disturbing about this is it’s mainstream.”
Get fucked neo-liberal media. What an isane gaslighting comparision. This was a targeted assasination. Are you now afraid that people direct their anger at the sources of it, rather than the peasants killing each other?
What were the four other posts? CEOs going “Actually, murdering me would be bad.”?
I don’t know why they don’t just add it to the unsolved pile like all the other murders they see?
I have a right-wing neighbor who voted Trump three times, says climate change is a hoax, and hates me for sometimes wearing a tie-dye jacket, but he says with a grin all over his face, “Did you hear about that insurance CEO who got shot dead?” and he laughs and laughs and gives me a thumbs-up.
America stands united.
My trump-loving in-laws are the same. Voted 3 times for shitler, but they’re thrilled about this. It’s one thing in the news that we can discuss.
A few more of these and we’ll all really see how much we actually agree with one another, and how much the split and hate is manufactured.
Funnily enough the death of a United Health Care CEO has United Americans in a feeling of well deserved schadenfreude.
In an alternate universe, Joker is considered a hero because he killed the criminal and the corrupt while Batman allowed them to live. Joker, a hero against the system, the vigilante who is a vigilante and not just status quo, the vigilante the city needed but not the one it deserved. The Joker movie could set a pretty sweet alternate universe.
Childhood is when you idolize Batman, adulthood is when you realize that cheese is very expensive.
Have you watched the Harley Quinn animated series?
The only grim aspect is how much time, resources, and energy the NYPD has wasted trying to solve this. Statistically, there have been other murders since this one. They should move on and add this to their “unsolved” pile.
“We don’t care when they’re poor.” -NYPD
Clearly they need to make an “example” out of him or others may follow his lead.
The public should mount pressure on them to drop the case. Make it clear we want him to walk free.
Make me think, how many regular cops are actually OK with this? Sure cops are a privileged class, but they still have family and friends who suffer in the hands of private health insurance.
I see that the corporate owned media is sweating bullets.
Good.
Yeah theyre really crawling for appeal but that means they are afraid. I was really against violent actions like this but after seeing how effective it isni guess im also a radical leftist now instead of just a leftist. If they take the power away from thw people you have to take it back violently.
This is what I was trying to tell all ya pacifist bastards, the rich are cowards and only know the language of violence.
Yup i get it now. But in the spirit of being democratic and stating close to ohr roots we should vote on who gets “handled” next.
We already did.
trump already tried to have Congress and his vp murdered last time. And now he has a scotus ruling that he is immune to everything. And we have a military that has already made it clear they will “just follow orders”.
What’s grim about it? Of course people are gonna look kindly upon someone who kills a mass murderer.
