• wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Any CEO (actually, any rich person- the ticket the more this applies) that doesn’t donate obscene amounts to good (good as in “would probably be hated by MAGA” or “politically neutral”) charities can be “acceptably put down”.

    Even more so if they are actively causing direct harm to their customers/clients.

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    Americans have been trained to wish on the CEO the negative things that those CEOs have caused.

    Game CEO cancels or ruins an anticipated game? Wish on to them that something they value gets canceled.

    Car company CEO makes cars more expensive? Wish upon them financial trouble.

    Social media CEO invades your privacy? Wish on them someone to track their plane wherever it flies.

    But there exists a subset of companies where death is the outcome of a bad CEO, and the end consequence of encouraging an eye for an eye is what we just saw. Perhaps if a company can decide whether you live or die, the government should play some role in it. Then at least voters will at least have a stake in the governance.

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        Selective selection of selected data by billionaire controlled media still can’t get below 41%

        It’s awesome how willfully they exclude or manipulate in attempt to soften the information.

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        I’m of two minds about it. Half the time, I want to build a statue of Luigi

        The other half of the time, I’m feeling the Tolkien quote, “many that live deserve death, and many that die deserve life. Will you give it to them?”

        In other words, at no point do I feel that Brian Robert Thompson didn’t objectively deserve to die. He is objectively doing more good for the world as worm food than he did as a living man. My only question is on the ethics of anyone actually killing him. On one hand, no one should have a right to make that call on their own. On the other, it’s not like he was ever going to face justice any other way.

        I wonder if this dilemma is reflected in this poll. You can believe that killing the CEO was unacceptable, while also believing he absolutely deserved it.

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          Well said.

          I don’t usually wish cancer on people, but if I had to choose, I’d probably have wanted him to go this way than by vigilante justice.

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    It’s not shocking if you’ve had to deal with any sort of healthcare in this god forsaken shithole of a country.

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          Are many young people (25 or younger) actually involved in their parents finances? How many parents would actually speak to their younger kids about their medical/health care issues?

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            20+ year olds helping their parents navigate the healthcare hellscape is something that is actually fairly common. My mother-in-law is a hospital social worker.

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            You should hope you never have to experience a parent suffer the health care system… mentally or physically. Assuming you’re not a monster you’d likely have a different opinion right now. It’s stupid to assume it’s like a parent telling a toddler how they file taxes…

            I saw my mother constantly get denied health care because her insurance wouldn’t cover her arthritis which was considered a “pre-existing condition”.

            I saw her suffer trying to get medication for migraines every month while Merck said nope.

            I saw democrats get rid of preexisting conditions with passage of ACA. I saw republicans lie about ACA claiming it’s economic demise…

            Demise never happened and republicans never once proposed anything better…

            So naturally…

            I saw my mom deny that any of this ever happened a few years later, that democrats never helped anyone and then she advocated for trump. I’ve seen her and others say democrats are the problem.

            I’ve seen a lot of weird shit…

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    That sounds extremely low. What young voters are they polling? The Amish?

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    The survey from Emerson College Polling found 68 percent of all respondents found the actions of the person who shot and killed Thompson unacceptable.

    For those on here who think there’s a secret silent majority who are just waiting to emulate him, y’all need to read this part.

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      That question is flawed. You can believe the CEO objectively deserved to die without thinking murder on the street is acceptable. In an ideal world, Thompson would have been charged in a court of law, convicted, and hanged for his crimes.

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        Maybe, maybe not. 68 is pretty high even if you can argue for shaving off a few points though. If another poll that gets to that more directly comes out I’ll be curious to see it.

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    It’s shocking in the sense young people are the ones least effected by our shit Healthcare system since they tend to be the most healthy, and have less interaction with it. You’d expect the middle aged and older with chronic illnesses would be the most supportive of Luigi, but they have Stockholm syndrome from living under this shitty system their whole life. This is also reinforced by the cable news they watch telling them how tragic it was that a man with a wife and kids was murdered. Meanwhile young people are just looking at memes and tiktoks of how hot and based he is.

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      This article doesn’t speak to any other age demographic, just under 30s and their political affiliation. I haven’t seen any numbers on different age groups.

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        The article didn’t specifically show other age groups but it did give the overall number which shows more disapproval, implying that older age groups found it less acceptable. It also links to the survey that shows the different ages’ break down:

        The survey from Emerson College Polling found 68 percent of all respondents found the actions of the person who shot and killed Thompson unacceptable.

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      I think if my mother’s heart condition gets worse and she needs some kind of treatment that gets denied by insurance and thus she decides not to go through with it and dies because of it that you could consider that me having interaction with the system.

      A lot of times for younger people, it isn’t direct personal experience that radicalizes us, but the effect a system has on people we care about.

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    A person has to ask themselves the question of does this person help or hurt humanity, and if you look at this company denials since he took over he definetely hurts humanity as a whole.

    Not every human life is valuable or worth keeping. We need to treat our weakest members of society better, which is elderly, disabled and children. He hurts those people the most, when he should’ve trying to protect them. He chose to chase profits over human life.

    This is simply a logical consequence. Income equality now is FAR worse than the french revolution, I’m just suprised it took this long.

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      America is still too rich imo.
      I think economic collapse is near, next 10 years.
      That’s when we would have a chance to recalibrate this country